The Detroit Free Press has broken an interesting story in which unnamed current and former players claim the University of Michigan football team has violated NCAA rules regulating off-season workouts, in-season demands on players and mandatory summer activities. The allegations center on strength and conditioning coach Mike Barwis and off-season conditioning requirements. Michigan has launched [...]
Archive for August 31st, 2009
I Know Michigan Needs All The Practice It Can Get, But . . . .
Posted in sports, Uncategorized, tagged Big Ten, Buckeye football, college football, NCAA, Rich Rodriguez, sports, The Ohio State University, University of Michigan, Wolverine football on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Lockerbie Bomber, Oil, And Justice
Posted in World, tagged Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, foreign policy, Great Britain, Libya, Lockerbie bombing, terrorism, World on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve posted before — here and here — on the indefensible decision of the Scottish government to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the terrorist convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The British press is all over the story, digging to see if there were grounds other than “compassion” for the release. The London [...]
The Sad Story of Badfinger
Posted in Music, tagged Badfinger, Paul McCartney, Pete Ham, the Beatles, Tom Evans on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For some reason, I was thinking today about Badfinger, the rock band with the saddest fate. Badfinger actually had an auspicious beginning. The Beatles liked them enough (despite their ridiculous hairstyles) to sign them to their new Apple record label in 1968. Over the next few years, they came out with a string of high-quality [...]
Winds Of Change In Japan
Posted in Politics, World, tagged Japan, Politics, World on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
News articles are reporting that a significant political shift has occurred in Japan, where the ruling party apparently has been pulverized in an election. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has controlled the government in Japan for decades, is forecast to go from a large majority in the lower house of Japan’s Parliament to a small [...]
