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Dom Cosentino
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Here's Michael Wolf of MMQB.com, in a follow-up email from a few minutes ago: Read more

Shutch'er mahth! Ain't like we said coach Tawmlin was doon' stuff he shouldn't be doon' 'n at! Yinz guys gawtta calm dahn! Read more

I didn't misrepresent anything. What matters is what McQueary told Paterno et al. at the time. For Ziegler's "theory"—and all it is is a theory wrapped in blue and white and couched as gospel—to fly, he would need proof Paterno's testimony was couched or in some way refreshed in 2010/2011 (never mind the additional Read more

Gotcha. Yes. This I agree with. I don't think anyone feels the salaries in college will rival the NFL's or the NBA's. It's the idea that their schools (and, really, a lot of school administrators and coaches) get to profit handsomely while the players get nothing. And, like you say, the players have no say in any of Read more

One more, from reader Charlie S.

As the draft proves, very few D1 athletes - even at the top teams - are good enough to be pros and most of them never will be. So in a negotiation - which is what will have to happen before players get paid fairly - the university's can rightly claim that their name is as important to the revenue stream than the Read more

I wasn't praising for-profit schools, Tim. Yes, they're terrible. But the issue here is the posturing of the Pac-12 schools and their "non-profit" athletic departments. Read more

Um, no. The team is trying to spit-shine its image even as it tries to sell tickets by offering a chance at a gun giveaway. Read more

Come off it. I was satirizing the worst impulses of gun nuts on the internet. You need to get laid. Read more

*the team is facilitating and promoting a contest to give away guns* Read more

It's Larry doing the giving, but it's the team's promotion. Read more

This is from Alex Cohen, the play-by-play voice of the Huntsville Stars: Read more

What's misleading is pretending that going to a game to win a gun that's being given away isn't a gun giveaway.
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