The Anything Thread

[baseballplyrmvp]

lol

[ram29jackson]

[ram29jackson]

[SmoothPancakes]

Oh lord. I think the Anything Thread might actually be on its deathbed now.

[ram29jackson]

Oh lord. I think the Anything Thread might actually be on its deathbed now.

thats impossible...because it is, after all..anything


I'M A BANANA

[SmoothPancakes]

thats impossible...because it is, after all..anything


I"M A BANANA

Anything is possible. Especially when you're involved.

[JBHuskers]

How the fuck do you get a 10 hour video on YouTube?

[ram29jackson]

I was wondering the same thing ?

[morsdraconis]

Be a REALLY old member.

[Deuce]

Did anyone see this? Really surprising and interesting to me. Mother nature can be a crazy bitch.

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05...er/?hpt=hp_bn9


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[Escobar]

Damn TGT has no smokers except me .

You're not the only one. Mary is quite a potent factor in my zone read option offense.

[SmoothPancakes]

Alright, it's Arkansas' turn to be spotlighted for a -worthy moment.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highsc...113537254.html

Ark. mother sues district, state for constitutional violation after son cut from varsity team

By Cameron Smith

An Arkansas mother has sued her son's high school for cutting her son from the school's varsity basketball team, claiming that he was deprived the right of a full education because he was not allowed to take part in school athletics.

As reported by Arkansas Matters and USA Today, among other sources, Teresa Bloodman, the mother of a Maumelle (Ark.) High freshman, filed suit against the school, district and state after her son was replaced on the school's basketball team following a third set of tryouts for the team that re-incorporated members of the school's football team.

Bloodman's son, who is a minor and was not named in the suit, spent two months as part of the team after qualifying through two tryouts in August only to be replaced three months later by a member of the football team, as were nine of the team's 11 original players.

While those replacements might stoke claims of favoritism, the lawsuit filed by Bloodman goes much further, claiming that her son has a constitutional right to participate in school sports, as you can read in the excerpt from the suit directly below.

"…the deprivation of the right to a full and complete education which includes competition in sports and consequently athletic scholarships impairs John Doe of a property right guaranteed under both the U.S. and State Constitutions."

The suit further alleges that the sheer lack of an orderly appeals process for students who were cut is also a violation of due process.

While the case itself could serve as a watershed in how schools hold tryouts for varsity sports, the attorney for the Pulaski County Special School District is confident that it will be seen as groundless once it is further examined in a court of law.

"The simple issue here is whether or not a student has a right to participate in extracurricular activities; be it band, choir or whatever," Pulaski County Special School District attorney Jay Bequette told Arkansas Matters. "There is no clearly established right of parents to have their children compete in interscholastic athletics."

Give me a fucking break. If your kid isn't good enough to stay on the team, whether they have another round of tryouts to bring in the kids who just finished football season, then he isn't ready/doesn't deserve to be on the team. If this kid wasn't already a laughingstock around the school, he is now after this.

As well, I'm really getting sick of these fucking frivolous lawsuits. What's mommy gonna do? Sue every single college who doesn't accept Junior into their institutions? Sue the college that Junior goes to if he tries out for and doesn't make it onto a varsity athletic team? Is she going to sue every single employer that he applies to and decides to either not interview him or doesn't hire him?

Give me a fucking break. Kids these days are fucking stupid and their parents are just as pathetic. Guess what parents, the odds that your kid is the next Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, or Derek Jeter is slim to none. Get the fuck over yourselves.

Edit - Oh yeah, memo to mother. Playing varsity on a high school team (especially when your kid is only a freshman) is not a constitutional right! I hope the judge laughs your ass right out of the courtroom.

[JeffHCross]

I can definitely see an argument for favoritism, if 9 of the 11 players were replaced. Or that just says that the original 11 player roster sucked. Weird that football and basketball would be enough of a conflict that they had to "re-incorporate" football players.

But a lawsuit, especially one based on a "constitutional right", is laughable.

But Smooth, don't overreact. Y'know, until this doesn't get thrown out of court.

[JeffHCross]

Also: Looks like I missed some fun yesterday.

[SmoothPancakes]

I can definitely see an argument for favoritism, if 9 of the 11 players were replaced. Or that just says that the original 11 player roster sucked. Weird that football and basketball would be enough of a conflict that they had to "re-incorporate" football players.

But a lawsuit, especially one based on a "constitutional right", is laughable.

But Smooth, don't overreact. Y'know, until this doesn't get thrown out of court.

Well, it's pretty normal, at least here in Ohio. At my old high school, the basketball players who weren't playing fall sports practiced, scrimmaged, etc during the summer and fall, then when football season ended (either end of October if you don't make the playoffs or sometime from early to late November depending on if you go out early or play all the way through to the championship game), the guys from the football team who play basketball transition over to the basketball team that very next week. Plus, odds are the kid is still in the program, just as a member of the junior varsity (it doesn't say anything about he was cut out of the entire basketball program altogether), which would also be normal.

