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NFLPA to pay players from lockout fund starting April 15
NFL News By Jason La Canfora NFL Network The NFL Players Association this week began contacting players found eligible to receive payments from its lockout fund. Those payments will begin on April 15. The NFLPA established a fund … SBJ: NFL players reply to league's legal claims in antitrust lawsuit Ed: Replacements Would Not Work This Time NFLPA to start paying players through lockout fund |
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NFLPA to pay players from lockout fund starting April 15
NFL News By Jason La Canfora NFL Network The NFL Players Association this week began contacting players found eligible to receive payments from its lockout fund. Those payments will begin on April 15. The NFLPA established a fund … SBJ: NFL players reply to league's legal claims in antitrust lawsuit Ed: Replacements Would Not Work This Time NFLPA to start paying players through lockout fund |
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NFLPA to pay players from lockout fund starting April 15
NFL News By Jason La Canfora NFL Network The NFL Players Association this week began contacting players found eligible to receive payments from its lockout fund. Those payments will begin on April 15. The NFLPA established a fund … SBJ: NFL players reply to league's legal claims in antitrust lawsuit Ed: Replacements Would Not Work This Time NFLPA to start paying players through lockout fund |
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Union to pay players from lockout fund starting April 15
NFL News By Jason La Canfora NFL Network The NFL Players Association this week began contacting players found eligible to receive payments from its lockout fund. Those payments will begin on April 15. The NFLPA established a fund … NFL backs off claim that NFLPA* can't do group licensing deals Is Lockout Doing Irreparable Harm To Players Right Now? NFL draft 2011: No NFLPA event on first night of draft, sources say |
The New York Yankees reportedly signed Kevin Millwood to a minor league deal on Friday. The 36-year-old righthander will compete with the 37-year-old Bartolo Colon and the 34-year-old Freddy Garcia for the fifth spot in the team’s starting rotation. And let’s not forget Mark Prior who hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since 2006!
These candidates would make for a nice staff if this were 2003 rather than 2011. I mean, this foursome might even give the Philadelphia Phillies’ quartet a run for their money. You see, eight years ago, Colon, Garcia, Millwood, and Prior combined to post a 59-45 record with a 3.71 ERA and 733 SO/256 BB in 876.2 IP when all four starters were in their 20s.
Hey, if it’s not 2003, then maybe it is the 1960s as we shouldn’t forget that the club is also counting on a first-generation Nova.
The rumor mill has been pretty active on this issue over the past couple weeks; we’ll be keeping an eye on it. From the newspaper of record:
The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the end of the year has prompted a big question in media circles: if he leaves, how will he bring his considerable audience with him?
Two of the options Mr. Beck has contemplated, according to people who have spoken about it with him, are a partial or wholesale takeover of a cable channel, or an expansion of his subscription video service on the Web.
Reports this week that Joel Cheatwood, a senior Fox News executive, would soon join Mr. Beck’s growing media company, Mercury Radio Arts, were the latest indication that Mr. Beck intended to leave Fox, a unit of the News Corporation, when his contract expired at the end of this year.
Notably, Mr. Beck’s company has been staffing up — making Web shows, some of which have little or nothing to do with Mr. Beck, and charging a monthly subscription for access to the shows.
Were Mr. Beck to set off on his own, it would be a landmark moment for the media industry, reflecting a shift in the balance of power between media institutions and the personal brands of people they employ.
Mr. Beck, a conservative who often comes under criticism for his attacks on progressives and apocalyptic predictions, hosts a syndicated radio show in the morning and a Fox News show in the afternoon.
He has a “passionate media brand with a clear point of view,” said Larry Kramer, a media consultant and the author of “C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today.” Mr. Kramer compared Mr. Beck to Arianna Huffington and Howard Stern, two people who have spun their personalities into media empires.
It is possible that Mr. Beck and Fox could agree to a new contract. But his relationship with the channel has been fraught from its earliest days in 2009, and lately both sides have been anonymously sniping at the other.
Asked on Tuesday whether Fox News intends to renew his contract, a Fox spokeswoman said, “it’s not up until December” and declined to comment further.
Mr. Beck declined an interview request about his future plans, but through a spokesman, he provided a statement. “Roger Ailes has built the most important voice in America today — Fox News — and it is an honor to do my show there every night,” he stated. “I have no intention whatsoever of doing the show I am doing now on Fox anywhere else.”
Mr. Beck has been contemplating a cable channel of his own for more than a year, according to the people who have spoken with him about it, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Mr. Beck may not be able to actively pursue such an arrangement until his Fox contract is up.
Presuming he leaves, Mr. Beck could follow a road paved by Oprah Winfrey when she started OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network in January. He could schedule his own talk show and the shows of others on one of the many cable channels seeking a ratings jolt. Or, following Martha Stewart’s road to the Hallmark Channel, he could start smaller, taking over a few hours of a channel’s schedule.
