buddha

kinzinger out in illinois. they gerrymandered him into a big republican district so he has decided not to run again.

well...at least the hawks lost.

boo. 3-2 loss.

shoot the puck, zadina!!!! sheesh.

goal!

neddy keeping them in it.

hawks down 6-2 in the second. how long before they fire colliston and move kane?

thank god.

did you guys know buccigross likes college hockey? no? well, its all he talks about so....

gagner gets a goal by standing there on a good play by stetcher. i live espn+, but buccigross is terrible at play by play.

why is sam gagner on the power play?

boo. 2-0. even if they didnt score, the pp looks so much better than last year.

bad goal. he was screened though....i guess.

yeah, you're probably right.

yeah, could be. hard to tell what he means. because a law firm uses the term "complicit" in an investigation document doesnt necessarily mean that's what toews understands it to mean. but you could be right. either way, bowman's his friend and he stuck up for him. dumb thing to do for all the reasons previously stated.

this is the problem with message boards. people take what you say a certain way and infer things from what you wrote that you never meant to imply. and then you get no benefit of the doubt when you say that's not what you meant. nobody here is blaming a victim or advocating for sexual assault. having a different idea for what the repercussions for a management decision (if there is any disagreement) might be, or what the appropriate thing for an athlete to say in an interview is not defending sexual assault.

as i understand it, they set some rules on what they would and would not allow that were more restrictive.

ummm...you just answered your own question with players and hookers. that's exactly what they do. the nil stuff gave michigan a legit way to funnel money to these kids through "legit" means and use their money cannon but they got all high and mighty on that and fucked it up too.

see sloth's post for the allegations.

i think there were reports of players calling each other names at practices and stuff after this, and homophonic slurs being directed at beech (and likely others considering these are professional athletes). i dont know if those slurs were being directed at beech because the players knew about this, but its certainly been implied that it was.

im pretty sure toews was saying bowman/mcissac didnt do it (as in, didnt do the assault), not that they werent involved in the decision not to immediately do something. but i could be wrong about that. again, that's why you just need to issue a statement and be done with it. throw em under the bus and move on. toews isnt a master at nuance, lol.

that's what i thought. he told him he would end his career.

is beech gay? he's got a girlfriend. did aldrich say he was going to out him as gay?

probably, but the impression people have about the economy matters too. i dont know if the democrats passing that bill would have done a lot to change the economy in a short time (and it might not actually help the problem areas), but we'll never know.

that's an unrealistic standard for what michigan thinks of itself. unless the university makes a decision to get in the gutter, they will not be ohio state. until they agree to have zero academic standards for transfers, they will not be this year's michigan state. that said, the best thing that could happen to michigan is that the playoff gets expanded. more teams in means recruits will go to other schools outside the big 4 or 5.