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  1. I couldn't be more frustrated.  
     

    Have been to a couple of mattress stores and I felt like I was dealing with used car salesmen.  The second one, the guy pulled out his cell phone, started dialing, and insisted that I talk to his manager.  I literally told him to fuck off and walked out.

     

    Have been looking online lately (Amazon) and noticed a lot of mattresses that are marked down by 60%.  And then over a course of a week, I noticed that one of the mattresses I had looked at for $375 regular price was later marked up to $900 and then offered "for sale" for $375.  

     

    Sell.  Me.  A Mattress.

     

    Help?  Advice?  Recommendations?

  2. 10 minutes ago, TheFlagship said:

    ARod basically just admitted on the SNB broadcast that he sold out to the highest bidder in 2000 and that he would’ve played for the Mets if he could go back. 

    Kinda hurts to admit, but I really like ARod in the booth.  

    He clearly does more prep work for each game than Kruk and Schilling combined did in an entire season.  

  3. On ‎4‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 1:09 AM, Papa Johnny Road said:

    I can’t stand dickheads that use the shoulder of the road or emergency lane to pass slow/stopped traffic on the way to work. Then they flip the bird when I dont let them back onto the highway when that lane ends. 

    Like, when they're *NOT* turning right at the next intersection?  

    If so, that's fucked up.  

    Damn, wood's story...

  4. People who can't use turn lanes correctly.

    Since TxDot went on a turn lane fetish, RR 12 is a 3-lane road nearly all the way from RM 32 to San Marcos.  There are turn lanes where there's not even places to turn.  

    Yet every fucking day, I get behind someone who slows way down, then puts on their left turn signal and gets in the turn lane 50 feet from where they're going to turn.

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    HUMBOLDT, Sask. — Assistant coach Chris Beaudry was 20 minutes behind the Humboldt Broncos’ team bus when he got the call.

    It was from his Nipawin Hawks counterpart saying he heard about an accident. Beaudry pulled over to try and reach Broncos on the bus.

    “No one answered,” Beaudry said. “So I just hammered down and got to the scene."

    His first thought was: “Not again.” Beaudry was coach of the nearby Naicam Vikings men’s senior hockey team when they were involved in a fatal bus accident in 2011.

    Not even that carnage could prepare Beaudry for what he was about to face.

    “This was beyond worse,” Beaudry told TSN. “It was immensely, way worse. It was nothing I’ve ever seen before. It was massive. The area of debris was yards and yards and yards.”

    Beaudry said he was kept 50 yards back from the crash by the more than 50 first responders who rushed to his team’s aid. He was asked to sit in a fire truck to wait helplessly.

    Beaudry said it felt like hours before he left for Nipawin Hospital with Broncos team chaplain Sean Brandow. 

    “You’re lost,” Beaudry said. “I tried not to look at the scene. After you see it for a couple minutes, you know it’s not really changing.

    “You look at that and you know there’s people that have died. They are your boys.”

    His eyes welled up and his lip quivered.

    “What do you tell their parents?” Beaudry asked. “I’m here to protect their kid and bring them home and … you don’t.”

    That is why Beaudry, a hockey-obsessed farmer who grows canola, wheat, barley and peas on his family farm in St. Front, Sask., drives an hour to and from Humboldt, population 5,800, every day for practices and games.

    “It’s to help the kids,” Beaudry said. “Everyone knows there is no money in junior hockey.”

    Last year, Beaudry volunteered to track advanced stats and analytics for the OHL’s Mississauga Steelheads via video from Saskatchewan. He spent 10 days shadowing former NHL coach Dallas Eakins and the San Diego Gulls learning the ropes.

    But Beaudry decided that helping coach the Broncos would be his way to pay it forward on the fourth anniversary of his sobriety, his way to “serve others.” He’s put 39,000 kilometres on his truck this season alone, his first behind the Humboldt bench with coach and general manager Darcy Haugan.

