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Ha! What now Aaron Rodgers? Loving the fact Green Bay lost yet again. Hope the anti-vaxxing prick fades into obscurity.
Next game as of this posting will be the Bills and Chiefs. I am hoping for a great game. What gets to me when watching the playoffs is to see the good teams play offense and defense and see how far away my local teams (Jets and Giants) are from that level. It is like they are driving a Porsche, Ferrari, whatever, and we NY fans have an 70’s Pinto…. if that.
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Brady and The Buccaneers are out. The last few minutes of the game were insane.
I wonder if Brady will retire after this? There are rumors that say he will.
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I still give Brady credit for his strict eating and training regimen to still be going at it in his mid 40’s
However…
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Mahomes just bugs me.
Join the Club! Everyone in Western NY is despising the little F234er(compared to Josh Allen)today. I don’t think it is going away anytime soon because every time I see him I will think of last night and with all his ads I will be seeing him too much.
13 seconds is 13 seconds but I believe there was some home cooking last night.
G D coinflips, everyone knows Tails is better than Heads. Who wouldn’t rather have a piece of tail over foamy head on your beer.
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The Bills defense should be ashamed of themselves. There’s no excuse for allowing that to happen in 13 seconds. Josh Allen did everything he could to win that game and his defense fell apart in the fourth quarter and OT. NFL also desperately needs to change OT rules. Both teams should get at least one possession. I know people have been saying that for years, but last night’s game was as much proof as you’ll ever need. KC basically just wins because of a dumb coin toss while Allen doesn’t get a chance to battle back.
At least TB lost, despite the Rams trying to give away the game over and over again.
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Roethlisberger retires at 39: Time to ‘hang up my cleats’
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Tom Brady retires from the game.
https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/nfl-tom-brady-retirement-news/index.html
Or is he?
https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/nfl-tom-brady-retirement-news/index.html
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That was surprising.
Why KC didn’t put them away. KC did NOTHING in the 3rd Q.
That is what they get.
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According to its official reports, China is hosting the Winter Games at a budget-friendly cost of $3.9 billion.
Insider’s investigation revealed that the total sum is in excess of $37.4 billion, 23 times the country’s initial budget of $1.6 billion.
This includes construction costs and the hefty price tag of new infrastructure — like a $9.2 billion bullet train.When Chinese leader Xi Jinping toured Beijing’s Winter Games venues in November, he expressed modest ambitions for the Olympics — that they be “Green, safe, and simple.” It was a pared-down vision, in stark contrast to the pomp and circumstance of the country’s 2008 Summer Games and its $42 billion price tag.
According to official tallies, at least, Beijing appeared to keep with Xi’s mission. With a price tag of $3.9 billion, the 2022 Beijing Olympics are, on paper, the least expensive Games in the last two decades. But questions have arisen as to whether China accurately reported how much it’s spent to make the global athletic competition happen. Insider’s investigation into the numbers revealed that the actual sum is in excess of $38.5 billion, 10 times the official budget.
China’s lack of transparency might have given it bragging rights, with the state-linked media touting claims of the country’s immense “strength” and ability to host a mega-sporting event at a fraction of the price of the Tokyo Summer Games and the Sochi Olympics. But this claim is inaccurate at best and a gross underestimation of just how much it takes for countries to host the Games.
“Coming out of China, it’s all the more difficult to get any detailed or accurate information. I don’t need to tell you that things are heavily centralized and controlled there. And so I have not, to this date, I haven’t seen any estimates,” sports economist Andrew Zimbalist told Insider.
China, he continued, isn’t “talking about the transportation infrastructure. They’re not talking about the sporting infrastructure. They’re not talking about the cost of building the Olympic village. And so any so-called official numbers or budgetary figures that come out of any of these games is highly suspect,” Zimbalist added.
The off-the-books costs of the Beijing Games
The Fuxing bullet train can bring passengers from Beijing to Zhangjiakou in 50 minutes, a trip that would normally take three hours.There are dozens of line items missing from Beijing’s official tally, Insider found.
For one, its National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the Ice Ribbon — which was completed in 2020 and estimated in 2017 to cost the government around $186.6 million to build. HOW DO WE KNOW THIS WASN’T AN OFFICIAL LINE ITEM? It also repurposed several venues constructed for the 2008 Games, including the Bird’s Nest, Beijing’s national stadium, and the Water Cube, the city’s aquatics center. However, it’s unclear how much China spent to refurbish the venues.
