Chuck Barris

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Part of the settlement includes increasing scholarship numbers so that everyone on the roster can (if the school is willing to fund it) be on a full scholarship. For example, baseball goes from 11.7 to 34, but that 34 is the roster cap (no walkons after the current group cycles through). Not every school will fund the limit, but it will inject a lot more scholarship money into these sports.

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Does that mean that a volleyball player at poor Directional State U with very few donors and low overall athletic revenue is relatively worse off, or am I misunderstanding?

Evergreen State College Geoducks

It's not a duck, it's a large burrowing clam with a very phallic appearance.

Imagine trying to shite talk a team that's won twelve of the last fourteen games between you, has a thirty game lead on you head-to-head, and blew you out at home last year in a game that tossed your season in the dumpster and slammed the lid shut.

All this in a thread about how LSU doesn't live up to its potential.

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Players should get more of a pass than coaches.

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Totally agree.

They're mediocre now!

Their coach doesn't know what he's doing!

The program is headed downhill!

They... beat us 42-13 at our house.

Never change, LSU fans.

Never, ever change.

I liked the part where he single-handedly destroyed Texas football's status as a national power for over a decade and derailed their program to the point that "Texas is back!" became a recurring joke.

They're mediocre now!

Their coach doesn't know what he's doing!

The program is headed downhill!

They... beat us 42-13.


Never change, LSU fans.

Never, ever change.

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How they got out is beyond me.

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Sadly, I think their scheme to slander their murder victim basically worked. Molly clearly had that in mind with her little hidden microphones and her dad's lie to generate suspicion around the death of Jason's first wife.

BTW, I watched this with my wife and we both had a laugh at the recordings of "verbal abuse." I think Molly was hoping to capture something much worse than she did.

Look, you're right in the sense that most people who oppose IVF do so for religious reasons, but the person who did this did it with a completely different motive. This person wanted human extinction to reduce the overall amount of suffering in the universe, especially the suffering of animals caused by humans.

That line about a friend's recent death and bipolar disorder is also probably a pretty big piece of the puzzle.

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If you haven't been on the side of someone who would give everything they have just to have one genetic form of offspring in their life when their body won't let them, you would understand that there is something extremely messed up with the supposed "pro-life moral."

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I think everyone sympathizes with couples struggling with infertility. That said, being pro-life isn't the same thing as being pro-conception.

If you believe that life begins at conception, which most pro-life people do, then it logically follows that embryos are humans in a very early stage of development. After all, embryos are genetically unique and distinct from their parents and each other.

If embryos are humans, then the question becomes whether or not it is moral to create a human being that has a very high likelihood of being discarded or destroyed for research purposes, which is what happens to many embryos created during IVF.

If human beings have inherent worth and dignity, then it can't be right to create them as part of a process where they are likely to be destroyed. If they don't, then from a moral perspective it really doesn't matter what you choose to do to them at any stage of life.