Jason Gay at the Wall Street Journal writes about the NFL and large screen TVs ….” May we interrupt the non-stop coverage of beach badminton, speed chess and robotic bullfrog racing in this space to bring attention to a niche but deserving sport in America: Professional tackle football[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Athletics’
June 18th, 2016 - 10:41 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Rio Broke, Olympics Games to Go On
OLYMPICS NIGHTMARE: RIO DECLARES FINANCIAL DISASTER BEFORE GAMES Western Wildfires Triple in Size; Evacuations In 3 States... INFERNO: SOUTHWEST SCORCHER... ALL-TIME HIGHS? 'RARE, DANGEROUS'... LIVE: TEMPS MAP... USA powering up first new nuclear reactor in decades... Islamists Attack Radiohead F[...]
June 11th, 2016 - 8:49 am § in Misc.
UW regents assail ex-athletic director over growing deficit
I am shocked, the UW has admitted that the Huskies are losing money? Fans .. this is nothing new. No more than one or two big time University pro sports programs make money. The corruption resulting form the hypocrisy infects even the UW … read about Phyllis Wise’s role here as the[...]
February 15th, 2016 - 10:37 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle’s plan for yet another sports arena could fail the test of tax reform!
The Seattle Times reports that Chris Hansen’s proposal to build a $490 million, bond-funded arena project could be fatally pierced if President Obama is successful at ending the tax subsidy on bonds for sports venues. I hope this is true. While I wold enjoy having a basketball team here,[...]
February 3rd, 2016 - 1:13 am § in Misc.
Yeh .. a college degree in sports!
Why Not a College Degree in Sports? Colleges should award degrees in athletics, just as they do in music, dance and theater. Share NYTIMES.COM|BY ROGER PIELKE JR.[...]
As we hear about Black Lives Matter .. this what the UW Minority Affairs Website looks like.
This is what you will see if you use Bing (or Google) to search for the UW minority affairs office today. Is this real in th era of “Black Lives Matter?” In a school that is greatly over represented by scholarshipped African Americans and Pacific Islanders to play ball, I have troubl[...]
August 11th, 2015 - 11:19 am § in Misc.
Soccer and Africa
FIFA, Blatter and Africa: a special relationship Answers to the challenging question of why Africans unanimously supported Sepp Blatter for a 5th term – and what they portend for the future.[...]
LSU drafting ‘academic bankruptcy’ plan. Would fire faculty but continue to recruit football players.
“We don’t say that to scare people. Basically, it is how we are going to survive.” LSU President (The Times-Picayune , READMORE ) Moody’s Investors Service announced that it was lowering LSU’s credit rating in response to an 82 percent funding cut if no extra state [...]
The Racial Hypocrisy of College Sports