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Duke Legend Christian Laettner Calls for Removal of NIL Compensation for Student-Athletes: ‘They G...

Duke Legend Christian Laettner Calls for Removal of NIL Compensation for Student-Athletes: ‘They G…Duke basketball legend Christian Laettner has grown fed up with the state of college athletics and believes name, image, and likeness compensation — or NIL — should be removed. Thursday was the 32nd anniversary of Laettner’s iconic game-winning shot against Kentucky in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. The 54-year-old joined Mike Greenberg’s ESPN Radio show #Greeny to discuss the legacy of that shot. Then, Laettner gave his thoughts on the current landscape of college sports and the ongoing NIL conversation. “They gotta take out the NIL,” Laettner said. “They gotta wipe that out. They gotta change the transfer portal. I know everyone’s saying the horse is out of the barn and you can’t take stuff back, but how can you establish any type of culture at a school when you’re getting new kids every year?…


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IVF’s Opponents Think This Is Their Moment

IVF’s Opponents Think This Is Their MomentChaos reigns in Alabama—or at least in the Alabama world of reproductive health. Three weeks ago, the state’s supreme court ruled that embryos should be treated as children, thrusting the future of in vitro fertilization, and of thousands of would-be Alabama parents, into uncertainty. Last week, state lawmakers scrambled to pass a legislative fix to protect the right of prospective parents to seek IVF, but they did so without addressing the court’s existential questions about personhood.Meanwhile, those in the wider anti-abortion movement who oppose IVF are feeling hopeful. Whatever the outcome in Alabama, the situation has yanked the issue “into the public consciousness” nationwide, Aaron Kheriaty, a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, told me. He and his allies object to IVF for the same reason that they object to abortion: Both procedures result, they believe, in the destruction of innocent…


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Where RFK Jr. Goes From Here

Where RFK Jr. Goes From HereWasn’t Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supposed to have flamed out by now? At a rally yesterday in Oakland, California, Kennedy—a lifelong Democrat turned independent—unveiled his 2024 running mate, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan. Kennedy selected Shanahan from a motley crew of reported vice-presidential contenders: Aaron Rodgers, Jesse Ventura, Mike Rowe, Tulsi Gabbard, and the rapper Killer Mike, to name a few.Shanahan is by no means a household name. Yet she could bolster Kennedy’s outsider ticket in three pivotal ways. She’s just 38 years old and may help him appeal to younger voters. Several states require candidates to file a two-person ticket as a ballot-eligibility requirement, so her sheer addition could help move those efforts forward. And, of course, she has money: Her charitable donations suggest she is worth tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars. “The purpose of wealth is to help those…


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It’s Not Ronald Reagan’s Party Anymore

It’s Not Ronald Reagan’s Party AnymoreFor those of us who very much want to see Donald Trump defeated in November by the widest possible margin, the news on Friday afternoon that former Vice President Mike Pence would not be endorsing his former boss seemed encouraging. Not that Pence commands a large faction of voters. Given that he dropped out of the Republican presidential-primary race late last year after failing to rise above the lower single digits, there’s no reason to assume that he does. Still, every prominent, normie Republican who rejects Trump moves us further down the road.But toward what?A lot of my Never Trump allies on the center-right feel sure that Pence’s refusal to endorse the man he served for four years points the way (or “creates a permission structure,” as the fashionable parlance has it) for Republican voters to abandon the former president. By joining Nikki Haley, Mitt…


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America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.

America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. “The world could end in the next couple of hours,” Gen. Robert Kehler, the former commander of US Strategic Command, told me in an interview. We sit on the razor’s edge. Vladimir Putin has said he is “not bluffing” about the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction should NATO overstep on Ukraine, and North Korea…


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Six takeaways from Opening Day: Yankees’ Juan Soto earns his pinstripes

Six takeaways from Opening Day: Yankees’ Juan Soto earns his pinstripesThe Orioles and Dodgers made statements on Opening Day, as did Mike Trout, Juan Soto and Josh Hader. Here are Deesha Thosar’s top takeaways from our unofficial national holiday. ….. Read More.FOX SPORTS – General Sports | Sports & RecreationThu, March 28, 20243 hours ago


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