Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
[quote quote=4977]Pretty entertaining so far. I do enjoy beach volleyball. Best olympic sport ever.[/quote]
WOMENS’s beach volleyball.
Fixed that for ya’.
Obama stated as much on more than one occasion. Makes one wonder what the USSC was snorting when they ruled against Trump suspending DACA.
[quote quote=4902]Your views are important here. IIRC your son’s athletic aspirations came to an end due to injury? Would this program have been a material benefit to him? With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, would this have altered his career path at all?[/quote]
Couple of things. He was miffed when he showed up on Madden College Football without knowing his name and # would be used. I don’t think this would have had a big benefit for #74, but a few extra bucks would have come in handy for rent not covered by Stanfords housing allowance.
Here is a lift from emails with Young Dawg.
“”I like Judge Kavanaugh’s take (his opinion starts on pg 41, https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-512_gfbh.pdf):
“The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America. All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that “customers prefer” to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers’ salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a “love of the law.” Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a “purer” form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a “tradition” of public-minded journalism. Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a “spirit of amateurism” in Hollywood. Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor. And price-fixing labor is ordinarily a textbook antitrust problem because it extinguishes the free market in which individuals can otherwise obtain fair compensation for their work. Businesses like the NCAA cannot avoid the consequences of price-fixing labor by incorporating price-fixed labor into the definition of the product. Or to put it in more doctrinal terms, a monopsony cannot launder its price-fixing of labor by calling it product definition.
The bottom line is that the NCAA and its member colleges are suppressing the pay of student athletes who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenues for colleges every year. Those enormous sums of money flow to seemingly everyone except the student athletes. College presidents, athletic directors, coaches, conference commissioners, and NCAA executives take in six- and seven-figure salaries. Colleges build lavish new facilities. But the student athletes who generate the revenues, many of whom are African American and from lower-income backgrounds, end up with little or nothing.
Everyone agrees that the NCAA can require student athletes to be enrolled students in good standing. But the NCAA’s business model of using unpaid student athletes to generate billions of dollars in revenue for the colleges raises serious questions under the antitrust laws. In particular, it is highly questionable whether the NCAA and its member colleges can justify not paying student athletes a fair share of the revenues on the circular theory that the defining characteristic of college sports is that the colleges do not pay student athletes. And if that asserted justification is unavailing, it is not clear how the NCAA can legally defend its remaining compensation rules.”
Will this be the end of college athletics? Probably not, college sports existed before, they’ll continue to exist after. Look to the smaller schools that don’t have powerhouse football and men’s basketball programs to drive top-line revenue.
I’m excited about this, and can’t wait for the follow-on lawsuits to be filed. The SC seems eager to dismantle the NCAA’s compensation rules – they just need people to file lawsuits with the appropriate legal arguments.””
Young Dawg
Rising ocean levels? meh.
20,000 to 25,000 years the first North Americans crossed the Bering Straits on dry land. Today that path is under 300′ of water. Antarctica was once a tropical paradise.
The next ice age is coming and will be here long before humans fix the climate change problem.
“Research provided by Suozzi’s office estimates that such a tax could raise about $450 billion.”
Paid over 4 years? In total, this won’t even be a belly scratch for Biden’s Budget Busting spending. Certainly is a “nose in the tent” move, and I agree, the push will downward to include a bigger group of “wealthy” taxpayers. Translates into “those who pay taxes will pay more.”
Own a modest home in Cali? Gee, you get to pay another $50k in taxes! How about a novel approach, like cut spending.
meh.
Baseball. Pine tar, cut balls, vaseline, corked bats and now this.
Cheaters cheating cheaters for over 100 years. Baseball has turned into something less exciting than watching paint dry.
Now women’s beach volleyball…..
What a laugh. Dems accuse Republicans of being nothing more than mindless Trump sycophants. Strikes me that Dems are rudderless without Trump. No one to hate, no course to steer other than undo everything Trump did.
You’ve forgotten or don’t care how many futile dem investigations of Trump failed to produce anything actionable.
Maybe this is the dems throwing a bone to Bob Mueller. “Bob, you let us down before, but we are going to give you another shot”.
I’ve read the Bloomberg article the graphs are based on. I have a difficult time swallowing its analysis when it states the difference in annual rent between Seattle and San Fransisco for a 4 bedroom condo is $7230. Uh, not exactly, unless the comparison is basement condo with vermin compared to a high rise view of Alki Point. $2k/month is more like it.
Yeah the right call. Now they look like bigger idiots.
Young dawg doesn’t get spun up over much these days, but he was frothing at mouth over this. He went so far as suggest that I not renew football season tix.
Does someone write Bernie’s press releases, or does he use an app?
