- Nothing is funnier than anonymous college football
assistant coaches b*tching about their conference planning to play games on a
day other than the hallowed ground of Saturdays in the fall. Yes, Big Ten
football is coming to Friday nights in 2017 and beyond, but not everyone in the
numerically incorrect 12-team Big Ten is a fan of expanding the empire to
another day of the week. Under the conference's new TV contract, which begins
next season, there will be a package of six Friday night games, all of which
will be limited to September and October and won't include every team. The
conference’s true heavyweights with huge
stadiums, such as Penn State and Ohio State, won't be asked to host them. Michigan
has already opted out, according to Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, but the
sniping from receivers coaches, defensive line coaches, special teams coaches
and graduate assistants is just beginning. Word on the street is that those
second, third and eighth bananas are angry because they believe Friday night
games would negatively affect recruiting. The vast majority of high school
games are played on Friday nights, so that means Big Ten teams playing that
night would be forced to pick one of their five or six other home games in a
season to invite recuits and that’s apparently a reason to turn your rings
around and throw hands. Both the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association and the
Michigan High School Athletic Association expressed disappointment about the
decision, because of which Friday night Big Ten games will continue through at
least 2022. Of course, tens of thousands of fans will still attend those
contests and the league will still make plenty of television revenue from them,
so that’s all the Big Ten(12) actually cares about…….
- You best back the f*ck off, Turkish schools funded by
U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen , because Albania is not trippin. While
a lot of people in the world - especially those who have never seen Liam Neeson
kick international ass across borders in the “Taken” franchise - can't begin to
locate Albania on a map, Albania's Education Ministry doesn’t believe that any
attention is good attention. That’s why the ministry has told Gulen’s schools
to stop using Turkey's flag and other symbol. See, there are a number of
Turkish-owned educational institutions from preschool to university level
operating in post-communist Albania, the tiny Western Balkan country with a
predominantly Muslim population and strong ties with Ankara, and Albania looks
out for its friends. That’s why Ministry General Secretary Plarent Ndreca is
touting a complaint from Turkey's embassy in Tirana as prompting the
government's order and saying that the ministry
sent a letter ordering licensed schools to stop using the Turkish symbols
unless they have authorization from the diplomatic mission. Turkey is still
chafed over its failed coup in July that killed over 270 people and while an
entire country full of people who don’t like dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan
would normally be more than enough of an impetus for the coup, Turkey blames
Gulen's movement for sparking that coup. Now, Erdogan has his Albanian lap dogs
doing his dirty work and sadly, no quantity of Liam Neeson throat chops will
solve this problem……..
- After being part of one of the most horrific nights in the
history of live music, Eagles of Death Metal are looking to detail the night it
all went wrong in a new documentary. The rock super group fronted by Queens of
the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme will forever be linked to the night of Nov.
13, 2015, when ISIS-affiliated terrorist gunmen stormed their show at the
Bataclan theatre in Paris, killing 89 people in a truly awful scene that was
part of a night with six coordinated attacks on Paris that killed a total of
130 people. Now, EODM have announced “Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our
Friends),” a documentary that will air on HBO in February and will chronicle
the events before and after the terrorist attack. Homme, Jesse Hughes and the
rest of the band decided to make the documentary to tell the story of the
tragic events that occurred on that night. Colin Hanks, who has had plenty of less-than-serious
roles during his acting career, will direct and along with examining what
happened that night and in the aftermath of the attacks, the film will also
look at Hughes and Homme’s friendship and the band’s relationship with its fans
in light of what happened that night and the link that will forever exist
between the two groups after surviving something so terrible together. It’s
unquestionably one of the ugliest and most terrible nights in the history of
music, but maybe this documentary can at least help people better understand it……..
- Don’t do drugs kids - the kind you snort, the kind you
shoot, the kind you smoke or the kind you pour into a glass of water, mix with
sugar and drink down with the delicious flavor of Purplesaurus Rex. That
message was hammered home at Eagles Nest Elementary School in Dorchester
County, South Carolina, where nine students were suspended for violating a
school drug policy after being accused of having sugar mixed with Kool-Aid in
their possession. Parents were irate when they learned of the discipline,
although at least one child's infraction was reduced during an expulsion
hearing at the district office. That possible future cocaine addict is now on a
probationary status with the district and returned to school earlier this week,
but the fact remains that all nine students were put up for expulsion for
having Kool-Aid and sugar, which was somehow dubbed "happy crack.” Parents
claimed they didn't even know what "happy crack" was when school
officials called to inform them that their children were being suspended, but
for their part, district administrators say possession of any substance,
whether illegal or not, that looks like an illegal substance is a violation of
a school policy. "No student will market or distribute any substance which
is represented to be or is substantial similar in color, shape, size or
markings of a controlled substance in any of the circumstances listed above.
Look-alike substance or substances that mimic the effect of drugs will be
treated as illegal substances,” officials said in a statement, citing school
policy, adding that it is a level three offense and constitutes criminal
conduct under the JICH, a South Carolina code of laws. It seems that no one
outside the bureaucrats who wrote the district’s student handbook know about
the rule and the affected parents said they thought their children were buying
the equivalent of a pixie stick. Busting 10 year olds does seem harsh, but the
district was munificent enough to reduce the offenses to level one infractions,
so as long as these little buggers aren't caught sniffing glue in art class,
they should be fine……..
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