Urban Meyers, like Rick Pitino, bball, coach of Louisville, didn't know squat. Anyone who believes that I have the Golden Gate Bridge I'm willing to sell him for a modest price. Yeah, like donald trump didn't know nutting about Don Junior meeting with Russian agents of the KGB.
What is it about people who have power and money? Why do they think they can get away with lying?
As a high school teacher, if I didn't report even a suspicion of abuse to my principal, I would be fired. Which is what needs to happen to Meyers and the man running our White House.
Speaking of racist, trump, he's at it again, attacking Lebron James for "Awwwww," hurting the little president's weeny feelings. Why doesn't trump attack David Duke?
Speaking of loonies, was Terrell Owens born that way or did he grow into it? Okay, perhaps the Canton Hall of Fame snub is not that big a deal, but why wouldn't Owens want to join his fellow football players on such a profoundly important day? Could it possibly be that he want all the camera to be on him?
If Vladimir Putin KGB killer president of the new Soviet Union, could have scripted a perfect way to sow division and suspicion between the citizens of the United States, there would have been no better president to have sitting in the White House than donald racist trump.
I was sorry but not surprise when Lebron said all African American people, no matter how successful, continue to suffer racism.
TYLER HONEYCUTT DEAD by Tom Meschery
His coach told the reporters it was hard
for a player to adjust to playing in Russia,
not knowing the language or culture.
It was hard for me to be in elementary school,
a Russian immigrant, wearing short pants
and not knowing how to speak English.
But that was a long time ago. Now,
you find language lessons on line.
I’m taking private lessons twice a week
at Alliance Francaise, so my wife and I
can move to France because our country
is suffering under a racist dictator.
Perhaps Hunnicut’s death at the hands
of the police, or by his own hand
had nothing to do with language
and the foreign culture. What if
he was simply tired of living as a black
man in our culture? I wouldn’t be
surprised. I’m white and I’m watching
my depression rising like mercury
in a glass thermometer in a heat wave.
Tyler’s depression might have reached
the melting point and burst, the shards
of glass flying through the air with his blood.
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I think colleges, and society generally, are failing athletes like Tyler Honeycutt by not providing them with the possibility of forging identities beyond sports. In reading about his situation it seems he was profoundly depressed at the thought of going back overseas to play again. If UCLA had equipped him with a vision of what life had to offer beyond basketball he might have found hope and other options. But college basketball eats its young and as long as he remained academically eligible I doubt anyone there much cared about his future after school. In any case he got what I think was bad advice and left school after two years only to quickly find himself a G League player. There's not much money in that so many of those guys end up in Europe where the money is better but the sense of isolation is a serious issue. Honeycutt was intelligent and engaging and could have been successful away from basketball. It's a shame he never got that chance.
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