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Remember it well. That was our crew’s 4th straight playoff game decided in the final seconds! We had another one the next week at Adams Central. Worked a playoff game at Garrett once. Really a nice facility.

And this one is especially for @Howe.

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It’s not a ban. The FDA requested the companies to voluntarily recall all ranitidine products because of a “contaminant” that was introduced in the manufacturing process, and which could increase over time under normal storage conditions. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-requests-removal-all-ranitidine-products-zantac-market

Do you ever just stop and listen to yourself?

See, it’s stuff like this that reduces your credibility on issues. It’s clear that there are irresponsible jerks on both sides of the aisle. But you make no attempt at balance at all. mask

Ironic that the winningest coach of all time, and it turns out the most important game of his career was a loss.

Exhibit A.

You are dangerous. Or, more accurately, your way of thinking is dangerous.

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Hoosiers getting some love from ESPN. https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Alabama-Crimson-Tide-football-ESPN-College-Football-Power-Index-preseason-Top-25-rankings-Clemson-Ohio-State-Texas-Florida-146778255/

For those who persist in believing that the pandemic is “overblown,” or some sort of excuse to push an agenda, here is a sobering statistic. This publication is widely used by professionals. I got it from my wife who is a pediatric nurse practitioner and in charge of infection control/employee health at a Chicago hospital. The bottom line here is that the seasonal index used to measure the severity of that year’s influenza wave last week was at 23.5, meaning that nearly a quarter of all American deaths during the past week occurred as a result of pneumonia, influenza (which is no longer in wide circulation) or COVID-19. In contrast, that’s almost triple the rate during the H1N1 pandemic of 2009. Published in Respiratory Medicine and 2 other channels Expert Opinion / Commentary · April 29, 2020 COVID-19 in One Somber Graphic Written by Jonathan Temte MD, PhD Save Recommend Share I have often heard COVID-19 compared to influenza, particularly when there is intent to question our collective actions. Social distancing, school closures, limited mobility, handwashing and use of facemasks impose a cost on all of us. Influenza is familiar and—to many—an easy comparator. Like SARS-CoV-2, it is a respiratory virus that contributes to significant morbidity and mortality on a yearly basis. As a researcher who has studied influenza in primary care and community settings for the past quarter century, however, I can attest SARS-CoV-2 is not like influenza. I respect influenza; SARS-CoV-2 scares me. Today, as the U.S. has surpassed 1,000,000 cases of COVID-19 and we have tallied nearly 60,000 deaths, I provide a simple graphic for PracticeUpdate readers to ponder. The Influenza Branch at CDC has long used the Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Index to gauge influenza’s passage. The index is based on the percentage of all deaths occurring in the U.S. that have pneumonia or influenza listed as a cause of death during a given week. A seasonal baseline is calculated as well as an “epidemic threshold.” When the P&I death percentage exceeds the threshold, we are seeing the excess of deaths that are typically related to influenza. Of late, deaths due to COVID-19 have been added to the equation… and that is where the similarities end. We recently hit an all-time high of 23.5%.[1] Nearly one quarter of Americans who died during the week ending on April 11, died of pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (and influenza was no longer in circulation). This compares to the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic’s P&I peak of 8.1%. January 2018 also witne ssed a very bad outbreak of influenza and registered 10.8%. Like SARS-CoV-2, influenza can be controlled by social distancing, school closures, limited mobility, handwashing and use of facemasks. But, we also have ample testing capacity, vaccines and antiviral medications. Until we have good means for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and control of SARS-CoV-2, I advise caution in making too many easy comparisons. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. CDC: COVIDView: A Weekly Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-10 Activity. Key Updates for Week 16, ending April 18, 2020

That is really an excellent question. Like so many other potential consequences of the pandemic, I haven’t a clue.