    “It wasn’t about the time that it takes to drive,” Beaudry said.

    That drive is why Beaudry wasn’t on the Broncos bus to begin with. Since St. Front is 100 kilometres east of Humboldt, he didn’t usually take the team bus to eastern SJHL road games in Nipawin, Melfort or Yorkton. Beaudry said that by the time the Broncos showered and eat after those road games, he could have been nearly home.

    Friday turned out to be the second time he narrowly escaped harm. In 2011 with Naicam, Beaudry was the only person on the bus injured when a drunk driver hit the bus head-on doing 135 kilometres per hour. 

    “We were 30 seconds [away] from every player on the team being out in front of the bus taking a leak when they hit us,” Beaudry explained. “The people that hit us died.”

    Beaudry ended up with compartment syndrome in his leg. On Friday night, Beaudry would likely have been sitting near Haugen and fellow assistant coach Mark Cross, who were among the 15 to perish, alongside radio broadcaster Tyler Bieber and bus driver Glen Doerksen.

    Friday night’s accident will leave an everlasting scar on Beaudry and the hockey world.

    When he arrived at Nipawin Hospital, the RCMP asked him to help put together the bus passenger manifest so they could begin to sort out the survivors.

    While at the hospital, Beaudry fielded anguishing calls from player’s parents who reached out in desperation for answers that he didn’t have to give them. It took hours to sort through the wreckage and identify players, plus they were airlifted to different hospitals.

    By then news about the accident started to spread, first in rural Saskatchewan and then around the world.

    “The support has been unbelievable,” Beaudry said. “Everyone talks about the hockey community and how good the people are in it, but you don’t understand it unless you live it. From the water boy, to the media to the coach and players, everyone is your brother.”

    Saturday Beaudry made the drive into Saskatoon to see survivors.

    “The hospital brought my spirits up, to see guys happy when I came in,” Beaudry said. “They were under a lot of medication, but they would hear my voice and I would see a hand reach out. I would just pray, hold their hand.” 

    Then he drove back to Humboldt’s Elgar Petersen Arena to grieve and help pick up the pieces as one who was somehow spared.

     

  6. Terrible.  I'm honestly surprised that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often.

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    NIPAWIN, Sask.—RCMP say 14 people are dead and 14 people were injured Friday after a truck collided with a bus carrying a junior hockey team to a playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan.

    Police say there were 28 people including the driver on board the Humboldt Broncos bus when the crash occurred at around 5 p.m. on Highway 35 north of Tisdale.

    “We can now confirm fourteen people have died as a result of this collision,” RCMP said in a release early Saturday.

    “The other fourteen people were sent to hospital with a variety of injuries; three of these people have injuries that are critical in nature.”

    No names were released and police would not say whether the dead include players or coaches. There was no mention of the truck driver.

     

    The team president said parents from across Western Canada were rushing to the scene as they struggle to cope with the tragedy.

    “It’s one of the hardest days of my life,” said Kevin Garinger.

    “There have been multiple fatalities — our whole community is in shock, we are grieving and we will continue to grieve throughout this ordeal as we try to work toward supporting each other.”

     
     
     
     
     
    Garinger said the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team includes players from Edmonton, Slave Lake and Airdrie in Alberta and from Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

    Michelle Straschnitzki, who lives in Airdrie, said her 18-year old son Ryan had been taken to hospital in Saskatoon.

    “We talked to him, but he said he couldn’t feel his lower extremities so I don’t know what’s going on,” she said, noting she will go to Saskatchewan on Saturday.

    “I am freaking out. I am so sad for all of the teammates and I am losing my mind.”

    Offers of help have poured in across the country for families. The mother of former NHLer Colby Armstrong tweeted that families could contact her if they needed a place to stay in Saskatoon.

    ...

    A photo tweeted early Saturday showed three players lying in side-by-side hospital beds, holding hands.

    The team was on its way to play in Game 5 of a semi-final against the Nipawin Hawks.