So from my view, he was good enough with the non-football talent to be "on the varsity" during fall drills, practices, etc, but once football ended and the basketball players who also play football were done for the fall and came over to basketball, obviously they were good enough talent (which seemed to be the case as well as my old school, the good/great/best players/athletes played both football and basketball) to knock out most of the kids who had been practicing on varsity. If anything, it was just giving the original 11 kids their chance to play their way on, instead of just saying "you 9 are gonna be on JV when the season starts", the coach held multiple tryouts and weeded out the players who weren't the best of the best, which is exactly what you want for your varsity basketball team.

Again using my school as an example, if you weren't good enough to play on the varsity team, you were on junior varsity and by OHSAA rules, you could remain a junior varsity player through your junior year. The only time you weren't allowed on junior varsity and so you were essentially required to be on varsity was your senior year. Other than that, you either played your way onto the varsity or you were on the JVs, it was as simple as that.

And as for the arguments I was reading in the comments on the article on Yahoo, I just looked it up on the Arkansas athletic association's website, the first official day for basketball doesn't start until October 17th (this past season), November 7th was the first official day of basketball for football playing schools. So while the kid may have been "on the varsity" during the fall, the August tryouts, etc, it was not an official spot as basketball season had not even legally started in Arkansas. It was just stuff like open gyms, drills, voluntary participation drills/practices/scrimmages, etc. So that puts a hole into all the people on Yahoo who were going on about how he had successfully made it through two tryouts and was still on varsity, only to get cut when the football players came in.

And yeah, that's one of the two biggest things for me. The first for me is the fact that this woman is actually suing and tying up an already backed up all to hell court system over a freaking varsity spot on a basketball team. Her kid's a freshman for crying out loud, he's still got 3 more years to work hard and make it. If there were enough freshman who came out for basketball, he's lucky he even had a chance at varsity. Some of these giant schools, the freshman automatically end up on a freshman team and at best get some bench time in JV games. The second for me is the "constitutional right" claim, which I agree, is laughable. Now I didn't study law in college, I didn't take any Constitutional Law courses, but I do not recall ever seeing anywhere in the constitution, through all the times I studied it in high school, where it's a right that a freshman kid be on a varsity basketball team, regardless of whether he's talented enough or not to even be there.

And as for her wording, "has a constitutional right to participate in school sports", first, unless I missed that part in the constitution, no he does not. Second, sure, he's allowed to participate in sports, but that doesn't mean that he's automatically a varsity player just because he wants to play in sports. Life is unfair, the kid better get used to it now. This BS lawsuit by mommy shows that that is one life lesson this kid apparently has yet to learn and he is gonna be in for one hell of a surprise when he gets to college and out in the real world, unless the kid knew he wasn't quite good enough and will put in the hard work, but it was mom (which apparently she's a lawyer in the town there) who was pissed off because "my son won't get a chance to become the next multimillionaire top draft pick basketball player because he wasn't on the varsity team his freshman year" and filed the lawsuit with that thinking in mind. Either way, in the end it's frivolous and I'm getting sick as hell of all these damn never-ending frivolous lawsuits that are doing nothing but backing our court system up all to hell and making legitimate lawsuits take forever to get through the system.

And yeah, that original post was probably a bit of a overreaction, but it'll be nothing compared to what I'll say if this BS lawsuit doesn't actually get thrown out and advances in the court system.

[ram29jackson]

if the Constitution could talk..it would tell people it wasnt here for your sons who get cut from basketball teams and the rights of strippers or strip clubs or animal rights activists etc.

the constitutions means much more than people realize and much less than they want it to. People just dont get what freedom really means..they think it means you can cause anarchy without consequences

[SmoothPancakes]

if the Constitution could talk..it would tell people it wasnt here for your sons who get cut from basketball teams and the rights of strippers or strip clubs or animal rights activists etc.

the constitutions means much more than people realize and much less than they want it to. People just dont get what freedom really means..they think it means you can cause anarchy without consequences

I'll be damned. Most times, I have the urge to when reading your posts, but in this case, I couldn't agree more with what you just said. That post was perfect.

[steelerfan]

if the Constitution could talk..it would tell people it wasnt here for your sons who get cut from basketball teams and the rights of strippers or strip clubs or animal rights activists etc.<br />
<br />
the constitutions means much more than people realize and much less than they want it to. People just dont get what freedom really means..they think it means you can cause anarchy without consequences

Damn. This is somewhat intelligent, ram. Nice post.

That said, I support strippers and their right to entertain.

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[ram29jackson]

el oh el

[morsdraconis]

It really bothers me when people say someone or something "passed away" instead of saying it died. We, as a society, are so afraid of death, we hate even referring to something dying and, instead, use the pussy form of it by saying it "passed away".