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"Take It to the Limit" is one of the best songs ever written.

How IU football played defense to keep its best player: 'The tampering piece is going on and it's bad' https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/iu/2023/07/27/indiana-football-coach-tom-allen-played-defense-to-keep-jaylin-lucas-from-hitting-the-transfer-porta/70442093007/ Let's just drop this NIL charade and just let colleges and universities sign players to a contract to play for them for an agreed upon amount of monetary compensation.

On something other than pre-season polls: https://apnews.com/article/colorado-pac12-big12-realignment-2544098240ffaa73309fc3a73ff6cff6 More shuffling of the deck chairs.......................

The Hoosier Heartland Conference should be a good one this year, with Sheridan, Carroll, and Eastern all in the IFD top 12.

Eastern Comets? Really?

Go Kokomo Wildkats.

IIRC Mr. McConnell is 81.

Interesting theory. But something tells me purposefully causing your brain to swell is not a smart thing to do.

https://reason.com/2023/07/26/rfk-jr-libertarians-covid-vaccine-free-speech-democrats/ These are not, in fact, thorny questions. Of course misinformation is protected by the First Amendment—unless it veers into defamation or fraud, both narrowly defined legal categories. The modern Supreme Court has never validated the idea that speech expressing incorrect ideas is unprotected by the Constitution; if it had, the Times' own speech rights would be in jeopardy. Indeed, Times' own story about Kennedy's controversial remarks itself contained misinformation. Its opening paragraph described the comments in question as "a conspiracy-filled rant by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the Covid-19 virus was engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people." The candidate did not, in fact, straightforwardly declare that COVID-19 was "engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people." He said: "There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately." He also said: "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese." And he said: "We don't know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact." You can see why someone would raise an eyebrow at the suggestion that the virus even might have been "deliberately targeted," but a reporter should report what the candidate actually said. Kennedy, for what it's worth, seems to have been referring to a study by the Cleveland Clinic that found some evidence the virus's genetic makeup could theoretically make certain populations—including the Amish and Ashkenazi Jews—less receptive to it. Some scientists have disagreed with the underlying findings of the Cleveland Clinic study; moreover, the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 are likely best explained by certain populations' overall health, age, and access to medical resources. Kennedy's larger point was that government funding of research that creates such viruses is dangerous. In an interview on Rising, the YouTube show I co-host for The Hill, the candidate claimed that "it never entered my mind that it was engineered directly to protect Jews and injure other people." Unfortunately, the Democrats' behavior at the hearing is part of a pattern. Far too many political leaders have urged greater censorship of contrarian COVID-19 speech, especially online. The vast federal bureaucracy—first under Donald Trump, and then in a greatly expanded fashion under Joe Biden—pushed private tech companies to censor speech that was critical of the government's approach to the pandemic. Both the Twitter Files and Reason's own Facebook Files show that the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and other arms of the government frequently contacted content moderators for the purpose of jawboning. These pushes for greater content moderation were not just philosophically wrong—that is, at odds with principles of free speech—but they were often wrong about the underlying facts as well. One need not cosign everything RFK Jr. has ever said about the virus or vaccines to admit that the mainstream purveyors of pandemic-related information made grave errors of scientific judgment. For instance, The New York Times' lead coronavirus reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, said the lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins was a "racist" falsehood, and she was in good company. The establishment media's persistent crusade to demonize lab-leak dissenters—other than a tiny number of cautiously dissenting voices—did not end until earlier this year, after multiple federal agencies finally concluded that a lab leak was more likely than natural spillover. If leading Democratic politicians, government health experts, and mainstream media reporters engaged in some self-reflection about their own role in pandemic-era authoritarianism, they might better understand the appeal of a candidate who is running on an explicit platform of never repeating such mistakes. RFK Jr. is an interesting character. Hopefully he'll make the upcoming election more interesting, if the Uni-Party doesn't censor most everything he says.

R.I.P. Sinéad O'Connor, acclaimed Irish singer https://www.avclub.com/sinead-oconnor-dead-at-56-r-i-p-1850678969 How tragic. Much too young. Truly a 1980's Musical Icon, she will be missed.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2023/07/26/girls-basketball-travel-team-attacks-fights-refs-in-indiana-game-triton-central-cincinnati/70466579007/ Pathetic.

No, I don't.

It's all about the Benjamins. There has always been money in selling snake oil, and there always will be.

Go Braves.

All college and universities need this form. Probably originated at Hillsdale College.

Donation made. Happy to contribute to the finest football message board in the world.

Indianapolis comedian Ron Sexton, known for Bob & Tom Show character, dies at 52 https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2023/07/22/comedian-ron-sexton-dies-at-47/70450534007/ Who?

https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/nfl/indianapolis-colts/indianapolis-colts-introduce-new-alternate-uniform-indiana-nights-october-22-home-game/531-8c4e263a-f9ad-4696-9ecc-613c0d16df11 Disgusting, and a complete slap at tradition. What is with this continued fascination to adding black to a team's colors, even if black was never a part of it in the first place?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kevin-mitnick-hacker-and-fugitive-turned-security-consultant-dies-at-59/ar-AA1e6vgQ?OCID=ansmsnnews11 What a bummer. Truly an American computer icon. He will be missed. A company I used to work for engaged with Mr. Mitnicks's cybersecurity firm on a number of occasions. He was very, very good.

You just knew this stupidity would eventually occur regarding the scourge known as artificial turf: https://deadspin.com/ncaa-football-suny-morrisville-field-matt-grawrock-1850654695 Waiting for the first high school to do this, and the subsequent horror of watching heat stroke in action.

This one time at high school band camp they made the freshman get down on their hand & knees and push a marble across the football field with their noses. This was in the early 1980's.

Poll: 44 Percent of Millennials Want To Make Misgendering a Crime https://reason.com/2023/07/18/poll-millennials-want-to-make-misgendering-a-crime/ Guess I'm going to jail then.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/19/todd-rokita-indiana-attorney-general-nda-nondisclosure-agreement-might-threaten-free-speech/69990880007/ Looks like yet another power/ego trip by Mr. Rokita.

https://www.dossier.today/p/confidential-biden-dod-memo-reveals?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf&utm_medium=email Agreed. Today's military is not something I can recommend to more and more of today's youth.

Go Braves.