    Darren Opp, president of the Hawks, said a semi T-boned the players’ bus.

    “It’s a horrible accident, my God,” he said. “It’s very, very bad.”

    Opp said the coaching staff and players from the Hawks were waiting to help.

    “They are sitting in the church just waiting to hear any good news,” he said. “I’ve got 50 phone calls at least saying what do you want?

    “There’s uncles and moms and dads waiting to hear whether their sons and nephews are OK.

    “It’s terrible. It’s absolutely terrible.”

    Pastor Jordan Gadsby at the Apostolic Church in Nipawin said more than a hundred people had gathered at the church — including parents and grandparents of the players who were on the bus.

    “Lots of them are waiting for information,” he said. “Some of the families have gotten information and have gone to be with their kids. Some of them are waiting to hear if their kids are alive.”

    Garinger said the Broncos are a close-knit team from the small city of about 6,000 people 110 kilometres east of Saskatoon.

    “This team has been an incredible rock in this community,” he said. “These young athletes. They are incredible young men, every one of them.”

    Garinger, who has one of the players living in his home, said they still didn’t know his fate.

    “We don’t know who has passed and we don’t expect to know right away,” he said. “We know that the coroner and their office needs to do their work and let families know.”

    Garinger said all the team can do now is help the players and their families any way they can.

    “We just need to try to support each other as we deal with this incredible loss to our community, to our province, to our hockey world.”

    Kevin Henry, a coach who runs a hockey school in Prince Albert, said he knows players on the team.

    “People are in such shock. All these young men and boys. We send our kids to play hockey. It is sort of every parent’s worst nightmare,” he said.

    “This is I would think one of the darkest days in the history of Saskatchewan, especially because hockey is so ingrained in how we grow up here.”

    According to the president of the Nipawin Hawks — the team the Broncos were scheduled to play — the accident happened when a semi T-boned the players' bus on Friday afternoon.

    According to the president of the Nipawin Hawks — the team the Broncos were scheduled to play — the accident happened when a semi T-boned the players' bus on Friday afternoon.  (Twitter)

     

    The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League is a Junior ‘A’ hockey league under Hockey Canada, which is part of the Canadian Junior Hockey League. It’s open to North American-born players between the age of 16 and 20.

     

  7. This will be pretty much preaching to the choir here based on what I've read over the past few years.

    theathletic.com

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    Forty years ago, in the fall of 1978, a husband and wife purchased a pair of season tickets for a major college football program. The school in question had expanded its stadium capacity from 61,000 to 77,000. It was, at that moment, the eighth-largest college football stadium in the country. The couple did not have to pay any sort of seat-license fee or join a booster club to purchase tickets, as they would today, and though they cannot remember how much they paid, the face value on tickets at that point was somewhere between $5 and $10.

    This year, that couple — who happen to be my mother and father (a Penn State professor, no less) — chose, for the first time since, not to renew their season tickets for Nittany Lions football. They made this decision for a number of reasons, but in large part, it came down to this: It was often easier and more enjoyable not to go to a game than it was to attend.

    The stadium capacity has increased from 77,000 (which wouldn’t even land among the top 20 largest of today) to nearly 107,000, and the majority of the seats — at least until planned renovations are completed — are still stiff metal bleachers painted with numbers that are barely spaced wide enough to fit an actual human body.

    The start times of games often slingshot between noon and 8 p.m. on the whim of the television networks, and the price of tickets has increased far faster than the rate of inflation. Often, at least two of those early-season games are scheduled against Group of 5 teams that are essentially being paid to serve as glorified scrimmage partners.

    All of that made it more of a hassle than it was worth for my parents. And though they might be an exception to the rule at a competitively ascendant program like Penn State, their decision is far from unique: As reported by CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd, FBS attendance decreased by an average of 1,409 fans per game last season, the largest drop in 34 years. Attendance fell in every Power 5 conference except the Big Ten (which increased by 76 fans, or .01 percent), and attendance in the SEC, generally viewed as the beating heart of the college football universe, dropped the most, by 3.14 percent. (For more attendance figures from the NCAA, click here.)

