I’d like to defend purple as a car color, but only if it is a really deep shade of purple. So deep it looks black under some lights until a slight shift in perspective reveals that it is, in fact, purple.

The league in three phases.

But just think of all of the garish Raider superfan costuming that can be re-purposed by GWAR tribute bands and post-apocalyptic cosplayers

I can’t believe that this even made the news back in the day given the contemporaneous ravaging of Bowling Green by repeated terrorist massacres.

There’s a severe logical gap between “collectively schools have to fund men’s and women’s sports proportionately” to “if a school paid any player, they’d have to pay all players.” There’s an even larger gap to the idea this represent a a significant roadblock since, you know, they already deal with this issue in…

‘Amateurism’

Okay, so it is definitely NOT true that all athletes at an institution receive the same size scholarship. Many athletes in non-revenue sports are on partial scholarships. So you appear to have a fundamental misunderstanding about how this works in the first place.

I think Title IX is often used as a roadblock, or as some may say, a red herring. For one, the Act itself doesn’t mention compensation, though that may just be because it wasn’t relevant in its drafting, and if so, the Act should be updated.

D0 you live in a fantasy world where football/men’s basketball players receive the exact same benefits as all the other teams? When was the last time the gymnastics team stayed in a 5-star hotel the night before a home game? Does the swim team travel to meets on private jets?

Have you noticed that many non-revenue athletes are on partial scholarships while all non-walk on football players are on fully scholarship? Equal treatment doesn’t mean identical compensation.

If it doesn’t mention pay, it doesn’t mention pay. It’s simple to interpret: equal payment of wages isn’t addressed by the law, so equal payment of wages isn’t required by the law.

No, they wouldn’t have to pay all athletes, and I doubt most athletes in non-revenue non-prestige sports would get paid anything beyond a scholarship.

Not necessarily. Simply allowing players to sell their own likenesses, sell autographs, sign jerseys, make commercials, etc would require no investment on the part of the colleges. What the NCAA does goes beyond simply not paying students, it strips students of money they could otherwise be making.

“They’re students, no different from any other students!”

Fenves told the interviewer he “cannot comprehend how athletics could be a part of university life” if athletes were paid.

If this were the KHL that’d be a cigarette in his nose

How do I explain to my children that Antonio Brown was twerking?!? If I said what he was doing then I’d have to explain what twerking is and then they’d think it’s funny and start twerking themselves! Someone has to do something to prevent my little angels from being corrupted in such a manner because I’m a…

I dunno some of the celebrating penalties certainly seem like a Black and White issue

No there’s really not much doubt. Citing Paul McHugh for anything related to LGBT people is like citing Charles Murray for why white men are inherently superior. The guy is a far-right Catholic extremist who has it out for LGBT people and trans people in particular. He’s basically the 1% of scientists claiming that…

My friend also had a great idea about the this issue. She was pissed that her partner drank in front of her while pregnant. They made a compromise that for every drink he had in front of her, he would volunteer to do one out-of-turn diaper change. She kept a tally of the drinks. When baby came, they alternated diaper…