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  1. 5 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

    6 games PPD today,1 delayed start. The entire Minnesota/White Sox series was postponed. Fuck winter.

    And they somehow played in 33-degree light rain in Boston:

     

  2. This is pretty interesting:

    https://www.mlb.com/video/semiens-ground-rule-double/c-1939332483?tid=63817564

    Semien drives in runner from first, but tries to score when the ball bounces away and gets tagged for the third out.  Mariners lead 3-1, middle of 3rd.

    Except... The Mariners challenge that it should have been a ground rule double.  Replay confirms, the run comes off the board, but so does the third out, and the runners are put at 2nd and 3rd with two outs.

    It's the right call numerically by the run expectancy charts. 

    But the next two guys get hits, and the A's get three runs.

  3. 44 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    What is there to be drug through the courts on KU’s behalf? They are listed as a victim. 

    If this is a serious response, you honestly have to be the most naïve person in the world.

    Do you really think Kansas is not worried about De Souza and Billy Preston being subpoenaed to give testimony in a federal trial?  

    Do you really think that Adidas, from whom KU accepted $191 million dollars, paying players to go to Kansas is going to be OK with the NCAA?

     

  4. David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, is taken away by medical personnel and security during the unveiling of a statue of former head football coach Bob Stoops in Norman, Okla., Saturday, April 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)© The Associated Press David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, is taken away by medical personnel and security during the unveiling of a statue of former head football coach Bob Stoops in Norman, Okla., Saturday, April 14, 2018…

    NORMAN, Okla. — University of Oklahoma president David Boren had a medical episode right before the unveiling of a statue honoring former Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops on Saturday morning and was taken away on a stretcher.

     

    Boren, 76, is a former U.S. senator and has been the university's president since 1994. He had spoken earlier in the ceremony. The school did not immediately respond to a request for details regarding Boren's condition.

    Stoops was being honored in front of a large crowd hours before Oklahoma's spring game. Right before the uncovering of the statue, paramedics started making their way over to Boren and talked to him near the podium where athletic director Joe Castiglione was speaking. Castiglione told the crowd the paramedics were taking precautions and then implored the crowd to pray. Boren smiled as he was being taken away.

    Boren is retiring in June. The school's Board of Regents announced last month that Jim Gallogly will become the university's 14th president on July 1.

    After Boren was removed from the immediate area near the statue, a concerned Castiglione proceeded.

    "Well, they don't give you a script for this," Castiglione said. "But I think that knowing that how much President Boren and Molly (his wife) were involved in this day, I think that we will respectfully maybe just drop the covering of the statue of Bob Stoops, and we will thank each and every one of you again for what you have done to make this program so special."

  5. On ‎4‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 3:35 PM, TheBryMan81 said:

    PJ Locke retweeted this... Given our shooting proficiency, maybe this is the type of kid we should be going after

    They being said, maybe he can't dribble, pass, or play defense. But dude can hit a 3

    And he shot 39% for his NAIA school...

    www.reinhardteagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=4665&path=mbball

  6. 4 minutes ago, SDG said:

    Mods can you move this to politics where I should be?

    Fuck that.

    If this shouldn't be in this forum, then I have no idea what should be here.

    The only "should be" about this thread is that certain overly-partisan assholes should be able to STFU and let everyone else use this thread as a source of info.

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  7. On ‎4‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 6:48 PM, pops said:

    For that small of a yard? Get the echo electric from the depot. You could probably mow that 3 times on a charge. No gas, no oil, starts every time.  

     

    I got one of these last year.  I feel stupid I didn't get one sooner.  

    It's incredibly light compared to a gas mower.  

    Plus, the carburetor doesn't clog when I go April-October without mowing and forget to empty the gas tank.

  8. If your goal is more touchbacks, just get rid of kickoffs.  

    No one likes watching touchbacks.  

     

    Or hell, just ask the receiving team if they'd like the ball on the 30, or if they'd like a chance to return the kick.  Most teams would take it at the 30 most of the time, and we haven't wasted time on a meaningless play.

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  9. Wetzel rips them a new one:

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    The Larry Nassar scandal has been so horrific and so horrible that new shock and outrage didn’t seem possible. Then Kaylee Lorincz stepped to a podium at a Michigan State Board of Trustees meeting on Friday and told a story that ought to lead to a sweeping out of university leadership.

    Lorincz is 18. When she was 13, Nassar, then a doctor in the Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine, began sexually abusing her after she came to him as a patient.

    She said she and her mother were recently on campus to sign up to speak at Friday’s board meeting when they ran into MSU interim president John Engler. Lorincz asked if she could meet with him because she had found many of his comments since assuming office in late January “hurtful.”

    “My hope was if he actually met a survivor he would be more empathetic,” Lorincz said.

    Engler agreed to the impromptu meeting, but rather than listen, Lorincz says, she was told not much could be discussed until civil litigation against the school is complete. Lorincz is one of nearly 200 women suing the university.