    There are a million theories as to why this happening, and some of those theories, with the benefit of additional research, will no doubt prove to be valid. And some of those theories will prove to be based on false assumptions. Obviously, winning and losing plays a huge role, particularly at schools that don’t traditionally have football success. But underlying all these potential variables are a couple of quandaries — posed to me by experts in this field — that I had never really pondered:

    • What if college football, by nature of having the most consistently intense home-field atmosphere of any major sport, is actually alienating a segment of its potential fan base?
    • On top of that, what if college football’s two primary revenue drivers — attendance and television — are inherently structured to work against each other?

    Let’s dispel with one stereotype up front: This decrease is not taking place merely because of the inherent laziness of millennials. Yes, student attendance has decreased 9 percent since 2009, but probably not because, as one expert told Dodd, college students “no longer view attending sporting events as part of the college experience.”

    It also is not about the lack of consistent Wi-Fi coverage at stadiums. Nels Popp, an assistant professor of sport administration at the University of North Carolina, says that despite colleges’ obsession with improving Wi-Fi, connectivity is the “lowest reliable variable” when it comes to attendance. In other words: People don’t stay home because of lousy Wi-Fi, even if they consider good Wi-Fi to be a bonus when they do show up.

    “Our response when we see students aren’t coming tends to be, ‘Let’s throw more shit at them,’ ” says Robert Malekoff, Popp’s colleague in UNC’s Department of Exercise and Sport Science.

    In a way, that might be true, but it’s not about literally hurling T-shirts or network passwords in their general direction (it may not be about social media blasts, either, if Popp’s research on the lack of impact of social media on attendance bears out with further study). It’s a more subtle, experiential thing — and it might extend beyond the student body and into older generations, as well.

    One example of a potential prototype may exist in Starkville: In 2016, Popp notes, Mississippi State constructed eight luxury cabanas on the terrace of Davis Wade Stadium. The cabanas had televisions, food and shade from the heat. Each cost $18,000 per season and sold out in 48 hours — and it seems relevant to note here that the cabanas don’t have a direct view of the action on the field.

    This is an extreme example, but in a way, it comports with the decision my parents made. Now that every game is available on television, the majority of casual fans value comfort and an overarching experience, which is why UCF fans flocked to the beach cabana built at their stadium in 2015.

    Sure, I know what you’re thinking, because when I heard this, I thought the same thing: That’s idiotic. Why go to a college football game if you’re not interested in watching football? Isn’t that what sets our game apart from professional sports, where the atmosphere has long been sucked dry of any soul by television, corporate sponsorship and luxury-box culture? Aren’t we proud of the fact that college football is not as casual an experience as, say, minor league baseball? When I was a kid, we used to wait on the overcrowded ramps to get to our seats while mooing like cattle. Isn’t the inherent discomfort of attending a game part of the experience?

    But here’s what those of us who grew up as hardcore fans must come to terms with: We’re not the ones who need to be marketed to, because we’re not going anywhere.

    “I think it’s an old-school mentality, that if you come to a game you’re going to sit on the edge of your seat,” Popp says. “But this is a six-hour commitment. And I don’t think we can ask them to make the game the only draw. People want a lot of other entertainment options. The mindset of the attendee is changing.”

    There will always be a cadre of students who prefer to be crammed in tight, who prefer to paint team colors on their chests, who are too busy shouting to take note of the amenities. But those fans are going to the games, no matter what. It’s the rest of the people who make the difference between sellouts and empty sections. If they’re students, they might want to go if their friends are going or if the game feels more like a social event. If they’re adults, they might want to go if their children feel more welcome or if they have access to more comfortable seating and an experience that can compete with television.