This is a potentially groundbreaking use of the legal system which could have profound ripple effects. I want to give it some thought, and hear some comments, before I weigh in with any observations on the possible merits of the legal issues involved. NCAA sued by 7 women for failure to protect in alleged sexual assaults 9:29 PM CT Paula LavigneESPN Staff Writer Seven women, including three female athletes, are suing the NCAA, alleging that the organization failed to protect them from alleged sexual assaults by male college athletes, despite having an obligation to do so. The women allege that they were sexually assaulted by male athletes at three institutions: Michigan State, Nebraska and one unnamed Division I college from the America East Conference, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The lawsuit accuses the NCAA of negligence, fraud and breach of contract. It argues that the NCAA, as a regulatory body for college athletics, had a duty to the women "to supervise, regulate, monitor and provide reasonable and appropriate rules to minimize the risk of injury or danger to student-athletes and by student-athletes." The NCAA "knew or should have known that their actions or inaction in light of the rate and extent of sexual assaults reported and made known to [the NCAA] by male student-athletes ... would cause harm to female student-athletes and non-student-athletes at NCAA member institution campuses in both the short- and long-term," the lawsuit states. A spokeswoman for the NCAA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for Michigan State said she had been unaware of the lawsuit against the NCAA and of a separate lawsuit against MSU filed by one of the women and had reached out to the school's general counsel, but she had no further comment Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Nebraska said she could not comment because of pending litigation. The lawsuit criticizes the NCAA for failing to disclose the "special risks" related to sexual violence for female students and athletes, for not taking action against athletes reported to have committed acts of sexual violence and for not supervising employees responsible for addressing sexual violence. It also accuses the NCAA of a "failure to monitor" -- a technical term used in NCAA enforcement of member schools -- Title IX investigations and response processes at the respective universities. It states that the NCAA is obligated to do these things because of specific language found in NCAA documents dating to 2010, including a sexual violence prevention toolkit created in 2016 and updated last year that reads: "The prevalence and damaging effects of sexual violence on college students, including student-athletes, are extreme and unacceptable. NCAA member schools have a responsibility to address this issue appropriately and effectively to make campuses safe for all students." One of the named plaintiffs, Emma Roedel, was a sprinter at Michigan State when she said she was raped by a male teammate in March 2017. "To be a part of a group really symbolizes it's not just one person going against the NCAA," Roedel said in an interview with ESPN. "By standing in a group, we're saying, 'Hey, this isn't just one of us. It is all of us. And if this is happening to all of us, you need to do something and take action.'" Another named plaintiff is Capri Davis, 20, who played for Nebraska's top-10-ranked volleyball team until last fall, when she took a medical leave of absence and later transferred to play at Texas. The complaint states that Davis decided to transfer in part because of how she said the university failed to appropriately respond to her report that two Nebraska football players grabbed her buttocks at a party and did the same to a friend who is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The report was made in April 2019 to the school's Title IX office that investigates sexual misconduct. Although the lawsuit does not name them, a description of the men in the lawsuit indicates that the players Davis and her friend reported were redshirt freshmen Katerian LeGrone and Andre Hunt. In January, the school's Title IX office found them not responsible for the alleged groping incident involving Davis and her friend, according to the complaint. Davis' friend, who is not named in the lawsuit, also told university investigators in fall 2019 that she had been raped in August 2018 by LeGrone and another teammate, according to the lawsuit. The school notified her in January that "no finding was being made against" the two players, according to the lawsuit. LeGrone and Hunt have been criminally charged with first-degree sexual assault in connection with a report a different female student made in August 2019 that the two men had sex with her without her consent. For that incident, Nebraska's Title IX office found them responsible for sexual misconduct last fall, and they were expelled as of April 3. Hunt and LeGrone have been named in several additional police reports of alleged sex offenses filed with Lincoln police since news of the university's findings in the August case became public in December, according to records obtained by ESPN and a source familiar with those records. The alleged offenses, which include the alleged August 2018 rape reported by Davis's friend, occurred between August 2018 and April 2019. Charges have not been filed in any of them, according to the records. Attorneys for the two men have said their clients are not guilty of rape, and the university's decision should have no bearing on their criminal cases, which are pending. As of Wednesday, the two men were in the NCAA's transfer portal. One of the complaints in the lawsuit filed Wednesday pertains to how the NCAA allows athletes who have been "accused or convicted of sexual assault or sexual violence to evade responsibility by transferring to other schools." The NCAA "routinely issue harsh punishments against student-athletes who accept payments in exchange for use of their likenesses, or who accept free meals, but they have no specific penalty for student-athletes who commit sexual assault," the lawsuit states. Wednesday's filing is not a Title IX gender discrimination lawsuit, which female and male students typically file against universities accused of improperly handling complaints of sexual misconduct. Roedel filed a separate Title IX lawsuit against Michigan State on Wednesday. Another one of the plaintiffs in Wednesday's lawsuit against the NCAA, Michigan State student Bailey Kowalski, in 2018 filed a Title IX lawsuit against the school that is currently pending. In Wednesday's lawsuit and her Title IX lawsuit, Kowalski states that she was raped in 2015 by three members of the Michigan State basketball team and that the school's counselors failed to properly respond to her report. Among some of the specific instances the women outline in their complaint that they state affected their emotional and mental well-being and ability to continue their academic and/or athletic pursuits: When a false rumor circulated that Davis was pregnant with the child of a football player, "media and communications staff at [Nebraska] advised Davis that she should address the pregnancy rumors," which Davis did on her Twitter account. But the lawsuit says no one at the school offered to investigate the sexual harassment she experienced related to the rumor or any support to deal with the fallout. After a female swimmer at the America East Conference school reported in October 2019 to Title IX officials that she was raped by a male basketball player, she was told by an athletics employee that an informal Title IX process could not lead to her alleged perpetrator being suspended because it "'wouldn't be fair to other players' and it 'would have a negative impact on the community' who attended games expecting to see [him] play." When Roedel, the Michigan State track athlete, told an assistant coach in March 2017 that she had been allegedly raped by a teammate, the coach told her that, "if she pursued any claims against [the male teammate], no one would like her, and that because Roedel is 'pretty,' she would become a 'distraction.'" Former Nebraska student Sheridan Thomas stated that her grades suffered after she said she was raped in August 2015 by a male student-athlete, and she asked someone in the Title IX office to help her withdraw from a class. She said she was denied assistance unless she agreed to open a formal investigation, which she was afraid to do and waited to do until January 2016. The resulting investigation found that the male athlete had not violated university policy. According to the lawsuit, Thomas' witnesses weren't interviewed, there were factual errors in the report, and some of her information was omitted. The lawsuit also criticized the NCAA for disbanding the Commission to Combat Campus Sexual Violence in August 2018. The commission, which had been created two years earlier by the NCAA board of governors, had adopted a policy on campus sexual violence and in June 2018 recommended that student-athletes' participation on the field be directly linked to their behavior off the field, according to the complaint. In 2010, Kathy Redmond, founder of WeLEAD (formerly the National Coalition Against Violent Athletes), corresponded with NCAA president Mark Emmert about why the NCAA didn't do more to address sexual violence, which is referenced in the lawsuit. She said this type of lawsuit against the NCAA has never been filed. "This lawsuit comes at a time when the NCAA is being pushed regarding its policies toward student-athletes, where their concern for student-athlete wellness and safety is being challenged," she wrote in a text message Wednesday. David Ridpath, president of the Drake Group, a think tank dedicated to protecting academic integrity in college sports, said the NCAA is likely to respond to this lawsuit the way he says it often does, which is to deflect responsibility back to the member institutions. "I think they're making a great argument, but I think from a legal perspective, there are lawyers who will question, 'Is there a contractual obligation between the NCAA and the athlete?' and in many cases they've been able to get out of that," he said. "They're not a state actor. They're a voluntary association." He said the lawsuit will send a message regardless of how it proceeds in the courts. "It doesn't have to go to a jury for it to be effective," Ridpath said. "It can shame the NCAA into doing something better to protect the athletes, specifically female athletes." https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29114869/ncaa-sued-7-women-failure-protect-alleged-sexual-assaults

