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Afterwards, the researchers were invited to collaborate on a piece that another ESPN program, “Outside the Lines,” was doing on video games licensed by different leagues. In particular, they highlighted NFL Blitz, which allows a person playing to the game to hit and jump on an opponent after he has been already tackled, an activity not allowed in the normal rules of football...
...Before 9/11, the U.S. employed just 33 marshals. Since then, thousands have been hired (the precise number is classified). The government has spent $31 million improving facilities at the Federal Air Marshal Training Academy in Atlantic City, N.J., adding, among other things, mock airplane cockpits and a $400,000 NFL-size...
...true that they issued a long-overdue apology for the homophobia of their historically dumb first record, 1986's Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just, you know, something they kind of wished would happen. But the absence of new Beastie music has had the effect of magnifying the wise and obscuring the wiseass...
...every other NFL team: I’ve got a news flash for you, Walter Cronkite. It’s the system, stupid! Tebucky Jones was never that good—he succeeds because he’s playing in a great scheme. Ty Poole, David Givens, Dan Klecko—these guys are bit players. But dumb teams will see them as “winners” or “up-and-comers” and will continue to hand New England top picks, extending the first NFL dynasty of the tight salary...
Does it make you more patriotic, learning that this man gave up the NFL to do what he felt was his duty, to serve his country? Or does it make you less patriotic, wondering whether our country did its duty to him and to the approximately 100 other soldiers who have died in Afghanistan since the American invasion...