    And that brings me to the second quandary, which is that, in a way, college football is competing against its own televised product. “They’re kind of going head-to-head,” Malekoff says. “TV is much more like the game-day experience now. There’s food. There’s a bathroom right there.”

    By shifting many kickoff times six to 12 days before the game, television has made it harder for people to plan ahead to attend. People with children may have their Saturdays scheduled around soccer games; older people might not want to drag themselves to an 8 p.m. game, and students might not want to drag themselves out of bed for a noon start against a subpar opponent. People are always going to complain about the cost, but in a way, Popp wonders, the time commitment could matter more than the monetary commitment.

    How do schools remedy all of this? First, says Malekoff, we need to find out more about the why. “Don’t just guess why fans don’t come,” he says, “Ask.

    In that same vein, says Popp, don’t merely “crowd-blame” — look inward instead. Given the impact of television, it might be time for the schools to ask what matters more to them: maximizing revenue through television or having a full house? (This is an idea professional sports has largely come to terms with, for better or worse.)

    It’s a quandary that will take time and study to resolve, but in the meantime, says Popp, there’s at least one idea that has proved far more positive and far less destructive than administrators thought it would. And it no doubt enjoys near-universal generational acclaim.

    “Two words,” Popp says. “Cheap beer.”

     

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    Liberty University appears to have paid settlements for hiring several key athletic-department officials who had been accused of creating “a hunting ground for sexual predators” when they worked at Baylor, then allegedly overcorrecting by expelling three football players on unfounded sexual-assault charges.

    In March, Liberty quietly settled lawsuits filed last year by three former football players who alleged defamation and Title IX violations. The cases had survived Liberty’s dismissal attempts and were set for jury trials later this year. The settlements came very shortly after the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Joshua Farmer, told Deadspin that he had discovered new information that “is going to blow up this Liberty case.”

     
     

    The athletes who filed suit—Cameron Jackson, Kyle Carrington and Avery James—had been kicked off the football team and expelled from Liberty following an accusation from a female student that they had sexually assaulted her at an off-campus party thrown on Aug. 22, 2015. The punishments weren’t handed down until September 2016. Administrators at Liberty, a school in Lynchburg, Va., founded and operated by the televangelistic Falwell family, said they didn’t hear about the assault accusations until nearly a year after the party where the incidents allegedly occurred. According to the suit, the accuser first told administrators that she’d been assaulted after the school started investigating her own alleged misconduct at the same party, an inquiry that began because of social media posts about sexual activity at the event. According to court filings from the accuser, she left Liberty voluntarily before the players were punished. Each plaintiff asked for damages of $50 million from the school and $50 million from the accuser.

    Liberty had trumpeted the punishments in a September 12, 2016 press release, which named the accused players and said they had violated the university’s “Policy on Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, and Assault.” Liberty’s release mentioned that the school had referred the assault allegations to the Lynchburg Police Department, but no criminal charges were ever filed against the players. Lt. David Gearhart, LPD’s public information officer, declined Deadspin’s request for police reports related to his department’s investigation. But Gearhart said that all findings were turned over to the Lynchburg Office of the Commonwealth Attorney, and that the prosecutors “determined there was insufficient evidence to file charges and prosecute the case.”

    Shortly after the punishments were announced, Farmer pronounced Jackson’s innocence and began blasting the school’s handling of the accusations in interviews and posts on his law firm’s website. Farmer said the application of Title IX, the federal regulation that, among other things, calls for equal treatment regardless of gender for students at any institution that receives public funding, was flawed throughout Liberty’s handling of the investigation. (Though a private school, Liberty gets public grants and must abide by Title IX rules.) Farmer argued that Liberty violated Title IX by giving more weight to the accuser’s words strictly because of gender, alleging that the school’s Conduct Review Committee didn’t allow the accused players to review the evidence before doling out punishments. He also criticized the school for announcing the penalties while the players were preparing their appeals of the Liberty punishments (those appeals were rejected) and before the criminal investigation was completed.