Many of its biggest ticket items fall under the category of “capital improvements,” which the International Olympics Committee classifies as separate from other types of Games expenses.
“The (budget) is dependent on what already exists and the long-term goals the hosts wish to achieve with the staging of the Games as sports venues do not serve only the four weeks of Olympic and Paralympic Games competition,” an IOC representative told Insider. “They are meant to have both community and commercial use and benefit the hosts for many years afterward.”
Many of China’s capital improvements have centered on Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, two satellite locations for the Games.
China converted Yanqing, a district in northwest Beijing, into a glistening series of arenas with an alpine ski center and a separate Olympic Village to accommodate over 1,400 athletes and officials. (A second Olympic Village in Beijing’s city center designed to house around 2,300 athletes cost an estimated $3.16 billion, according to 2019 figures LINK).
The country spent an estimated $442.9 million to construct bobsled, skeleton, luge, and alpine skiing venues in Yanqing. Separately, Xinhua reported, two dozen unnamed corporations donated an additional $514.1 million to Yanqing’s development, though this amount was billed as cash investments to develop the district.
China poured another $5.18 billion into building 50 projects related to its Olympic venues in Zhangjiakou, a city of around 1.5 million that’s known as “the Gateway to Beijing.” One of those projects is the country’s third Olympic village, which will house an additional 2,640 people. It also contains competition venues like the Genting Snow Park, the National Biathlon Center, the National Ski Jumping Center, and the National Cross-Country Center.
Building out Olympics satellite locations also requires a robust transportation infrastructure. So China spruced up Zhangjiakou’s Ningyuan airport at the cost of $205.6 million and pumped $15.02 billion into building new highways to ensure connectivity between the satellite areas just in time for the Olympics.
Another $773.5 million is estimated to have gone into the Beijing Winter Olympics Subway Line, built specifically to cater to the Winter Games.
And the country spent another $9.2 billion on a driverless bullet train designed to ferry passengers between Zhangjiakou and Beijing within 50 minutes, down from an initial travel time of three hours.
Zhou, the deputy minister of finance, told Xinhua News in 2015 that China would offset some of its infrastructure costs by converting the Olympic villages built in Beijing and Zhangjiakou into commercial housing after the Games. Additionally, the country plans to offset the price tag of many of the venues built for the Winter Olympics by repurposing them as “basic infrastructural amenities,” per state-linked news outlet Renmin Daily.
The country also plans to use the bevy of new sporting venues to “vigorously” develop ice and snow sports across the region.
A 2019 memo from the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China lamented China’s “low level of competition, limited participation of the masses, and weak industrial foundation” when compared with “the world’s ice and snow powers” and vowed to “vigorously popularize mass ice and snow sports.”
China may also be writing off the expense of maintaining its COVID-19 bubble and neglecting to tabulate the hefty environmental and social costs of the Games
Beijing is ramping up COVID-19 testing in the capital, and anally swabbing small segments of its population in a bid to ring-fence as many Omicron cases as possible.Zimbalist, the sports economist, told Insider that the severe environmental and social costs associated with hosting the games likely wouldn’t be included in any official budget.
“The Northeast of China, Beijing and further North, as you approach the Gobi Desert, is an area that’s very arid. They already have to move tremendous amounts of water from Southern China and pump it up to take care of the agricultural needs because the Northeast is a breadbasket for China,” Zimbalist told Insider.
“They’re going to be diverting water away from the agricultural uses in order to make the artificial snow. Those environmental costs are not going to be included. And the social costs, which will have to do with disruption and dislocation (of people), are not going to be included,” Zimbalist added.
Maintaining a strict COVID-19 bubble for the Games also doesn’t seem to have been factored into the Games’ costs. China also hasn’t revealed how much it spent on COVID-19 measures. To encourage social distancing and minimize contact, the Olympics will employ robots to serve food, disinfect floors and provide directions to visitors. It’s also created a “closed-loop” bubble, in which athletes, officials, broadcasters, and journalists may move only within designated locales.
But organizing such widespread health initiatives requires large quantities of human and financial resources.