Kevin O’Shea is, indeed, the coach at North Central. Ryan O’Shea is the new coach at Lakeland.

Must have been shortly before. I knew he returned to officiating.

Are they more resistant to electric current? 30 cows and 1 bull? At least he died happy. 😉 @gonzoron, beat me by about 30 seconds. 😆👍

An update on the Indiana case that went to the SCOTUS and was remanded all the way back down to the trial court for reconsideration in light of an intervening decision. The original trial judge has issued an order requiring the state to return the seized SUV “immediately,” finding that the seizure of the vehicle was a disproportionately harsh punishment ... in addition to the felony conviction, prison, etc. I recall that @Muda69 was quite outspoken on this topic. Imagine that! 😂🤣 https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/judge-orders-return-of-seized-land-rover-that-led-to-scotus-civil-forfeiture-case?utm_source=breaking-news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2020-04-28

Hey, don’t let me get between you and your twin nemeses on the right. To be clear, I wasn’t including @Howe and @TrojanDad in my definition of “media.” And the topic that had me smh ... again ... was the furious debate over whether the President actually told people to gargle with bleach, shoot up Lysol, begin an intimate relationship with Mr. Clean, or whatever it supposedly was. We need to get back to the real issues: whether Biden is so senile that he’s likely to just aimlessly roam the corridors of the White House, or whether Trump is, indeed, the Antichrist.

I met Doc many years ago when he accepted a position as a representative from Southern Indiana on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Football Officials Association. A friend over the years, we had a number of conversations about the mechanics and philosophy of the referee position. But our conversations ranged well beyond football. A great guy who made a significant contribution to high school football, who will be greatly missed. The story of him coming back to work a state final after basically dying of a heart attack is inspiring.

Every time I think this campaign rhetoric can’t get more stupid, the media and the public surprise me.

The disproportionately high number of cases in Cass County appears to be attributable to an outbreak at the Tyson’s pork processing plant there. https://www.pharostribune.com/news/local_news/article_c30ada0e-841f-11ea-833e-2394c5e1bbbe.html Still, only 1 death.