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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 03:04 PM) I know who were the best students in the math department (not me) and what they got paid for tutoring rich kids. I know who were not the best students in the math department (me) and what we got paid for tutoring athletes. I'm not saying that the resources available to the players weren't great, and probably better than at most schools, but the rich kids at ND had every bit the resources and sometimes more. So the regular students have a dedicated facility only for the 85 richest students at the school?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 02:55 PM) There aren't really any resources the players get that other students can't get. Of course for other students it costs money and takes effort to find them, but the resources are still available. In fact, some of the "best" tutors available at ND ended up making boatloads tutoring rich kids and the athletes ended up with leftovers. Literally no chance that is true. I'd love to see concrete evidence supporting that because there is no way ND would recruit even as close to as well as they do without fantastic resources dedicated to the players.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 02:06 PM) So do all the Ivy League schools, but that's not really an apples to apples comparison when you add athletics into the mix. Miami athletes took the same classes as me, however study tables (which they have at ND as well) gives athletes a pretty significant advantage

So they have to have a liberal arts curriculum. Miami does that.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 01:03 PM) OK fine, you can say that all you want. Find me some schools where the coursework requirements for football players come close to that of ND. If "it's really, really not," then that should be very simple for you to do. It's very easy for you to make any sort of claim you want if you don't back it up. How is theirs above and beyond any other school? (granted they do their own work)

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 12:33 PM) Anyone dangerous within 21 feet with a knife approaching you, you should shoot. They said it was 4 feet, it looks further. However a taser would have worked as well.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 09:29 AM) I'm surprised there isn't more uproar over that. You could argue he wasn't a real threat at the moment they started shooting. You also heard a ton of shots. That's the natural instinct I was talking about earlier. When you shoot, you typically empty the clip even if you don't "have" to. He has a knife and was close range to the police. Thats a green light to shoot.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 11:49 AM) Just jumped on Game Golf on ebay for $169...was sort of on the fence but figured I'd pop for it if I found a good price... I'll report back to you guys on what I think once I get out there with it a few times. Yeah I am interested in seeing your feedback, sounds awesome.

Wow that was a lot of work to prove the writers point.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 11:33 AM) I'm going to be disappointed in you if you don't watch Party Down South. Oh s***, never heard of it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 09:47 AM) Ha. I stayed in the room while my wife watched this last episode. She was getting pissed that I asked about 100 questions. It appears pretty obvious that every single woman on that show is crazy. Like diagnosable-crazy. The guys maybe too, I dunno, they don't talk enough. Still, most of the women are insanely hot. I might tune in next week. They fall in love in less than a day, its awesome. I still wish it was more like paradise hotel.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 10:07 AM) Crappy 9 holes yesterday. Was pretty windy out there, but some days I just feel sore enough that I think my body compensates in other ways for what it doesn't want to do and my ball-striking goes out the window. I need to get on a fitness program that allows me to sustain playing golf 3-5 times a week without being so sore. I've been fighting a strained oblique for about a month now that isn't any fun either. I walked 9 in 90 degree heat. Tough one.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 09:43 AM) Does anyone watch Bachelor in Paradise? If not, you should. Of course, if its trash on TV I watch it.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 09:39 PM) He has done that to the beginning. He never can use his real voice, always screaming and saying things weird. And just turns on the guy he has been friends with the whole time and says he was trying to get him out a week ago when Caleb was the one that was throwing the challenge!!! He makes me angry. Hope Zach comes back and flips the house somehow Once again editing kind of hurts you here, they have been plotting to take Zach out for weeks and he tried to get Frankie among others out. He also spilled the beans on their alliance several times and got caught in a few big lies. Of course having a reason for getting him out doesnt make for as good of TV as what they are making it look like now.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 04:18 PM) Would any of the following be ok? Coons, Spics, Chaptas, Chinks, Gooks, Mayates, and Mojados. I call my wife a Dago all the time.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 01:54 PM) I just realized my sat radio subscription comes with internet listening...score Oh yeah, thats how I get my Howard fix in the morning.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 03:51 PM) This is being vastly over-complicated. Redskin was, for a few hundred years, and still is, a racist insult. Just like "the N word". And, just like that word, the name was more flippantly and callously applied some time ago. So we have a football team with that name. The people who are targets of it - as well as people who feel that they've gotten a pretty s***ty shaft already from this country - are offended. Lots of them. In fact from what I've read, just about every AmerInd person or leader that's been asked is offended. To me, that is plenty enough to make a change. An insulting, racist name that offends most of a group? Change it. Finally, as for the whole "PC Police" argument, that always cracks me up. What you are seeing here - people putting pressure on a business to make a positive change - is a great and quite American thing. It's cool to watch, and it symbolizes one of the positives of both capitalism and free speech. I hope the name changes, and I think it will, probably pretty soon. Really at this point it's just the owner (who has been shown to be quite the model citizen) holding out, and I think he eventually caves to that economic pressure. That will be a good day. Calling someone a redskin is like calling someone a carpetbagger, its an antiquated slur that doesnt mean much anymore IMO.

Every night in Chicago is worse than whats going on in Ferguson

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 12:23 PM) IF the officer's version of events is substantiated (by those dozen+ witnesses we've heard about, fractured orbital, etc), there's no way he's even going to be charged. I agree. And more riots by people who dont even live in the town will commence.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 12:30 PM) Do you use racial slurs face to face with people? Yes, all the time.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 11:23 AM) Even if they relent to political pressure to charge, there is zero chance of a conviction. Literally no chance this guy gets convicted of murder.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 10:59 AM) This post breaks down the various charges that the state could hypothetically bring in this case: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-...brown-shooting/ Taking a stab at the charges-none

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 10:16 AM) I would be very curious if you polled america and asked them what they think of first when you say redskin. I bet the vast majority would say a football team and would not say a derogatory term. Its totally the truth. But if overall native americans DO find it derogatory, the precedent is there to change it.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 19, 2014 -> 10:22 PM) It's just regular soreness. To be expected Thats what they told us about Braxton. Definitely something to worry about here

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 19, 2014 -> 11:01 PM) So far no looting tonight, no trouble tonight. It's a Tuesday night though. Lot of people have been out during the evening hours just no trouble yet. Oops, somebody threw a water bottle full of urine at police at midnight and trouble brewing. What a joke. fixed