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not sure what the angle for private equity is though - the 20-30 top programs are not capital limited at this point - they've already found the money to enlarge their stadiums and upgrade their facilities. The 2nd tier could probably use the capital, but is there enough potential for those schools to generate income to be interesting investments? So much keeps coming back to how the league structure finally shakes out. How many teams will top tier college football end up with?

So Vierling was back in uniform tonight with the Hens. 0/2 as DH. Olson is supposed to pitch tomorrow (today!)

LOL - I"m geting dyslexic in old age. I looked at that and didn't see any that lined up. What was funny is the article never mentions Jake at all before the mis-reference. Taylor Rogers's name appears, but that's as close as it comes. The writer (not credited) had to have done an edit in the sentence about the pitcher and left "Rogers" on his clipboard, then pulled it back in place of Greene's name lower down without noticing, but still bush league to miss that proofread. Or may the first idea was the pitcher Rogers' name was originally going to figure in the Key Stat choice. I though they might have fixed it by now, but nope....

Well if the plane has electric fuel pumps and all the power went down.... That would have to be some strange combination of events to do that though. The videos didn't show any obvious evidence of engine mechanical failure such as an oil or fuel plume, smoke, fire, or any other disturbance like turbine blade failure. It did just look like they throttled down. If they had had enough lift to get to 650 feet, hard to figure how it was anything in the control surface configuration. That's probably above any remaining ground effect level so if the plane could lift that high it should have been able to at least keep flying level. 255 hardly got into the air at all.

indeed they did. But they went 0 for 6 getting the letters of his name right.

National media can't get it right even when they do cover the Tigers. From the ESPN game summary tonight: I'm sure Jake would love to have 5 more years of career before him than he does.

There is some stuff going on out there. I've been a member (basically passive) of the ACLU for years, this is the first year I've ever gotten an invitation to go get trained as an activist.

Depends what part of 'style' you mean. To me the thing that always stood out with Hawk was how you could tell if the Sox were winning or losing in 10 seconds just listening to his voice. He was totally up or down with the team performance (Mark Champion was always like that with the Lions as well). Kell may have had the same regional vocal style, but he was much more from the Ernie Harwell school of "you are happy to be at a baseball game whether your team is winning or losing."

Pause agricultural, and hospitality. OK, you just took maybe 7 of the supposedly 11 million undocumenteds off the table. Now Miller will have to deport every roofer and carpenter in America to make his target.

Manning should study the bio of another tall thin Tiger high draft pick. Andrew Miller was the No 6 pick in 2006, it was 9 years later he finally emerged as a top reliever for the Yankees.

Manning is getting regular relief work now and he's seems to be doing better than he was as a starter, but he hasn't proven enough/been good enough, to get a call-up. They have nothing to lose leaving him where he is for a while.

yeah - that was pretty much the one mistake they made as a team tonight. Montero is interesting. He doesn't seem to have particularly great stuff but he sure hangs in there.

these people are just so dumb. "No reason to keep all these pinko language specialists around, probably all closet Democrats, after all nothing ever happens in the world."

be interesting to see if how far they let Hurter go. He threw 44 pitches in 3 IP 3 days ago. I would think only one inning today.

To improve the effect you could always just drink more when you watch the game at home.

C'mon Lee. Fabric pizzas on a spear was not enough?!

LOL -But Hawk had Stone. I used to hear them sometimes and I always thought that Hawk was a good analyst - as long as the Sox were losing and he was in 'down' mode. Once they they were ahead the was such a fan boy that analysis sort of went out the window. 😂

Sewell and Giamatti had just worked together in "the Illusionist" with Ed Norton before this series was made.

And this is exactly what Shepherd still refuses to believe. He made a conscious choice not to be 'in' his broadcast because he thought his was the way it should be done. But the opposing view has prevailed for now.

Funny you should say this. During the last broadcast Benetti was talking about being a young broadcaster and working with Steve Grilli when Grilli was doing color instead of being busy being a pitching coach, and I it think he said Grilli, or maybe someone else on the that broadcast team, gave him the advice that the best baseball broadcast should sound like you are sitting with two guys watching the game at the bar - so if that's what you hear in the broadcast, it's no accident.

this. As I think about it, the biggest threat to the status quo as we know it is not probably not the NFL, it comes if the super conference schools get greedy and want to maximize their revenue by cutting out the rest of the schools, or whether they decide they will live with less revenue for the sake of keeping more schools in the system.

I saw that, certainly possible but 255 hardly even got off the ground, this plane looked like it did have decent lift in the seconds before it went down. There is some loss of ground effect lift on take-off though.

I don't think the risk to risk to the relationship between the NFL and College football lies in the NFL trying to get a bigger piece. I think there are two outcomes that could threaten things, and I have no idea if either of them will happen to any significant degree. The first is the one I've already mentioned, the possibility that eligibility rules change to where enough of what would be mid-level NFL players decide they can make a career without going to the NFL and that both bleeds off and blocks enough of the talent pipeline that the NFL gets concerned. The second is that as the super conferences emerge they end up monopolizing the media money. I think this has a high probability of happening. But the consequence of that could mean that the 2nd tier of what is now Div1 finds themselves in an untenable financial situation and they decide to drop out of the paid Varsity Sport system. That won't bother the super-conferences, but it will reduce the ratio between the number of paid tier college programs and the number of NFL teams. As above, this outcome would effectively reduce the size of the development pool for the NFL. Could it be enough the NFL would care? Who knows? I think in the end, for a school to survive it will either have to have a deep national tradition or big local media market it can have to itself. I don't know how many of those there are but I think the number is less than the current number FCS schools. Or the other way to look at it is that schools that are currently 'recievers' from their conferences instead of generators, will end up at risk as the other schools are going to want them out of their revenue stream.

For reference, the University Budget is ~$15B, a little more than half of that is the Hospital System.

UM Regents approved a $266M budget for the athletic department, which includes $15M in subsidy from the U. The mothership is picking up most of the $21M cost of the House settlement for the first yr. (The AD normally gets no operating $ from the general budget)