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So, want to end the "should college football players get paid" debate? Here are the names of some actual bowl games this year: Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl, FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl, Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl, Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl...
Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman, Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl, San Diego County Credit Union Bowl, Cheez-It Bowl, Camping World Bowl, Goodyear Cotton Bowl, Servpro First Responder Bowl, Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl...
Capital One Orange Bowl, Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, Autozone Liberty Bowl, Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl, VRBO Citrus Bowl, Outback Bowl, Allstate Sugar Bowl, Ticketsmarter Birmingham Bowl, Taxslayer Gator Bowl, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl...
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, Lending Tree Bowl, Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl, Playstation Fiesta Bowl, Valero Alamo Bowl.

Everybody's making money but the kids who people are paying to watch.
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A vitally important piece from @ThePlumLineGS: "The massive triumph of the rich, illustrated by stunning new data." And while the data is stunning, the crucial questions are "Why and how did this happen?" washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@ThePlumLineGS The rich have not just done dramatically better since the 1970s while the rest of society has basically been treading water. They rigged the system to ensure that their advantages and rewards grew. The GOP led this charge with the "Reagan revolution."
Then Dem "centrists" in the Clinton Era (with a Wall Street led and driven strategy) kept it going. Bush and Obama did too. And of course, that has been the centerpiece of all Trump has done. The government emphasized top line "growth" without focusing on impact across society.
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David Rothkopf
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So, 2020 could be a real bad year for our democracy. That's why I just wanted to take a moment to thank all you Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, "why bother to vote" & "Hillary & Trump are just the same" voters for fucking us over in 2016. You blew it. In an historic, devastating way.
And don't think I'm letting the Trump voters off the hook. They're the worst. But they chose this outcome. That's how democracy works. The rest of those folks should have known better. They tipped the scales toward the end of democracy as we knew it.
Also, there comes a point where we have to stop blaming the much better candidate...for "not campaigning enough." The issue in 2016 was, in the end, not Hillary's campaign strategy, it was the horribly bad judgement of voters. On the merits, vote should have been unanimous.
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You need to ask yourself, what message does it send to Ukraine if Rudy continues to say, "I'm the president's lawyer and we need more information on the Biden's." If by continuing to ask he sends the message "We can do this with impunity."
This is a direct continuation of the crimes for which Trump is being impeached...as he is being impeached. It sends a clear message to Ukraine (and to other governments) that they should play ball or risk falling out of favor with the most powerful country in the world.
If the GOP Senate protects the president and allows him to do it, what message are they sending? They are saying "the president has our permission to shake you down for information that helps us." They are committing the same crime. They are abusing their power for personal gain.
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Mekka Okereke
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He's entitled to his opinion. 👍🏿

When you wonder why pro football has the worst contracts, and least inclusive ownership, of all major sports, this is why.

When you open a cage to free people, be prepared for some folks to try to hold the cage shut... from the inside. 🤷🏿‍♂️
The school is not paying for your degree. The school is part of a $3.3B ARR business, where instead of paying market value for that labor ($1.5B), they pay around 2.5% ($100 MM) for it by pretending that you are getting a free education.
Herschel Walker was born in GA, and went to U of Georgia. In state tuition at UofG is ~$27K.

A sports scholarship is *objectively worse* than other types:

* Restricted from jobs / profiting from your name, image, likeness 😡
* Have a ~40hr / week time sports commitment 🤯 Image showing in state tuition at University of Georgia at $27,450
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Important new paper on head impacts in college football➡️
Repetitive Head Impact Exposure in College Football Following an NCAA Rule Change to Eliminate Two-A-Day Preseason Practices: A Study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Law of unintended consequences ...
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