     

    After prosecutors told involved parties that no charges would be filed, Farmer said, Liberty offered the students the chance to reapply for admission for the next school year, which would require them to petition for their official status with the university to be reclassified from expelled to “in good standing.” Normally, students must wait a full year to reapply. Farmer took that offer as a sign that the school was aware the initial punishments were unjust. Of the expelled students, only Jackson applied for reclassification; Farmer said that within four days of receiving Jackson’s application, Liberty administrators ruled he was once again a student in good standing. Asked by Deadspin about Farmer’s account of Jackson’s reclassification, Liberty officials said the school “cannot confirm the accuracy of what you say you were told” due to federal privacy laws.

    Though Jackson was again in good standing at Liberty, he and his fellow plaintiffs moved forward with their lawsuits against the school. Liberty lawyers successfully petitioned to have the cases moved from Lynchburg Circuit Court, where Jackson’s suit were originally filed, to the federal U.S.. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. But Liberty’s motion to have the suits dismissed was largely denied in August by U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon, who ruled that the defamation and Title IX cases would move forward. Jackson’s case was scheduled to be heard by a jury in July 2018.

    In an interview before the settlement, Farmer alleged that Liberty “railroaded” his client, and said the school touted his expulsion so loudly as part of a bungled effort to mitigate the fallout from its hiring castoffs from Baylor’s athletic department. The Waco school was the site of one of the most notorious sexual-abuse scandals in college athletics history, and Liberty had hired in a trio of men who had overseen the debacle.

     

    Ian McRary, Baylor’s former Title IX officer, was hired by Liberty in February 2016 as associate general counsel. Ian McCaw, Baylor’s former athletic director, was appointed AD at Liberty in November 2016. McCaw quickly hired Todd Patulski, his assistant athletic director at Baylor, as the Liberty athletic department’s associate athletic director and chief financial officer. McCaw, Patulski and McRary had all left their jobs at Baylor as a result of the investigation into that school’s handling of sexual abuse and assault allegations; administrators were accused in one of many resulting lawsuits with having “created a hunting ground for sexual predators to freely prey upon innocent, unsuspecting female students, with no concern of reprisal or consequences.” Not all the alleged rapists at Baylor were athletes, but the athletic department under McCaw, Patulski and McRary was viewed as the epicenter of the assault epidemic. McCaw, Patulski and McRary were all recently subpoenaed to testify in one of the lawsuits against Baylor related to the Waco sexual assault scandal.

     

    The hiring of McCaw and his colleagues came at a time when Jerry Falwell Jr.—who has been running Liberty since the 2007 death of founder Jerry Falwell Sr.—was trying to use sports to grab more of the national spotlight that his late father had craved. A 2014 article in USA Today reported that Liberty officials had “blueprints at the ready” on a renovation of its football stadium that would “add 6,000 seats in the near term and more than 40,000 over time.” Hiring administrators from Baylor, which had experienced unprecedented football success in recent years, was a key part of the plan. (McCaw, for example, got much of the credit for getting the $266 million McLane Stadium built on the Waco campus.)

     

    Liberty, a school whose motto is “Champions for Christ,” announced in February 2017 that its football program was moving from the second-tiered FCS up to FBS, the NCAA’s top football classification. When President Donald Trump gave the commencement address at Liberty’s graduation ceremony in May 2017, he spent much of the speech highlighting Falwell’s football dreams.

    None of the ex-Baylor officials now atop Liberty’s athletics department were named as defendants in the expelled players’ suits; McCaw’s name, for example, appears only a few times in the complaint filed by Jackson, which goes on for more than 100 pages. And of the three former Baylor officials, only McRary had officially been hired by Liberty when the school put out the press release announcing the players’ punishments.

