JM57

Re: "a blip of the throttle will do nothing but turn the car right"... Its my understanding that its actually the brakes that "turn" the car with sprint cars, and that you use throttle control to straighten back out as you exit the turn. Fly down the straight, slam the brakes, then feather the gas through is the basic explanation of how the cars get around the track. Again this is just my understanding and I could be wrong.

Touching only on your question asked... Because these cars need to maintain a minimum speed and the drivers attempt to keep the tires hot, they do goose the throttle at different intervals around the track under caution. Especially in these cars, which do not have a transmission and need go get push started out of the pits. I just want to remind everyone that the #45 who almost hit Kevin Ward is a veteran sprint car driver and just a second earlier also had a near miss. Would you all feel the same way about this if it was him who hit the kid? Or better yet, take the auto racing perspective out of this all together. Would YOU be able to react if someone showed up in your blind spot 12 inches from your car while you were driving down a city street at 30-35 MPH?

.Tyler Graves is also a 17 year old who was friends with Kevin Ward and races in a lower tier (same cars) sprint series that Ward also dabbled in. Ward was just at Ransomville Speedway with Graves and the Patriot Sprints last week. Not that he's incorrect. But he's awfully close to the situation and his youth means he was likely extra emotional over what he just saw.

By the time he saw the kid, his only option was likely to hit the gas and try to throw the back end as far away from him as possible. Since these cars are designed with weight positioned for the rear to kick to the right, the only way it's kicking left (which Stewart's did just a bit) is hitting the gas and hoping. This is a tragic event all around. For all intents and purposes, Kevin Ward looks to have been a very talented young man. He was 4th in the Empire Super Sprints standings heading into last night's event. But his temper got the best of him, and he put himself in harm's way by running down the track like that. If the driver of the #14 were just another driver on the ESS series, it would be nothing but a sad accident. I wish the best for the kid's parents, family and friends at this time, its got to be a terrible place to be in right now.

that was definitely a "drop the mic" moment for Terry Pegula. Whoever helps him with PR deserves a big hand.

Oh you're a Tide fan? That explains everything about your Gilmore feelings All jokes aside I also was not a fan of the Kouandijo pick...I hope the switch flips for him in the next few weeks

Henderson definitely has the most natural ability of the 3. Like you said he was a top recruit out of high school. He has the prototypical size and even good technique. I think the best way I saw him summed up was "top 10 talent, camp fodder brain." If the coaching staff can keep him focused, he could be a Jason Peters like steal.

I can't think anyone from the 14 year drought would be HOF worthy. Not even the quality players that they let walk over that time, really.

Career altering injury. He was just shy of being an elite player in the league. Who knows what he will be when he returns. I've seen a 6-8 month minimum timetable out there already. That's just too bad.

There's not anything wrong with it....except that its made from 47 year old concrete that constantly needs BandAid fixes because its faltering due to the freeze/thaw cycle. IMO the perfect analogy for the Ralph is the one a few posts above me. Its an old car with fond memories, but now instead of going to the shop 3 times a year for an oil change, its a frequent flyer. Fix something this year....and there's always something that will need it next year.

I often tell people that the "Derek Anderson 2 completed passes" game is the worst game of football I have seen at ANY LEVEL. When the Bills kicked their FG no one even sang Shout. It was terrible.

26. Had to do it, no one else is in the right side of 30 this far

Our? Which member of the team are you?

IMO that was the big thing with Kiko's move to WLB. He seemed to be a reliable tackler last season and with his athleticism and instincts it seemed like he was also tailor made for the role he was going to play.

Those Raptors though.... Friggin WOOF. They were a good idea but then Ford decided to put plastic everywhere. Yuck.

Agree with Spikes, especially in the typical Schwartz scheme. He basically relies on his MLB to be a thumper who controls the A gaps and very rarely drops into coverage. Dareus and K. Williams could really shine with the Schwartz scheme too, since their job is basically to shoot the B gap and create havoc.

For my understanding of it you are dead on. The team doctors can discuss it with the FO/coaching staff because they are Glenn's "employers" and its the equivalent of a doctor's note to be excused from work. It would be somewhat similar to an ER doctor or Employee Health department telling your department head why you can't work if you worked in a hospital. Both share an employer but the conversation/medical note remains confidential to all others.

I didn't say that posters were violating it. I said they were showing blatant disregard for a federal law by demanding that the team release information "because the fans deserve it." Would I like to know what's going on with him? Sure, this is rather concerning as a fan. But I also know that a federal mandate exists and the man has a right to his medical privacy under that law. So let it be. I know how HIPAA works, I have worked in Healthcare facilities, and my mother, wife and mother in law do as well. My point was that posters here seem to be upset that the team/its medical staff won't (in the case of Glenn) or didn't (in the case of Hairston/Easley/Donald Jones) "tell us what the problem is." Your employer (the Bills) or your doctor (the Bills med staff) has no right to discuss your health with the general public (the fans). HIPAA applies in this case, and posters who demand information are wrong.

The blatant disregard many posters have shown for HIPAA in this thread and the Chris Hairston thread makes me uneasy. "No one should know MY health information because that's private. BUT HE'S FAMOUS SO I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING." That's....not how health information privacy works.

From what I recall on the US side, they unload buses into the same building that the pedestrians enter when they walk across the bridge. How long it takes will be dictated by how much staff they have and if you get hardasses/the behavior of the group.

I see your Coors Field and raise you Atlanta's Turner Field, or Detroit's Comerica Park, where you leave the game and walk AS FAST AS YOU CAN to wherever you're parked and get the hell out of Dodge.

Medical records are confidential. No one else, even your general physician, has the right to discuss them outside of their professional responsibility.

This site has Alex Neutz from UB signing here....Jay Skurski of TBN has Neutz going to the Bengals. Edit: his Twitter has him retweeting a couple "Welcome to the Bengals" tweets. This site is wrong,fellas.

Or because he is an undersized tweener with no real fit in the NFL at his size and weight. That could probably be it.

HIPAA is what it is. We as fans, do not have the right to ANY medical information about the players, technically speaking. I wish the best for him. But if he doesn't want to disclose, and the team doesn't either, then oh well. Its not gonna kill me to not know.