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I had never read any of Robby's stuff before. I've read plenty by his brother Rico.

OK - so there is a member of the Women's Soccer team that is "protesting" in her own way, yet abiding by the rules of the US Soccer Federation, let's move on. Here's the crux of the matter - SF's first post in the thread may have been incorrect. According to the Wall Street Journal - Women's soccer ACTUALLY out-earned men's soccer. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-womens-soccer-games-out-earned-mens-games-11560765600 PARIS—In the three years after the U.S. women’s soccer team won the 2015 World Cup, U.S. women’s games generated more total revenue than U.S. men’s games, according to audited financial reports from the U.S. Soccer Federation. The ability of the women’s team to generate gate revenues that equals or exceeds the men’s team is an important battleground in the U.S. women’s March 8 gender-discrimination lawsuit against the federation. In the suit, all 28 members of the U.S. women’s national team player pool allege U.S. Soccer has paid them less than the men’s team, along with denying them equal playing, training and travel conditions and promoting their games less. U.S. Soccer has made revenue generation a key part of its defense. In U.S. Soccer’s May 6 legal response to the suit, the federation said the men’s and women’s teams are separate organizations with separate collective-bargaining agreements. It said that any alleged pay differential between the men’s and women’s teams is “based on differences in the aggregate revenue generated by the different teams and/or any other factor other than sex.” But U.S. Soccer’s numbers show that while men’s games used to generate millions more than women’s games, in recent years the gap in revenue all but disappeared. From 2016-2018, women’s games generated about $50.8 million in revenue compared with $49.9 million for the men, according to U.S. soccer’s audited financial statements. In 2016, the year after the World Cup, the women generated $1.9 million more than the men. Game revenues are made up mostly of ticket sales. In the last two years, at least, the men’s tally includes appearance fees that opposing teams pay the U.S. for games. “The event revenue from the USWNT demonstrates the potential that can be realized when investment is made,” said Becca Roux, executive director of the U.S. women’s national team’s players association. “While there is still a long way to go, I applaud U.S. Soccer, their partners, and our partners for the new marketing initiatives over the past couple of years. I hope it serves as a case study and example for other federations around the world to emulate.” U.S. Soccer declined to comment. To be sure, ticket sales are only one revenue stream that the national teams help generate. U.S. Soccer brought in nearly $49 million in marketing and sponsorship revenue in 2018, nearly half of its $101 million operating revenue, according to federation records. Marketing and sponsorship revenue includes the sale of broadcast rights for U.S. Soccer games and sponsorships sold to Budweiser, Nike and others. That being the case - SF sees the point of the women's fight here. If they are contributing same or even more revenue than the men's squad, then absolutely SF can agree they should be paid as well.

you are right

So, what is the excuse for Roy Moore? Or how about Dennis Hastert? Hell, even Trump, the idol of countless Republicans cheated during each of his three marriages. And one of his biggest fans, Alex Jones was just busted for sending child porn to Sandy Hook victims. I am sure there are others that claimed to be “conservative” that have done some bad stuff too. Yes, there are a lot of people across the political spectrum that do sickening, gut wrenching things; neither side of the aisle can claim the moral high ground, un;like what is being perpetuated in this meme. The sad fact is that a meme like this creates yet another fake division, giving people justification to hate one side even more.

I may be wrong but I don't think that the 1A, 2A, 3A sectionals will be impacted. The only bumped-up teams who earned exactly 2 Points were Snider & Cathedral. Somebody will drop from 5A to 4A to replace Cathedral. But it won't flow down below that. Caveat-- all of this is my best guess.

No. If a team earns 6 Points in a 2-year cycle, they move UP 1 class. If you're already in 6A, there is no 7A. If a team who has been bumped up from earning 6 or more Points in a previous cycle (like Snider to 6A & Cathedral to 5A) then earns 2, 3, 4 or 5 Points in the next 2-year cycle, they STAY in the same class. (The minimum used to be 3 Points but the IHSAA changed it in Aprill, effective immediately.) Since Snider won 2 Sectionals & Cathedral won 1 Regional during the 2017 & 2018 football seasons, they will STAY in their same classes (Snider 6A, Cathedral 5A) for the 2019 & 2020 football seasons. If Snider earns only 0 or 1 Point during the next 2 seasons, they will move DOWN 1 class to 5A. If you're still curious, go to the IHSAA site & read the rule directly.