“With COVID-19, there will definitely be additional costs to contain the virus, like testing measures and quarantining. China will need manpower to control COVID-19, and I don’t believe that they’ve included this in the costs,” said Bryan Chiu, an associate professor of sports management at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University’s Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration.
China says it’s saved money by ‘streamlining unnecessary events’
A representative from the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) told Insider that differentiations are made between the Games organization budget and any capital investment the host country may undertake.
The IOC went on to say that the Games organizing budget, which includes competition organization, venue operations, workforce, technology, and transportation, is almost entirely privately-funded. It includes revenues from sponsors, ticket sales, merchandise, and hospitality, as well as a “significant financial contribution” from the IOC.
The IOC noted that according to the Beijing 2022 Organising Committee’s latest financial projections, the Winter Games has a “balanced budget” that includes some $880 million in financial contributions from the IOC.
A representative for the Beijing Olympic Committee told Insider that the country’s expenditure so far during the preparation process has been “roughly equivalent to the budget reports.”
The committee did acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic had increased costs.
To offset this, “in accordance with our desire to host a ‘simple, safe and exciting’ competition, some costs were saved by streamlining unnecessary events,” the representative added, highlighting the shortened Olympic torch relay procession in the Chinese capital.
The committee rep also said China would release an official account of Olympics expenses six months after the end of the Games.
Chinese officials are touting the Beijing Games as ‘financially austere’
China wants to “show the whole world we are capable of doing something and showing our national power to the whole world,” said Bryan Chiu, an associate professor of sports management at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University’s Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration.The Winter Games’ official price tag of $3.9 is a far cry from the country’s 2008 Summer Games, which came in at around $42 billion.
Government officials told Sohu News that event preparations, including the cost of operating the stadiums, healthcare systems, and transportation for the athletes and staff would come to $1.5 billion. Another $1.5 billion, they told Sohu, would go to constructing and furnishing competition venues and non-competition venues, leaving around $900 million unaccounted for.
Chinese official Zhou Xing, deputy minister of finance and market development for the Games and a Beijing Winter Olympics bid committee member, told state-owned media Xinhua News that the Olympics planning committee was looking to save as much money as possible.
“We have money and strength, but we will spend the money in a financially austere manner, and still hold a high-quality Winter Olympics,” said Zhou.
Xu Jicheng, director of information and planning at the Beijing Winter Olympics Bid Committee, echoed her sentiments. “We’ve hosted one Olympic Games, so we know exactly where to save money,” he said. CITATION HERE PLS?
China ultimately may be touting the Games’ lowballed — and inaccurate — final cost as a way to boast superiority over the recent Tokyo Games, which came in at around TKTKKT according to TKKTKTK.
“These Olympic Games are happening only six months after the Tokyo Olympic Games. Now it will be easier for people to compare these two games, and of course, China will want to be better than Japan. It’s a good way to prove that China is an advanced country, and to say — we are green, and we are technologically advanced,” said Chiu, the sports management professor.
Chiu added that, as in 2008, the 2022 Winter Games could be a rallying call for Chinese nationalism and a way to hype up the Chinese populace using a mega-sporting event.
“This time, the symbolic meaning is more important to China. They want to show the whole world we are capable of doing something and showing our national power to the whole world,” Chiu said. “They are very proud of being Chinese and (demonstrating) that they are capable of hosting such huge events.”
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Very happy to see KC lose yesterday. This is the first time in more than a decade where I don’t actively dislike at least one team in the Super Bowl. Hopefully it can live up to the rest of the postseason games this year, because this has probably been the most entertaining set of NFL playoffs I’ve ever seen.
Also, I have to believe SF will be moving on from Jimmy G now. Dude is garbage in the playoffs. 6 games in his career, 4 total TDs, 6 ints, average of about 160 passing yards per game. Last night was maybe his best playoff game to date and it was very mediocre. In fact, if not for Deebo turning a 1 yard screen pass into a 40 yard TD, his stats were pretty terrible. Will be curious to see where he lands.
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this has probably been the most entertaining set of NFL playoffs I’ve ever seen.
So true; virtually every game in the post-season has been determined in the final minutes of regulation time or the early minutes of OT; and an early wide lead has been no guarantee of victory. I’m glad I don’t gamble.
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@njerry speaking of gambling, Have you been hit by the deluge of ads now that NY has allowed sports books?
