The next Jay Walker!

The sooner the league starts moving these fringe teams the better. It got to bother the NHL to see buildings at 60-70 percent capacity.

There's lots of reasons why the NHL is so committed to propping up its marginal teams.

For one, having a presence in every corner of the USA helps juice American TV deals -- and it's working. The 2011 NBCSN deal is worth $200M annually, triple the amount of the old US TV contract.

For two, if the Panthers were to sell to Quebec City or Las Vegas or Seattle interests tomorrow, NHL teams would lose a potential half a billion dollars in free expansion money. Roving franchises really hurt the market for expansion teams.

For three, in the case of Arizona and Florida (and previously Columbus) taxpayers can be made to prop up these weak sisters. More money for nothing.

Who cares about half-full arenas when the bottom line in the NHL has never been better? If I were an NHL owner, I'd love Gary Bettman.

Not enough money. $8-$12m per year? Plus they have to give their portion of expansion money?

The Panthers will also fork over its cut of the league’s expansion fee to Broward County, after team losses are covered

I'm sure there's lots of ways the Panthers can cook the books to make sure that they keep their hands on that sweet expansion dough.

Off to rescue yet another team with a mess at QB. Glenn is the CFL's Littlest Hobo.

I wonder ... if Ricky Ray is available this winter, does Glenn get shoved aside yet again?

I don't like dancing on players' graves, but this news makes me happy. I don't want to see Picard play for us ever again.

The only way I want to see Picard as a Bomber again is to see him as a special teams coach working with Lirim on his hang time ... Picard's snaps had beauty hang time this season.

Matt Walter has always impressed me whenever he's gotten real reps spelling Cornish. He's not a guy who can own a game like Cornish, but the dropoff from Cornish to him doesn't seem enormous. I wonder who gets the first-team reps at running back between those two guys?

I saw a Cornish interview during Grey Cup week last year that made me hope he'd walk away from football in the off-season. Compared to past interviews, when he sounded really astute and sharp, he was not doing well .. he was slurred and distant in that too-familiar athlete way. And now with this concussion protocol news -- man, I hope he's okay.

My wife is scientist and has worked with some very very very smart and accomplished people.

Sometimes, those people believe that since they're experts in some extremely difficult (and relatively narrow) field, that makes them an expert in every field.

We call this "Ben Carson syndrome" now.

Some call him the space cowboy.

#noleadissafe

Listening to the TSN radio feed at work today.

Argonaut radio guys are calling Chad Owens CO2, so maybe it's not just a Rod Black thing.

I could post a gazillion stories where criminals acted absolutely awful and yet nobody posts those videos online.

C'mon, what are you even talking about? We have a whole TV show about criminals acting the fool:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cops_%28TV_series%29

It's run for twenty-eight seasons. It is older than the Bombers' Grey Cup drought, for christ's sake.

I don't see anywhere where each person is perfect.

So what? Does that mean we shouldn't fire / charge out-of-control cops?

Of course we can't expect perfection from the cops. But what we can expect out of them is improvement -- that they'll be on the watch for the violent, lying assholes in their ranks, and guide them towards different careers.

On Friday, the San Diego District Attorney dropped all the charges against Hahn after Hahn’s lawyer said he showed the D.A. the above video of her arrest.

“[The police] did not know there was a video,” Attorney Mark J. Geragos told NBC News. “I allowed at least one of the cops to testify to tell his story which we will charitably call lying, though some would call perjury.”

Nice.

#filmthepolice

Idle thought: it would be cool to identify the place where the Oregon killer bought his gun, and then picket that place like it was an abortion clinic.

I was shocked to see Burris was running the short yardage team last night. A 40 year old QB running plunges in a season where quarterbacks are falling weekly? The guy's invulnerable/lucky.

Whatever happened to all the people who thought Desjardins was an idiot for ditching Glenn and signing Burris?

Binged on all of Rick and Morty this weekend. Fantastic stuff.

Good luck to him. He's leaving us with a couple unforgettable highlights.

Bombers aren't wearing gold, they are just asking the fans to wear gold.

Man, when I read stuff like this and when I see Bomber ads online, I like to say a prayer for the marketing team at WBB -- it must suck to have to run promotions for a team that's auguring in so hard it's driving fans beyond anger and into apathy.

Man, you gotta be impressed at Burris' enduring durability, especially this season when it seems like Zeus is hurling thunderbolts at quarterbacks.

I am by no means a football maven, but if the ball takes an extra quarter-second to get to the QB, it shouldn't be critical.

How far can Clarence Denmark run in a quarter second? If we're throwing a quick timing route and the ball is out a quarter-second late, that's probably an incompletion .. or, as Valderan notes, a wallpapered QB.

Got up early for the game. Turned it off at halftime, went to the garage to play drums and work on my LED ribbon lightshow.

This season ******* sucks.

I hate seeing great CFL players go down like this. I don't care who they play for. Love the way Collaros plays -- very nice collection of agility and accuracy.

Burris is the MOP now, I guess? Assuming he doesn't suffer a career-ender next week....but the guy has been freakishly durable throughout his career.

I know it's minor, but what was up with the snaps?I swear Nichols had to reach for 1/2 of them.

Picard's snaps have been lottery tickets all year. Their wandering nature is somewhat mitigated by their slowness, it gives the QB time to locate and catch them.

How minor a deal is it that the QB has to take half a second to receive the wandering snap? Timing is so critical in a lot of these plays, if the snap is a slow I bet it has repercussions later in the play.

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No problem with the guy being honest about his aspirations. If he draws NFL attention then that means we got some mighty fine QB play* out of him, so it's all good.

*Pat Barnes notwithstanding, I guess