Also, do you think that the fact that it was was the 2nd circuit’s chief justice who was dissenting affects the odds of en banc being granted?

2nd circuit is often pretty stingy in granting en banc, so I sure as hell hope you are right.

Yeah, from my very brief examination, it looks like the two justices who ruled for the NFL essentially said to the NFLPA and Brady, “Hey, dipshits? Next time, don’t agree to a CBA which gives management nearly unfettered unilateral power to define “conduct detrimental” and appropriate discipline. Now, get the fuck…

The fact that this was a 2-1 decision probaby means Brady appeals to the entire 2nd Circuit. This thing isn’t dead yet, unfortunately, although I doubt the Supreme Court will agree to hear this crapfest, however the entire 2nd circuit rules on it. Fer’ the luv of Oliver Wendell Holmes, I sure as hell hope not.

A civil settlement doesn’t trump a subpoena in a criminal trial. If the prosecutor wants to force her to testify, he can do so, assuming that the accused doesn’t pay her so much money that she can afford to disappear, and the prosecutor doesn’t deem the case important enough to go all out in an effort to find her.

You seem to be unable to cognitively process the difference beween a stranger soliciting you to spend your valuable time with them, for their benefit, and you soliciting a stranger. The person who who solicits the stranger is the person who has, yes, created the obligation, unless the solicitor is self centered prick.…

If you approached an NBA team (golf dosn’t work as an analogy, it being a solitary sport), as a complete stranger, and asked that team to spend their valuable time showing what it was like to be an NBA player, and they, for some unfathomable reason said yes, and then youhad dinner with that NBA team, then, yes, you’d…

If a stranger approaches me, and asks that I take the time to show him what my profession is like, with the use of my professional equipment, then, yes, I expect that person to pick up the dinner check, unless he lacks the means to do so. If he doesn’t, I’d consider that person to be self-centered A-hole.

This is why LeBron as GM has to be severely criticized. Having two guys consuming that much cap sace, despite neither being able to play defense with anything approaching competence, was an unsound approach.

Bomani Jones is so superior to Colin Cowherd that words are inadequate for the task of describing the gap.

Eh, the Chicago Bulls, for instance, have seats starting at $42 bucks, which isn’t cheap, but isn’t crazy expensive, either. The overwhelming majority of their tickets cost less than $150 bucks a game. You don’t have to be extremely wealthy to pay, say, 10k a year for basketball seats, but given the quality of a run…

There’s a non-trivial chance that Taylor sells majority interest in the next year or two, so, in other words, reason for hope!

I don’t mind the lack of stakes when I’m attending a run of the mill MLB regular season game, if I’m in the right city. It’s summertime, it’s good to be outside, when in a good venue, so who cares if the players know that the outcome of the game, taken by itself, isn’t all that important? A run of the mill NBA regular…

Herb Brooks’ team still had a game to win at Lake Placid, after beating the Soviets in perhaps the greatest upset ever, but when I saw Wright last night, Brooks simply turning, and walking down the tunnel, while his team, the arena, and, eventually (tape delayed!), the entire country went nuts, is what came to mind.

It is idiotic to deny that the NCAA is an illegal price fixing cartel, under any intellectually honest reading of law. It is also idiotic to deny that academic fraud, like that practiced at UNC, illegitimately harms wholly innocent third parties, namely the students at UNC who are earning degrees without benefit of…

If you think a few draft picks and Tom Brady missing 4 games is why the next Supreme Court appointment is important, you need to stop huffing paint fumes.

Kraft, having become a billionaire by not being a moron, is not going to sue himself (that is what an NFL owner does when he sues the NFL), over a few draft picks and a 4 game suspension to a player. This isn’t like a team trying to get to move a franchise against the wishes of 75% of the other owners. The draft picks…

So this guy was indicted for doing with oil leases what Nick Saban and Urban Meyer do with offensive tackles?

There are people who, quite legally, risk money on how well the Giants play. They have a very legitimate interest in knowing Paul’s medical condition.

That’s just it. The “scandal” reported here is that a football player may have cheated on sign in sheet. The honest to goodness scandal is the The University of Tennessee charges about 13k a year for tutition and fees, for “classes” where your “performance” is judged on whether you signed a sheet.