I too was glad to see KC lose. After KC won the coin toss, Josh Allen tweets one word: Pain. I sympathize with him and glad Cincy went down the field and scored after the INT.
Sean McVay and Joe Burrow bring something extra to their interviews. Hopefully I won’t get sick of them by the time the Game rolls around.
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@njerry speaking of gambling, Have you been hit by the deluge of ads now that NY has allowed sports books?
Of course. I despise them as much as I despise the various ads for medications where they spend 15 seconds touting the benefits and 45 seconds listing all the possible side effects.
I’m not against gambling, I just know it’s not something I’m interested in. But I know people who have gambling addiction problems, and I have major concerns that the on-line betting and gambling apps will make it easier for those people to dig themselves into a financial hole that they can never climb out of, in the comfort of their soon-to-be-repossessed homes.
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Unfortunately for Flores, the NFL has a tendency to blackball people who make them feel uncomfortable about racial issues. I’m sure it’ll be ever worse when that someone is shining a big light on the NFLs racism. Goddell is a petty, trash human to begin with. this will probably make him worse. The NFL should have ditched him ages ago. But he reflects most of the owners ideals so he’ll be safe.
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Flores said that he went for the Broncos interview once and John Elway
actually showed up about an hour late and he was also drunk, which said a lot about
how serious they took interviewing him.Positions like GM, head coach, and the on the field offense leader QB, are high profile, face of the franchise
positions and do you think most want someone black or Hispanic there representing?The KC offensive coordinator Bienemy who helped Mahomes become so explosive at QB most likely would have been
an HC years go if he was … you can finish the sentence.It has been a sham for years and everybody knows it. Such a shame.
Regarding sham interviews and the run around game in office positions:
There are times when the office has already decided but they get the word out that they are hiring to pick up resumes just to see how talented the market of applicants are at the time. Most of those elite firms in NYC like the NYSE, Goldman Sachs and other Wall St. firms don’t genuinely go on those online job sites to find employees. It is mostly hiring from a strong connection, recruiting from Ivy League business schools… you really have to know somebody.
As for minorities: Some firms will look at the resume and read good talent. Then when they call for an interview and see
the applicant is black or Hispanic, sometimes you get “We are looking for someone who fits the office culture…” and that
sort of thing.Some (or is it most?) offices don’t want to have too many darker-skinned personnel in the office, especially at the front desk greeting the clientele.
If a minority is hired, it goes to a light skinned applicant even over a more qualified but a darker skinned person. That is colorism and to be honest, it is probably why for example, Kamala is VP over Stacy Abrams.
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The Giants’ front office are doubling down and stating that Bill Belichick was talking out of his ass (although they phrased it nicer), and that they had not made a decision about who to hire for the Head Coach job prior to the scheduled interview with Brian Flores. Two thinks seem inevitable here:
1. Everyone will now realize that Belichick is a dumb fuck who either makes pronouncements without any actual facts involved, or can’t be trusted to keep a secret for 48 hours; and
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When I was a kid, the Olympics were such an important event to me. Now it’s like “oh, yeah, the Olympics.”
Am I alone in this?
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) February 4, 2022
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The Olympics did seem cooler when I was younger. I think part of it is that I didn’t know then how shit the IOC is or how the Olympics basically bankrupts host cities or that there’s actual world championships every single year in all these sports. Also doesn’t help that the events often happen long before they air and the internet spoils the crap out of everything immediately. All that stuff (and probably more I can’t remember) kind of takes off the shine from the event.
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The Olympics did seem cooler when I was younger
For me, the Olympics were cooler because it was one of the few times Sports dominated TV schedules. It had sports on everyday instead of various sports getting a game of the week, and the results were not spoiled by other mediums.
Re: Sean’s map: No big surprise that Ovi’s team is the most searched in Russia. Asian countries are interesting. Florida in India(?) Boston in Japan(?), Sean’s Canucks in China(?)
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The Olympics did seem cooler when I was younger.
Especially the Winter Olympics.
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The Olympics is a corruption shitfest, this year set in a fascist nation where the athletes of a country with a wide history of all sorts of doping is allowed to compete. Boycott it. Stay the fuck away.
My floor ball team, BK Halna, won the match yesterday, 5-2. This means we won all three last games, scoring nine points in the league and climbed a position! We’re now ranked 7 in our division. Yay!
