Tag: Football
Missouri Football Players Strike, Call For School President To Leave
Via Deadspin:
The University of Missouri’s Legion of Black Collegians released a statement tonight from the collective athletes of color on the Tigers football team stating they are on strike from football-related activities until the school president steps down in the wake of several racist acts on campus.
Many Missouri students believe school president Tim Wolfe has failed to act in response to several months’ worth of alleged racism on the Columbia campus—the most recent and controversial of which was a swastika of human feces found in a residence hall. The debate is mostly happening over on Facebook, where views both nuanced and not can be found under the #concernedstudent1950 hashtag.
A graduate student has also embarked on a hunger strike.
Concussions and Football (And Other Sports)
When I was growing up concussions were simply a hard hit in the head that took longer to recover from. As I entered high school, I remember concussions being discussed more often – usually with the warning of not letting the injured person fall to sleep – and not much beyond that. Today, the number […]
Superbowl Open Thread
It’s time for the once-a-year event called the Superbowl. Use this thread to trash talk, cheer and jeer and give reviews of the commercials. Also, go Packers!
Ugh, Brett Favre
I think I probably wrote a story with the exact same title about a year ago. Brett Favre is un-un-retiring now but denies he said he was going to retire. But he still may retire. It depends. A day after reports surfaced that Brett Favre had begun telling the Minnesota Vikings he was planning to […]
Tornoe’s Toon: McNabb Gets the Boot
As a Buffalo Bills fan (start laughing now) I was hoping that the Bills would muster up enough strength to trade for McNabb. I don’t understand the logic in trading your franchise player to a divisional opponent while simultaneously giving the keys to the car to a guy who’s only driven it twice. One thing […]
Super Bowl Snack Stadium and Pre-Game Thread
As always, the spectacle surrounding the Super Bowl is often way more fun than the event itself and in that spirit, I give you:
The Super Bowl Snack Stadium
Ugh, Brett Favre
Once again, the drama show that is Brett Favre announces his un-retirement. Brett Favre, who only three weeks ago said he planned to remain retired, changed his mind yet again Tuesday, agreeing to join the Minnesota Vikings after all. It’s the second time in two years that Favre announced he was retired, only to reverse […]
Notre Dame, Obama and The Gipper
Back at the end of March, we had a little post about some trouble brewing at Notre Dame and its invitation to the President of the United States to be its commencement speaker. You see among the conservative Catholics — the 21 percenters — they cry that this invitation flies in the face of a […]
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