Chris Paul Thinks Clips Boycott Is Still An Idea (Reax)

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It's still on the table if the Los Angeles Clippers have Donald Sterling as owner when the new season rolls around...

When asked in Las Vegas during an AAU competition if Chris Paul and his teammates would still think about not playing, the answer seemed pretty solid to Goodman:

"That's something me and Doc are both talking about," Paul said Thursday after coaching his AAU program, CP3. "Something has to happen, and something needs to happen soon -- sooner rather than later."

"We're all going to talk about it," Paul said. "We're all definitely going to talk about it. Doc, Blake [Griffin], DJ [DeAndre Jordan]. It's unacceptable."

Frankly, the HQ thinks they should but the notion probably won't fly long term.

Reaction was understandable:

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Closing arguments in the first Sterling v. Sterling lawsuit start Monday.

Jackson State Suing Over Grambling Flap, Probably...

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As if Grambling didn't have enough problems this season- most of them seemingly created by their own hand...

But, now, it appears that Jackson State University is suing Grambling over the no-show for their homecoming game...

The JSU family was damaged. Our Homecoming game draws tens of thousands of fans. The university intends to use litigation to be made whole for our direct and indirect financial losses,” Eric Stringfellow, Jackson State's director of university communications, wrote in a message on the JSU website.

“We have a fiduciary responsibility to Mississippi taxpayers and the JSU community to mitigate our ongoing and substantial losses. Jackson State plans to pursue litigation against Grambling State and others.”

Stringfellow also maintained that Grambling told them, as late as Friday afternoon, that they were still coming.

Here's Andrew Kinsey discussing with Toni Collins...


Stringfellow maintains that the financial losses for the university and the city could be in the millions of dollars, but Grambling spokesperson Will Sutton told Ros Dumlao Gannett of the Shreveport Times that he hoped any kind of legal stuff could be avoided:

“It’s one thing to say litigation, it’s another thing to file. So if there is further action, we’ll look for the filing of the suit. And we’ll proceed from there,” Sutton said. “But we certainly meant no harm to our neighbor to the east, and we did everything we could to get everybody there (Jackson) and be an important part of their weekend celebration.”

This will be interesting to see of this makes it to the courts, and if it does, what kind of financial recourse Jackson State (and, maybe, even the city of Jackson) has in this case. It could set up some kind of precedent for bailouts like this in the future. But the Grambling case is so extreme, that it may have to be held on its own pedestal...

PM Grambling UPDATE: No Players, Another New Head Coach

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The flame out of the once-proud Grambling football program is reaching "profound dumpster fire" stage...

Day two of the football players inactivity has reportedly led to the dismissal of interim head coach George Ragsdale and the appointing of new interim head coach Dennis Winston.

The Tigers have traded their OC for their DC. Ragsdale will be reassigned within the athletic department...

Ragsdale was, apparently, on his cell phone calling players this afternoon wondering aloud if they were going to attend practice. The answer was an easy "no" for the squad after meetings this week didn't go well with the administration of the university.

Here's the latest this afternoon...
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Sean Isabella of the Monroe (LA) News-Star newspaper caught up with Ragsdale who left campus ten minutes before practice was supposed to begin this afternoon:

"...safety Naquan Smith gave a surprising admission Thursday during a public demonstration by the students.

“As a team, we feel like we wanted (Ragsdale) to actually step down,” Smith said. “(The team) is behind us because they know what we’ve been going through. They know the struggle. We said we’re behind each other 100 percent.”

Ragsdale took the high road and said he still had faith in his team despite the turmoil.

“If that’s what they felt, they wanted me gone,” Ragsdale said. “I loved them whether they wanted me gone or not. Maybe they didn’t like my coaching methods.”

Thursday afternoon campus police had placed barricades up blocking the roads to practice facility before the scheduled 5PM practice. News media were told that they were to leave campus and any players were off limits for interviews...

Grambling is scheduled to play Jackson State this week, and the HQ would love to know what this game is going to look like...

Is Coventry City In Rebellion...???

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From all reports, the Coventry City/Bristol City match was a good one if you like offense (5-4) in League One (think "double-a baseball" for your comparisons). But, at the same time, up to 7,000 home supporters stayed at home for a charity match benefiting the franchise that is playing its home matches this season 45 miles away because of ownership issues that are keeping the CCFC off the pitch at Ricoh Arena...

Here's your primer for the beginning of the season...


City's owners (Sisu) have decided to play their home games outside Coventry for the first time in the club's history after failing to reach a new rental agreement with the stadium's owners Arena Coventry Limited.

Only 2,204 - including 500 opposition fans - watched the match in Northampton at Sixfields...

Here's the Sky Sports report on the point deduction...


130 years of history aren't sitting well as Sisu seems to be screwing things up royally...
Here's the thoughts from the fans on the protest...
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