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Anyone do a comparison of Cuomo's comments on not panicking about the Coronavirus vs Trump's?

Conveniently ignoring the suspension language that's in the articles that you linked. if there are no more suspensions, then why does the 2020 policy have a section that spells out suspensions? The won't be suspended for positive tests, But they will be suspended for willful violations and non-compliance if they are in stage two of the league's substance abuse program. Look at this, there are still suspensions for alcohol. Shocking But please tell us all you know about this topic.

OK then, show that proof if it's widely reported.

Provide the proof of this "new" provision. AFAIK, there were modest changes to the original conditions, but there will still be drug-related suspensions for repeat violators or who willfully disregard the program or violate the law.

The case is to break up NFL's negotiating rights as a league, but NFL's action is to preserve the right to negotiate as a league. There's not enough money in the streaming deals to replace the DTV contract. You would also miss out on a lot of fans by going streaming only. Cable & satellite have to be part of the next deal.

Former Dallas Stars winger and a picture in a Rangers uni. Awesome!

I honestly think it will be a moot point by then. I think that AT&T is having serious buyers' remorse in buying DTV, thinking that Sunday Ticket was the golden goose. I doubt AT&T wants to pony up that much for an exclusive. I think that with tech that's available now, NFL will be able to strike a deal with willing cable & satellite companies for a package that will net the league about $2 billion. My guess on the league's action with SCOTUS is to preserve its ability to control the packaging of the rights, and not allow a legal right for individual teams to negotiate TV or streaming deals. Looks like more than one tree grew in Brooklyn.

New CBA language was finalized yesterday, and is now in front of the players for the official vote.

The title is a bit misleading. It's highly unlikely that even if the court takes up the case, it will lead to overturning decades of precedents of allowing exclusive content distribution arrangements. PS it's notable that it's the NFL that's bringing the case to SCOTUS, with the expectation that the Court will affirm existing rules.

Difference being is that you can choose between dozens of banks and can switch in a matter of minutes, but are saddled with one union or one government office.

This news should shock no one who believes in the seductive and abusive power of "organized" labor. Unions are just a smaller versions of big government.

Interesting that RK confirmed this morning that Eichel is battling through an injury, but said that it's not serious enough to keep him off the ice. "Everyone is going through aches and pains at this point in the season, with lots of ice packs handed out after the games." What are the odds that the injury is bigger than an ache or pain?

You shouldn’t look for a profit motive when it comes to government, because that’s not the incentive, like it is for the private sector. For the government, and more appropriately, for elected officials who run that government, the payoff is to keep getting elected and maintaining the power. History has proven that a very effective way to accomplish that is to make promises to the electorate. The best promises for politicians are the ones where they don’t have to be responsible for the outcome, and even better when they can capitalize on the very bad system they helped create. Nobody is against the push for more education and finding better ways to get everyone to finish high school and then continue their studies or learn a valued trade. The breakdown came in the ‘70s when the trades became disparaged and everyone’s goal had to be a 4-year college degree. The government stepped in with good intentions by increasing financing options, but without any real skin in the game. This was the prime reason college costs skyrocketed. Although many of the student loans were federally “guaranteed,” the banks first had to exhaust all repayment options, and became the obvious scapegoats. Nobody stopped to ask colleges why tuition was rising when cheap financing was available, and not much disclosure provided about the risks of entering into those loans. Of course now that the government is fully on the hook for student loans, the political calls are coming in for free college education, which will be hilarious if it truly comes to pass, because the liberal academia will finally have to live under the rules they only preach by. Which will happen in how I describe it below. If you can freeze a point in time, then you can make an argument that for a split second a one-payer Medicare for all system would save money and not result in any loss of service. But once that moment passes, the universal law of supply and demand kicks in. Bernie & co’s assumption is that changing the reimbursement formulas won’t have any effect on quality of future care or investment. The annual savings that Bernie’s “experts” are touting exceed the total annual profits of the entire medical and health insurance industry. That means their proposal would offer reimbursements that are below the full cost of providing that service right now. How would that be possible without severely curtailing care? It’s the consistent flaw in any proposal to socialize a service, where the incentives for further investment are ignored and people think that companies will continue to buy and improve equipment and services. What really happens is that they can’t buy anything new and they keep fixing the old until it finally disintegrates. That’s why you still see 60 year old cars in Havana. It’s not quaint, it’s a built in feature of socialism. All Democrats had to do in the last 4 years was not to go insane.

And like clockwork, news media is waking up to Bernie Bros antics. "What’s happening Bernie Sanders’s fans on social media have become a campaign issue. The 78-year-old Vermont senator, who has cultivated a young and passionate base of supporters, has emerged as a strong contender for the Democratic nomination. But the behavior of some of those supporters, and Sanders’s response to their actions, have sparked criticism from political observers and rival campaigns."

Your posting history surely shows a preference that the Russian collision theory was plausible.

Let's try one more time. If $100k was enough to sway a vote for POTUS, would $500 million get you to be King of the Universe, or at least become Thanos?

So, weird tangents aside how stupid are Americans to fall for $100k of fake Facebook ads, but ignore a $500 million full media barrage?

Here is Bloomberg leading the Dem pack in mid February.

From this exact moment, 4 years and 2 weeks ago, Trump had less of a chance than Bloomberg did, yet $100k from Russia carried him to the nomination & presidency.

No clue on who Sean Smith is. What does this have to do with Deep State? This is a worse dodge and weave than your usual backtracking.

Are you saying that the hysteria about Russian meddling centered around one day in November, as opposed to the full run up to the "nomination?" BTW, what is this November nomination you speak of?

Sources aside, is the analysis wrong?

Both players and owners would be dumb not to include the cap rollover conditions into the CBA extension (especially from the players' side)

His 2020 cap absolutely affects the future, because any savings in 2020 can be used to add to the future cap. For now, Murphy is the 2nd highest cap hit at nearly $10 million, with a dead cap of only $1.75 mil. If he's slated to be a 30% rotational player in '20, that $8 million cap saving is far more valuable for a future contract (never mind saving Pegula's checkbook)

Downside is that unemployment will spike when his campaign is suspended.