Yeah I never understood this prevailing thought that a team bring in a new coach and suddenly it's time to raise expectations. either a team has a winning group of players, or they don't. A great coach is the cherry on top to a group of excellent players more times than not.

I will say that this attitude thrives more in the nba than anywhere else.

well hernandez just changed his position to wide receiver.

i wonder if he did it

its looking like he did

Why not? A personal policy I have as a sports fan is to assume I don't know anything about players' lives outside of whatever sport they play. They may all be saints or killers, but I assume neither and just watch them during the games. It's helped keep me even-keeled when something like this happens to a player on a team I'm a fan of.

I suggest that this is the most useless type of question to ask in this circumstance

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/227024 ... le-killing

I think now we're all just waiting for the Hernandez-Tsarnaev connection shoe to drop

doesn't mean he's cant be deplorable.

According to the Boston Globe, the Patriots voided all of Hernandez's remaining guaranteed money when releasing him, and that they didn't know he would be charged with murder when the decision was made to end his contract. Patriots are basically taking a long shot that either Hernandez is too busy to fight or that Hernandez is such an unsympathetic appellant that he loses arbitration even though he has a slam dunk under the CBA. They're trying to double dip on the PR of cutting him "without worrying about the consequences" and while trying to contravene the CBA and the salary cap to recover anyways, which is a major scumbag move, but given the two major factors there, I don't know how anyone could be surprised that they'd pull a fast one.

The ultimate victim of the Patriots' chosen course here is likely the victim or victims' families, who really need Hernandez to have as much money as possible for the civil suits, and secondarily Hernandez's fiancee and child.

Yep. And they shouldn't be able to pull him off their cap.

ots pkay becuase tebow is going to take tom bradys job and be able to throw to himself when ehs qb and te

Hey Corrections, could you give your quick legal thoughts on the Hernandez case? Like, (based off what we see now) is he found guilty for sure like everyone thinks he seems to be (barring some judicial fuck-up), or is the evidence at this point too circumstantial? I guess this question is also assuming no other murders are involved...

He's Black, so that's one strike against him. But he's rich, so that's two points for him. The evidence I've seen seems pretty one-sided, though.

He looks dead to rights. Circumstantial btw is a term that get's misused a lot. All that circumstantial means is non testimonial evidence (testimonial evidence is direct). He could have explosively cum all over the scene, left his DNA everywhere, had himself picked up on camera, and been seen buying the murder weapon but without testimony there would be only a circumstantial case. There is but one crime which requires the testimony of witnesses and it's treason. You can have an entirely circumstantial case. A circumstantial case can be stronger than one with testimony

? How is he black? He's a mix of Puerto Rican, Italian and Irish. No African/Bushmen/Pygmy/Aboriginie in there.