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Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. This week, they discuss the NCAAs revenue sharing, Don Zimmer, soccer language and Super Bowl 50. Dave Naylor, TSN Radio 1050: My thumb is down to world of big-time American college sports, which reminded us again this week there is no end to hypocrisy when it comes to sharing wealth with its players. This week Alabama football coach Nick Saban and Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari were rewarded with contracts worth more than $50 million each. This comes just as the NCAA is about to begin defending its right not to share revenues with players; in the lawsuit filed by former UCLA basketball star Ed OBannon, which starts on Monday. How the NCAA can argue theres not enough money in the system to compensate players when coaches like Saban and Calapari can earn more than $6 million a year should be interesting. But we just know theyll find a way to do it. Dave Feschuk, Toronto Star: My thumb is up to baseball characters. May they live forever in our memory, even as they leave us. The game lost an unforgettable one this week with the passing of Don Zimmer. In a sport built on stories, his was a pure classic. Zimmer met Babe Ruth as a boy, got married to his high-school sweetheart at home plate of a minor-league park, played with Jackie Robinson and won a World Series with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Hell probably be remembered best for charging Pedro Martinez back in 2003, when Zimmer was in his 70s at the time. As he said later, "I sure wasnt going over there to kiss him." Baseballs heroes arent always so easy to embrace. So often today we focus on money and moneyball. Zimmers life was about finding a love and fighting to keep it. He loved baseball so much, it nearly killed him. As a player, he survived two fastballs to the head. One put him in a coma, another caved in his face. He kept playing after both. He got fired four times as a manager, but he never retired. Nobody ever wanted him to. For characters as unique as Zimmer, there are no replacements. Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: As I said four years ago, and plan to say again in 2018, my thumb is down to anybody in this country who plans to speak world cup soccer English for the next month. I dont want anyone saying a goalkeeper had a clean sheet. Clean sheets are in your linen closet. He had a shutout. The score, maybe, was one nothing, not one nil. And please dont tell me the United States needs a result against Ghana. A loss is a result, not a good result, but a result. And just so were clear, its not football here, its soccer. Alright, now carry on and keep calm. Dave Hodge, TSN: My thumb is up, though not for long, to the National Football League for deciding to ditch the Roman numeral "l" for super bowl 50, to be played in February of 2016. The use of Roman numerals began with super bowl 5, sorry, "v", and it has proved to be very successful - in creating confusion. Now that couldnt have been its intention, but what else, pray tell, was it supposed to do? Make the event seem bigger than it is? It needs no help from an ancient alphabet. But, as I said, the NFL is praised here only briefly, because it will return to Roman numerals for super bowl 51 - LI - and theres no end in sight, unless its super bowl 59, which will read LIX, and maybe the NFL wont be fond of Super Bowl licks, which come to think of it, was last seasons super bowl - Denver taking its licks from Seattle. Nike Zoom Sale USA . Although head coach Randy Carlyle jokingly wondered how much actual training Bolland got done while in London. 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Directly ahead was open field, the end zone and the Seattle Seahawks place in the NFC championship game.Football is a fraternity, and NFL players rarely criticize each other publicly, especially when it comes to matters of discipline. That changed with the release of a video Monday that shows Ray Rice striking his then-fiancee in February. Hours later, the running back was let go by the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL. Players across the league made their feelings clear through social media and in interviews. Among the most outspoken was Denver defensive tackle Terrance "Pot Roast" Knighton. He unleashed a series of tweets saying, among other things, that Rice should be kicked out of the league and thrown in jail. He also criticized NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for initially suspending Rice for just two games. "It just came from the heart, really," Knighton explained later in the locker room. "Whether I was a football player or not, I spoke my mind. A lot of guys dont speak their mind just because theyre worried about the consequences and what people think. But Im one of those guys that regardless of what it is, Im going to speak my mind. "I felt strongly about the situation and domestic violence overall. So I just spoke on it. I gave my opinion. I think the league handled it the right way." Denver teammate Bubba Caldwell said Knightons tweets made him watch the video, "and once I saw it, I was 100 per cent behind him. I would never want anybody to put their hands on my mother or sister. I believe the punishment is what it should be." Caldwell acknowledged that players are loathe to criticize one another, but "sometimes youve got to step up, not just as a football player, and voice your opinion. And if you really feel strongly about something, I dont think the uniform you wear or the team you play for should determine if you speak out or not." Knighton is the oldest of four boys, "and Im a role model for them also. So, I dont think thats acceptable in any workplace, any job you have, anywhere you live, wherever you are, what colour you are, how much money you make. That shouldnt be accepted anywhere." He said if one of his teammates were involved in domestic violence, "I wouldnt be friends with the guy or talk to the guy." Knighton said he didnt speak out about Rices initial two-game suspension because he didnt know all the details. "Originally, you just see him carrying her so you dont know what happened," Knighton said. "... But now that the video is out, I think the league handled it the right way. Like I said, theres no place in the world for domestic violence." When Knighton was voted a defensive captain by his peers last week, he said part of being a leader was "speaking your mind. When things are uncomfortable and things aare wanted to be said, you man up and say those things.ddddddddddddquot; When he saw the TMZ video of Rices hit, Knighton took to Twitter, saying "this video "makes me sick to my stomach" and adding, "That man should be thrown out the nfl and thrown into jail. Shame on those deciding his punishment. Smh." Heres a sampling of other reactions across the NFL: -- Steelers cornerback William Gay: "Were talking about a life, I dont care about a sport when it comes down to domestic violence. This is real. Someone can lose their life to it. "So Im not concerned about the sport. Im concerned about what happens in the world, what happens in real life. " Gays mother, Carolyn, was shot and killed by Gays stepfather in Tallahassee, Florida, when Gay was 7 years old. He volunteers at the Womens Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh and is an advocate for domestic violence victims. "We need to do everything we can to help Ray Rice because we dont need to run away from him and say hes evil." -- Bills coach Doug Marrone, who supports Vera House, which assists victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse: "Am I happy the NFL has taken a harder stance? ... I mean, there is no excuse for abuse. I really believe that." -- Cleveland Browns coach Mike Pettine, who called the video "deeply disturbing, especially as a father that has two daughters": "Theres just no place for that behaviour in our society." -- Titans tackle Michael Oher, former teammate of Rices in Baltimore whose locker was next to the running back: "If my daughter was to get hit like that from another man, Id have a serious problem with it. So I wish him the best, but its no place for that. I dont care if youre a football player, a professional athlete or anything, a regular man or anything, theres no place for that -- striking a woman." -- Judy Harris Kluger, a former New York City judge and now executive director of Sanctuary for Families, a leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence and related forms of gender violence: "The video of Ray Rice punching his fiancee in the elevator is a graphic illustration of what goes on behind closed doors every day in this country. In my years as a prosecutor and judge, I never saw such explicit videotape evidence of domestic violence. Today, by acting quickly and decisively, and in suspending Ray Rice and terminating his contract, the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens sent a powerful message that domestic violence will not be tolerated. "I hope that with this action, along with the new policy outlined by Commissioner Goodell, the NFL will emerge as leaders in the fight against domestic violence." ' ' '