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2 terrorist attacks today on America.

!5 people killed by ISSS truck driver in New Orleans, dozens hurt. Possibly 4 others in manhunt.

Tesla Truck explodes at Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, and video shows the bed of the truck exploding sending many very small bombs flying everywhere and those smaller bombs exploding to cause further damage. atleast 1 killed and 7 hurt. Wonder if any of these terrorists got into the country due to the stupidity of the Biden Administration. Way to go Joe, terrorism on Americas soil.

Why would the Dartmouth players drop their unionization attempt now?

This is the rest of the excerpt that I posted on the Confidential Board.

Why would the Dartmouth players drop their unionization attempt now?
The short answer is because of politics.
For the last four years, the National Labor Relations Board has been controlled by Democrats, with the board’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, particularly sympathetic to the classification status of college athletes. But with Donald Trump returning to the White House this month, armed with GOP majorities in the House and Senate, a new NLRB general counsel will replace Abruzzo. Because the Senate voted against holding reconfirmation hearings for NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran, Trump will also have a Republican majority on the NLRB.
You know who generally isn’t very sympathetic to the rights of organized labor, especially when it comes to expanding who can and cannot join a union? Republicans. The Dartmouth team is betting that it is better to wait until Democrats control the NLRB again, because losing risks establishing precedent that could hurt future unionization efforts.

Playoffs are a joke

The entire playoff is a joke and disaster. Penn State has the easy road to the championship yet lost to middling Michigan and barely beat the Goohers. They were another 10-2 team. The powers that be desperately wanted Alabama in who lost to Oklahoma and we’re 9-3, now 9-4. I’m sure the will still be top 10:with four losses. And games in the playoffs have been blowouts to assure the “right” teams are in the semi and finals. And I haven’t even mentioned Boise and SMU. As Tim Brando said, more Big 12/teams didn’t make the playoffs because they are in the wrong conference, and he knows football. I haven’t even mentioned watched very little of the games, and don’t plan to.

Dartmouth Players Have Withdraw The Unionization Appeals

The following is an excerpt from the free version of the Extra Points newsletter that gets delivered to my email inbox roughly twice a week. I was expecting to read that the players determined they could do better in the free market than to rely on a union, but that was not what was happening. The full newsletter is available at this link: Extra Points
The men’s basketball players at Dartmouth, who voted to unionize in 2023, have withdrawn their appeals to the National Labor Relations Board, effectively putting their efforts to bargain with the university on ice. Dartmouth had refused to bargain with the players, even after the athletes voted 13-2 to unionize.

I posted this on the ISU Confidential Board as this is a big issue for college athletics and is worthy of discussion on this board. If you want to take the discussion in a political direction, I have posted the rest of the excerpt on the politics forum where you can discuss those aspects of the issue there. Please keep your responses on this board free of politics and focus on the impact this may have on college athletics going forward. Here's the link to the political part of the post on the Confidential Board.
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