What . Out sports was started many years ago because being a sports fan realized people did not want to talk about sports and sports did not want to talk about them gay issues but we did we knew there was a large group of people. So we talk about the issuesou of homophobia or athletes coming out on their team and so the we became the experts in the area we were the only ones talking about it. And slowly as professional athletes started to come outut of the closet for the Mainstream Media started to pay more attention with the professional athletes those highschool athletes in the smaller athletes the media does not talk much about them but their stories are in trouble to what we tried to tell about sports. Host in your book fair play you talk about the big five correct. Bid big five sports leagues a lot of people say for the nfl even with declining ratings still the most powerful Cultural Institution that we have the nba baseball and Hockey League the big five would add majorleague soc
Obviously they are somewhat subjective when they say all objectives are achieved. People said about the americans in vietnam you can just declare victory and get out. If they do intend to check houthi advance and cause them to go back and leave the capitol, allow the government to take power and so on they probably will need some Ground Forces and may not be saudi Ground Forces and societies dont have much experience and they may be able to work with the pakistanis or the egyptians or some of the larger ground force armies to do that but otherwise they can either have to lower their ambitions and goals or increase their capabilities. One final thought, a brief thought if you can, a lengthy war surely would destabilize the region . Yes. But its a region that is replete with a lengthy war so since you have this in iraq afghanistan, syria, its not clear to me how fighting would destabilize the entire region any more than what we have now. I think its more a disaster for the yemen people.
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city im stephanie sy opposition is growing today in arkansas now that the state has become the latest to pass a so called religious freedom bill and wall mart which is headquarters in arkansas is urging the governor to veto it and other leaders and gay and lesbian advocates and they tell us the bill is similar to one that drew anger and protest in indiana. Reporter the furor that the governor started in indiana. I could have handled that better this weekend. Reporter is spreading across the country. Its overwhelming. We dealt with in the 50s. House bill 1228 is a moral and ethical shame. Reporter house in arkansas voted tuesday to make that the 21st state to enact a religious freedom measure and second in a week. The law that is already in place in more than half the states. Reporter governor will put it in law and protesters outside and inside the State Capitol and Governors Mansion urge him to reconsider. We are heart broken about it. Thi
Hello, a lot to get to this sunday morning. Most of us are begging for spring. So much of the country battered by the recordbreaking winter. And u. S. This weekend, yet another blizzard in the northeast. And out west, an epic drought. Whats behind the weird weather, what can be done about it, and abc meteorologist ginger zee starts us off. Reporter most of the nation is in a state of meteorology exhaustion. The coldest winter in minnesota in 33 years. The great lakes, almost 90 frozen. Normally it would be just over 30. And new york city, buried. Now in their top ten snowiest seasons. Snowfall totals from North Carolina up to indianapolis between two and three times their normal. 75,000 flights cancelled since december 1st. Thats an alltime record. And pennsylvania, theyve been in the heart of the misery, a giant pile up on friday. Abcs linn swree janice was right there. Reporter the sun was shining, the roads mostly clear, but there was one problem, temperatures plummeted overnight an
Thats an alltime record. And pennsylvania, theyve been in the heart of the misery, a giant pile up on friday. Abcs linn swree janice was right there. Reporter the sun was shining, the roads mostly clear, but there was one problem, temperatures plummeted overnight and turned this pennsylvania turnpike into a sheet of ice. Reporter causing this fivemile long Chain Reaction pileup. More than a hundred cars, dozens injured. Almost all of this weather can be related to a single pattern locked in place. All winter, its been stuck. Every time in the weather center, we see the same thing, the jet stream cutting the nation in half. On the east, the coldest in decades to come as far south as the deep south, the gulf, really. And the jet stream in the right place, that moisture rides along it, snowstorm after snowstorm from the great lakes to the northeast. But thats also creating an extreme in the west. That big ridge gives record drought and heat. California last year, the driest year on record