Interesting piece on some Texans in a DMZ of sort, south of the border fence but still in Texas. Since they can't build the fence on the flood plane of the Rio Grande, there's a large spot of territory in that no-man's-land.
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Yesterday was trash-the-Buckeye day at the NCAA. OSU gets a bowl and Big 10 title game ban for next year and Mr Vest gets a five-year effective block on working in college football. If we rewound the tape thirteen months before Tatoogate hit Columbus, I would have had Tressel and JoePa in the five least likely coaches to be ridden out of town on a scandal-rail.
It will be interesting to see if an NFL team opts to bring Tressel on board for the long haul; he had a front-office job with the Colts (if you believe in some Lennonesque instant karma, the Colts might have brought the 1-13 on themselves) this season.
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Players can get suspended for bad language that is aimed at a demographic group in North American sports, but I've yet to see someone get arrested for it. A top British soccer star, John Terry, is up on charges for using "racist language" towards a foe of African descent. Terry isn't a choir-boy, but he is the captain of the English national team.
Here's the official write-up
On 23 October 2011 at Loftus Road Stadium, London W12, you used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress which was racially aggravated in accordance with section 28 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
If I'm reading the Wikipedia of that 1998 act right, he could get up to six months for n-bombing (or whatever he said) someone. That seems a bit odd sitting in the land of the First Amendment.
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