The University of Iowa president Bruce Harreld and athletic director Gary Barta wrote an open letter today in which they aid that 4 sports were being discontinued : men’s gymnastics, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and men’s tennis. The B1G’s cancellation/postponement of the fall sports (football) season would cause a $100 million revenue shortfall […]
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The Progressive Racism of the Ivy League
Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color or national origin, Yale University appears to be a textbook case of “systemic racism.” And, so, the Department of Justice contends. Last week, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband charged, “Yale discriminates based on race… in its undergraduate […]
Parents of Penn State Football Players Become Third Group to Petition B1G to Bring Back Football
Bad news continued for the Big Ten leadership and PR machine when a third parental group filed a petition to reinstate the B1G football season. Penn State parents did what Ohio State and Iowa parents did earlier this week calling out the the B1G leadership, decision making process and contradictions made in the cancellation of […]
PIAA tells Gov. Wolf not holding Pennsylvania fall sports won’t eliminate youth coronavirus risk, it will just shift it elsewhere
By Ford Turner The Morning Call | Aug 12, 2020 at 11:09 AM Emmaus’ Rachel Herbine (10) shoots the ball for a goal against Easton’s Onalee Long (25) during a District 11 3A Field Hockey championship held at Whitehall High School last year. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call) The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association thinks organized fall […]
Considering Rutgers? Think again. RU Declares Grammar ‘Racist’
If you’re looking for peak idiocy from academic institutions that are falling all over themselves to kowtow to the mob’s notions of “social justice,” look no further. Assuming that “minorities” can’t write correctly is racism, not anti racist. More here The English Department at Rutgers University has declared that proper use of grammar is a […]
Philadelphia Eagles Likely Won’t Have Fans At Home Games During The 2020 Season Protests still Okay
Guessing that watching Penn or Drexel in person this year is looking like a long shot. Of course Philadelphia Democratic Mayor James Kenney says his city-wide ban on large events and gatherings through February 2021 does not apply to protests. The city of Philadelphia has banned large gatherings through February 2021, and that means […]
Why It’s Rational to Fear Cops
Chris Calton In economics, branding serves an important purpose. Brands allow people to economize on knowledge, a scarce resource. We make decisions with imperfect information, and brand labeling and trademarks help us navigate these decisions. As Thomas Sowell writes: When you drive into a town you have never seen before and want to get some […]
Department of Education: Transgender Athletes’ Competition Violates Women’s Rights
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete as girls in high school sports violates the civil rights of athletes who have always identified as female, according to a letter from the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office that was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The letter came in […]
Weighing In with Robert Wenzel
Wrestlers, athletes, coaches, everyone that is interested in increasing their financial and economic IQ should check out this interview with Robert Wenzel. He has been the most accurate economic prognosticator of the last 20 years. All of the ingredients necessary to be a good wrestler are the same skills that allow you to financially prosper […]
COVID-19 Testing, Results & Great Interview with 2 Docs You Tube Pulls down Video
The antibody studies results from New York and Los Angeles are very interesting. If these results remain consistent in other areas it signifies a few things: The virus had already spread widely before the lockdown. The media whipped up Americans into hysteria over the virus that is much less deadly than we were told. Maybe […]
Everything is Different This Time – But IS IT?? Updates at Bottom of Article Everyone is “Obedience Signaling”
Wrestling (Sports), Politics and American History What if tens of millions of Americans had the flu? What if 100,000 were hospitalized because of the flu? Surely it would be a national emergency, right? What if 60 million people in the US were infected and 300,000 were hospitalized. Surely that would be considered a pandemic. Surely […]
ISIS Suicide Bombers Target Afghan Wrestling Match, Killing 22
A pair of attackers from ISIS hit a wrestling match in the Shi’ite part of the Afghan capital city of Kabul. The first attacker killed a guard outside the sports center, forced his way in, and detonated in the crowd. A second bomber detonated outside in a car, causing more casualties. The wrestling club that […]
Nikki Haley casts some doubt on U.S. athletes at 2018 PyeongChang Olympics
by Erik Ortiz Nikki Haley, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, suggested that the United States’ participation in next February’s Winter Olympics in South Korea remains up in the air amid mounting provocations made by the North. Haley was asked Wednesday night on Fox News whether sending American athletes was a “done deal,” and responded […]
The New Non-Normal for Boys
We are more than a generation into a terrible experiment: the over protection of kids. Boys in particular are under attack in popular culture, at all levels of education and by electronics. Boys in ever increasing numbers aren’t allowed to be their genetic selves. Since the beginning of time boys have been going outside doing […]
Murdered by father: Truth behind death of Egyptian wrestling champ
This is terrible and a stark reminder of conditions for women in much of the world. Will snowflake TR Foley say anything about this atrocity? Unlikely. In his mind worse happens every day in American wrestling. Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Wednesday, 23 November 2016 The truth behind the death of Egyptian wrestler Reem Magdy […]