The point was that football is not uniquely dangerous, among acitivites that children commonly engage in. This is a fact.

Yeah, a lot of decisions are feelings-based, divorced from real information.

Here’s what a medical researcher at Stanfrd had to say about his son playing football....

You are wrong.

Lemme guess. The squatting 250 at age 7, and discovery of a winning roulette system were good material, but the anecdote about walking on the surface of the sun was just too far-fetched.

If he is done, he’ll have played in 73 games, starting in 60 of them, punched out multiple teammates, publicly ripped his qb teammates multiple times, while earning, after factoring the small amount of signing bonus he’d probably have to return, about 41 million dollars. While getting selected to one Pro Bowl, as a…

I hate sports fans, of any type. Last major event I went to was a NCAA men’s basketball regional, featuring teams I had no rooting interest in. I was just offered some free tickets, and decided to go watch some basketball. One of the teams was from a private school with a very big academic reputation, and a bigger…

You may be displaying a lot of naivete with regard to adults involved in youth sports. Yes, the average madam may have more personal integrity, with regard to performance standards, than a lot of youth sports coaches.

Ugh, politicians are such unfiltered A-holes. I’ve never known one as a child. Are there warning signs, like with serial killers?

Actually, now that I think about it, I want to see the MLB pitcher attitude transfer to other sports. Imagine Agusta National, next April. Jason Day sinks a eagle put on 13, and gives a fist pump like Tiger on a meth binge. On the 14th tee, the guy he is paired with Jordan Speith, turns his stance at the last moment,…

Being serious about the harm illegitimate violence does to innocent citizens and society, gun-related or otherwise, requires that you support this person be in a prison until he is elderly. This is a man who picked up a firearm, and put to the head of another citizen, without even a shred of anything resembling a…

Yes, when a sought-after recruit tweets that he is decommiting from USC in light of the coach taking a leave of absence, it can be said that his behavior has affected his ability to do his job.

Yep, when you show up for practice drunk, or give a drunken speech to important financial contributors, then you aren’t qualified to do the job. Sarkisian isn’t being fired for being alcoholic. He’s being fired for doing stuff at work that damages the abiity of the organization to accomplish it’s mission.

There isn’t a damned thing unethical or irresponsible about firing someone who shows up for work drunk, especially if they are in a management role for the tune of a couple million bucks a year or more. Hell, it’s not even lacking in compassion. Addicts need to face up to the damage their behavior is causing, and…

Nope. u?

Yes, and at 11 AM on a January morning in Nashville, everybody’s supposed to be working. In the real world, you earn your money, and you can’t do it by doing shots at an early lunch.

If Pat Haden was actually putting this employee’s welfare first, he would have fired him in August, because the employee’s best chance of dealing with his addiction would have entailed being made severely aware of what damage his addiction was doing. Haden didn’t fire him because it was very problematic time to fire a…

Doing shots in the morning, on a businss trip, is not acceptable behavior. These people are being paid a lot of money to perform opitimally when working. At 11 AM on a January day in Nashville, they are working. It isn’t as if they are on a rewards trip to Hawaii.

Maybe “traveling”, while on vacation in Cabo, isn’t like “traveling”, while on a business trip, with 3 subordinates in Nashville?

Ya’ know, the union represents middle infielders, as well as baserunners. Baseball players, in the major leagues in the United States, have more collective power than any other athletes in the world. They have as much responsibility as anyone to see crap like this is not done any longer.