If wildfires rage in the Sierras or Cascades, the Ducks won’t have to shut down practice for days or weeks, year after year. Oregon’s new facility will have a high-tech, ultra-efficient ventilation system that manages the interior air quality. The West is drying out, and wildfires could cause more damage and disruption over the next 10 years than they have in the past 10, with most of it concentrated in the parched months of August, September and October. But it has much more to do with wildfires. OK, maybe it has a little to do with COVID. The Hotline has become obsessed with airflow, and it has nothing to do with aerosols that spread COVID. Nope, the most significant part of the new facility is the … ventilation system. (Critics of college athletics spending on football often overlook the trickle-down benefits for the 18-20 sports that don’t generate a profit.)īut the most significant part of the new facility, which is scheduled to open in 2024, isn’t the sheer size or the player amenities or the roof, which will be made of tinted polymer panels to allow natural light. With football using the new structure, there will be more space and time available for Oregon’s Olympic sports to use the Moshofsky Center. Instead, the two buildings will complement each other. It’s not getting torn down to make room for the 170,000-square foot replacement, which will be funded by private donations. It’s older than the equivalent facilities in Corvallis, Seattle and Pullman. Oregon has been using the same indoor practice field, at the Moshofsky Center, since 1998. While the Ducks are known throughout the Pac-12 (and the country) for having first-class football facilities - fans of the other 11 teams might prefer the terms extravagant, ostentatious, lavish, gaudy, excessive, outrageous, even garish - the university’s plans for a new indoor practice facility don’t strike us as over the top. The Politics Blog with Charles P.Commentary on Pac-12 developments on and off the field, and court ….Wikiquote has quotations related to: Charlie Pierce "The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity". ^ The Stupidity (and Sexism) of Baseball's Media Dress Codes.Cite magazine requires |magazine= ( help) ^ Sports guy : in search of corkball, warroad hockey, hooters golf, Tiger.
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Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (2009) ISBN 978-0767926140.Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything (2006) ISBN 978-0374214449.Pierce's tweet implied the rioter, Mark Ponder, was white when in fact he is black, as was noted in the criminal complaint linked within the Politico article. On March 17, 2021, Pierce tweeted "It's good to be WHITE when doing crimes" in reference to a Politico report describing how, during the January 6th Capitol Riots, the DC police released an armed and violent rioter from custody, only for the man to rejoin the riot. He represented the Globe on several occasions on ESPN's Around the Horn and often co-hosts with Bob Ryan on NESN's Globe 10.0. Recently Pierce has begun making weekly appearances on the Stephanie Miller Show. Pierce makes appearances on radio as a regular contributor to NPR programs Only A Game and Wait Wait.Don't Tell Me!. He has also written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Sports Illustrated, The National Sports Daily, GQ, and the e-zine Slate as well as the Media Matters blog Altercation, hosted by historian/pundit Eric Alterman. Pierce is currently the lead political blogger for Esquire, a position he has held since September 2011. In the 1980s and '90, he was a staff reporter for the Boston Phoenix and, later, a sports columnist for the Boston Herald. He wrote for Worcester Magazine in the 1970s, where he covered the Blizzard of 1978. Pierce's first job was as a forest ranger for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and from Marquette University in Journalism (1975).