But a cable channel takeover, even in part, carries enormous risk, as Ms. Winfrey and Ms. Stewart can attest — they have more real estate now, but the ratings comparisons are not favorable. For Mr. Beck, the risk may be heightened by the fact that many advertisers have shunned him on Fox, in part because of a boycott that started after he called President Obama racist in 2009.
Furthermore, having cable channel turf may carry less importance in the future as more people access TV shows online.
Full article here.
(John)
Recent poll data suggest that Americans have woken up to the fact that Barack Obama is an empty suit, and the Democrats have nothing to offer in terms of policy solutions. First, President Obama.
Today’s Rasmussen Reports finds that among likely voters, President Obama has matched his lowest standing ever. He now ranks at -22 on the Approval Index, defined as the difference between those who strongly approve and strongly disapprove of his performance:
Rasmussen also finds that the voters’ preference for Republicans over Democrats is growing, as the current generic Congressional preference survey has Republicans ahead by 46-37. Oh, and 62 percent favor repeal of Obamacare, nearly the highest percentage yet recorded.
Other pollsters are finding evidence of growing pessimism among Americans. Remarkably, the ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that Americans are less confident in “our system of government and how well it works” than at any time since the question was first asked in 1974. Worse, in other words, than in the aftermath of Watergate and than at any time during the Carter administration. And, for good measure, 71 percent “report financial hardship as a result of rising gas prices.” Shades of the 1970s, only worse; and we have, effectively, no president.
In polls, people tend to cast blame indiscriminately, but when they actually vote, matters tend to be clarified. Thus, several readers pointed out the result of an election in Dade County, where an overwhelming 88 percent voted to recall Mayor Carlos Alvarez because he raised taxes in order to fund a 3 percent increase in wages for public employees. Alvarez reportedly is the first public official to be recalled since Gray Davis, but one suspects there are more to come, and soon. Let’s hope this sends a message to politicians in Wisconsin.
It’s called The Statistics Forum, and it’s affiliated with Chance magazine (a publication of the American Statistical Association). I’ll be the editor but not the only blogger.
Our current plan is to have one major entry each week, mixing in some smaller bloggy items in between. The week’s main item is intended to stimulate discussion within the statistics community and applied fields. Some of the items will be topical-for example, we’re running a piece by Howard Wainer on estimating the economic value of tenure for school teachers-and other times we will focus on more theoretical items, for example discussions of interesting and important recent papers appearing in statistics journals.
Unlike the Monkey Cage, whose main purpose is to publicize political science research and engage journalists and the general public with political science, the Statistics Forum will be more aimed inward, with the goal of building a community among statisticians by setting a topic of discussion each week. But we also think it will be of interest to researchers in general which is why I’m announcing it here.
MMA fans on the East Coast will no doubt be pleased to hear the UFC is looking at pushing PPV broadcasts up a full hour meaning future events would hit the airwaves starting at 9:00 PM EST. The logic behind the UFC’s decision is related to the huge number of Americans residing on the East […]
Five Ounces of Pain
Newt is probably asking, why not now?
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Some quick notes on Kentucky’s starting six, or the six players who get the lion’s share — 92 percent, actually — of the time on the floor.
Josh Harrellson: Heading into his Senior Night, Jorts has 26 rebounds in his last two games, including a dandy dozen offensive rebounds. Harrellson has posted double-digit rebound totals in three of his last six games.
Terrence Jones: Saturday, slipped to single digits in points (eight) for the first time since the Georgia game on Jan. 29. Jones is two-of-nine on three-pointers over his last five games. He is still rebounding, however. The freshman is averaging 9.8 rebounds over his last seven games.
Brandon Knight: Played 37 minutes without committing a turnover against Florida. It was the first SEC game this year that the freshman has gone without a turnover. After going one-of-11 from three in the previous two games, Knight made two of three against Florida.
Doron Lamb: Bounced back from his two-point game at Arkansas by scoring 16 against the Gators on Saturday. Even without his off night in Fayetteville, Lamb is averaging 13.5 points over his last four games. He’s made eight of 14 threes in that stretch.
DeAndre Liggins: Scored eight points against Florida, but has played better. The junior was coming off back-to-back double-digit games against South Carolina and Arkansas. Saturday was also the first time Liggins was not credited with a steal since the Florida game in Gainesville on Feb. 5.
Darius Miller: Is averaging 18 points per game over his last four, including that career-high 24-point outburst against the Gators. Miller also has eight offensive rebounds over his last three games. Before that, he had eight offensive rebounds over the previous seven games.
So I was at the store tonight, and fortunately, my favorite produce clerk was there. The Roma Tomatoes were holding steady since I wrote on them earlier in the week, so we talked plums for a bit.
My life is plum exciting…yours is about to be too.
