Quick Hits 8/23: Why Floyd Mayweather Can Be Such A Dick And Other Ridiculousness

• On Floyd Mayweather's Twitter today:  A picture of his two checks for his last two fights:  Over $72,000,000.  And as I responded:  Seventy-two million reasons he can be such an asshole and a blight to boxing and get away with it.  (Some of us still remember your exchange with Larry Merchant, "Pretty Boy".)
• Found the article my anonymous source pointed out to me:  A little more than two weeks after Deadspin revealed Air Force players had the military equivalent of a Special Prosecutor put on them for allegedly using date rape drugs on a party comes this gem:  How, if you're hurt on the Air Force football team, you really aren't a member of the team.

Coach Troy Calhoun, to the Colorado Springs Gazette:

""They go to meetings," Calhoun said. "I just think you either add to the chemistry or take from the chemistry. There's no in between. If you're a red jersey [injured players at Air Force wear red jerseys], I just don't want anybody sucking the life out of everybody else who is working. Who is able to go out there even if they have an itch somewhere?""

Here's the kicker:  ESPN _LOVES_ this attitude.  Just ask Trevor Bitch Matich on "College Football Live", former BYU player:

"Don't be soft. It's a mistake to say a coach is harsh, therefore, he's abusive. If the coach loves you and has your best interest in mind, then that harshness is the best thing for you and the coach. When I was in high school, I was on a soft high school team as a junior, didn't even play. And they brought in a new coaching staff to toughen us up. On a conditioning drill we were cutting laps around the field. The only rule was don't cut a corner. Well, I was so tired, I stepped on a corner, just stepped on it. When I came back around the next time, I almost couldn't stay on my feet. The defensive line coach lit me up, ran at me up the sideline, threw his shoulder into my sternum and knocked me back. "

That's actionable abuse, shithead.

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, "has your best interest in mind" and then decides to take a clearly impaired player (sick, if not borderline), and, to me, finish the fucking job.

And you wonder why the NFL has a drug problem -- and all other levels of football too...

• Deadspin would like to also note that someone might need to take a look at the Wikipedia page on the rivalry between the University of Connecticut and the University of Massachusetts.
• In the "Only the Cubs, And That's Why They Suck" Department:  Apparently, according to the Chicago Sun-Times through Deadspin, the reason the crew was negligent on the tarp, leading to the first successful MLB protest in almost 30 years was because they don't want to give the tarp crew enough hours to trigger Obamacare.

Seriously.  On the team considered the most profitable in MLB...

Or is being such cheap bastards that you field a third-rate Rookie-level franchise in Wrigley Field WHY you are the most profitable franchise in MLB?

"The land of the free, the home of the brave, and the doormats of the National League..."