Silas on Day 13

A call to the vet this morning outlining our concerns and Silas' progress/lack thereof saw us heading in to town to grab a bag of Milligans milk powder (we've been using Anlamb) and some ketoprofen (anti-inflammatory) injections. He's now had two feeds of the Milligans, including a nice 1.5 litre feast at 2.30pm. Hopefully things will start moving through a little more smoothly soon! We're going to start stretching his feeds out a little more so that he has longer between feeds for digestion and we have more time for, well, for living! His hock...

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Silas on day 12 pt II

So the stump has not closed over, his temperature has gone up to 39.4 today but is at 39.3 at present, he requires a LOT of encouragement to rise to his feet and is obviously in not inconsiderable discomfort. Let me think, what else? Oh yes, we just had our pet sheep shorn and he has a massive tumour on his belly and the shearer recommended euthanasia. What a great d...

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Silas on day 12

Back by popular demand, photos of Silas! It looks like the hole in his umbilical stump MAY have closed back over so HOPEFULLY we can avoid surgery. He's OK today. Has mooched about in the paddock for a bit and has been drinking well. He's very sore, poor baby, and currently resembles a pin cushion as he is getting five shots a day! His temperature has dropped to between 38.3...

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Silas Update

It's been six days and I have not provided an update on Silas' condition. To be honest, I am scared to write about him because, as soon as I say something positive, something negative seems to happen. I am sure I am some sort of a jinx as, he will be going great guns and then I go to feed him and there is something wrong. Whether it is an increase in temperature, a marked decrease in appetite or a sinister swelling or lameness, it seems that these bumps in the road raise themselves when I am at the steering wheel.The good news first. Silas' feeding...

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Murderer

This piece of shit killed someone, and got Home detention, he had bought a new car and decided to be a big man, by smashing the speed limit and driving like a jackass at 120khm in a 50 zone, and he hit and killed someone. The victims family pleaded with the Judge to set an example to all young drivers, but the Judge was a gutless donkey and game him Home detention.So for...

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Congratulations Mindy Girl & Robbie - It's a girl

Born at 3.30am this morning, a delightful brown filly. Slightly eventful foaling in that the mare decided to roll over and over and over and over and over again in a very agitated fashion immediately post foaling, scaring the heck out of all of us. I zoomed inside to grab the phone and call my vet and came back out to find Millie cleaning her baby and quite happy. Phew! Her...

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Recent Sports Law Scholarship

Recent scholarship includes:Walter T. Champion, Jr., The O. J. trial as a metaphor for racism in sports, 33 THURGOOD MARSHALL LAW REVIEW 157 (2007) andré douglas pond cummings, Pushing weight, 33 THURGOOD MARSHALL LAW REVIEW 95 (2007)Timothy Davis, Tort liability of coaches for injuries to professional athletes: overcoming policy and doctrinal barriers, 76 UMKC LAW REVIEW 571 (2008)A. Jerome Dees, Access or interest: why Brown has benefited African-American women more than Title IX, 76 UMKC LAW REVIEW 625 (2008)N. Jeremi Duru, Exploring Jethroe’s...

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More Discussion on Sports Journalism Ethics

NCAA Champion Magazine's Gary Brown wrote an interesting feature article titled, Truth Be Told?, which highlights the sports journalism ethics problem that I have been writing about extensively over the past several months. Here are some excerpts:At no time in history have information, analysis and interpretation been so plentiful in sports journalism. In the last 30 years alone, USA Today has printed it, ESPN has televised it, the Web has synthesized it and talk radio has amplified it. While that feeds fans’ frenzy, the information arms race...

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God speed Jack

Jack was my good friend Karen's best friend. They were together for 20 years and on Saturday their partnership in this life was over when Jack took a tumble in the paddock and suffered a catastrophic injury. Jack was three days shy of his 25th birthday. The one biggest gift we can give our animal friends is to free them from pain when they are suffering. Karen was able to...

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Wassup 2008

Eight years ago these men became famous for the catch cry, "Wassup" in a beer commercial. Eight years later they are back which has to be not only the best political ad this year, but one of the best ads ever. It has gone viral on the internet, but to my knowledge has yet to air on ...

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Wanted for Rape

Mind Rape.I believe the authorities need to arrest Sean Hannity for Mind Rape. His show that he presents on the GOP ran Fox news. Obama and friends, not only trys to Link Obama to terrorists, fraudsters, communists and murderers but basically suggests that Obama is all of the above.This is surly a case of Mind Rape. He is violating his viewers mind's, with this trash, night...

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Biden Is All Class

This is how you should handle a Journalist that is bias. Well done to Joe Bid...

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Random Thoughts on Various Subjects

1. SC LIBERTY BLOGI am partnering with my friend Dean Smith on this project. I'd like to get more contributors on board, but I realize that most people won't jump on a bandwagon until it is a roaring success.2. MADONNAMadonna and Guy are splitting up. I wonder if A-Rod's dick played a role in all of this.3. FEAR OF A BLACK PRESIDENTI will tell you like it is. I've talked to a lot of white folks here in SC, and they have candidly told me that they don't want a "nigger in the White House." On the flip side, I don't think any of the black people I...

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This Election is Getting Ugly

How sick in the head do you have to be to make up something like Ashley Todd did? For those that don't know, Ashley Todd, went to the police and told them she was mugged by a Black man, and then the man noticed she had a John McCain bumper sticker, so the man attacked her, and got a knife and carved B in her face, telling her he is a Barack supporter and she is now a Barack...

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DVD-House

I've been watching House on DVD for the past few weeks, and I must admit that it is one of the best shows on TV. I'm beginning Season 3 this weekend, but this is a review of the whole series.Dr. House is Sherlock Holmes as an M.D. I suspect his name is derived from the famous detective (Holmes=Homes=House), and you have characters like Wilson (Watson) and his disciples who...

