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Anyone here like going to Vols games? You're gonna be paying for more for the players it seems. Tennessee is the first, won't be the last. https://sports.yahoo.com/tennessee-to-add-talent-fee-surcharge-to-season-tickets-in-2025-in-anticipation-of-player-revenue-sharing-161909512.html

Yeah, the problem with federal legislation is it can help or hurt. Better to have a do no harm approach with regards to Washington. A good litmus test is ask yourself what this bill would look like if a California or New York democrat wrote it.

One of the best I've had. I took it up almost out of boredom after not having a job my first year, and found it very fulfilling. Ran the study hall two years for the freshman players Mon-Thu with a couple of sorority gals, with us helping them get used to college, making sure they did their work, which for some of them was quite an adjustment after being pushed through public schools. I got to work with the harder cases. Some of them were just there to play ball and skated by, but for the ones who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity a full ride provided and make an effort, I was happy to help teach/coach/mentor where I could. It was also nice to not have to mind my language or worry about coming on too strong in communicating with the guys.

When I was working with the football team at MTSU as an academic mentor, they went to Alabama to be sacrificed in Bama's home opener. The players enjoyed the experience and a chance to play in famous stadium. The ones who were from Alabama got their parents tickets to the game. Blue Raiders got spanked, but the team made the most of it.

Why? Kent State got $1.35mil to travel for this game. It's normal for schools outside the big conferences to take a thumping as a way to help fund their athletic departments. It's also an opportunity for the players. Being able to have some game tape against a far better team helps when NFL scouts are evaluating them.

It might get out of committee...but i doubt it. Anyone filing legislation that isn't on the "must pass" list this late in an election year is just posturing for press releases. If he's serious, he can re-file it in January 2025 and try to drum up support.

No. It's people stretching confirmation bias. This site shows the problem is getting a lot worse, overall. https://k12ssdb.org/data-visualizations

Don't be hating...

I'd imagine plenty of LSU fans would take him back in a heartbeat.

Two points...the schools aren't paying that directly. It's a combo of local endorsements and booster funding. Yeah, I get it's murky, but the athletic department budget isn't funding this on their ledger. But let's say the murky makes it a direct line. $20 million is a large number, but it's a fraction of the $80 to $100 million Ohio State is getting as a cut of the Big10 media deal. Add in what the boosters would otherwise donate direct to the program, ticket sales, merchandise revenue, and team sponsorships... that makes the $20 million to the players (uneven as it's distributed) pretty low for your labor pool as a total deduction from revenue. The NFL has a contractually mandated 48% revenue split with the players union by comparison, the NBA is 50%. NIL is still a bargain for these programs.

When it comes to college football, the NCAA is not in any real position of authority. The best analogy I heard a while back was the conferences are like the five families back in the NYC Mafia days, running their own territory and occasionally having some turf wars that need adjudicated. Everything being done is being driven by the SEC and Big10. The rest are just trying to keep up. The players are still learning sportsmanship, I think. Team loyalty is subjective. This is (and always was) a business, it's just more apparent now. The players should work their options as much as the coaches do.

The rotating clown show that ended with Sunak just made the UK Conservative party look spent, and the voters weren't rewarding perpetual failure. It's crazy that a national government can have the same turnover and turmoil as our House of Representatives in the top leadership for all those years, but it works for them. One interesting tidbit of the last election there, Nigel Farage is back. He's a seated MP and head of the Reform party with its five MPs after this election. That's a drop in the House of Commons, but Reform came in third with 14% of the overall vote, so they're not some fringe act the Conservatives and Labour can ignore. Populism sways the UK enough to let a spark become a fire from time to time. All that to say, I wish we had a viable third option over here that wasn't hostile to guns. I'm not about to be lambasted into voting for Trump and I'm not doing the same for Kamala. I'm desperate for a political home that isn't the better choice of you gotta be f'n kidding me.

Just sharing this for anyone who may have these products in the fridge. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bugs-mold-mildew-inspection-boars-head-plant-listeria/ I'm a fan of their London Broil, but haven't had it in a while. Looks like I'll need a new source for a bit.

I think Memphis understands that and made a PR stunt. Sexton and McNally, probably think they have options.

I suppose this is sort of a new phase for COVID-19. Or an admission they can't stop it. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/09/nx-s1-5060398/covid-endemic-cdc-summer-surge Not sure if any of you have caught it recently. Several co-workers of mine have, and ones who had it before said it was more unpleasant this go around.

Same. But I'm just carrying my ARs to the range and back too infrequently. If I was still walking Allah's brown earth, something sturdy is called for.

....And say to all the world 'This was a man!' Chi Chi's life was a helluva story. Wonderful life lived.

Hadn't even heard of it. Will try and stop in this weekend. Thanks. I've heard good things, but I need to sit in one to be sure. Do you know if they have a brick and mortar distributor locally? I've seen the ads, they looked sketch to begin with, and I generally distrust algo pushed ads based on my searches. Regardless, I won't buy until I can sit in it to see how it feels. I'll try to get my tuchus into a size C just to feel it out. Will have to see if the few we have around the office are all B or there's a C in the mix. But my biggest gripe with the Aeron model is that up-swooped hard plastic on the sides. I like to spread out some, and have an admittedly bad habit of tucking one leg under the other. Hard to do with that chunk in the way and digging into my thigh. The radiologists I work with love them, but I guess when you look at jacked up spines and abdomen/pelvis' galore all day, you have a higher value on sitting properly.

I'm pretty sure a male to female trans athlete wouldn't have much of a career, let alone gotten onto the Olympic roster of any sport for Algeria were Islam is the state religion.

I wouldn't even think this gets voted out of committee. It's about to become a complete halt for anything that isn't a must pass budget item as Congress goes into full campaign mode for themselves and the Presidential ticket. Mike Lee's intentions aren't in doubt, his ability to read a calendar is.

Anybody know a good spot to actually get to sit and test out home office chairs? I'm talking about some good top end ones, no whatever Staples has out. I hear good things about the Steelcase ones, but don't want to buy one without feeling it out first hand. One small quirk...I really dislike the Herman Miller Aeron series. I know plenty of folks who love them, but i just find them too rigid and too small. FWIW, I'm 6'1", 300lbs, so I need something stout. Thanks for any recommendations.

Last Supper parody in pop culture is nothing new.

How about discussing "take the guns first, go through due process second"?

The secret service director did something amazing yesterday...she united the two party leaders on the most partisan, made for TV sparing committee in Congress with calls for her resignation. You can probably count on one hand the number of times these two had co-signed a letter as Chairman and Ranking Member for something related to actual government oversight and accountability, and this being an election year no-less. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-07-22.Comer-Raskin-to-Director-Cheatle-re.-Cheatle-Resignation-Letter.pdf Seriously, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is functionally nothing more than a political debate show if Fox News and MSNBC had to co-produce one. Look at the members on each side and tell me I'm wrong. For them to actually come together and issue a statement like this is wild, but well needed given all that happened.

I can see the "used in most mass shootings" part as irksome, but it didn't tint the tone of the question in any kind of gun grabbing way. She straight up acknowledged the popularity of ARs and asked why the secret service isn't pushing their security perimeter to account for the range of the weapon. The secret service should have to answer to that.