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College Football Breeds G.O.P. Loyalty
The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting article today about the high number of college football coaches who seem to be devoted G.O.P. followers. While some, like University of Southern California’s Pete Carroll and San Jose State University’s Dick Tomey, are openly Democratic, most others seem to run with the red side of the spectrum. Twenty coaches donated to Republican candidates during the 2008 election cycle, while only three gave to the Democrats.
This practice has even crossed over into political action: Legendary Nebraska coach Tom Osborne served three terms as a Republican representative in the U.S. Congress, and Lou Holtz – former coach at six schools, including a ten-year stint at Notre Dame – has also entertained the idea of running for office as a Republican. Holtz has some ideas on why the conservative stripe and the sideline overlap:
“You aren’t entitled to anything. You don’t inherit anything. You get
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Playing the Waiting Game
Today marks the date of the 2009 autumnal equinox. That’s right, summer will officially be over.
Many of us were stuck at home all summer as our vacation accounts were drained to pay bills instead. With September in full swing, temperatures in places like Arizona still hover around 100 degrees. Baseball – the sport of summer – still has two weeks of its regular season left. And I haven’t seen a single Halloween decoration yet (shocking!).
A grueling, endless summer it has been.
In addition, the notoriously slow August news cycles have been stretched forth. Now that every single celebrity imaginable has died, there has been nothing but low-caliber, partisan health care rhetoric coverage, some random comments on the Afghanistan situation and a few straggling cries for justice from Iran. Hell, the top headline from last week came from MTV’s Video Music Awards. (In fact, I would have finished …
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