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Todays Silas update & new baby pix

Silas is doing really well. We have started feeding him hourly during the day as we want to build up his strength and little and often is the best for weight gain. You watch a foal feeding from its mum and it feeds very regularly, multiple times an hour. It is not really possible to sit with him 24/7 but we figure if we can at least get him started well and build up his strength,...

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Rory is definitely wicked!

So Rory is one of those naughty boys. You know the type, into everything, answers back, gives plenty of attitude - that's our Rory! His poor mum has first mother's syndrome and is far too soft on him!! Grabbed these pix earlier. He makes me smile.With Christina Innocence? C'mon MUM! But I can't eat! Perhaps this will work?Poor Hooty had only just lain down but he was so insistent...

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Me

I got this comment from Mister Agenda over on the SCLB:You sound smarter on your blog than you do in person.It made me laugh a bit. I find it funny because I get comments like this all the time. There should be a term for these paradoxical statements. I admit that I have a very conflicted reputation. I'm not sure why that is. Here are some examples:1. OPTIMIST/PESSIMISTI get the whole negative/positive thing all the time. I'm either too optimistic or too cynical. It really depends on the issue for me. I will piss on fantasies, but I also like to...

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Silas on day five - video and photos plus NEWS!

Well somehow we have made it through to day five and today is the first day I have felt really happy about Silas' progress. He's drinking really well and his strength has really picked up, not to mention the fact that he is pooping in a much more acceptable fashion (constipation improvement). Today he had his first taste of freedom too, as captured on this brief video.We continue...

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Sports Law Symposium at Villanova University School of Law This Saturday

I look forward to joining Howard, Marc, Jeffrey Standen, and others at Villanova University School of Law this Saturday (Oct. 25) for the 2008 Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal's sympsoium on "The House that Taxpayers Built: Stadiums, Speech, and Public Funding."Here is information on the sympisium's two panels:Panel 1: Public Financing and Potential Government...

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The Greatest Since Hadlee

Daniel Vettori is surly our greatest cricketer since the greatest cricketer ever, Sir Richard Hadlee.In Vettori we have a player who always plays a captain's innings, he always fields like a captain should, and he also bowls like one of the best spinners in the world should, he has always done this, even when he wasn't captain and even when all others around him with would...

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Encouraging idiots to vote is never a good id...

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MLBPA Claims to Have Evidence Baseball Teams Colluded Against Barry Bonds

ESPN recently reported that the Major League Baseball Players Association ("MLBPA") claims to have uncovered evidence that certain Major League Baseball teams colluded against Barry Bonds in violation of Article XX(E) of the Major League Baseball Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Although the MLBPA has not made the alleged evidence public, this news is hardly surprising...

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Some happy stuff

Miss long-legs is doing so well. She has learned how to step into pressure now so well on the way to knowing how to lead and tie up. Not had much time lately to really put much into her but she's smart and she learns fast so I am not too worried. She picks up all her feet nicely too. Such a good girl.Here she comes again Under her father's watchful eye With new friend Christina...

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Silas on day three - brief video

It was a long hard night. We slept with Silas and will continue to do so until he is feeding better and less frequently - it is easier to allow him to wake us to tell us that he is hungry than for us to set our alarm and come up and hope he is hungry. Here is a brief video of him first thing this morni...

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2008 MLB Salary Report Card

Since 2005, I have been posting my Annual MLB Salary Report Card, which tends to prove each year a relatively weak correlation between a team's success and its total payroll. [Here are my past reports for 2005, 2006 and 2007.] This year's report leads to the same conclusion (based upon the USA Today salary database and rounded to the nearest million). I've always thought that there is some threshold level of payroll by which a team is pretty much guaranteed to at least make the playoffs, but I was even proven wrong about that this year. The...

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A very difficult entry

Today's blog entry is incredibly painful to write but I am hoping that it may be cathartic to do so... At 3am on Sunday morning our beautiful clydesdale mare Debi (Kennybrook Maude) gave birth to a fabulously all blinged out colt. At 3.30am Debi drew her final breath, whilst cradled in my arms after succumbing to a uterine haemorrhage. I won't share the full details as it...

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Seton Hall Sports Law Symposium

On November 7, the Seton Hall University School of Law Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law is hosting The 2008 Seton Hall Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium: From the Arena to the Streets - The Pressures Placed on Athletes, Entertainers, and Management. The event is being co-sponsored by the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Sections of the New Jersey State...

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Obama Draws in Record Crowd

The crowd you see is not for a Garth Brooks concert, its not to welcome the superbowl champs, it's a crowd to see, Obama give a speech, this is historical, folks are excited about this man, it's history changing, as someone from the forum DU said, "Imagine being able to tell your kids/grandkids that you voted for the first African American President.What is more amazing to...

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Does anti-discrimination law require ESPN to suspend Lou Holtz over "Hitler" comments?

As I was trying to set up my TiVo to record last night's Hawai`i-Boise State game, I was, as most ESPN viewers at the time likely were, shocked to hear Lou Holtz observe, "Hitler was a great leader too." Holtz was commenting on Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez; his comments clearly upset co-hosts Rece Davis and Mark May. Davis immediately tried to explain away the comments--"by which you mean, of course..."--or something of that nature; and Mark May's sideways glance was a bit more wide-eyed than usual.Pat at Fan IQ writes that there "HAD to be a...

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FCC as Race Car Sponsor?

Today's issue of Multichannel News reported that the Federal Communications Commission has decided to follow the lead of the U.S. Postal Service and become a sponsor of a team, in this case NASCAR driver David Gilliland, who agreed to use his No. 38 to display an advertisement trumpeting the conversion of the television signal from the sixty plus year old analog standard to...

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