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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?
I have a feeling of impending doom. What I see is a love child of 1979 inflation and the 2008 housing market crash.
In a couple of months, eviction protection for delinquent renters is going away. If tenants have not been able to pay rent for the last 15 months, where does the money come from now? Liz Warren to the rescue with Rent Forgiveness Program? I smell another multi-trillion $$ bailout coming.
Steel prices are skyrocketing. Yacht club I belong to has a project on the books to replace wooden bull rails on our guest dock with 4×6 galvanized tubular steel. In January, we were quoted $28,550 for materials. We are ready to purchase, and a revised bid was almost $90k, plus the quote was valid for only 24 hours. Analysts at B of A belief this rise is temporary as steel production catches up to demand post pandemic. I wonder….
Yacht club again. We are unable to hire servers or bartenders on the books. Everyone wants to work for cash or Bit Coin. Prices for food are way up, our cost for prime cuts of beef is up almost 50%.
“It’s the economy, stupid!” will be the 2022 election theme. Dem’s are going to find it tough sledding with double digit inflation, an increasingly desperate homeless situation, rising crime rates and no Donald Trump to run against.
Xi Jinping is going to eat our lunch.
Mrs Dawg would rant about paying taxes on the PPP loan if it were forgiven.
One evening she started again, when I said, “Gee, Hon, I suppose if you won the lottery you wouldn’t take the money because you would have to pay tax on it.”
Not a word since then. Literally, not a word. 🙂
[quote quote=4703]I can see it now: Disney’s defense: “She was asking for it.” ““You might think I’m ruining the fantasy of it all, but these stories are promoting sexual violence and I would like everyone to be aware of it.”” I bet she’s fun at parties.[/quote]
I want to thank her for the Public Service Announcement. This old dinosaur never caught the violence represented by a kiss in a fairy tale, sealing the destiny of star crossed loves. Who knew….
Curious to know if she were as incensed when Wonder Woman jumps her reincarnated lover – who just happens to be in another guy’s body.
Makes one wonder what her life is like.
