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Thursday thoughts (or as close as it comes to things like that around here): It’s not entirely clear whether the possibility that Arizona might lose the right to host Super Bowl XLIX (that’s the 2015 game) was the key reason that a proposed discriminatory (meaning anti-gay) bill was squashed. The NBA’s Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury were among those businesses that had come out against the bill that its Republican proponents viewed as “religious liberty” legislation. Gov. Jan Brewer (also a Republican) vetoed SB 1260 Wednesday. In no small part because of the negative economic impact such bigoted legislation could have had. Thank God we don’t live in a theocracy.
Hannah Ferguson is in some videos, if you scroll down (and even if you don’t).
* The Super Bowl Host Committee had given Brewer its opinion regarding the bill that would have allowed public businesses to deny services to anyone because of religious beliefs. Like the NFL itself, the committee was opposed to to such discriminatory legislation. Thank God we live in a country that worships the NFL over bigotry.
* In case anyone thinks the NFL might have been bluffing, a reminder that the league moved the 1993 Super Bowl to
the Rose Bowl from Arizona after Arizona voters in 1990 rejected a paid state holiday to honor Martin Luther King. The Super Bowl returned to Arizona in 1996 after Arizona approved the King holiday in a 1992 vote. Thank God for the Super Bowl. Well, unless you think Arizona voters became incredibly enlightened in such a short time.
* The Chicago Bulls’ 103-83 victory vs. the visiting Golden State Warriors Wednesday featured the Bulls holding guard Stephen Curry to a season-low five points on 2-of-10 shooting (1-of-3 from three-point range). An even more impressive number was Bulls forward Mike Dunleavy’s plus/minus rating of plus-30.
* If it’s Thursday (with the chances being extremely good that it is because yesterday was Wednesday — provided that today is February 27, 2014, or a subsequent Thursday), then it is time for another edition of “Sports & Torts” co-hosted by David Spada and Elliott Harris at noon Central time on Talkzone.com. The highly acclaimed interview show (well, it is held in such esteem in the Spada and Harris households, as well as reportedly elsewhere) features Andre Reed and Bill Bradley as this week’s guests. Reed is the former Buffalo Bills receiver who recently was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and will be inducted in August in Canton, Ohio. Bradley is the former Princeton University and New York Knicks basketball star who went on to become a U.S. senator and presidential aspirant. Our interview with him is one of the best that the program has had the pleasure to be a part of. You can judge for yourself. The show also will be available later in the day Thursday via podcast at the Talkzone.com web site.
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