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In Texas, the Dallas Stars are set to pocket two hundred fifty million dollars pulled directly from the Plano Independent School District's budget to fund a new hockey arena. Let that sink in — a struggling school district voting to hand a quarter billion to a billionaire-owned franchise. The backlash is loud and it should be.
Shifting to Tallahassee, Florida State has dismissed freshman cornerback Chuck Kennon after a Sunday arrest stemming from a police chase that allegedly hit speeds around one hundred fifty miles per hour near Tampa. Kennon is facing charges of aggravated fleeing to elude, and authorities say he refused to let a female passenger exit the vehicle. His college career is over before it really began.
And at FIFA, president Gianni Infantino stood before the FIFA Council and issued an apology over his controversial World Cup sell-off plan — but the Council made clear that saying sorry wasn't enough. He's been told he still isn't fit to lead the organization. The pressure on football's most powerful governing body is not letting up anytime soon.
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