    If this was MSU’s opinion, and on a legal basis it had merit, then Engler never should have met with Lorincz in the first place. Such a meeting exposed Michigan State to considerable liability in a case they already have considerable liability. Instead they did meet and Engler had something to say.

    “Mr. Engler then looked directly at me and asked, ‘Right now, if I wrote you a check for $250,000, would you take it?” Lorincz said.

    There were gasps and shouts from the audience of the Board meeting. Lorincz wasn’t with her attorney at the time and the meeting, she said, wasn’t about settling a lawsuit. Engler, sitting directly in front of Lorincz as she spoke at the board meeting on Friday, didn’t dispute her allegation.

    (On a side note, a check for $250,000 is a ridiculous offer in this case. Victims in the somewhat-similar Jerry Sandusky scandal received an average of about $3 million from Penn State. It is possible MSU’s culpability here is actually greater than Penn State’s.)

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    Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty in November 2017 to sexual assault, listens to victims during his sentencing in the Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Michigan, U.S., January 31, 2018. (Reuters)
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    Mostly though, it was stupid on Engler’s part. Either don’t meet with Lorincz or make sure her lawyer is present before discussing lowball payoffs. This is abject failure by a CEO.

    Engler is the former three-term governor of Michigan and the way he’s conducted himself since taking the interim job in January is not to gently manage a highly sensitive and troubling scandal. Rather, he’s used the opportunity to engage in some kind of hardball political fight, for old-time’s sake. He likes to pit sides against each other. He likes to stir things up in the media.

    It’s why he was never a fit for the job and shouldn’t hold it for an hour longer.

    “When I explained that it’s not about the money for me and that I just want to help, he said, ‘Well, give me a number,'” Lorincz said.

    Give me a number?

    “He also said that he met with Rachael Denhollander [the first of Nassar’s victims to come forward publicly] and that she gave him a number,” Lorincz said.

    “Give me a number” would be inappropriate but more problematic is that when Lorincz and her mother contacted Denhollander later, Denhollander denied ever meeting with Engler, let alone engaging in settlement negotiations. Denhollander, in a statement to reporter Kate Wells, backed this story up, calling Engler’s assertion “a bald-faced lie.”

    Lorincz wasn’t done.

    “Then President Engler started saying how sad it was that hundreds of good osteopathic doctors at MSU are being judged by one bad doctor,” Lorincz said. “My mom interrupted and said, ‘Well, what about former Dean William Strampel, wasn’t he just arrested?’ (Strampel, Nassar’s boss, was arrested on four counts, including a sexual assault of his own.)

    “President Engler rolled his eyes and tried to fluff it off and said, ‘Oh, that was no big deal, it was just a slap on the butt,'” Lorincz said. “My mom and I were just so shocked.”

     

    This was now something out of a Hollywood movie. Could Engler have really said such a thing? Could he have really rolled his eyes?

    Well, Engler sat there, however, and disputed nothing. Earlier in Lorincz’s speech he cut her off when she inaccurately called another person in the meeting Engler’s lawyer. On this, however, he was silent. Engler did not make an immediate public comment or defense at any time and did not make himself available to the media after.

    Engler instead went and huddled with his MSU team before, hours later, issuing a brief statement that declared, “our memories and interpretations of the March 28 meeting are different. I am sorry if anything said during the meeting was misunderstood.”

    A MSU spokeswoman who said she was at the Lorincz-Engler meeting told the Lansing State Journal the $250,000 figure wasn’t a direct settlement offer but part of a “philosophical discussion.”

    Why in the world would John Engler think Kaylee Lorincz was a good partner for a philosophical discussion about civil litigation?

    This is all par for the course with Engler, who since taking the job has struck nearly every wrong chord.

    Earlier Friday, he had to express “regret” that the school released confidential information about a MSU student who in a separate lawsuit is alleging rape by three men’s basketball players in 2015. Engler noted the school “provided an unnecessary amount of detail … which has been perceived by some as violating privacy expectations.”

    He’s also stated that Nassar payouts would fall to students and taxpayers, something he alluded to again Friday when he proposed a nearly three-percent tuition increase. He’s tried to battle the media. Upon getting the job, he endorsed the current attorney general in his race for governor. That’s the same AG who is investigating MSU, albeit months or even years after he should have.

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    Larry Nassar victim Kaylee Lorincz accuses MSU of pressuring her to accept a secret payoff. (Getty)
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    None of this has done much to move Michigan State or the community forward.

    Neither did Friday’s meeting when Lorincz was trying to get through her statement in the allotted three minutes. As she detailed the worst of Engler’s alleged behavior, she was, quite incredibly, told to stop talking … by no less than John Engler.

    “Kaylee, your time is up,” Engler said. “Your time is up.”

    Time’s up? It was said without irony or awareness. This is what John Engler wanted to say to Kaylee Lorincz, who as an injured 13-year-old came to MSU to see a MSU doctor for treatment and wound up repeatedly raped?