Bit of a weird game. Played away, and when we arrived at the hall looking for our dressing rooms it dawned on the owners of the hall they’d double booked two games at the same time. One kids handball game and our game. Since the handball game is short compared to a floor ball game and all the kid players were there a little early, we decided to let the kids play first.
As compensation for the misunderstanding, we were awarded free sandwiches, coffee and fruit. I’m glad I was there to mediate between my very upset team and the hall owners. And I mean, we lost a couple of hours but we still won the game. All good!
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Why does the team he’s leaving get draft picks? Miami is the team actually promoting a minority coach. The NFL is dumb.
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Ok, so the Russian Athletes could not perform under the banner of Russia because of drug issues and have usurped the abbreviation ROC from my home town as a makeshift group designation.. Obviously they have not learned their lesson. SMH .
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the Russian Athletes could not perform under the banner of Russia because of drug issues and have usurped the abbreviation ROC
For the first couple days I kept seeing ROC winning medals and having the best scores in qualifying heats and thought, Wow, the Republic of China must have the hometeam advantage!
Duh.
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Ok, so the Russian Athletes could not perform under the banner of Russia because of drug issues and have usurped the abbreviation ROC from my home town as a makeshift group designation.. Obviously they have not learned their lesson. SMH .
Just another reason the Olympics can’t be taken seriously and world athletes should just abandon them. What’s great is that, because the skater in question is under age, there may be no real punishment because the World Anti Doping Association considers anyone under 16 a protected person who may have been too naive to know they took a banned substance. Props to Russia for figuring out new ways to game the system.
Honestly, every athlete from anywhere but Russia should be furious and realize the Olympics are a sham at this point. No integrity, no consequences, just squeeze as much money as possible out of it.
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To be honest I’ve never been bothered with the Winter Olympics, I think a large part because there’s rarely any British interest apart from Torvill and Dean and Eddie the Eagle in the 80s. It may be different for countries where ski resorts are common.
Anyway in more important sports news:
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I don’t normally pay much attention to the Winter Olympics either, but I’ve been really getting into curling this year. Watched some of the biathlon this morning and man, it looks gruelling. With most sports, when someone is performing at their peak, there’s a sort of gracefulness to it, the appearance that it’s effortless almost. Biathlon just looks like an absolute slog the entire time (apart from when they get to glide down the small hills). Everyone looks ungainly and awkward at every moment and every single one of them collapses down on the ground in a heap as soon as they get over the line. And the winner won with a 30 second lead. She must be super-human or something.
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And the winner won with a 30 second lead. She must be super-human or something.
It’s because how the biathlon works that you get leads like this. For every missed shot you have to do an extra lap on a small course near the shooting range.
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Was it a Norwegian? If so, super-human.
Was it a Russian? If so, steroids steroids steroids.
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Norwegian!
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We absolutely slaughtered Vara today. Beat them 9-3 at home. I’m so happy to be a part of this team.
BK HALNA FOREVER!
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Norwegian!
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there’s no reason this couldn’t be 3, maybe 4 dudes even pic.twitter.com/irfaAnqSYE
— dan the rock yang (@realDANYANG) February 12, 2022
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The big game was decent enough
As for some complaining about the attire at the Halftime show:
And in the Winter games, as for the Russian skater still being allowed to skate:
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I love that the IOC’s solution to the Russian skater thing was to let Russia off the hook again and, at best, essentially punish everyone else who medals. What a joke they are. They’re basically saying the rules don’t matter so countries should just do whatever they want.
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They’re basically saying the rules don’t matter so countries should just do whatever they want
The rules mattered to the Australian government when they refused to let unvaccinated Novak Djokovic stay in that country and play in the Australian Open.
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I love that the IOC’s solution to the Russian skater thing was to let Russia off the hook again and, at best, essentially punish everyone else who medals. What a joke they are. They’re basically saying the rules don’t matter so countries should just do whatever they want.
I saw where the athlete who was barred from competing in Japan for testing positive for marijuana is calling bullshit on the IOC.
I saw an article today talking about Russia’s figure skating program and how they don’t let skaters perform in multiple Olympics. They are pretty much one and done. So for this little doping 13 year old, this is it for her.
