Dear Bronco,
I don’t claim to speak for all former BYU players. But I do know how many of the alumni feel.
The last three weeks have been an embarrassment for the program. Many fans and BYU administrators are beyond upset to the point that it has compelled me to speak up. You don’t have to listen to me or agree with me. But guess what? I’ve earned the right to speak. It’s my damn program too. I’ve bled on that field at LaVell Edwards Stadium. I’ve spent countless hours on the practice fields sweating, puking, training and working my ass off to make this program successful. I gave BYU Football my heart and soul for over four years of my life. I’ve sacrificed many tears and many brain cells for the cause. Our cause. In my own small way, I helped build those beautiful facilities and...
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Dear Charles,
Let me say first that you are among the basketball greats. I remember rooting for you in the ’93 Championship Series against the Bulls along with one of my hometown heroes Richard Dumas. You have achieved a level of success on the court that will be cemented in the basketball history books permanently. Eleven NBA All-Star Game appearances, twice All-Star MVP, once voted NBA MVP, one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Dream Team, two-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. You are basketball royalty.
Your book Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man? is sitting on my bookshelf right now. It’s a powerful book that takes on the issue of race and racism in a way that many would’ve shied away from.
“Racism,” you said, “is the biggest cancer of...
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Commissioner Goodell:
I love the National Football League. Some of my greatest childhood memories include spending Sunday afternoons with my father watching football. I will always be a fan of the NFL.
The NFL has been in the forefront of the domestic violence, sexual assault conversation for the last five months.
The purpose of this letter is to suggest two additional changes the NFL could make to show their ever-growing commitment to raising awareness for domestic violence prevention.
Dec. 5, the league announced steps that would be taken to help make an impact in the league and in the community, including:
In the NFL
Education and Individual Support
Supporting Leading Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Groups
Forming Critical Response...
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Dear Customer Service;
I don't WANT to abuse your employees and be rewarded for gaming the system.
As a customer and as a member of the public, I like being treated with courtesy and respect, and it is nice if customer service employees can be gracious to me whether I am right or wrong. And if "The customer is always right!" is about being gracious and representing the company well whether the customer is right or wrong, then I'm all for that version of, "The customer is always right!"
However, if you say "The customer is always right!" as a policy that invites customers to be deliberately abusive, and treat your employees as punching bags because they know you will treat them better than customers who act like mature adults, I will take my business to places like Starbuck's (for...
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Over the last nine weeks we have engaged in a public process to allow our riders to weigh in on recommendations for closing a $159 million budget gap next year. As we conclude that process this week, we want to take a minute to thank you for the unprecedented level of engagement you demonstrated over this period.
Since January, nearly 6,000 of you attended our 31 public meetings, with nearly 2,000 individuals offering public comment. In addition, we received 5,850 emails from you about the importance of the MBTA in your lives. By comparison, the last time the MBTA raised fares in 2007 just 800 people attended a public hearing.
The choices before us are difficult, to be sure. Hearing your individual stories only makes them more so. We know that a quality, reliable public transit...
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Rajon,
We really don't have time for this crap. We, meaning your teammates, your coaches, and the Mavericks fans, neither have the time nor inclination for any sort of diva act. The Mavericks have their best chance at doing something, anything in the playoffs since the 2010-11 title season. And you're the reason, to a certain extent.
But you are also becoming the reason they might not have a chance.
Tuesday night, the entire basketball world watched as you and Rick Carlisle got into an argument about playcalling during the game against the Toronto Raptors. Then we watched as the Mavericks came back to win with you on the bench. Then we watched Rick Carlisle shoot lasers from his eyes at ESPN Dallas' Tim MacMahon for asking what the problem was. He assured us it was over and that...
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Dear Fans
Coming off a season in which we saw Kevin Harvick claim the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series crown after a thrilling debut for the new Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup format, Chase Elliott burst on to the scene with a championship of his own and Matt Crafton repeat as champion in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, it's easy to see why many say 2014 was one of the all-time best for NASCAR.
However, I think the best is still to come.
As we embark on 2015, we are excited to start a new 10-year agreement with our great partners at FOX Sports and to welcome NBC Sports back to NASCAR. With FOX and NBC we have two world-class media companies committed to bringing NASCAR excitement to our great fans in bigger and better ways.
We could not be more thrilled to welcome Comcast's...
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Dear Chuck,
I hope this finds you in the way I always see you, in great spirits, with great joy and full of life. There are some things I want to openly say to you that sometimes in conversation get lost.
Firstly I lied! You ARE the greatest Power Forward of all time. It’s not (Tim) Duncan or (Karl) Malone, they had size and height that you weren’t blessed with and you never had near the talent around you that they were blessed to have. Contrarily you took your teams to similar heights. Secondly, you are a champion in my book. Effort and determination is what makes a champion, not a ring.
Lastly, you are the most entertaining person in sports television (partly because I throw you so many assists lol).
However, what I consistently find interesting is how writers and media...
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Dear Gus,
I remember my first experience of the Stadium of Light. It was the magnificent Niall Quinn-Kevin Phillips era.
Sunderland steamrollered teams with their high-energy, passionate football under Peter Reid.
One year they were in second place in January and had a showdown with leaders Manchester United.
The noise, the anticipation, the hope. It was the high watermark of the modern era on Wearside. But that’s “living in the past”, like you said.
Living in the present has become painful. This season, watching Sunderland is a drag.
Two home league wins means that usually I walk away from the Stadium of Light drained of inspiration, frustrated, with an empty feeling. And I get paid to watch.
This was your eighth 0-0 draw of the season. Your team have failed to score in 14...
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I have considered in the best interests of the club to postpone any release of my true thoughts and conclusion in relation to the 79 days disqualification verdict of the Football League and it was for not unsettling the harmony of the team in a period of key league tournament matches that I have measured to reveal my decision only today, because the qualification for the 2016 Championship is by now achieved.
For the reason above said, at first I suggested that my intention was to resume in April the office of President of Leeds United Football Club after expiration of the disqualification term.
I will not do so and I had actually decided not to do so in January already, soon after the confirmation by the Football League of its verdict.
I wish to point out that I have immediately...
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