    Time’s up? That was his first thought? That’s how he thought to help Michigan State? This is who MSU wants as its leader?

    Lorincz and her family have been front and center on this case, attending even rudimentary Nassar hearing. She, like so many others, has carried herself as an inspirational hero far beyond her years, not some shattered victim.

    If nothing else, Engler should have known this was not a woman to be combative with. She is small, petite and youthful. She is also fierce, smart and confident. Whatever power he thinks he has (or once had as governor) is meaningless at this point.

    He was going to lose this fight. He will every time against Kaylee Lorincz.

    “Let her speak, let her speak,” the crowd began chanting.

    Kaylee decided her time was not up.

    “I’m not don’t yet.”

    “You are out of time, I’m sorry,” Engler said.

    Lorincz barreled through.

    “President Engler, you wanted to talk about money,” Lorincz said. “I wanted to talk about helping and healing. You tried to make us feel like we were the problem and MSU was the victim because of the civil suits. This is how it works. When you protect and promote a sexual predator and foster a culture of lies and cover-ups, you are responsible.”

    Engler kept trying to interrupted her.

    “I have like four sentences left,” she pleaded.

    “Finish your four sentences,” she was told. “You are done.”

    “You are so rude,” someone shouted from the crowd.

    “If you could turn back the hands of time and take Larry Nassar’s fingers out my 13-year-old vagina we wouldn’t be here today,” Lorincz said. “The fact is you can’t … You are the ones who care about the money, and I just want my life back. Now I am done. Thank you.”

    The room erupted in applause. Engler tried to continue the meeting.

    In January, Lou Anna K. Simon was forced into resignation because she was incapable of handling the Nassar fallout. Somehow, someway, John Engler has proven even worse at the job.

    If Friday’s meeting isn’t the last thing he does for that school, every one of the many right-minded alums, professors, staff members and students ought to storm the place.

    Someone’s time is up and it sure isn’t Kaylee Lorincz.

     

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    San Francisco 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster has been charged with three felonies, including domestic violence, in connection with his February arrest, the Santa Clara District Attorney's office announced Thursday.

    Police responded to a disturbance call on Feb. 11 at a residence in Los Gatos, California. Upon arrival, officers spoke to Foster and the alleged victim.

    Officials said Foster, now 24, "physically attacked" his live-in girlfriend, leaving "her bruised and with a ruptured eardrum." Officials said Foster dragged her by her hair, physically threw her out of the house and punched her in the head eight to 10 times.

    Foster faces charges of domestic violence with an allegation that he inflicted great bodily injury, forcefully attempting to prevent a victim from reporting a crime, and possession of an assault weapon -- all felonies.

    In addition, he was charged with misdemeanor possession of a large-capacity weapon magazine. During a search of the home, police found a Sig Sauer 516 and a large-capacity magazine, both of which are illegal to possess in California.

    Foster appeared in court Thursday and his bail remains at $75,000, which he posted when he was arrested in February. He was ordered to have no contact with the woman in this case, his live-in girlfriend. A plea hearing was set for April 30.

    If convicted, officials said he could face more than 11 years in prison.

     

    The NFL issued a statement Thursday saying "we continue to monitor all developments in this matter which is under review of the personal conduct policy."

    The 49ers also issued a statement saying they were aware of the charges.

    "We will continue to follow this serious matter," the team's statement said. "Reuben is aware that his place in our organization is under great scrutiny and will depend on what is learned through the legal process."

    The arrest came on the heels of a Jan. 12 incident in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where Foster was charged with second-degree marijuana possession, a Class A misdemeanor in Alabama. He was released that night on $2,500 bond.

    Both arrests follow a successful rookie season for Foster, in which he was second on the Niners in tackles, with 72 in 10 games. The arrests are added to a list of off-field incidents that contributed to Foster's falling to San Francisco with the No. 31 pick in the 2017 NFL draft.

    Foster's arrests could lead to discipline from the NFL, up to and including a suspension. Foster's cases both stand to be reviewed under the league's policies on substance abuse and personal conduct.

    At the 2017 NFL combine in Indianapolis, Foster was sent home for having a "heated altercation" with a hospital worker, ESPN reported at the time. The NFL would only say then that Foster was sent home for personal reasons. 

    He also had a urine sample taken there show up as diluted, which, according to the NFL's policy on substances of abuse, was treated as a positive test.

    Because of the diluted sample, Foster entered the league as part of the substance abuse program.

    Despite the incidents in Indianapolis, 49ers general manager John Lynch said after drafting Foster that he and the organization were comfortable with Foster's character and that Foster would be able to avoid trouble off the field. After the January marijuana arrest, Lynch told SBNation.com at the Senior Bowl that Foster had to figure out how to avoid off-the-field issues.

    "He's got to stay -- he knows it -- he's got to stay clean," Lynch said. "We all know how special a player he can be when he's right. So he's got to figure out how to stay healthy and stay out of trouble, but we believe he will do that."

     

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