Sports reporter for the New Orleans Advocate Scott Rabalais thinks they are and says so in commentary dated 1/19/20. This writer, a long time fan and follower of LSU sports thinks Rabalais opinion is a stretch and the usual "apple polishing story" so many sports writers engage in. Rabalais tries to back up his opinion with stats that are self serving and are not a good judgment for evaluating a team. He also takes a shot at Clemson as a "pothole" LSU ran over.
Of course Clemson fans can say Joe Burrow as a starting quarterback for LSU will never accomplish in his two years at LSU, what Clemson's quarterback Lawrence and his team accomplished in his two years at Clemson. Twenty nine straight wins and two straight national championship games participated in. And as a starting quarterback, Lawrence only lost one game Rabalais also forgot the great Oklahoma teams under Bud Wilkerson in the early to mid fifties that won 47 straight games and even the 1958 LSU national championship team that went undefeated and shut out Clemson in the Sugar Bowl.
Rabalais seemed to pay a lot of attention to LSU's offensive stats because he was so use to seeing Les Miles offensive failures. But then again, Rabalais picked Alabama to beat LSU this year. Everything is relative in life and sports. Destiny has nothing to do with it because we are only destined to die. But players, like people, can choose their own fate and LSU and its coaching staff choose their own fate with a winning attitude and a will to win. LSU had a great year, no doubt about it, but picking a greatest team ever is mythical like the national championship before the BCS playoffs began.
And the greatest college teams in the past will never have the opportunity to play each other and decide which team really was the best. So every year college football will crown a national champion, but the best college football team ever will remain mythical.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Federal Court Refuses To Rehear Mississippi's Abortion Case.
According to an Associated Press report in the New Orleans Advocate of 1/18/20 a federal appeals court ruled it would not reconsider its ruling that Mississippi's law banning most abortions after 15 weeks is unconstitutional. Mississippi will likely ask the U.S Supreme Court to step in and hear the case. The ruling means Louisiana's similar law on abortion is now on hold since it depended on the outcome of the Mississippi case.
And once again, Mississippi and Louisiana are playing politics with the abortion issue. Both states governors and state legislatures do not have the will, the character or the courage to fight for a constitutional amendment on abortion which is the best legal way and approach on the issue. They would rather grandstand on the issue, playing politics looking for votes and try to look and sound tough.
At the heart of the Mississippi legislation is the viability of whether a fetus can survive outside the woman at 15 weeks. The court said the Clinic provided evidence that viability is impossible at 15 weeks and that the state of Mississippi conceded that it had identified no medical evidence that a fetus could be viable at 15 weeks. In other words, Mississippi and Louisiana's case is based on political motivation and not abortion facts.
The governors, states and legislatures who support the politicalizing of abortion and who have abandoned the right way of supporting a constitutional amendment have failed at leadership and failed their oath of office. Louisiana's officials became ditto heads for Mississippi and had little confidence in their own bill when they tied it to Mississippi's bill. It will be interesting to see if Louisiana's officials talk about the courts decision and if they urge Mississippi to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
And once again, Mississippi and Louisiana are playing politics with the abortion issue. Both states governors and state legislatures do not have the will, the character or the courage to fight for a constitutional amendment on abortion which is the best legal way and approach on the issue. They would rather grandstand on the issue, playing politics looking for votes and try to look and sound tough.
At the heart of the Mississippi legislation is the viability of whether a fetus can survive outside the woman at 15 weeks. The court said the Clinic provided evidence that viability is impossible at 15 weeks and that the state of Mississippi conceded that it had identified no medical evidence that a fetus could be viable at 15 weeks. In other words, Mississippi and Louisiana's case is based on political motivation and not abortion facts.
The governors, states and legislatures who support the politicalizing of abortion and who have abandoned the right way of supporting a constitutional amendment have failed at leadership and failed their oath of office. Louisiana's officials became ditto heads for Mississippi and had little confidence in their own bill when they tied it to Mississippi's bill. It will be interesting to see if Louisiana's officials talk about the courts decision and if they urge Mississippi to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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