There were two kinds there, the black (left) and the red (right.) Neither of them were particularly big individually…plums usually are pretty small.
‘Course, you wouldn’t know that by their price.
“So the Black Plums are .64 cents each? Each?” I asked, just in case this horror show was a printing error.
She nodded, then waved toward the Red Plums. “Those were .64 cents each last week too, but they slashed them to .32 cents each yesterday.”
“Why?”
“They were starting to rot.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. In an American store, in an agricultural area, the food is plentiful, but so unaffordable that it is now rotting in the stores.
This had to be a mistake. I’d known the nectarines were outrageous last week at .68 cents each, and I knew it wasn’t exactly the season for these fruits. But I’ve been a shopping mom for over 20 years now, and I’ve never known these particular fruit favorites to be so expensive, or even sold individually.
She watched me scribbling down the notes, and grabbed her own pen, writing on the side of the box of oranges she was stocking.
“See, normally about 4 plums equal 1 pound. So at this price…,” she scribbled and mumbled, ‘carry the 1’ and then said, “…at this price the Black Plums are $ 2.56 per pound.”
In case you’re not a shopping mom, that is worthy of fevered after-church gossip, with lots of gasps, wide-eyes, and hands to mouth gestures of fear.
I was stuck in Marty Feldman mode again, just like last time. As I said, it really is fast becoming the look of things to come.
While my eyes were wide and my mouth closed, both with shock, doesn’t happen often, ask anyone, she continued, motioning to the other “stone” fruits (those containing pits.)
“You know, the stone fruits (such as the peaches and nectarines pictured above) are always sold by the pound. This is the first time I’ve seen them sold individually. Usually only things like lemons, limes, and oranges are sold individually. Sometimes the oranges will come in bags, and at Christmas you can get them in boxes. But this….this is new. What do you think it means?”
I didn’t tell her…I couldn’t. Guess I’m still trying to absorb how quickly it’s all happening. Besides, how do you quickly explain that since math is the language of the universe, and patterns are mathematical, and history is nothing more than repeating patterns? How do you tell her that history tells us exactly what this is, and therefore, what will happen?
How do you tell her that it is too late to stop it now, or that the pattern of history makes it clear that the only way out is a return to God and the foundations of freedom? How do you tell her that given the pattern of behavior by our elected representatives, and those who hold the power but have forgotten that they do, there can be no other consequence but the one established over and over again by history?
How do you tell the truth to a people long comfortable with the lie?
We chatted for a minute as I looked at the Red Plums, getting soft now, and a bit shriveled. Not real appetizing, but then, I’d already lost my desire for stone fruits.
I thanked for her help, we both grumbled about Obama’s baffling inability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, or grasp the basics of economics and capitalism. Was he mentally diminished, disabled, psychotic…or the villain in an evil, unfolding plot?
“Well, I sure didn’t vote for him, and never will.”
Finally, something I could smile about in produce. We agreed on that particular Stone Fruit: overpriced, already soft, and fast becoming worthless.
Since getting home tonight, watching about Libya and the rest of the damned world in flames and realizing that nothing I’d ever known could be relied on anymore, that ominous distant rumbling that is getting closer, like a stalking beast about to bare his teeth and pounce, it was difficult for me to ponder much on what the future might look like; especially given my background in history, the math of patterns, and the steps of critical thinking. We have a President who is breaking our laws and committing sedition with no consequences whatsoever, with no knowledge of how the world works and the importance of our business sector (and it’s showing in our produce aisle!), Islammunism gobbling up the Middle East on its mad dash here—through Israel, who is our friend in spite of what our criminal leader has to say—and a world I barely recognize anymore.
What will it look like tomorrow? Dare I open my eyes?
I know this for sure…if this pattern continues without intervention, it’ll look a lot like this:
At your local grocer’s anyway. A fitting image for what is coming if we let it.
Keep the faith, bros, in all things courage, and no substitute for VICTORY.
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Analysis: With this trade, Jazz officially starting over
Salt Lake Tribune In one swift move, Jerry Sloan resigned. In another, Deron Williams is gone to the New Jersey Nets, traded for Devin Harris, rookie big man Derrick Favors, two first round picks and $ 3 million cash. So what does this mean for the Jazz? … Nets Acquire Deron Williams From Jazz Mavericks on guard for trap game against Jazz Williams trade reflects extreme times in NBA right now |
Fading.
That’s not quite what Gallup explicitly says in its analysis, but it’s a rather inevitable conclusion when one sees the graphic presentation of the results. Barack Obama lost eleven points in his approval ratings on a state-by-state basis in 2010, and now the floor has Obama in danger of losing the next election. Bear in […]
Oh, now, this can’t be true. Never mind that Hezbollah’s been working for years to establish a presence in the western hemisphere, or that a congressional report from a few years ago claimed that they’ve already tried to use the Mexican border to cross into America. And never mind the report that circulated last summer […]
