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    Graduated from an NAIA school myself so it’s nice to see that someone else knows about that organization. I think there’s still going to be an NCAA but what it is now versus what it will be in the next decade will probably be so different to the point it’s unrecognizable. Without cracking down on players earning pennies, it’ll probably be more like the UN than the FBI as it will just be a meeting place for the various conferences, run the basketball tournament and very little more.
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    At least I finally get to see Rodgers and Mahomes face off now. Hopefully neither of them get hurt and cockblock me and make the game boring.
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    And that’s the thing. They were the refugees coming into the Big 8 after crashing the Southwest Conference and yet somehow they get to dictate that the HQ move from Kansas City to Texas. They were the ones who started their own network and caused the first round of realignment and now they get to be in the SEC. Screw this dumb Earth, I want off (sponsored by Amazon).
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    They just lost the two Crown Jewels of their conference. KU and at least one other school (rumored to be Iowa State) is already talking to the Big 10. Party is over, man. I really wanted Missouri to stay in the Big 12, but the greed coming out of Austin made that impossible. In a just world, Texas wouldn’t be welcome in any conference and forced to be an independent team.
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    As a Missouri fan, I’m glad we left the Big XII before Texas collapsed another conference yet again. I wonder who else is going to participate in the partition of the Big XII?
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    NCAA is already dead, it just doesn’t know it yet. I’m calling BS on Ohio State and Michigan joining the SEC, though. Just reeks of nonsense.
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    I can only look forward to what happens the next time Maria Taylor doesn’t get a promotion that is out of her skillset has an issue with NBC. Grab the popcorn, it’s going to be lit. It’s amazing that after torching her bridge with ESPN that she can still get work. Eh, NBC has been mismanaged for about 25 years now so what’s one more rake corporate steps on in hiring another Cluster B case?
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    Richard Sherman is pretty smart. Pretty smart people are still very much capable of doing stupid things. Intelligent =/= Infallible
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    It’s Oakland, :censored:ing up was predetermined and as much as it may seem that they’ve run into an 18 karat run of bad luck, the game was rigged from the start.
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    Seems Latin American players do just fine with interpreters and being stars in MLB. It’s at the very least, a stupid comment from Stephen A Smith. At least it would be if his schtick wasn’t saying outrageous things to grab eyeballs. EDIT: And to confirm this, now he’s in hot water again. Something about disrespecting Nigerians and their names now. Now he’s racist towards (goes through Rolodex of races) Africans.
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    I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a culture of telling common people to shut up (you know, instead of ignoring or mocking them) if they don’t have a PhD in some particular issue emerged around the same time journalism became a prestige career.
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    The Las Vegas A’s. Just typing that feels so wrong.
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    True XFL hasn’t been tried. This time we’ll have the REAL XFL work.
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    Charles Barkley is the closest thing we have right now to Howard Cossell. Replacing him is impossible, not merely difficult.
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    The Chiefs decided to say “You know how Seattle just stopped trying to improve when they neglected to use their battering ram runningback on the goal line? Let’s not do that” Loaded up on the Offensive Line to the point I believe if play is hampered, it will be more from a lack of chemistry rather than a lack of ability. And leaguewide, the fans are coming back. Regardless of whatever implication that winds up having, I love the fact that games are going to feel alive again.
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    I don't think Portland is likely. Is there a big movement to get an MLB team in Portland? Would there be political support to build a new stadium if taxpayer dollars are used? Civic Stadium is out as the Timbers are not about to let a team turn their soccer pitch back into a multipurpose stadium anytime soon. How much corporate support would there be in Portland for a team? Or hell, who in office in Portland right now would support having a MLB team in Portland? Las Vegas, for better or worse, is more than willing to support a MLB team at least when it comes to supporting all that it would take to attract the team there. Portland is a lot more questionable in that regard IMO.
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    Wait, what? Two things. First, why do the A’s have to pay BART so that BART can run their trains? Second, why are they so cheap as to not pay BART if that is what is required to get fans in for fireworks night? That might’ve actually given them a bit of a boost in attendance too.
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    You have to hand it to the Lions. They :censored: up hilariously even down to the smallest details.
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    I’m looking forward to seeing the new designs teams come up with if they don’t really have a throwback option for helmets. And by looking forward, I mean looking forward to how horrible they’ll be like Turn Ahead The Clock Night. Here, enjoy a pre-beard and World Series winner Johnny Damon in those monstrosities.
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    What I want to know is why any organization would protect a pervert working on staff over their own players? It not only doesn't make sense from a moral standpoint but an economic one as well. EDIT: Oh scheisse, it gets even better: So this might not only "just" topple Chicago's management, but multiple teams throughout the league.
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    I liked the Grant Hill-era teal Pistons uniforms.
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    Politicians and billionaires are stubborn fools who see compromise in the same light as a 4 letter word that starts with the same letter. More news at 11.
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    NGL, as someone who loved watching arena football since I first saw one of those tape-delayed AFL matches, it's sad seeing the sport as a whole fall from the height of....wait, similar instability but with a bigger budget. Just like the MISL in the 1980s based on everything I read about that league. Had fun going to watch the Brigade, though, funny enough in the same building where the Comets used to draw capacity crowds that wound up driving out an NBA team. Fun while it lasted and all, but I'm wondering what the next sport is that will get like indoor soccer or arena football that will soar like Icarus and crash really really hard?
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    Maybe economically they were joined at the hip for a long time, but socially they were very far apart. Started with Minneapolis having mostly Protestants while St. Paul had a lot more Catholics and it continued until the 1960s to the point where said municipal rivalry cost them the Lakers because people in St. Paul weren’t going to support the Minneapolis Lakers. Which is why every team since then has gone with saying that their team is the “Minnesota” Vikings/Twins/North Stars/Timberwolves/Wild. Having a basebrawl between the minor league teams from both cities probably didn’t help either.
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    And The Coliseum is an honest-to-God :censored:hole and not just because it’s in Oakland. As in, sewage issues have been chronic there for as long as I remember. And yeah, I know it’s a standard tactic but it always amazes me at its effectiveness. I guess no one wants to be Baltimore or Cleveland outside of the more mundane reasons they don’t want to be Baltimore or Cleveland.
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