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Too young, he was a funny guy. He once randomly walked into my gym class senior year.

Trout and Ellsbury. I like Kipnis, too.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 24, 2014 -> 11:19 AM) It was a table setter episode, but still a lot going on. So far Maggie, Rust, and Marty have all lied to the investigators about a lot of significant happenings over the past 10 years. "Actually, how bout you buy me a beer."

True Detective. Hot damn. Best episode of Shameless yet this season.

We won a game! Crazy things happen when you don't have double-digit turnovers.

QUOTE (Willard Decker @ Feb 19, 2014 -> 11:47 PM) Ladies and gentlemen, may I present Tom Crean's greatest hits! --Captain Decker I was hoping this was him wigging out on the sidelines or something, it's just the Penn State meltdown. No need to watch that again.

I had only seen the beginning of the Illinois-Minnesota game when Minnesota was up big. Didn't realize Illinois had won until the news came on and the sports anchor was moaning about how terribly the Gophers played.

Way for BC to keep with it even in OT. Just Wichita State left.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 07:46 PM) IF IT WAS NAMED BOBBY KNIGHT FLOOR THIS NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. If we let Dick Vitale get his way it would be something like the Bobby Knight Court at Our Holy Lord Robert Montgomery Knight Arena.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 08:09 AM) Yes, it's the 15 year old Russian figure skater. Then yep, creepy!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 06:34 AM) Saw this at the bottom of an unrelated story. Way to be a creepy perv, CBS. I assume that's someone who is under 18? Otherwise...that's just par for the course for bottom-of-the-page ads.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 07:47 AM) Watching that video makes me want to vomit. That little fat piece of s*** Kainan Bell goes to start a fight, the ref goes to stop him, slips, and lands on the kid. The f***ing hillbilly horrible mother screaming the f-bomb well before the incident is 10x worse. Mistakes happen. Parents in sports can be brutal, and this is one of the worst examples I've seen. For those parents to proudly release that video is sickening, given how they look in it. I like how their kid has such horrific injuries that they are yelling "WE GOT YOU REF!" and not even bothering to see if their kid is actually alright. F*ck everything about this story. That is one dumb mother.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 03:55 PM) These verdicts don't make any sense then. How can they find him guilty of attempted murder three times (implying that they didn't buy his self defense arguments and that the shootings were unjustified) but then not find him guilty of at least manslaughter when the 4th kid was shot and ends up dead? I meant that 2nd degree murder was a lesser included offense, he was convicted of 2nd degree attempted murder. And as to your question...I don't know. Honestly haven't followed it closely enough to know the details.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 03:31 PM) Really? What's the point of ever charging someone for anything less than 1st degree murder then? That makes sense because it's a lesser included charge. Not sure of the elements for 2nd degree attempted murder.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 08:42 AM) Shameless. Wow. This season has been less "fun," but I think it might be the best season yet. I'm still liking it, but there's something bothering me about this season. Feels a little too forced. True Detective...another great one. Only three episodes left.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 15, 2014 -> 04:38 PM) This is thoroughly unpleasant. Sure was. Just awful.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 14, 2014 -> 02:49 PM) Agreed. When you're being asked questions by reports, "we" are involved in the decision. "We" are involved in the decision, but "we" are not going to school. Jalen Brunson is. I get that when you're speaking, especially to reporters, words get mixed up. But based on the entire tone of that piece, it makes sense to read that line as he really does think "we" are going to a university.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Feb 14, 2014 -> 04:14 PM) Hammered Perea. What a moron. OWI-Endangerment, over a .15. Jeff Howard and Devin Davis, your table is ready.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 14, 2014 -> 10:12 AM) Good stuff guys. Also, bacon bacon bacon. I tried this new "Sunday Bacon" last night. Mighty tasty.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 14, 2014 -> 08:37 AM) Pretty much. I'm pretty sure the whole reason Groce never called is because of the chance of how everything has played out like it did. I just hate it when parents say stuff along the lines of "where WE are going to school." You're not going anywhere, buddy. Your kid is. Don't forget it.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 14, 2014 -> 08:26 AM) Im curious why you guys are ok with it because he really believes in what he is saying? Multiple people on this site have reported his comments as offensive, racist, and sexist, and have gotten into long and terrible arguments with him. Now that he is gone, its ok because he really believed in what he was saying? That is an interesting position to take Can't speak for the others, but I did not say whether I was ok with it. I just said I thought that, most of the time, he truly believed what he said. EDIT: More to the point, I wasn't commenting on whether Duke ought to have banned, but whether he was a troll.

The biggest thing I took from that article wasn't about Groce, but that Brunson's dad seems like a tool.

Very good writeup.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Feb 13, 2014 -> 09:47 PM) I agree. i don't think he was trolling (most of the time), but those were his actual opinions That's what I thought as well.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 13, 2014 -> 03:42 PM) Well, this legal scholarship article I googled up paints a very, very different picture of how easy it is to prove employment discrimination. http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/vie...ext=lsrp_papers Ha, I actually cited to that article in my appellate writing class last year. I was defending the position of a white plaintiff who had been passed over for a promotion in favor of a minority. Nothing substantive, just for the proposition that the number of civil claims generally has remained steady while the number of employment discrimination claims has declined. Had to argue for a clarification/change to the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework used for Title VII reverse discrimination cases. Under that framework, the initial burden is on the plaintiff to prove a prima facie case of discrimination. To do that, a plaintiff must demonstrate: (i) That (s)he belongs to a racial minority; (ii) that (s)he applied and was qualified for a job for which the employer was seeking applicants; (iii) that, despite his/her qualifications, (s)he was rejected; and (iv) that, after his/her rejection, the position remained open and the employer continued to seek applicants from persons of complainant’s qualifications Obviously, reverse discrimination plaintiffs could never prove they belong to a racial minority. So the D.C. Circuit in 1981 developed this component called "background circumstances" that would be substituted for the racial minority prong for a reverse discrimination plaintiff. It meant that reverse discrimination plaintiffs could establish a prima facie case of racial discrimination when background circumstances support the suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority. Some other circuits have adopted the background circumstances component. Another circuit (10th) has modified it, another (3rd) uses a "totality of the circumstances" approach and another (6th) just disregarded the racial minority prong entirely. I argued that the background circumstances component wasn't consistent with Supreme Court precedent (namely McDonnell Douglas, McDonald, Furnco and Burdine). It was an interesting assignment.