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To: nikos1121
Missouri's Gary Pinkel: Players' coach or simply pragmatic?

"Coach," Sam told Gary Pinkel, "you are an amazing person." The head football coach at the University of Missouri made a historic decision over the weekend when he supported his players in their protest of racial inequality at their school. The team vowed not to practice or play until graduate student Jonathan Butler ended his hunger strike, and Pinkel chose to back them. In that instant, the student movement went from curious to serious in the national zeitgeist.

9 posted on 11/12/2015 10:32:12 AM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: Kenny

Yeah, totally worthless. I can’t imagine Nick Sabine doing that.


10 posted on 11/12/2015 10:40:22 AM PST by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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