Football is a hard-hitting sport where frequent significant collisions can result in serious injury. New research found that 110 out of 111 former NFL players, based on samples from a Boston brain bank studying CTE, had evidence of brain disease. Although these samples were contributed mostly by family members wishing for the study into CTE, prompted by troubling symptoms before their relative’s death, the results prompt further investigation into the game’s injury risk.… [Read more]
Everything’s Bigger in Texas
Here across the 49th , and in all civilized democracies that abide by the rule of law, the presumption of innocence is our guarantee against the evils of arbitrary power. From Lord Edward Coke, the venerable English lawyer and advocate who first declared his King to be accountable to the law…and not the other way around: ‘Tis best to have 10 guilty men run free, than an innocent man convicted’.… [Read more]
I’m with ya, Bob Costas.
Let me start by saying I am not anti-gun.
My dad, my grandpa, my uncles, and my brothers are hunters; I grew up around guns. I even learned to shoot one when I was a kid.
I don’t believe in banning firearms or revoking our right to bear arms.
I do believe that there has to be firmer control over guns though.… [Read more]
Bad Call
It would take a controversial, outcome changing, and bungled call by a stand-in scab referee in the Seattle Seahawks-Green Bay Packers game to get even notorious public union buster Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) tweeting in anger for professional football team owners to end their lockout and bring back competent unionized officiating. After all, it was something as vital as Monday Night Football, and not annoyingly coddled nurses, schoolteachers, and librarians minding our kids.… [Read more]