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  1. Lively accuses Baldoni of “walking into her dressing room while breast feeding” but she left out the text messages she sent him to him where she says, “come over to my trailer so we can run lines, I’m pumping.” She also says that she was uncomfortable that he wanted to include nude sex scenes featuring an underage character (with an actress of age) but she neglects to admit that she changed her nudity rider during production to have final approval of the sex scenes of her character, including the underage teenage version of the character. Lively accuses the producer of showing her pornography on the set when it was a video of a home birth being used as an example for the birthing scene. She accuses Baldoni of purposely using his D-list actor buddy in the birthing scene to humiliate her, but she neglects to include that he is a trained actor with a Master’s Degree in Theater from UCLA. Lively is pissed off that people had backlash against her for neglecting to speak about the domestic violence aspect of the story during PR for the movie so she could focus on talking about her makeup line she launched during the release of the film. The producer alleges Lively did not read the book so she did not understand the domestic violence context that some women identified with and wanted to talk in favor of pushing her makeup products. She’s Amber Heard 2.0. It just doesn’t help that the producer is using outlets like Megyn Kelly to get his point across so everyone that sides with him is being associated with that Fox News shit. Lively absolutely does not want to talk about domestic violence and makes a joke about it when it was the central theme of the book. This interview shows an example of how she makes a joke about the entire thing.
  2. Marcellus Wiley was accused in a lawsuit last year of sexually assaulting a woman in 1994 when he was a football player at Columbia. The woman reported this to Columbia but they took no action against him. I think the lawsuit is still pending (not sure) so Wiley is jumping on the narrative that you shouldn’t believe all women who accuse men. The accuser against him was “running things” at Columbia because she was an assistant director of the school’s Center for the Core Curriculum. This woman refused to give Wiley a number of alumni awards he was nominated for years after graduating. Her lawsuit came just before the statute of limitations was up in New York. Wiley is pushing hard against Joy because allegedly Joy was going to say Charlie Dixon (EVP of Fox Sports) sexually assaulted her if Joy got fired for also sleeping with Acho behind Dixon’s back. Wiley and Jason Whitlock are also pissed because they got dumped from their show on Fox and replaced by Acho and Joy. Whitlock especially is making himself look like a martyr by saying he had enough sense to stay away from Joy who in reality had absolutely no interest in trying to fuck him.
  3. Is this why Mack is lingering around?
  4. Yeah but this story is blowing up because the hairdresser’s lawsuit against Skip Bayless for offering $1.5M for sex put Joy Taylor in the crossfire because they were friends. Joy was allegedly sleeping with an executive at Fox Sports plus other guys like Acho and Shannon Sharpe while Skip couldn’t get any. The hairdresser alleges that Joy told her she would say the executive forced himself on her if he tried to get rid of Joy for sleeping with Acho. The lawsuit also said Colin Cowherd was a complete professional while people are finding clips of him making subtle digs at Joy with his titties slip up and comments to Joy about Tiger cheating on his wife.
  5. I agree with this. There was an electricity in the air about the team when it was VY and Colt as the QB. Both those guys were Heisman finalists. My point is that even if I thought Colt was better, Quinn still technically has to be above him if he wins a title.
  6. Damn I’m young enough to forget Street would likely be above Quinn. I’m also old enough to have watched Colt in person and say he is a better QB than Quinn. But you just can’t put Quinn below Colt if Quinn has a title.
  7. Winning a championship makes Quinn #2 behind VY. Even if you think Colt was a better QB or Colt would have won in 2009 or would have had more chances to win with the CFP, Quinn has to be #2 with a championship.
  8. Posted this in the skip thread. Colin says “titties” to Joy. He’s also talking about LA vs Tampa in football but it’s code for Joy fucking the Fox EVP in LA while her husband is living in Florida. Look at her face when he says it before the titty comment slips out.
  9. I just don’t understand why the hairdresser is at a dinner with Joy, her fiance, plus Dixon and his wife.
  10. Cowherd said “titties” when talking to Joy
  11. The pocket was clean but Quinn’s legs are wide open ready to run. It’s like Quinn decided to run the moment he saw Helm get to the top of the route and was covered by 2 guys. There was even an extra blocker on the right. The throw to Wingo or even dump off to Wisner would have been a better move.
