Volume 4, Edition 3 | 2012-13 Academic School Year SUBSCRIPTION: 18 of 38 | The Daughtry Times Identification No. 222 Suspensions Vacated For Players In Bounty Case Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | Judy Battista, New York Times In a surprising rebuke of , his predecessor as N.F.L. commissioner, , vacated the suspensions of four players involved in a bounty scandal that has roiled the for more than nine months. Tagliabue, appointed by Goodell to handle a second round of player appeals after Goodell was forced to modify his original discipline, walked a tightrope in his rulings Tuesday. He affirmed Goodell’s finding that a bounty program offering money for hits that knocked opponents from games did exist. He also said that , and Will Smith engaged in conduct that was detrimental to the league and that Vilma offered a $10,000 bounty on .

But Tagliabue — who conducted a hearing that included interviews of players, coaches and other league personnel — shifted the blame for the program almost entirely to the Saints, citing “broad organizational misconduct.” He agreed with Goodell that senior Saints coaches “conceived, encouraged and directed” the bounty program and that coaches and managers “led a deliberate, unprecedented and effective effort to obstruct the N.F.L.’s investigation” into the program. Coach had previously been suspended for the 2012 season, the former was suspended indefinitely; General Manager Mickey Loomis was suspended for eight games and the interim was suspended for six games. Those punishments have stood.

Tagliabue exonerated the former Saints , finding he had not engaged in conduct detrimental to the league because he did not participate in a program promoting “cart-off” and “knockout” hits. Fujita’s participation in a noninjury-pay-for-performance pool, Tagliabue said, was an action usually dealt with by a player’s team, not the league. Tagliabue wrote that Vilma did offer a pregame bounty against Favre, but that it was not clear if it was a serious offer or one made for inspirational purposes. Tagliabue said he could not “uphold a multi-game suspension where there is no evidence that a player’s speech before a game was actually a factor causing misconduct on the playing field and that such misconduct was severe enough in itself to warrant a player suspension or a very substantial fine.”

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1. In appropriate paragraph form, compare and contrast the pros and cons synonymous with overturning disciplinary measures applied via an authority figure. Do you personally believe Tagliabue made a rational decision in the best interest of ensuring an orderly environment conducive to player safety? Thoroughly explain your reasoning and provide specific artifacts and evidence not limited solely to passage above to support your response. Create and illustrate Venn Diagrams to effectively explore relationships and patterns and to make arguments about relationships between sets. (LA.910.3.2.2; LA.910.1.6.2; MA.912.D.7.2; MA.912.A.10.1)

2. ’ , Brett Favre, posed a threat to the opposing New Orleans Saints’ defensive squad, which ultimately equated to a $10,000 bounty offered in exchange for an injury. During a passing play, to address the height of an overly aggressive Saints’ defensive backfield, the football was released at an initial upward velocity of approximately 88 feet per second with a starting height of precisely 6 feet intended for a receiver strategically positioned 40 yards away. Write the equation in standard form. Evaluate the discriminant by employing the vertical motion formula to determine if the ball will reach the receiver. (MA.912.A.10.1; MA.912.A.7.2; MA.912.A.7.8)

3. An official goal post consists of a horizontal crossbar suspended 10 feet above the ground, with two vertical goalposts 18 feet 6 inches apart extending vertically from each end of the crossbar. Using the Pythagorean Theorem, find the length of the hypotenuse of the given right triangle and determine if a Pythagorean Triple exists. Identify the formulas as well as specifically what information one may derive from obtaining the following measurements via the following trigonometric ratios when applied to the sculpture: tangent, sine, and cosine. Explain your reasoning and determine whether the solution(s) is reasonable in the context of the original situation. (MA.912.G.5.1; MA.912.G.5.4; MA.912.T.2.1)

4. Using contextual clues only, define the following italicized terms: indefinitely, interim, rebuke, detrimental, and exonerated as obtained from the passage above. Additionally, use each word in a complete sentence to demonstrate further comprehension. (LA.910.1.6.3; LA.910.1.6.1)

5. SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY WORD-OF-THE-WEEK Create a concluding paragraph aligned with the passage above using the following italicized word: Precipitous (pri-si-pə-təs) (adj.) Very steep, perpendicular, rise and fall. (LA.910.1.6.1; LA.910.1.6.5)

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards adapted from floridastandards.org. Standards specifically addressed in this edition are strategically aligned with state standards and annotated adjacent to the respective inquiry.

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