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03 Mar 2011 13:33

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Culture: BYU forward Brandon Davies suspended for… consensual sex?

  • The showers only run cold: Brigham Young University, named after the Mormon leader of yesteryear, has a basketball team, and a rather good one. They also, however, have a student honor code that states you can’t have premarital sex. Which lead to the deeply peculiar (especially within the “win-at-all-costs” realm of collegiate athletics) revelation that BYU pivot Brandon Davies had been suspended from the team yesterday for having consensual sex with his girlfriend. Obviously, as long as they’re not violent or forced over non-believers, religious tenets are anybody’s personal right. But there’s a decent chance not all of those players are Mormon, and from the view of a secular player sitting on that bench, it must be frustrating to have your season disrupted by this. source

06 Sep 2009 11:09

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Sports: Sam Bradford’s Heisman repeat hopes may be out with his shoulder

  • Not a good early-season injury to have. As first games go, it’s not nearly as devastating as Tom Brady completely obliterating his knee, but the Oklahoma Sooners definitely felt the loss of defending Heisman winner Sam Bradford. The quarterback suffered a acromioclavicular joint sprain in his throwing shoulder during yesterday’s game against BYU. And the No. 3 Sooners responded by blowing the game, 14-13. Yeah, they’re not going to be No. 3 next week. source

28 Jun 2009 22:53

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Tech: Waaay behind the internet curve: BYU finally allows YouTube access

  • In an attempt to block unpure messages, they blocked a useful medium. Brigham Young University, that bastion of the Mormon life, blocked the video-sharing service because they felt that too much offensive material – like, you know, Keyboard Cat – showed up on the site. (Oh, and bandwidth issues, but whatever. Everyone says that.) BYU, which has incredibly strict moral standards, finally relented after professors complained about their ability to use the site’s heavy amount of educational material. Now, if we can only convince the Amish to drive cars … source