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    Sad news -- Taryn Hatcher is out at NBC Sports Philadelphia

    Taryn Hatcher is now with the CW Network covering bowling.https://943thepoint.com/ixp/942/p/taryn-hatcher-pba-reporter/
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    President Trump's forthcoming executive order on sports

    I'll stay away from the political talk above. Here's the key thing IMHO: the article indicates that the President knows that what's in Executive Order is legally questionable. Nothing in this order is likely to take effect. So this is (to use a word that was used about that silly class action...
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    President Trump's forthcoming executive order on sports

    The story summarizes an executive order that President Trump is (the story says) about to issue regarding intercollegiate athletics. I think there are a lot of legal problems with this: * Can the federal government take away federal funding on the basis of what schools do about...
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    Ranking college football's biggest spenders on private jet travel per Front Office Sports

    That's a good point -- there are probably a bunch of schools that use donors' jets for travel and so their spending on air travel is probably not well-reflected in the article.
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    Ranking college football's biggest spenders on private jet travel per Front Office Sports

    The partial exemption for Penn State (as well as Temple and Pitt) comes from a special exemption in Pa.'s public records law, not from anything about the schools themselves. https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article315157283.html
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    Ranking college football's biggest spenders on private jet travel per Front Office Sports

    The best way to think about an expenditure like this is to compare it to other schools. It seems odd that we're #10 when we are located in a metropolitan area -- it's not as though we're hours away from a major airport. I notice Penn State isn't on this list even though it's located in the...
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    Hector we have a problem: RU grad sues school over sports spending

    How can anyone be bored on this site?
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    Hector we have a problem: RU grad sues school over sports spending

    Please -- I would *never* want to be considered the "board lawyer." There are plenty of other lawyers around here. Nonetheless, thanks for the compliment!
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    Hector we have a problem: RU grad sues school over sports spending

    What he is hoping is to get to the "discovery" stage in which he can force the university to disclose embarrassing documents and to produce witnesses for depositions in which he can try to get embarrassing answers out of them. But that would require the lawsuit to survive a motion to dismiss for...
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    Hector we have a problem: RU grad sues school over sports spending

    If the newspaper report is correct, then it is hard to see any purpose to this lawsuit other than to attract attention to the plaintiff's cause.
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    We're 1 of 6!!!

    I was first in the SF Bay Area and then the D.C. area. I got to hate Staubach both places! I well remember 12/23/1972, when he came in for Craig Morton and threw two touchdown passes in the last 90 seconds to beat the Niners 30-28 in the NFC divisional playoff.
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    We're 1 of 6!!!

    I'm sure I would! There's no telling how much more Staubach would have achieved in the NFL if he hadn't honored his service commitment and spent four years in the Navy.
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    OT: Plane crashes into fire truck at LaGuardia

    The odd thing is that his last name is Rousseau -- a French surname (as with the philosopher Jean-Jacques and the artist Henri).
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    We're 1 of 6!!!

    You may be showing that you are nearly as old as I am! I remember the Army-Navy game was a big deal when I was a kid. The first Army-Navy game I remember was Pete Dawkins' senior year in 1958, with Bill Carpenter as "the lonely end." I remember young veterans joshing each other the following...
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    OT: Anyone else think Rutgers is absurdly expensive?

    Public high school is free, and has been for generations. We've decided as a society that it is so important that kids have a high school education that we're willing to subsidize it for everyone. Maybe we'll reach that point fairly soon for two years of post high school education, whether in an...
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