  12. Looks good to me. Why does Quinn panic in the pocket like that when it’s clean? His legs get super wide when he starts panicking.
  13. I’m not trying to get CR here but I don’t understand all the bitching Mark Cuban does about Trump when he is business partners with the Adelsons who are one of Trump’s biggest donors.
  14. Here is a compiled list of what kind of organization each school runs.
  15. This 4th and 18 run against Kansas to save the game was the first time a lot of people noticed VY. We lose this game and no Rose Bowl against Michigan that year.
  16. We should send Sark’s ass up into the booth after halftime so he can see how much he sucks in the 3rd quarter.
  17. The middle of the field is wide open with only the ref standing there. Not only does the camera add 10 pounds, it makes Quinn’s throwing windows look wider than they actually appear.
  18. This is a good article that discusses the tax implications of NIL collectives. https://midmichigannow.com/amp/sports/unintended-consequences-how-nil-in-college-sports-has-raised-questions-about-nonprofits Unintended consequences: How NIL in college sports has raised questions about nonprofits Monday, Jul 29th 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — Three years into the new age of college sports, where athletes are allowed to profit from their successes through name, image and likeness deals, everyone is still trying to find out what the new normal will be. Greg Sankey, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, called it “uncharted waters of change” in July at SEC Media Days in Dallas, as college football season approaches. "Anytime you go through a reset, it is difficult,” said Sankey, whose conference not only includes perennial powerhouses Georgia and Alabama, but, as of this year, Texas and Oklahoma, as well. Those uncharted waters aren't limited to football. The complicated, often murky, world of NIL has touched not just every corner of college sports, but also had an unanticipated effect on the charitable organizations that popped up to help players secure these sponsorship deals. The basic question NIL raises for nonprofits is: What is charitable about paying college players? To unravel how NIL deals in college sports have anything to do with the nature of tax-exempt organizations, we have to go back to 2021. That’s when a Supreme Court decision forced the NCAA to allow players to be paid for the use of their name, image and likeness. The ruling allowed players to finally enter into sponsorship and endorsement deals — including everything from the much-anticipated EA Sports College Football 25 video game to promotional appearances for local restaurants and car dealerships. Fallout from the Supreme Court decision continues, with rules governing NIL deals evolving in response to new lawsuits and state laws. Initially, the NCAA prohibited colleges and universities from directly paying their players, though that may soon change. But to bridge that gap, a cottage industry of outside groups popped up to facilitate contracts between boosters and athletes. Some of those outside groups formed as companies — where fans gave them money and the groups, after taking a small cut, passed it on to the school’s athletes. In return, the athletes are supposed to perform some service for the group, like autographing merchandise or posting on social media. Other groups incorporated as nonprofit organizations and applied successfully to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status. “The worry was there’s going to be a narrative perception from the public that this is just greedy athletes, right? So we've got to clean that up, and the way you do that, as always, is nonprofit work, charity work,” said Darrell Lovell, assistant professor of political science at West Texas A&M University, who has written a book about NIL initiatives. What percentage of these new organizations are for-profit and what percentage are nonprofit? Hard to say, since no one entity is monitoring all of them. The NCAA recently contracted with a company to create a voluntary registry for agents, service providers and deals over $600, which may yield better information about the estimated $1.2 billion flowing through NIL collectives. On the nonprofit side, however, last June, the IRS issued a memo stating that the activities of many NIL nonprofits were not tax-exempt. In essence, the agency wrote that NIL deals serve the private interests of players, but not the public good. Phil Hackney, associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s law school, said the IRS offers tax-exempt status for organizations that probably should not qualify “happens more often than we might think." “There’s probably a lot of nonprofits that nobody’s focusing on that probably ought not have an exemption, but they do,” said Hackney, who formerly worked in the IRS’ Office of Chief Counsel. IRS spokesperson Anthony Burke said in May that the agency has a compliance strategy to make sure NIL nonprofits are “in full compliance with the existing legal requirements,” but did not elaborate. Since January, the IRS has released