FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, A REPORT FROM THE FUTURE — WHICH ALWAYS HAS BEEN CALIFORNIA…….. From the Los Angeles Times ELECTRONICS Flat-screen TVs to face energy-efficiency rules in California Starting in 2011, state regulators want retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient models of power hungry LCD and plasma sets. The industry opposes the [...]
PLAXICO BURRESS OF THE NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE THIGH…. HERE IS THE NEW YORK TIMES, OVERJOYED AT PLAXICO’S ABILITY WITH A FIREARM….. BET IS THAT HE IS GONE SHORTLY FROM THE ROSTER…… December 1, 2008 Plaxico Burress Surrenders to Police By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 9:26 a.m. ET NEW YORK [...]
From Salon, sad…….. $6M Illinois tutoring center assists only athletes Nov 28th, 2008 | CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — At the University of Illinois, being an athlete gets you access to a $6 million facility with oversized leather chairs and Oriental rugs. But it’s not a fancy country club — it’s a tutoring center. The Irwin Academic [...]
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE UNITED STATES IS THE LARGEST MARKET IN THE WORLD FOR DRUGS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL. UNCLE SAM IS ABSOLUTELY HOOKED ON DRUGS…..AND SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED ABOUT THEIR USE BY TEEN ATHLETES? NOT AT ALL? FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES….. November 28, 2008 High Schools Take On Doping With No [...]
BORING FOOTBALL? Couple has sex in bathroom as crowd cheered them on and their significant others watched Minnesota-Iowa game Football fans found action to cheer in Metrodome loo By John Brewer jbrewer@pioneerpress.com Updated: 11/26/2008 10:35:22 AM CST A couple of University of Iowa fans took a break from Saturday’s game at the Metrodome against the [...]
DID YOU AGREE WITH THE DISPOSITION? Kid can play football Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, November 24, 2008 (11-24) 17:33 PST OAKLAND — An Alameda County judge ruled today that the organization that oversees high school sports in California violated state law when it found a Placer County foster child ineligible to play [...]
NEW YORK TIMES November 24, 2008 EDITORIAL The Rutgers Mess Rutgers, the biggest and most important public university in New Jersey, has spent millions of dollars furthering its ambition to become a major football power that might otherwise have been devoted to academics. It has done so during a period of rising tuition and budgetary [...]