Prevent defenses are both footballs’ version of institutionalized insanity, or insanity that should be institutionalized.
Just as in 1968 when “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29,” the U.S. National Team World Cup opener Monday gave usThe U.S. side, playing with unexpected verve and offensive dominance, had this game won — in the bag — if only it had stayed its course, a course that had Wales mostly running backward for roughly the first 70 minutes.
But U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter — wearing a black Nike-logo T-shirt that read only “STATES” — called on fresh substitutes and a stale idea. Prevent defense! After the Jets’ punchless offensive loss, Bill Cowher: “You know fourth quarter, [Jets] have a third-and-1, and I still see people line up in the shotgun. And Zach Wilson threw a pass for minus-1.
And the NBA and the player’s team, after two weeks of trying to extract what sounds like a sincere apology, welcomes back that player. Commissioner Adam Silver declares that he has met with that player and finds no evidence that he’s racist. Yet it’s happening in racial reverse, with Jews, easy pickings, the bait.
By now we understand there’s a formula in play, but the ingredients are rotten. Is circumstantial discretion — common sense — no longer the plan?A good gauge of anyone’s honesty is when they’re wrong, even if just a little. To that end Ken Daneyko may be a career Devil — player then TV analyst since 1984 — but his takes on replays include admitting that his first take may have been wrong.
DraftKings customers this week reported that their bank accounts were hacked, with losses totaling nearly $300,000. Anyone recall the 2015 DraftKings employee who won a pile of cash at FanDuel using “secret” DraftKings data? Both times, DraftKings said there’s no evidence that its security safeguards were breached, so it must be a big coincidence.
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