It will NEVER happen. The number of schools in Indiana allow for all-in tournaments in EVERY sport. That's the way the IHSAA & most member schools like it. High school sports are for the student athletes. They work very hard & deserve an opportunity in these tournaments. If it was only winning records make the tournament, you would see many schools trying to schedule easy wins to start the season. Then it really would turn into a cluster fudge.

The date is actually important in supporting my original response to you.

You say you know Rapinoe's history and then claim that you aren't 100% sure that it's accurate that she started her national anthem during the Obama administration. Which one is it? You say that her history is easy to find, but claim that you aren't quite sure when she started. When she started is very much so out there. And the fact that she was White, female, and in a sport other than football made it even more the story when it occurred. https://sports.yahoo.com/megan-rapinoe-national-anthem-sing-us-soccer-world-cup-211549494.html FTA: For Rapinoe, the anthem is a “somber moment” for a “peaceful protest” of inequality and injustice throughout the United States. It’s inequality and injustice she has been aware of for years now, even as she proudly sang the anthem prior to the summer of 2016. But that summer, she had what she calls an “awakening.” She was “very much inspired” by Colin Kaepernick and his protest of racial injustice and police brutality. Around that time, “the whole meaning of the anthem changed dramatically for me,” Rapinoe told Yahoo Sports. And she came to a realization: “I need to do something.” So, days after Kaepernick first dropped to a knee, Rapinoe did as well. ... As she wrote weeks after she first knelt, her protest was about "over-policing" and "racial profiling," about "ensur[ing] that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country." Her choice to not sing the anthem is essentially an extension of that. U.S. Soccer eventually adopted a rule prohibiting players from kneeling before national team games. Rapinoe, who calls the rule “cowardly” and “backwards,” now clasps her hands behind her back and stares straight ahead, expressionless, instead.

Just sayin

An enumerated list would of these "things" would be greatly appreciated. Also if Great Britain is so great why haven't you moved there yet, Dante?

See it is a cluster fudge. (But I didn't say fudge) make life easier and dump the success rule all together. Put school by size. Get ride of the "every" school gets in. Only schools with winning records should make the tournament.

https://reason.com/2019/06/12/the-case-for-designer-babies/ Agreed. We currently use science to make our offspring better today, this is just the next step.

https://reason.com/2019/06/13/union-battles-inmates-who-want-to-work-as-firefighters/ Yet another reason why public sector unions should be outlawed, they use the force of government to reduce competition. Despicable.

It's a great thing liberal atheists don't gather in places of worship. That way the Christian Conservatives can't find a place to shoot a bunch of 'em up.

? I don't understand.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/britains-unexplained-wealth-orders-give-the-state-too-much-power Police State. Why anybody who values personal freedom would actually want to live in Great Britain is beyond me.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2019/06/05/iu-football-purdue-football-finally-trying-win-after-years-neglect/1341505001/ So IU is pricing students and locals out of the game in their quest for gridiron glory, as well as effectively adding the letter "I" to the word "team". And it appears that Purdue now has the highest paid public employee in the entire state. What price gridiron glory?

Yes, the force of the state is the only way. And to the parents that do make their children attend government school due to threat of force the institution is nothing more than a baby sitting service. They don't give a hoot about education. What does the state do to counter that attitude, Dante? Make laws stating the parents will suffer legal repercussions if their child(ren) don't academically perform at certain. Force them to take government education seriously, is that the ticket?

https://reason.com/2019/06/17/intersectionality-101/#comments Nice explanation by Mr. Soave. Insanity, all of it. As one of the comments to this story states: "All this essentially frivolous activist BS makes me proud–proud that other values, like personal liberties, free markets, rule of law, and some cliches like hard work and personal sacrifice, have created a modern industrialized life that is so easy and supportive for hundreds of millions of people. And it must be easy, or these thousands (millions?) of nut jobs would be busy trying to survive (if they exsited at all)."