three rulings denying tax-exempt status for specific, but unnamed, organizations offering NIL contracts with college players. Some nonprofit NIL collectives continue to operate, though others have closed. The Texas One Fund that supports the Texas Longhorns still promotes its tax-exempt status on its website and hosted a fundraising concert in the football stadium in May. It did not respond to a request for comment. Athletes at the University of Utah last year received leases to new cars, in one of the highest profile NIL deals. The Crimson Collective, which is the school's official NIL, is registered as a nonprofit in Utah and has successfully applied for tax-exempt status from the IRS. Its most recent tax filing from 2022 indicates that it reported having less than $50,000 in revenue. Erin Trenbeath-Murray, vice president of philanthropy for Ken Garff Enterprises and the Crimson Collective, said the organization was not involved in facilitating the leases and that its purpose is to support other charities in the state, like Make A Wish Foundation, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Junior Achievement and other nonprofits. The Cohesion Foundation, which supports Ohio State athletes, said it stopped collecting new donations after the IRS memo, but paid out its contracts through the end of last year. Executive director Dan Apple said the collective is currently “inactive” but hasn’t taken down its website or publicly announced its closure in case something changes again. These nonprofits continue, in part, because large donors like to give through charitable vehicles so that they can take a tax deduction. “Where the big dollars come in and I’m talking six figures,” said Tom Dieters, president of the nonprofit organization Charitable Gift America, “Those come from grants. From donor-advised funds. Private foundations. Charitable trusts. We’ve even got a charitable IRA rollover money. You can only get those gifts as a public charity.” Dieters said his organization helps donors enter into NIL contracts with players at 10 schools around the country, including his alma mater, Michigan State. In return, athletes promote Charitable Gift America — through social media posts, for example. “We’re not unlike a car dealership that would promote their cars,” Dieters said. “We just promote philanthropy.” Brian Mittendorf, the H.P. Wolfe Chair in accounting at Ohio State, said he sees some window where it could be possible for a tax-exempt organization to enter into NIL contracts, but it would be a tricky line to draw. A nonprofit that existed before it started offering NIL contracts still must ensure its work furthers its charitable mission, he said. “(Organizations should) be able to demonstrate that the contracts they enter into are in furtherance of that charitable purpose and not to benefit any individuals in particular,” Mittendorf said. In the upcoming school year, the waters remain uncharted following a $2.8 billion settlement reached between the NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences that could create a revenue-sharing model with their athletes. At least one school, Houston Christian, has objected in court to the settlement arguing that it will divert money to sports from schools' core missions of education and research. Elsewhere, Virginia recently passed a law allowing schools to make NIL deals with players. Other states are wrestling with whether players can unionize. Hackney sees momentum for schools directly paying players somehow, though he argues that will further challenge whether the schools primarily serve a charitable education mission. “The system that allows this major business, major TV athletic product business, to operate as a charitable activity has long been problematic,” he said, in part because until recently, the athletes doing the work have not been paid. “Getting dollars to athletes for the real work that they do is important,” Hackney said. “But once you’re starting to pay them, you’re no longer operating a charity where you’re honestly there to educate these athletes. You’re there to pay them for a transactional business that’s not charitable anymore.”
  19. A big thing about NIL that people don’t realize is that our NIL collective donations are tax deductible for IRS purposes. This is a HUGE advantage when it comes to collecting NIL money that other big schools like Michigan don’t have. Our NIL collective was one of the first to get its tax deductible status before the IRS stopped allowing this to be done by all schools. I would like to see a comprehensive list of which schools have NIL collective tax exempt status because I think it makes a huge difference in how much money can be raised by a school.
  20. Elon is Adrian. He posted a screenshot on 4chan of Elon’s Twitter account and forgot that it shows his admin privileges and engagements that can only be seen by the account holder which is Elon.
  21. Notre Dame is much better than we are at converting red zone trips into touchdowns, so technically they wouldn’t have to rely on their kicker as much as we do.
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