    But the Baylor transplants were key figures in the case that Farmer put together against Liberty. The attorney alleged that Liberty was already planning to bring in McCaw and Patulski to join McRary by the time the school made an example of Jackson, and administrators felt they needed to make a very public anti-sexual abuse statement, he said. Jackson’s original complaint states that Liberty’s interest in McCaw “pre-dated McCaw’s resignation [from Baylor] by several months and included internal discussions between Liberty University chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. and other senior staff about the need to ‘act quickly’ if McCaw became available.” Furthermore, the suit alleges that Liberty “believed or had reason to believe that any public criticism of their decision to hire McCaw would be worse if the University developed a public image that was weak on Title IX.”

     

    Falwell declined Deadspin’s request last year to answer questions about McCaw’s hiring, but he has publicly supported the embattled former Baylor AD. After court filings in a Texas lawsuit against Baylor accused McCaw with abetting a cover up of sexual assault allegations there, Falwell’s office released a package of pro-McCaw comments from members of Baylor’s board of regents. One of the regents, according to a round-up of the comments sent by Liberty to the Waco Tribune, told Falwell, “My personal view is that the Lord has moved Ian [McCaw] from Baylor to Liberty through this sad chapter in Baylor’s history.”

    As for the discovery that Farmer’s Feb. 17 email to Deadspin predicted would “blow up” Liberty’s defense? The fact that McRary, for all the notorious Title IX fiascos he oversaw in Waco, assumed oversight of Title IX matters at Liberty as soon as he arrived in Lynchburg.

    “Based on what happened at Baylor, McRary shouldn’t have been within a country mile of any school’s Title IX policy, but when he got to LU’s Legal affairs department...they put him in charge of the whole damn thing,” Farmer said. “When [McRary] got to [Liberty], they were so sensitive to the problems at Baylor that they overcorrected. Baylor had been accused of ignoring accusations, so at [Liberty] they went 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Overcorrected and railroaded these guys.”

     

    In response to a request from Deadspin, Liberty confirmed that when McRary began work for the school in February 2016 his duties “included advising the University and its employees on all aspects of compliance with the Title IX federal sex discrimination law.”

    On Feb. 26, nine days after Farmer’s email about a bombshell discovery, the parties began filing motions in U.S. District Court to dismiss the case. Court records show that Judge Moon accepted the motion two days later. On March 20, the court clerk entered that Jackson’s case was dismissed “with prejudice,” meaning the suit cannot be refiled. The resolution of Jackson’s suit was first reported by the Lynchburg News & Advance. Three days later, court records show, the Carrington and James suits were similarly dispatched. No settlement terms were registered with the court in any of the cases.

    Neither Farmer nor Stephanie Karn, attorney for the accuser, responded to a request for comment following the resolution. Liberty officials declined to comment, other than to issue a brief statement: “The parties have resolved this matter to their mutual satisfaction.”

     

    Despite being deemed fit for re-admittance to Liberty, Jackson chose to transfer out. A source close to Jackson said he intends to resume his football career at Coastal Carolina, Liberty’s main rival in the Big South Conference before the Flames jumped to the FBS.

    https://deadspin.com/liberty-university-settles-claim-that-it-expelled-footb-1825023756

  9. 2 hours ago, WBT said:

    I read somewhere that there were a lot of scheduled off days last Friday (day after opening day) and this Friday in case of bad weather to let every team have two chances to get in their home opener. 

    This makes a little more sense, and apparently Colorado should have done it.  Daughter just called and said it's 26 degrees, windy, and snowing hard in Golden, CO.

    Rockies' home opener scheduled for 3pm.

  10. 7 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    The most hits does not make him the best hitter ever.  There are lots of guys who were better hitters than Rose.

    You'd think you wouldn't need to tell anyone that, but...

    By slorch's logic, PETE ROSE IS THE WORST HITTER EVER because he made the most outs.

    And his lead in career Outs is much greater than his lead in career Hits.

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    Morrisett pleaded guilty in February 2017 to felony charges after strangling his girlfriend until “she saw stars,” in May 2016, according to an arrest affidavit. Morrisett was also accused of a violent incident in July 2016 that sent his girlfriend to the hospital.

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