What a pity. Dude looked really good on the field and was fun to pull for.

debaird wrote:From our own woods: http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... ded-season

From the Observer. Wonderfully convenient. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports ... 97136.html

The EOC is a terribly low bar. It is sad, and pathetic, that your department head wouldn't sanction the grade that a student earned in your class. Yep. My last year of teaching, I had a principal who all but threatened my job if I didn't "do what it takes" to make a couple of football players eligi...

"My problem? When students passed the standardized test but failed my class. I had no other response but to modify their grade to passing--allowing that if the State of North Carolina deemed them fit by its standards, who am I to disagree?" Why shouldn't your standards be higher than the NC standar...

Teaching to the test" is a political frame I take issue with. If tests reflect standards and teachers are driven by standards, then what teachers really mean by "teaching to the test" is that they can't teach cool stuff that is unrelated to the curriculum. Teachers should just say that. Now, there ...

Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof apparently had a history of saying racist things. "I never heard him say anything, but just he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs," [his high school friend] said. "He made a lot of racist jokes, but you ...

cat44 wrote:A problem with many liberals, besides wanting to spend other people's money, is that they have no sense of humor when it is at their own expense.

I might suggest that this is a larger problem with humanity.

i77cat wrote:No, no, no, Coach Kelley. Don't admit that only one or two of your players could get into school without football. Most of us know that Notre Dame makes huge concessions for sports, but you can't say it out loud.

Confession, my Catholic upbringing taught me, is good for the soul.