From what I’ve read, it pretty much boils down to the Rox had to spend something like $40M this offseason to get to the roster salary minimum (novel concept for MLB fans), or else the shortage would simply get divided up equally between the players on the roster while the team would lose its share of luxury tax$ distribution.
VanVleet is a solid PG and it’s only a 2 year deal (3rd year is a team option). Rockets made several other moves yesterday that involve about 4 other incoming guys who I’ve never heard of.
Slowly but surely MLR is raising the standard of rugby in the US.
Crazy that Ma’a Nonu is still playing. He was an NZ All Black when I was playing. And the flanker from San Diego, Christian Poidevin, is the son of a famous Australian rugby player, Simon Poidevin, who was in the last years of his career when I first started playing rugby. Goddamn, I’m getting old.
There was definitely hazing when I played high school football and my first two years of rugby at AU, but nothing like what allegedly happened at Northwestern. When I became captain of the AU rugby team, though, I made damn sure we stopped hazing players altogether.
ETA - if Fitzgerald knew about the hazing and let it happen, fuck that guy. Fire him immediately.
Never been around hazing anywhere. I played three sports all three years in HS and baseball in college for four years so I was on several teams. I also coached more than one sport in HS for nine years. Never saw it, never heard of it during that time.
Before I got to Austin High, I heard of annual hazing of incoming sophomores by student body males which occurred before school started. I was not subject to it, and it may have been stopped before my soph year. I never heard of or saw hazing on any athletics team I was around.
