Monday, April 02, 2012
Kentucky's must-win situation vs. Kansas in NCAA tournament final - LATimes.com - Chris Dufresne: Wildcats Coach John Calipari needs a victory Monday to prove he's a great coach, not just a great recruiter.
Zakaria: Incarceration nation – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs - "I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol," Mr. Robertson said in a recent interview. "I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think. This war on drugs just hasn't succeeded." The reason Robertson is for legalizing marijuana is that it has created a prison problem in America that is well beyond what most Americans imagine. "It's completely out of control," Mr. Robertson said. "Prisons are being overcrowded with juvenile offenders having to do with drugs. And the penalties - the maximums - some of them could get 10 years for possession of a joint of marijuana. It makes no sense at all." -- No other country comes even close to our rates of incarceration. We have 760 prisoners per 100,000 people. Most European countries have one seventh that number - Zakaria
Tim Tebow Trade: Broncos Reportedly Shopped Tebow During NFL Combine - SB Nation Denver - Bradley Woodrum - As early as the 2012 NFL Combine, the Denver Broncos seemed to have committed to finding a new quarterback. According to The Florida Times-Union, the Broncos had begun "quietly shopping" QB Tim Tebow during the February NFL Combine -- weeks before agreeing to terms with free agent QB Peyton Manning.
Jim Nantz, Inspired by Father, Takes Role in Alzheimer’s Research - NYTimes.com - Richard Sandomir - 1/20/2011 - Jim Nantz had a master plan: his father would retire from his furniture business and join him on the road at N.F.L. games, golf tournaments and college basketball arenas. The elder Nantz, who was also named Jim, would help manage and organize his son’s busy life on the road. “He’d tell me, ‘Oh, son, you really don’t need me,’ ” Nantz said. But really, he wanted his gregarious father — his first and best confidant and a former college football player — with him as much as possible and to enjoy the Masters, the Super Bowl and the N.C.A.A. Final Four together. They were maybe a year from that goal. -- The elder Nantz died in 2008, soon after the release of his son’s book “Always by My Side: The Healing Gift of a Father’s Love” (Gotham), which told the parallel stories of his sportscasting career and life with a parent with Alzheimer’s.
Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead – USATODAY.com - In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points. The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group
Kentucky fans riot after defeat of Louisville in Final Four - USATODAY - College antics in alcohol-fueled celebrations of UK's Final Four victory quickly escalated, as young people set couches and two cars ablaze and hurled beer cans into clusters of party-goers. Firefighters responded to about 50 nuisance fires, mostly couches set afire on purpose, according to Battalion Chief Ed Davis of the Lexington Fire Department. Ten people were injured, he said.
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