NCAA
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel is so disliked that SEC coaches voted him second team all conference – after winning the Heisman Trophy as a freshman last year.
Now the NCAA is going after the disagreeable star for allegedly selling his autograph.
This fits a pattern – for the NCAA. Two seasons ago it suspended Ohio State student athletes for trading trinkets for Manhattan – just kidding – for tattoos. The NCAA wasn’t impressed by the fact that the the trinkets, given to the players by The Ohio State University, were the property of the players. Bobby Knight established that three Indiana University National Championship rings were his property when he eschewed tattoos and exchanged them for cash.
Now the governing body has taken the next step. It doesn’t believe Manziel own’s his name.
NCAA Faces Lawsuit
The NCAA could be on the ropes though. It is also fighting an antitrust lawsuit. The suit “accuses the NCAA of fixing at zero the amount that players can receive from video games and other products that use players’ names, likenesses and images”.
Obama Phone
Has your Obama Phone been bugged yet? Even some Dems are upset with the president over domestic spying. Not to mention some Republicans who have supported NSA surveillance in the past.
Ed Finley at the Detroit News wants Obama Phones defunded.
Oprah
Oprah wishes she had never mentioned her five figure handbag shopping incident in Jim Crow Switzerland. She didn’t buy the handbag but she did buy plenty of buzz. Her just released movie, The Butler, is number one.
First Rodeo
Obama’s not the first president to be mocked as a rodeo clown. I hope he’s not the last. Drew this on in 1999.
Lawgiver
President Obama insists that he’s not a dictator or a king, but if Congress won’t act he will. How’s that work? He picks and chooses the laws he likes. In a speech last week he claimed the right to unilaterally “tweak” the Affordable Care Act because this is not a “normal political environment” – meaning Congress won’t do what he wants.
Funny, he didn’t have any trouble getting Congress’s cooperateration when they tweaked the law to subsidize the health care government workers must now buy through the exchanges. No one else earning$175,000 gets a subsidy.
George Will offers a pithy analysis of Obama’s Nixonian tendencies here.