Richardson has every right and reason to be furious. It’s complete bs the way her situation was handled vs this one. Also, this girl may win gold, but she and her win will likely never be accepted by her peers. Women’s figure skating is basically the draw of the Winter Olympics and the IOC and Russia have just about ruined the cornerstone event of the Winter games. Not that Russia gives a toss about how they or their athletes are perceived. They don’t give a damn about people in general. Which I’m sure is at least part of the reason their athletes have such short careers.
They’re basically saying the rules don’t matter so countries should just do whatever they want
The rules mattered to the Australian government when they refused to let unvaccinated Novak Djokovic stay in that country and play in the Australian Open.
That was a wonderful thing to see. If only more places and organizations would put their foot down like Australia did there.
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Richardson has every right and reason to be furious. It’s complete bs the way her situation was handled vs this one. Also, this girl may win gold, but she and her win will likely never be accepted by her peers. Women’s figure skating is basically the draw of the Winter Olympics and the IOC and Russia have just about ruined the cornerstone event of the Winter games. Not that Russia gives a toss about how they or their athletes are perceived. They don’t give a damn about people in general. Which I’m sure is at least part of the reason their athletes have such short careers.
They may as well put an asterisk by her name. She has no credibility anymore.
Honestly, Russia, regardless of what they call themselves, should not be allowed to participate in any future Olympic games. They shouldn’t even be allowed to host.
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Beijing 2022
Typical Russian female athlete:
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Trouble with the Cowboys
This time, it involves the cheerleaders:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dallas-cowboys-scandal-met-outrage-214722476.html
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Team Canada and Team USA have already been eliminated from Olympic Hockey.
Both expected better results and to challenge for a medal.
Now it’s an all-European finish. Gold medal games goes Saturday night at 11:10 pm EST.Excuse me, that was Mens Hockey.
The North American Womens hockey got it done with Canada winning the Gold and USA walking away with Silver.
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The North American Womens hockey got it done with Canada winning the Gold and USA walking away with Silver.
That’s okay; at least we keep the medals in North America. We can’t let those uppity Europeans steal our thunder!
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We WON! Fuck yes, BK Halna lands the fifth straight win. I love my guys, they’re the best. When G-son landed the 4-3 goal with 90 seconds left on the clock I started crying.
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This is her as a coach:
There was a lot of back and forth over her style of clothing as a sideline head coach when
this picture was taken and commented on in Twitter and other social media platforms.
Some guys objected but what was really unearthed was that they were really uncomfortable and
didn’t like a black woman being so sure about herself in wearing whatever she wanted.
Some white comments objected, but they were really saying: “How dare she conduct herself
like that, and try to challenge the real beauty standards! She is not supposed to try to outshine it.”It affected me (not that I objected to the pants) but I did make comments in the Relationship Thread of what
some young women wear. Now I see it and I deeply deeply regret my comments.Quite a self own. I am far behind in some (maybe all) of my views…
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The USSA is, imo, a fairly corrupt/incompetent good ol boy network that was/is very tied into the MLS. Recent incompetence in qualifiers has exacerbated the problem. Combined with the success of American players in Europe this has put stress on these individuals and their desire to promote their MLS teams and players. The US started pouring money into the program a while back to answer the question “Why can we be better in soccer?”. it is just the people in charge used that money to further their own agendas and soccer camps which targeted wealthy families into sending their children to these camps for large sums of money.
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it is a fascinating piece but it is very long. You should read it if you are interested in golf. I have always been a Tiger Woods fan and pretty much despise “Hefty”(Phil Mickelson) so I read about his failure with a smile on my face. Of course, when they talked about his sponsor Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund), it was not as funny. Too bad Phil is not a fan of the EPL. Like the Saudi Golf League, the European Super League was based on money which crashed once it started making headlines. Also, following the EPL would have shown him that the league’s sponsor was not popular when they bought Newcastle Football Club.
T L/DR, imo
Phil thought he was bigger than the PGA and thought they were hoarding money that belonged to the players.
A week ago Thursday, Phil made comments supporting the Saudi Tour. Angry at the PGA for not doing “what’s right”(in his opinion), He tried to persuade other golfers to join despite, in his own words,
“They’re scary motherfuckers to get involved with,” he said. “We know they killed Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay.”
https://firepitcollective.com/the-truth-about-phil-and-saudi-arabia/
Since then, other golfers have either blasted Phil or tried to distance themselves from the situation by publicly reaffirming their commitment to the PGA. He has also lost sponsors.
