In the later years I had gratitude for times I agrred with Dad, and a biggie was when he paid tribute to the scholar-athlete ideal. My youngest brother attended Occidental College where he also played football. This was a big point of reference for Dad's praise, and one I pointed to when I touted my own pride at attending group fitness classes every day and, well, another daily aspect of keeping above my experience of the national floor on mental endeavor. My brother met his wife at Oxy and they have had a fine marriage, including excellent care for a son with Downs'.

Recently the L. A. Weekly broke a story about cover-ups of rape and intimidation of victims at Occidental, and this was verified and made other headlines. What didn't make headlines, stomped a bit into the floor of quantity and quality of media attention, was what are termed "men's rights" groups at Oxy are flooding the sexual misconduct hot line at the institution with bogus calls and rendering it ineffective.

In the year 2013. At a very academically respected school our current President is an alumnus. I bet a lot of these "men's rights" shlubs voted against him: my sissy/pansy, according to many hard driving males I've endured, opinion. A school founded by the Methodists.

Down in Florida, the Heisman winner may well end up on the team which winds the BCS championship---small "c", caplitalize on your own. He was not charged with a rape out of resignation and the general plight of women abused by "men of value" over the ages. The Prosecutor's Office in Florida abandoned the case more out of frustration than vindication, and mentioned the trauma the lady would endure. had charges been pressed, from public opinion at daring to cast aspersions over a man many Floridians hold God accountable to. Or one of them.

Such a thing to be proud of, America in 2014. Let's salute the big Y chromosome in the sky and enjoy the game, played scant miles from the black and orange.