A college football coach by the name of Steve Spurrier says that coaches should pay their players $300 a game out of their own pockets. I think he said that because he know it’ll never happen, and he can sound all “pro student-athlete” and shit. Of course, not all coaches make the big bucks, and not all schools have big-time football programs that can afford to pay off the kids (and never mind other sports, where kids work just as hard to balance school and extra-curricular activities). Now, I have no sympathy for schools that make a ton of money on the backs of kids who play sports in exchange for a free ride through school, but then again free tuition plus room and board isn’t exactly a bad deal, either – and better than most kids get. Our coach here at Syracuse – Doug Marrone – agrees.
“…we’re already paying our guys,†Marrone, the Orange coach, declared the other day. “A lot of people put a lot of emphasis on student-athletes and compensation. ‘We should give them this.’ ‘They don’t get paid for that.’ ‘Their time is tough because they have to practice and they have to go to class.’ There’s a lot of ‘Woe is me. Woe is me.’
“But it is very difficult for me to sit here and say, ‘Woe, woe, woe is the student-athlete.’ The student-athlete has a great opportunity to better his entire life, to change his family tree, to do a lot of good things. The fact is, at the end of the day scholarship athletes don’t have the kinds of financial difficulties that other students incur.â€
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“I think the focus is so wrong when it’s put on the student-athletes,†Marrone said. “It should be put on those people who can’t afford to go to school. Or on those people whose parents are working two and three jobs to send them to college. Or on those people who work and go to school part-time or full-time or through the summer. Or on those students behind the counter who are serving food to their peers or washing their peers’ dishes to pay for their education.“The question should be: How do we get them an opportunity? Those are the people we should be trying to help. Not the student-athletes because when you think about it, they have pretty good lives.â€
So maybe Steve Spurrier can take some of that $1.75 million he earns a year (to coach the South Carolina Gamecocks, fer chrissakes – who really ought to give Anthony Weiner an honorary degree) to lower the tuition for poor kids or something.
It’s gonna be hot here today. 95, they say. It would be a good day to be off, but, sadly, I’m not. It’s an early day for me, though, so that’s good.
Here Comes the Machine
Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world’s best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday.
The report, “Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?” found regulators knew as long ago as 1980 that glyphosate, the chemical on which Roundup is based, can cause birth defects in laboratory animals.
But despite such warnings, and although the European Commission has known that glyphosate causes malformations since at least 2002, the information was not made public.
Instead regulators misled the public about glyphosate’s safety, according to the report, and as recently as last year, the German Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, the German government body dealing with the glyphosate review, told the European Commission that there was no evidence glyphosate causes birth defects.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/roundup-birth-defects-herbicide-regulators_n_872862.html
Today’s top 3 searches (so far):
multiple boobs
202-362-2009
maureen corrigan overenunciate
Yesterday’s winners:
connietravesty
202-513-2000
charlie james 1975
melina boobs
Somebody’s got a real boobs fetish. Though I don’t get the “multiple” qualifier. Was “boobs” returning too many results, so they had to narrow them down?
Are boobs not, by definition, multiple (otherwise “boob”)?
Are you now a tweeter, PJ?
I have been trying to tweet, yes. Though I find it hard ‘cuz I don’t have anything interesting to say. Still, I owe it to my 7 followers to try. Though I don’t know as you can really count prlenny, of the progressive radio network or green960 (the Radio Station in the SF Bay Area) as true followers.
And, no, there will be no weiner pictures. Dogs and cats, maybe, but no weiners.
That’s reassuring, PJ. I’d certainly be a follower but I’m not a tweeter.
Oh PJ, you were my last hope of holding out against unecessary
social media 🙁
Krista migrated completely to Facebook, Vernon (for the most part), Maron only announces his schedule on FB, Melina before everyone else.
I hope this doesn’t go away too.
maybe I’m being unfair to Vernon :paranoid:
Art, yep, maybe. I try to not clutter up this hallowed blog with all of my insanity although I am not so sure how evident that would be. As long as the MS Blog is around, I consider it home.
edit- I try to contribute wherever appropriate what I might find of interest to inhabitants of a domain unless someone has attacked Barry and the Giants and then all bets are off. I contact some folks of this village like you in other ways if I don’t think it is of interest or concern to our friends here. I did resist the temptation to forward that Melina boobs thing today, however.
An example of a pearl you might have have been spared…
I’d love to see Fat Heddie get his wish and have Weiner resign only to have MSNBC give his time slot to Weiner.
I really like that idea, Vern.
I quit Facebook, for whatever that’s worth. And I don’t think the latest foray into twitter is gonna last. But I wanted to play with some widgets and other stuff.