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Bartles

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  1. Sorry I missed getting in this year. Ballsy pick of Ohio in the 1st round is rewarded
  2. As putrid as Buzbee obviously is, using Instagram is a great strategy. It's a one-way press conference whenever he wants, and the media have no choice but to at least acknowledge it now that cases have been filed.
  3. The board(s) have gotten better over time, but it's still deflating to see so many posters be like "what about the police report?!?" as if these women's lives would be anything but ruined if they went to law enforcement. Straight A college girls at good schools can't even get their (often female) campus counselors to move their cases forward. A female masseuse has no chance. I do agree with the Surly mob that the involvement of this particular lawyer casts doubt on everything. Seems like his office found the girls rather than the other way around.
  4. Due diligence in this high profile a situation means way more than just having some calls with LSU administrators.. Long was in the SEC for years. Word should have gotten to him about Miles' reputation, and quite likely did.
  5. According to the broadcast, City has broken the league record with 19 straight games without trailing on the scoreboard. Arsenal had an 18-game run in 1999. It seemed like the last couple years, just about every City goal was something to do with DeBruyne and/or Sterling, maayybe Jesus mixed in occasionally. But this year a bunch of guys who have been with the club have finally come to life. And the addition of Dias in the back was obviously huge, maybe the key to the whole resurgence.
  6. Another good show IMO. The final sketch, with Jonas and McKinnon flirting at the bar, is one the SNL haters would probably make exhibit A why the show is awful, but it's exactly why I still love it. Not the funniest sketch of the night or anything, but it's just silly and uncomfortable and the cast doesn't care, they have fun with it.
  7. Champions Classic chumps go 4-0 on Saturday against decent competition: UKY over Tenn / MSU over Indiana / Kansas over Tech / Duke over Virginia
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    USWNT 2021

    Lavelle off the bench gets the lone goal in the 79th minute, 1-0 USA vs Brazil (former coach Sundhage) on Sunday
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    USWNT 2021

    Scoreless at half vs Canada in the SheBelieves Cup. From what I saw, ball was predictably near the Canada net most of the time. Pretty solid lineup for USA, some key subs including Lavelle Brazil 4-1 over Argentina in the earlier match
  10. Wentz has physical and mental issues. Still has a good arm and is big/strong enough to shed some tacklers, but he doesn't read the field worth a shit and isn't very accurate. He had like two friends on the Eagles after five years. I don't think he'll be as good as 2020 Rivers in Indy. The Eagles, well, fuck. I make fun of the Cowboys for being perpetually in the 6-10 win range, but that seems to be where Philly is locked in for the foreseeable future. The returning OL/DL is OK, and we have a last place schedule, so it's unlikely we pick in the top five or anything next year regardless of how Hurts plays. And I'd say better than 50% chance they take a QB with their first pick this year, giving us two QB-of-future hopefuls with rotting garbage around them.
  11. Welp, he indeed went with the blame it on wind & solar when pressed why it's so bad compared to summer
  12. Do we have any east Texas check-ins? Are people inching over to Shreveport where it seems like hotels are normal? Or are the roads just impossible? I'm getting an early days of Katrina vibe, like we know this is bad but the specifics won't be revealed for a couple days at least. It's pretty terrifying.
  13. Shot Caller was surprisingly entertaining, mainly because Jamie Lannister is a damn good actor. Pretty routine story of normal guy finds himself in prison and does what's necessary to survive, even after his release. They don't make you wait long for violent advances to the plot.
  14. She's amazing not in the Scary Movie series . Back-to-back SNLs where the hosts commit to the sketches, after Krasinski surprisingly just kind of showed up. Makes a huge difference.
  15. Thunder, what is the downside to letting some of these small/medium things go off at 50% capacity, especially outdoors? Assuming COVID conditions are much better than now, but maybe not all the way gone. I don't think anyone has sued any of the SEC football venues or indoor restaurants, etc. It's just impossible to prove where an outbreak starts, especially since we don't contact trace. Is it just a matter of costs for PPE and safety on site? I agree it will vary by location, and maybe some national acts don't want to skip California, the northeast and other major cities.
  16. Might you have heard of...Ohio? (Actually not sure capacity but looks to be well into the thousands)
  17. Maybe Baylor should allow more fans close to the court to shout encouragement at them
  18. I wish...that cabana would cost about what I usually spend on a trip. I was surprised how good the screens look in the sunlight. I guess if they crank the brightness up enough it works out. As for why no one does it, just look at the typical crowd that hangs out in the sports book, and imagine them (us) shirtless outdoors
  19. I haven't set foot downtown in probably 10 years, but Circa is in my wheelhouse. So many bars and screens. The giant swimming sports book looks amazing, but personally I don't want to sweat and get dehydrated watching games. Would be fun for like 30-60 minutes. Prepare to be distracted by the PR girl leading this tour, and a couple of pool waitresses:
  20. I took my mother for her first dose at U. of Penn. They had been snowed out the two previous days and were trying to cram all the appointments in on Wednesday, and doing a great job managing the crowd safely. I'm sure that happened all over the northeast, so keep that in mind when you see record numbers for Feb. 3.
  21. Johnson& Johnson (one shot) has finally applied for FDA vaccine approval. So I guess we go into the "Yeah, maybe...when we get around to it" phase before they actually ship it around and start injecting people.
  22. Offsides enforcement is totally drunk this year. City played a ball that looked offsides to the naked eye, but of course the assistant waited like 5 full seconds to raise the flag. WBA saw the flag and stood around while City passed around and shot it in. I guess there was no whistle, so VAR was able to review and lo and behold, onsides and goal counted.
  23. This whole thread is good:
  24. I remember siding with & repping BradATX in some of the early cloak room COVID threads. I got a temp ban from posting (like 12 hours) for making some sort of indirect anti-Trump reference on this thread. I know 2020 was an American disaster story. The Tuscaloosa postgame superspreader-celebration is nauseating. But overall, sports are one of the few COVID bright spots, and that has been my main point. Again, highlighting major schools was to show if we make the investment, we can navigate this crisis and preserve some normalcy. And quite a few posters in this thread deserved the ball spiked in their face...anytime a team canceled practice in September they'd come in with "This is fine" and "Another domino falls" bullshit. Well the last domino was Ohio State on this was fine for a historically good Alabama team.
  25. Fuck outta here with that. I said from when I started posting the percentages it was only between two Power 5 teams. I acknowledged the lesser funded G5 teams would have more problems, and they did, all the way through to the bowls. A quick glance shows 13 bowls (inc. CFP) between P5 teams were played and four were canceled. So 4 out of 17 is nowhere near "half of them were canceled" if we're being "intellectually honest". As far as focusing on power teams...I posted a lot on this subject regarding pandemic sports in general. The theme was always: spend the money, do adequate testing and play the fucking games. That's what continues to happen today as the NHL drops the puck and NFL marches into the playoffs. NBA will be OK too. Sports have been a leader in showing society at large how this can work: if you spend the money and test widely, you don't have to shut down. There is obviously a larger cloak room conversation to be had on how that could have applied to the public in general, and I really wish the USA was capable of that discussion but we're not.
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