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This upcoming weekend is the most exciting time for college football players finishing their senior years. The NFL draft will tell them which team they will play for, or if they will even play professionally at all.April of junior year is supposed to be different.Those players are preparing for spring ball and practicing for the upcoming season. Professional football is never far from these players’ minds, but the draft, except for the rare cases of exceptional talents foregoing eligibility, is not for a year, and they can start by focusing on winning next season.All this is true unless...
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...this the last gasp of a dying generation of anti-rock philistines? Hardly. As recently as this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, NFL planners arranged with the Stones beforehand to mute their microphones on “inappropriate” parts of their hits “Rough Justice” and “Start Me Up.” After inadvertently glimpsing part of a grown woman’s nipple two years ago, this country wasn’t taking any chances...
...important.The alleged rape at Duke should remind us of the importance of Take Back The Night (April 10-14). We spend 51 weeks of the year in a culture that tacitly condones sexual violence. We make the time and the space one night, Monday April 10, for a former NFL Quarterback, Donald McPherson, to discuss athletics, masculinity, and our culture of violence, and one night, Thursday April 13, for survivors to share their experiences at the vigil. If we all do our part to continue the openness of the supportive community that TBTN encourages?...
...opponent of abortion rights. That same position cost his father, then the Governor, a speaking spot at the 1992 Democratic Convention. For what could be two close races against female Republican incumbents--Heather Wilson in New Mexico and Deborah Pryce in Ohio--Emanuel found women challengers. Former NFL quarterback Heath Schuler has added star power to the race in a North Carolina district. Incumbent Charles Taylor is on the defense there with claims that an electronic glitch prevented him from casting his vote against the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which Bush had sought but is unpopular among Taylor...