Dave Hickman

Retired sportswriter, born in the '50s, grew up in the '60s, everything else is gravy. Man, woman, person, camera, TV. What do I win?

[Dave Hickman @dphickman1]

@jamiedupree Dems: Let's make D.C. a state with two senators.

GOP: Let's rescind voting rights for anyone living in D.C.

GOP "compromise" proposal: You drop your demand and we'll drop ours. See, we can all work together.

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@atrupar Man about to freely vote yes or no says "we have no alternative" but to vote yes?

That's not how voting works.

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@NateSilver538 The only reason any of these "minor" flaps remain stories is because the fucking idiot makes up shit about them that's impossible to ignore. Yeah, right, a 350-foot gash by vandals and stupid "jokes" at what's supposed to be a good-natured dinner. He keeps them alive.

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@factcheckdotorg "I read the other day..."

The guy in charge of health in this country believes anything he reads anywhere, but fires the scientists who could actually give him the facts.

"I read the other day" is his version of Trump's "many people are saying."

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@mariana057 Well that sucks. LOL

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@mick59690 @atrupar They did. But this administration got rid of them all.

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@JohnFugelsang Like an effective tax rate above 80 percent for rich CEOs who today pay one tenth that amount, if that.

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@bhertzel I'll take it if you take the lede from my story 23 years ago when Quincy Wilson's touchdown at Orange Bowl stadium with 2 minutes left beat Miami. Damn Kellen Winslow Jr.

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@wgross17 @Super70sSports https://t.co/WCzB3Vc6NP

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All that over 1 second. #CFBPlayoff
https://t.co/isNKQCUxLy

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@chaboard2 @scwillmore @anniekarni This has nothing to do with the force of law.

Dems in the House released some of the files today. Republicans then released others.

If the House wants to release more, it can. The Senate has nothing to do with it, nor does the executive branch.

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@DanWetzel If the lead off runner gets on first, do you walk O and put the winning run on second?

I think they would.

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@DanWetzel And that makes it financial restraint. Take already-appropriated money away from sports that already get no money and use it to fund the monster.

I'm in no way arguing that this isn't the financial reality of college athletics. Just don't call it restraint. That's ludicrous.

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@DanWetzel The other 80 percent of the student athletes.

They're non-essential.

[Dave Hickman @dphickman1]

@DanWetzel Non-essential. That pretty much sums it up.

I would guess that football and basketball rosters constitute about 20% of most P5 schools' student athletes. They're getting roughly 90 percent of the $20M direct payments, incalculable NIL money and all the funding for facilities.

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@DanWetzel What's the point in throwing all the money at football so that it can support the rest of the athletic program and then start cutting the rest of the athletic programs.

This is not a new issue at all. It's just getting worse. But praising a school for it's consciously restraint?

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@DanWetzel Sure, the money for those facilities comes from the revenue-producing sports. But you can't argue that we need to feed football in order to fund those other sports and then NOT FUND THEM.

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@DanWetzel So exactly where is the financial restraint you praised?

It's financial reality, not restraint.

Don't make it sound altruistic. Very poor characterization to call it financial restraint.

It is, as you've been pointing out throughout here, business as usual.

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@DanWetzel Of course they have to feed the monster. That's obvious.

Just don't make it sound like they're doing something noble.

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@DanWetzel I'VE lost the plot?

You lauded the school for it's financial restraint. Yet it will spend the same amount, and probably more, while continuing to feed the monster and relegating 80 percent of the school's student athletes to second class status. Again.

That's nothing to praise.