Pretty good piece on former Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler and how he got fucked over in that whole thing. I respect the hell out of him for sticking with the school that gave him his second chance and not jumping back to bigger jobs now that he's successful again.
Just for a little follow up, Nifong was forced to declare bankruptcy and spent one day in jail for his actions.
Yeah, pressler is awesome. Done great work at Bryant and really built that program. That whole duke thing was such a shit show. Great story tonight
The Duke lacrosse team was at a bar in the Bahama's that I was at the summer before the incident. Two of them kept doing back flips off of the tables.
Damn it, the only segment I didn't watch was Duke lacrosse. The Kennedy ambassador segment did nothing for me. I remember thinking all of last week's episode was ripe tits though
Sounds like this is a must see http://www.cbsnews.com/news/behind-60-minutes-decision-to-show-disturbing-video/
I watched the episode that he originally was on with people that remember everything and that was interesting. I don't get the point of doing a segment about a guy who has a make believe basketball team in his head and how he has plays the games in his living room. I did the same thing when I was ~ 9 years old but not seeing why 60 minutes decided to air that.
I'm glad they are showing all the footage from Syria. When that happened 2 years ago the story up and died in a day or two. Obama balked on his red line comment and the outrage ended almost as quickly as the incident occurred. Showing the Sarin attacks on video is very similar to all the cop shootings lately that have been captured by video. Those stories likely would have never been heard without the accompanying video. The video makes the events real. Gives it a visceral nature. Good for 60 Minutes.
“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.” – Obama, remarks to reporters, August 20, 2012
story tomorrow of a former soviet spy that is still living in the US http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/preview-the-spy-among-us/
1st half of the story just ended. It's like a real life, less successful Philip from The Americans. Such a crazy time/life to lead.
I'm a week or two behind. Just finished the Star Wars one. I follow defense tech pretty closely and that segment was very current and well done. The scotch one was solid too.
Why did they sink that battleship on purpose? The scrap value alone would probably be hundreds of thousands of dollars
They usually scuttle ships to test out new weapons / fire practice. Pretty sure they said they were testing a fire prevention system on that one. I guess it failed.
Lara Logan going hard at that jihadi asking him why he's been in the Taliban for 12 years now and not been a suicide bomber