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Sorry, but this is horseshit. When you criticize Ms. Held's choices, you are deflecting blame from the cop who massively overescalated the situation. Let's set aside her suspicious death for now, because no one here has any idea what happened in her cell. Tell me, at what point does she do anything that warrants physical assault, a taser threat, an arrest, and jail time? The blame belongs with the cop. Not with the victim. The cop shat the bed on this one. http://www.texasstandard.org/shows/current/10-things-about-the-sandra-bland-traffic-stop-every-texan-should-know/ dissects his mistakes in some detail.

I bet we see a different Stoudermire this week.

yeah, this stinks from every angle. Compare how Sandra Bland and Clive Bundy got treated during their run-ins with American law enforcement. All I can say is that I hope it gets investigated properly. Jesse Williams has an epic rant on this: http://www.salon.com/2015/07/23/jesse_williams_brilliant_twitter_epic_on_race_and_police_a_select_segment_of_americans_are_granted_the_privilege_of_being_able_to_resist_said_tyranny_scream_at_it_punch_shove_or_elude_it/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

I think it's simpler than that. If the Coyotes are on the market and available, that's one less $500MM expansion cheque for the NHL to cash. The market for half-billion-dollar NHL franchises is super soft. The NHL contacted a number of potential ownership groups and only two could get a bid together. Kansas City, Markham, and Seattle were all supposed to be in the mix but none of them emerged. I really suspect the league announced expansion when they did because the Coyotes are likely finished in Arizona and the league needs to grab the sweet expansion money before they formally come onto the market. The timing looks right: expansion was announced less than two weeks after Glenndale terminated the Coyotes' lease. If I were a prospective NHL owner, I'd say to hell with expansion and wait for the Coyotes to finally get evicted. I'd get a far better team for less money.

Chapdelaine would be the next guy up if Chamblin got fired, right?

Interesting (if stale) article about the NBA in Seattle that has NHL ramifications: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/30/kings_staying_in_sacramento_to_wring_out_more_stadium_subsidies.html According to the article, the NBA rejected moving the Sacramento Kings to Seattle because the proposed Seattle arena would have been mostly privately funded, whereas Sacramento was building its new NBA arena with public money. The league didn't want a precedent on the books of a team owner funding his own arena. They like public money too much for this, and they also like having Seattle as an empty chair for when the music stops again. (mods, feel free to tell me to shut up about Seattle)

I think people don't realize just how big a deal Bruce Jenner was in the 70s. He was one of the most famous non-pro athletes of that decade. I grew up in the deep sticks with two TV channels (weather and reception permitting) and two shitty local radio stations and no daily newspaper and I knew who he was.

I really like what she said at the ESPY's. "If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there who are coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn’t have to take it." For me, that's the real story. I remember back in the 90s when Freddy Mercury came out (sadly, just before dying of AIDS) and that really helped change how my crew thought about GLB people. I wonder how many people out there will be similarly affected by Caitlynn Jenner. (no, we didn't realize that Freddy was bisexual before it became public. We were a sheltered bunch.)

Monday night Seahawk games here are an absolute disaster. The stadium is downtown so you have a bunch of people trying to get into downtown right around rush hour. If you ever try that again, look at parking in Everett or another northern place and catching the Sounder train down -- I think they run the commuter trains on game days.... Anyway, bonne chance to Quebec! Vive les Nordiques nouveau!

Yeah. Our traffic is worst in the nation right now. We're expecting to add a Winnipeg to our population in the next couple decades and we're absolutely terrible at building infrastructure. How terrible? We're replacing a downtown viaduct with a boondoggle waterfront tunnel that was conceived by the creationist goofballs at the Discovery Institute.On top of that, our geography is awful for traffic, we're nothing but hills and lakes, so traffic is funneled onto a few choked thoroughfares. Also, we have very little mass transit. Our one downtown-airport train line covers maybe 5% of the population. When we bought our house last year, I made damn sure it was located on that train line. It's like iso said, any NHL team here would have transportation issues playing weeknight games. (sorry to rant but holy crap Seattle is bad at transportation and infrastructure.)

If the NHL wants to pony up the cool $500MM for a new arena, we can get the shovels in the ground tomorrow. It's like I said before, Seattle's not a big hockey town. There isn't a lot of pent-up pro hockey demand here, especially among the local monied and political classes who can make all this stuff happen. They want the NBA back more than anything.

No Seattle bid. Hope the Coyotes relocate here. It would be a trip if Jets 1.0 followed me to Seattle.

#plugandplay

If I get a spare couple hours this week I want to break down Hurl vs. Cornish. When I watched the big 3Q Cornish drive, it looked like Hurl's assignments were initially taking him away from Cornish -- he was blitzing towards the wrong side, or he was dropping back into a zone, or whatever.

Two of the Seattle groups have dropped out. The sole remaining applicant -- Ray Bartoszek -- is based in Connecticut and his suburban arena proposal hasn't even cleared environmental review yet. They're thinking they might have shovels in the ground in early 2016, but I seriously doubt that. http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/hockey/seattle-bellevue-groups-wont-apply-for-nhl-franchise-before-deadline/ Bartoszek's proposed arena is in Tukwila, a suburb about 15km south of downtown. It's already a pretty developed area and would be much more convenient for suburban fans than the basketball-first SoDo proposal. I suspect the hockey base in Seattle is more suburban than urban, so maybe this is the smartest move. He'd have to play out of the completely inadequate downtown KeyArena for a few years. That doesn't sound like a winning bid, but the NHL really wants more teams in the west, so maybe it will win out. I remember back when the league expanded to Ottawa, they overlooked a much better bid from Hamilton -- the guy who originally owned the Senators was kind of a joke.

This is basically a summary of the defence's closing arguments so yeah, it's not the full story. It's strange it doesn't quote any of the tweets from the respective sides--stories about online harassment will generally do that.

Seriously? They look like lizards in that get-up.

His briefcase is just full of shredded newspaper...

I guarantee that everyone will be able to obtain rebel flags cheaply and quickly for the forseeable future, and they will face no legal sanction for possessing them. (In the US anyway. Canada, who knows?) They're just not gonna get to buy them with free Prime shipping.

Hey, it's iso! Welcome back!

Yeah, this isn't about banning. It's about how the government represents itself to the people it governs. 1/3 of South Carolina is black. Should South Carolina fly a KKK flag on its government buildings? That's what's at stake here. Interesting CFL note: the Southsiders in Ottawa waved confederate battle flags back in the 90s (and probably before). I wonder if they still do that?

Yeah, I know lots of left wingers and no one is talking about outright banning the stars n bars ... but they are saying that the flag represents some pretty heinous **** and that a government of the people ought not to fly a flag that celebrates slavery, Jim Crow, and hostility to the civil rights movement.

Should a replay official be allowed to rule something a touchdown if they don't actually see the ball cross the line, but they guess it did? It seems weird to let the replay official guess at the real outcome of a play if it's uncertain. If replay is uncertain, I want them to just go with the call on the field and move on.

2012 too. 2-7 after the Labour Day game and then 4-5. The tiny little bump of hope we got in the fall got Tim Burke's interim status dropped.

Greg Carr was a midseason recruit. Derek Armstrong too, though he'd already had some CFL time with Saskatchewan so he probably doesn't count. There was that emergency during 2013 when we lost both our starting tackles and brought in Dan Knapp and Jarvis Jones on like three days notice. Both guys played pretty well for us their first game vs. Edmonton tho we lost in overtime -- I think that was Burke's kneeldown game and also the game that exiled Goltz to Burke's doghouse for good. Both Knapp and Jones stuck around after the emergency was over, they were with us in 2014.