"As it relates to one other aspect of it, and I'll reinforce this point, which I have before, they are being paid for the preseason games," said the commissioner. "It's all part of our total gross revenue, and it's calculated up and they get a percentage of that. They might not get a check cut during that week, but that is how they're paid and those revenues are part of that.In Sweden, I attended services at an Englishlanguage church, where one of the members told me during coffee hour that the Swedish safety net is so strong that only hardcore alcoholics and drug addicts fall through the cracks. This particular church therefore expresses its charitable impulses by partnering with churches in Eastern Europe, where the sudden transition to capitalism has created great hardships. (The transition created millionaires and billionaires but left many people worse off than before for a variety of reasons.).

Joshua Huffman graduated from Middle Tennessee State Unive