TCU’s inclusion into the Big 12 was not free, and the price was fully realized on Saturday afternoon at a popular bar in the worst college football town in America. On Saturday afternoon under wonderfully mild mid-November Midwest temperatures, a load of young college students gathered at “Bullwinkle’s” in Lawrence, Kansas to watch “the big game.” Or ... did they?
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Don’t waste your time blaming MLB commissioner Ron Manfred for this lockout, and never side with the people he represents. This lockout didn’t start with Manfred telling the owners what to do. This started with a specific group of high-level baseball people telling Manfred it was time to restructure MLB’s expense sheet.
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However both the Dallas Cowboys and Amari Cooper want to spin this, he made a personal decision that jeopardized his team’s chances of winning a regular-season game.
By even the loosest enforcement of the definition of the word, Cooper was selfish on this, and a bad teammate. This isn’t subjective.
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The Dallas Mavericks have no picks in the 2021 NBA Draft, the best free agent from a thin class is on their own roster, the head coach is not going anywhere, and the solutions are toilet bowl messy. It starts by taking the ball out of Luka Doncic’s hands. It includes with Kristaps Porzingis being trusted to do what he’s paid to do, and then actually doing it.
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