From The New Haven Register:
NORTH HAVEN — Ten men who don’t have a permanent roof over their heads were Green Bay Packers fans for the night, and will probably be fans of North Haven Congregational Church for life after a week’s stay at the church culminated in a Super Bowl XLV celebration Sunday night.
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Billionaire Paul Allen wants the city of Portland to bail out his troubled Trail Blazers. My position is the same as it was in the 1990s when Allen asked for financial help from the city to build the Rose Garden: we don’t have the public resources to help billionaires make extra billions.
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It wouldn’t be right to wait for another 24-hour period to go by without congratulating Boston on their victory over the Cardinals. The Red Sox played one amazing game after another. My first professional baseball game was watching the Cardinals, my home team as long as I’m in seminary, and what a treat it was. St. Louis is a town divided on many issues. But that isn’t true when the Cardinals play. When you’re in that arena and the Cardinals are up to bat you know what it means to be part of a city. St. Louis will come back and win again. In the meantime, way to go Boston! Let’s hope the win last week is a sign of things to come on Tuesday for another champion from Boston.
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Maybe this somehow makes up a little bit for all the years we've bombed the heck out of that island.
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The Olympic Torch passed by the Eden Theological Seminary campus early this evening. Liz and I were there to watch along with many of our friends from the Eden community. A few pictures from the event are posted here. St. Louis was the first U.S. city to host the Olympics.
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I don’t know if Katie Hnida was a good football player or not. Up until today I’d never heard of the former woman placekicker for the University of Colorado. She made the news this week because of allegations that she was raped and sexually harassed while on the team. Her allegations come after other women have stepped forward and accused Colorado’s football program of fostering an atmosphere where sexual violence is tolerated.
How did coach Gary Barnett respond to these latest allegations? He complained to the media that Hnida was just a bad athlete who didn’t garner the respect of her fellow male team members.
"It's a guy's sport, and [the men players] felt like Katie was forced on them," Barnett said. "It was obvious Katie was not very good. She was awful."
Like I said, I don’t know if Hnida was a good player or not. I don’t know if the allegations of rape are true. What I do know is that Barnett doesn’t deserve much respect for dismissing the allegations. He ought to be fired.
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