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| Name: | B Perk |
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| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
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Why We Hate A-Rod Eric Neel takes a look at why A-Rod, one of the best baseball players most of us have ever seen, is generally disliked by fans.
posted on Aug 9, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Tour de Fake? Tour de France winner, Floyd Landis, reportedly tested positive for drugs after Stage 17. Yeah, that stage 17.
posted on Jul 27, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Are you kidding me? Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant are scheduled to meet this week in Los Angeles. It looks like Phil is seriously considering returning to LA. Can he turn this team around?
posted on Apr 26, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
Haslett admits steroid use It looks like it might be time to recall some Super Bowl rings as the Saints coach admits to using steroids as a player and calls the Steelers steroid pioneers in the NFL.
posted on Mar 24, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
It's a sister slam! Venus and Serena Williams cruised through the Wimbledon women's singles semifinal with straight sets victories over Elena Dementieva and Zheng Jie, to advance to their third straight all-Williams Wimbledon final.
posted to Tennis at 1:09 PM CDT
Are you ready for some football?....Sit Down! The Kansas City Chiefs have a "Fan Code of Conduct," which is essentially a list of rules that fans have to follow when they're attending a game at Arrowhead.
posted to Football at 7:50 PM CDT
Standing at a sports event always struck me as odd herd behavior anyway.
In college, the student section remained standing throughout the game. The alumni sat down through the whole game. The first time I saw a game on the alumni side, I thought it was dreadful. You can see the game better at home on the television. You go to the games for the atmosphere. Standing up the whole game is bad if you want children attending because they won't be able to see.
posted at 1:27 PM CDT on July 2
Okay, so why should I want to make the stadium congenial to parents with young children?
To make lifelong fans.
posted at 3:13 PM CDT on July 2
Christian News Site Turns Athlete Homosexual OneNewsNow, an online news service owned by the American Family Association, has been editing AP stories to automatically replace the word "gay" with "homosexual," filing numerous stories about the American sprinter Tyson Homosexual and the NBA player Rudy Homosexual. One story still online: "Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt."
posted to General at 9:20 AM CDT
That's pretty funny I don't really understand why the Christian News Site prefers the term homosexual to the term gay.
Gay was amazing. He didn't win theworld record, but still ran the fastest 100m ever.
posted at 9:31 AM CDT on July 1
Reminds me of the Yankee desktop calendar screw up a couple years ago.
That's funny. I'd like to get one of those African-American armbands.
posted at 12:53 PM CDT on July 2
First Class?
Excellent baseball writer Joe Posnanski proposes a question:
"If you could start over, who would make up your Hall of Fame first class?"
posted to Baseball at 7:55 AM CDT
Robinson
Williams
Mays
Bonds
Ruth
posted at 9:29 AM CDT on June 30
Title IX, Curse or Blessing? Title IX opened a door for women in athletics. Its impact has been great, and has led to more and more opportunities for women to excel. Particularly at the high school level, I have seen many young girls become confident young ladies from their participation in athletics. Many feel that Title IX has led to decreased opportunity for male athletes. In this article, the author raises many valid questions concerning the way in which Title IX is interpreted.
posted to Culture at 2:39 PM CDT
Nothing in that article makes me think that male athletics are being unfairly neglected. So, in schools where women vastly outnumber men, men's athletics are being cut back on. Good. Put that money where it can aid a larger portion of the student body.
posted at 8:40 AM CDT on June 30
But money has to be spent on football and men's basketball, because they are the primary money makers for most schools.
Title IX focuses on participation in athletics, not spending on athletics.
posted at 3:55 PM CDT on June 30
How about we fund student athletics based on how many students actually want to participate instead of assuming that female students MUST participate on equal per capita numbers with male athletes?
Because there is not an unlimited budget at schools, so hard choices have to be made. Everyone who wants to be on the debate team doesn't get to be. I fail to see why athletics should be any different. If a larger student body can be served by putting that money towards the library, then I think that is the right choice.
Therefore, schools end up being so afraid of Title IX-related sanctions that they try their best to balance things out as much as possible, and that causes problems when football programs have both large participation numbers and large budgets, and there is no equivalent sport on the female side.
I have spent quite a bit of time on the DOE database and I just don't see that happening. Football costs far more than any other sport, and I don't see that balancing out at in all the schools I have checked out.
posted at 8:07 PM CDT on June 30
Personally, I believe profit sports should get a little more leeway, which would likely help some of the issues, though that issue is certainly open for debate.
I think they already do. It sounds like your AD was trying to keep it close, but it isn't close. Women at the University of Minnesota outnumber men as participants in sports, but the funding for men's athletics is about 30% more than that for women's sports. The difference is pretty much the expenses for running the football team. Men's athletics bring in the most revenue and have the most expenses.
posted at 2:12 PM CDT on July 1
Not to say that there aren't some schools in the red for football, but i'd be surprised if there were very many in BCS conferences in that situation.
I think football teams in a major conference are a no-brainer. You have to spend the money because even if your team is not succesful, you get a pretty large chunk of the pie anyway. However, the vast majority of college football teams do not fall into this category. They still take a huge amount of money to operate. Schools argue that they help balance the women/men enrollment deficits at schools and bring a higher profile to schools. Are they worth their rather large cost? I don't really know. I do know that the schools choosing to operate a football team has to meet their obligations under title IX. If the football team is successful, then there should be more money to spend on all the other sports. If the football team is successful, then the school needs to consider how they are going to meet the obligations of title IX with a football program eating up a large chunk of the athletic department's budget.
posted at 1:14 PM CDT on July 2
I couldn't find any numbers in a quick search to see how that would break out--if anyone knows a good resource, I'd love to see it.
I checked the DOE site posted above. You can search by aggregate institutions. I did a quick search of aggregate institutions in I-A and I-AA by expenses and by revenue. In I-A, the football revenue totalled quite a lot more than the expenses for football. In I-AA, those numbers about equalled out.
posted at 3:27 PM CDT on July 2
Barry Bonds offers to play for free.
My opinion on Bonds is no secret, however I noticed this tidbit in the paper yesterday and have been meaning to post about it. Barry Bonds' agent has offered his services to all 30 teams, at a pro-rated salary of the league minimum (at this point, about $200,000 total), even offering to play for free by donating that salary to buying tickets for the game; his trial date isn't until next March, so he would not be prevented from playing.
Despite this, apparently Barry's agent has received no interest, bolstering claims that the league is colluding to prevent him being hired.
posted to Baseball at 9:32 PM CDT
1) Nobody is stopping the man from playing;
That we know of . . .
posted at 8:55 AM CDT on June 30
So if cheating by using performance enhancing drugs isn't enough to keep this guy off of your team, what would?
It was, at most, cheating in the past before baseball instituted its steroid policy. You are going to have to kick a lot more people out of baseball if you want it clean. Is your chosen team 100% clean without any past PED use whatsoever?
posted at 2:53 PM CDT on June 30
The upsets were crazy on both the men's and women's sides. Still, they need to adjust the seeding because it has absolutely no correlation to who is favored to win.
Sure the surface and injuries do have an effect, but what other legitimate option is there other than their WTA ranking?
I don't know, but when V. Williams, the 7th seed, is playing Dementieva, the 5th seed, and no one gives the 5th seed much of a chance of winning, the seeds are useless.