( Tom Pennington / GETTY IMAGES )All day the Canadian Football League was locked in radio silence, for good reason. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats had hired Art Briles, the disgraced former coach at Baylor University who was fired after dozens of allegations of rape, harassment, stalking and assault by his players surfaced despite his best efforts. The statement announcing Briles wasn’t coming arrived at 9:23 p.m. Baylor University didn’t fire him until it was clear that his players had committed dozens and perhaps hundreds of crimes on his watch, up to and including rape. The hiring of Art Briles, it’s symbolic that it doesn’t matter.

Source: thestar August 28, 2017 23:41 UTC