I agree. She's reached the career pinnacle in spinning awful things more artfully by working directly for the NCAA. There's no higher achievement for an American. She'd have to emigrate to Switzerland or something to get the #1 spinning awful things job in the world.
Charles RobinsonVerified account @CharlesRobinson 11m11 minutes ago
I would still prefer an African American woman in this role – even if she was every bit as bad if not worse than Goodell.
How about, the most competent applicant?
I still hang my head thinking about how I and many of my friends worked ourselves into a masturbatory lather over how Condi would be the serious adult influence in foreign affairs that W so sorely needed. Right.
More:
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20770546/nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-new-contract-getting-done
I don't take much solace in that. If Kraft didn't tell him to shut up about the non cap violations then maybe some other things would have been different.
I am in Dallas' corner on the Elliott matter for reasons explained in that thread.
Again Jerry just repeated what Kraft told him when the cowboys got hit with penalties for violating the cap in a non cap year.
The problem with that argument is the penalty wasn't, strictly speaking, for the impact on the uncapped year---it was because the benefit extended to capped years after it and teams were specifically told not to structure deals in that way. If they were penalized for one-year deals that only impacted the capped year you'd have a point---but that's not the case.
Do you have a source on what Kraft said? I just spent 10 minutes Googling and couldn't find any public statements on the the cap penalties.
There are counter-arguments to this viewpoint, too, but I'll add that the penalties levied against Dallas and Washington were corrective, not punitive. The league judged that they circumvented the cap and reduced their cap space accordingly - there was no additional loss of draft picks or team fines or suspensions. Even the amounts of the penalty fairly matched up with the money that was moved into the uncapped year.
Agreed.
Absolutely.
Why, might you ask, does adding women in the corporate boardroom have this effect? The report goes into that the French executives themselves believed this happened not because they were women, per se, but because they brought to the table outside perspectives. They were more likely to be foreign, more likely to be non-CEOs and less likely to have attended an elite school (the report basically found that the vast majority of executives in France went to the same cadre of elite boarding, universities and graduate schools that resulted in this interlocking network of professional networks that had the--perhaps unintentional--effect of excluding most women).
To the best of my knowledge, the NFL does not have stock options and things of that ilk, so he presumably has to get paid in all cash. I don't imagine it's too far off of $14 billion revenue companies when you take into account the value of non-cash compensation once it becomes vested.
I dunno, this article appears to include stock options etc. in the calculation and, as of last year, has only two CEOs beating the $44 million mark.
Not a huge issue from a structural standpoint (not a supportive bone for the spine, doesn't compromise the spinal canal or involve the discs) - just have to let it heal to the point where it's not painful anymore.
That's what the drugs are for, right doc?
meanwhile, in Hell, Victor Kiam lifted his head off the bar and raised his empty glass
I've generally liked Newton and think a lot of the agita about him has been at least somewhat driven by angry old white guys. But this is def. bullshit. Also, good on Rodrigue:
