How heartless can you be Officer Robert Powell?

This post will be short because I do not want to let my anger completely take over.

When I first heard the story about Houston Texans' running back Ryan Moats and the Dallas police, I was hoping that he was the typical arrogant citizen who thought they were above the law during a traffic stop. When I watched the video of his traffic stop and heard the actual details of how Dallas Police Officer Robert Powell stopped Moats’ car in the hospital's parking lot, while his mother-in-law laid in a hospital bed all alone dying I was enraged. If you don’t know the story by now it goes like this, Moats, his wife and other rushed from the Moats’ suburban Dallas home to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano where Moats’s mother-in-law was hospitalized during the middle of the night on March 18. The reason that they were rushing to the hospital is because they had received notice around midnight that Moats' mother-in-law, Jonetta Collinsworth, was dying. Ms. Collinsworth had been battling breast cancer for an unspecified time.

According to Dallas-area media reports, Moats' vehicle, had run through a red light, and was stopped by Officer Robert Powell in the hospital's parking lot.
Officer Powell acting as the genius that he seems to be detained Moats as well as another family member for 13 minutes during this stop. During this gut wrenching 13 minutes Officer Powell lectured and threatened to arrest Moats. While he lectured Moats many members of the hospital staff came out of the hospital to inform Officer Powell of the situation, but apparently he did not care. When Powell finally released Moats, Jonetta Collinsworth had died.”

My only question is what type of self absorbed idiot does something like this? Currently Officer Powell is on paid leave pending the investigation, which I whole heartedly disagree with. I am calling for the dismissal of Powell. I normally do not advocate the firing of anyone especially in this economy, but Powell’s actions we inexcusable. Powell treated Moats worse than an animal should be treated. If anyone should understand, an officer of the law should understand that humans are emotional beings and when faced with the stress of losing a loved one, they will take risk that they normally would not. With that being said Powell should have listened to everyone who was telling him that Moats’ mother-in-law was dying, and let him go.

Again, I ask how heartless can you be?

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament

There has been a lot of talk about expanding the field and I even heard 128 teams is how it should be. I disagree with that completely and actually would like it to get cut back down to 32. While I believe that March Madness is very exciting it has really lost it’s purpose of crowning the best team. This is the national title we are talking about and people claim that the 8th place team in a major conference should have gotten in. Do you see what is wrong with that? You finish in the bottom half of your own conference and you get a shot at the title. No way and that is why they should take it down to 32 teams. I know it will never happen and they will probably expand it but every year I root for a Cinderella to win the tournament so people will complain as much about the size of the tournament as they do the BCS. I know people will say they won it on the field and my argument is you shouldn’t have given the chance. In a one and done format anything can happen. No other sport comes close to letting in as many teams and then to have it one and done makes it even worse. Remember when Carmelo Anthony led the Orangemen to a National Title. Syracuse was the 3rd place team in the big East. Just think about the uproar had the 3rd place Big Ten team just won the National Title in football.

I was watching the end of the Missouri and Marquette game and was totally disgusted when Tiller from Missouri was fouled with 5.5 seconds to go, supposedly was hurt and Missouri got to bring in a new shooter to take the free throws. I know the rule but it needs to be changed for this reason. I say supposedly hurt because he checked right back in after the free throws were shot. Come on no one heals that quickly and it was legal but not with the intent of the rule. If you can’t shoot you should have to miss a specific amount of time, like 2 minutes of game time. That should carry into overtime if necessary.

Ohio State Coach Matta what were you thinking? Less then ten seconds to go and up three points never let the other team shoot a three. Foul them and then you won’t lose in overtime. Ronald Moore hits a barely contested three with 3.9 seconds left and your team loses in overtime. Just like the prevent defense doesn’t work neither does not fouling at the end of a game when up by three. Have seen some plenty of coaches use this strategy and not one of them has lost.

JD is a contributor to The Sports Information Hub and can be contacted at jdthesportsguy@gmail.com

Bracket Challenge Update: The Numbers

Thanks to all who signed up for our Bracket Challenge. We'll go over a few numbers of the numbers.

• 86 people signed up for the challenge.
• 1 person forgot to submit their picks, so we'll just go with 85.
• 1 person also forgot to pick the National Champion, which is unfortunate for them. They are currently tied for 5th place, but they now have no shot to win, because of this oversight.
• 25% picked North Carolina to win it all.
• #1 seeds were picked to win on 70.2% of the brackets. (UNC 25%, Louisville 21.4%, Pitt 13.1%, Connecticut 10.7%)
• Big East teams were picked to win on 50% of the brackets.
• Only 1 person picked a team to win it all that didn't make the Sweet 16 (Wake Forest).
• 5 people received 27 points (27 of 32 picks) in the 1st round, the highest in this bracket.
• 4 people received 30 points (15 of 16 picks) in the 2nd round, the highest in this bracket.
• The top 4 brackets all have different teams winning the tournament.

The current leader of the bracket challenge is meltdown1914 (MSU1914). He leads with 56 points, and his pick to win it all is North Carolina.

Big Ali (Vikings) is currently in 2nd place with 55 points. He picked Michigan State.

dhomz (dhomz) is currently tied for 3rd place with 54 points and has picked Memphis.

bkallstar3 (bk) is currently tied for 3rd place with 54 points and has picked Pitt.

DC is a contributor to The Sports Information Hub and can be contacted at dcthesportsguy@gmail.com