The article goes to discuss the $ involved, PGA changes, quotes from influential Tour and Club officials.
for me, the nail in the coffin was the fact that the Saudi League wanted to play many of the events in the US(?) often at courses owned by #Hewhoshallbenamed
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#Hewhoshallbenamed
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#SNL got in a solid and well deserved slam on the NFL with this masterful shade on #WeekendUpdate: pic.twitter.com/LgMqJyPW0l
— Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 (@KwikWarren) February 27, 2022
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Derek Jeter statement.#Marlins pic.twitter.com/niUhs8KqNt
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This is funny. The daughter of Jerry Buss and now the owner of the Lakers.
She really wanted some NBA players and felt they were so hot:https://brobible.com/sports/article/lakers-owner-jeanie-buss-old-tweets/
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@rocket This is Colorado’s year, isn’t it? There’s a reason they play the games, I know, but seems to me it’s now (admittedly can’t watch as much as I’d like, so maybe missing something).
Basically looking at the upcoming Trade deadline as foolish to be a buyer.
My Canucks seem too damned adamant on making it, need to get that 7th spot to avoid Colorado.
Trade JT Miller to NYR (too stupid to know they’re overachieving so may cough up too much)?
But I love the guy! If he will re-sign summer 2023 then trade Boeser (RFA in off season) if he brings back a young D-man.The trade deadline is like Crack for some GM’s, but you’d have to sell your soul to make a deal that makes you better than Colorado.
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@rocket This is Colorado’s year, isn’t it? There’s a reason they play the games, I know, but seems to me it’s now (admittedly can’t watch as much as I’d like, so maybe missing something).
Basically looking at the upcoming Trade deadline as foolish to be a buyer.
My Canucks seem too damned adamant on making it, need to get that 7th spot to avoid Colorado.
Trade JT Miller to NYR (too stupid to know they’re overachieving so may cough up too much)?
But I love the guy! If he will re-sign summer 2023 then trade Boeser (RFA in off season) if he brings back a young D-man.The trade deadline is like Crack for some GM’s, but you’d have to sell your soul to make a deal that makes you better than Colorado.
We won the President’s cup last year. I am enjoying watching them play and hope that this be the year but….
as far as trades go, I was hoping Phila would be like Boston in 2001 in making a AVs friendly trade(they did get Johnny Boychuk in that deal so it was not completely one sided) but it does not appear that will happen. Phila should keep him. There is a rumor Joe tries to pull off one of those trades Lacroix was famous for back in the day. I hope he gets Devon Toews type trade rather than a Theron Fleury type trade.
I hope it does not sound too mean to say Canucks should just be happy making the playoffs. If you keep your expectations low you won’t be disappointed. That and there have been 3 #8s who have won in the last 5 years.
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Green Bay signs Aaron Rodgers to 4-year $200 Million contract
(Having another day where I can’t paste links, sorry)
How’d we go from getting him kicked out of the League to this?
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How’d we go from getting him kicked out of the League to this?
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It’s not a straight comparison in this case. The men’s contract and the women’s contracts are not easily compared. The men, for example, don’t get paid for not playing and the women would make less in some circumstances under the men’s contract.
I do get that on endorsements but my point there was more that’s just a very large amount of money for playing international men’s football compared to any other international men’s football where generally they earn next to zero.
Untold riches are there for USA men’s players if they get good enough to be signed by a Premiership/Serie A/La Liga or Bundesliga team. That option is not available for female players, the club game is not a rich place. The most extreme example I can remember was George Weah the former Liberian world player of the year, he earned so much money for playing for AC Milan he paid for the kit and flights for his national team so lost money playing for them.
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The AFC West is going to be a monster division. It’s now possible one division will have 4 of the top 10 QBs in the NFL. Sadly for me, the Raiders are still at the bottom of that list. But it could be a fun fight to see.
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It is not a good time to be in Russia, but this is another case where the fact WNBA players can’t really make a living forces them to play overseas in the off-season. Same for a lot of NBA players as well who aren’t the stars.
Because they don’t make enough in the WNBA, they go overseas. I hear Brittney makes about $1M overseas.
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Play Ball!
Opening Day April 7!
Let’s Go Mets!!!!
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