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Jul-30-25
 | | perfidious: Quite true. |
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Jul-31-25
 | | saffuna: <Former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas was among six men arrested Wednesday on a federal indictment that they operated an illegal gambling business at an Encino, California, mansion owned by Arenas. The Justice Department says Arenas is charged with one count of conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business, one count of operating an illegal gambling business, and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. According to an indictment returned July 15 and unsealed Wednesday, Arenas and the other defendants are accused of operating an illegal gambling business from September 2021 to July 2022, with Arenas renting out his mansion for the purpose of hosting illegal high-stakes poker games (including "Pot Limit Omaha" games). The defendants are said to have collected a "rake" -- a fee the house charged from each pot -- and staffed the games with young women, chefs, valets, and armed security guards.> Hosting a poker game is still a crime? It's glamorized in movies. Honestly, I consider letting an 18-year-old son drive a Cybertruck at 5 a.m. more serious. |
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Jul-31-25
| | saffuna: Does Morey engage his brain before speaking? |
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Jul-31-25
| | perfidious: <saffuna....Hosting a poker game is still a crime?> In the early 1990s, I dealt poker to a group that included someone who ran a home game that also raked pots, making it illegal in the same way. He too was busted and did time. <....Honestly, I consider letting an 18-year-old son drive a Cybertruck at 5 a.m. more serious.> Not surprisingly, on this we agree. |
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Jul-31-25
| | saffuna: We are talking about a poker game in the 2020s. Different world. |
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Jul-31-25
| | perfidious: Not to the feds. |
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Jul-31-25
 | | HeMateMe: isn't buying into Trump crypto currency worse than playing high stakes poker with a great buffet and beautiful girls serving drinks? at least you might win, at the poker table...
I remember Sandberg from my teen days, reading about him in SI. Guys go too fast
1. Dwight Clark (the catch!)
2. Tom Seaver (Tom Terrific)
3. Sandberg
4. Moses Malone (foh-foh-foh!)
5. Arthur Ashe
6. Dennis Johnson |
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Aug-01-25
| | saffuna: I watched a college game between two running teams from 1978. It took 2 hours and 15 minutes, halftime cut but commercials left in. |
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Aug-01-25
| | HeMateMe: Bills/NY Giants was a fast super bowl. Giants opened with an 11 minute drive. Bills never quite caught up. |
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Aug-01-25
 | | WannaBe: Well, MLB trading deadline is over. None of these clear waver and picking up cheap player days. |
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Aug-01-25
| | WannaBe: Edit: Waiver... |
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Aug-01-25
| | HeMateMe: Isaih Thomas recruited by Bob Knight
<https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fDbb...> I think he has 8 or 9 siblings, no father in the house. Chicago housing projects. The mother in a single parent house can be VERY important. Knight must have impressed her, that her boy wasn't going to some sort of party school. It probably helped that Quinn Buckner and Wayne Embry were in the room, a current star and the old guard. There have been parents who wanted to know, straight up, how much money boosters were going to be giving their kid. Such players go with Jerry Tarkanian or other cheaters. Or, they play football at Georgia or Oklahoma. Bob Knight also recruited Ervin Johnson (Michigan). Johnson challenged Knight on bullying, how players are treated. Knight walked out of the room. |
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Aug-01-25
 | | plang: In last nights Braves-Reds game there were 16 runs scored in the 8th inning; 8 by each team. |
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Aug-01-25
| | perfidious: So much for the under.
Wonder how many times in MLB history each team had put up eight runs in an inning before last night--if it had ever happened. Reading the wire service recap, it was bizarre to note that Reds' final pitcher took the loss despite retiring all three batters faced. It then occurred to me that this was, of course, due to the crackpot extra innings rule whereby each team begins with the leadoff hitter at second. |
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Aug-01-25
| | saffuna: <Bob Knight also recruited Ervin Johnson (Michigan). Johnson challenged Knight on bullying, how players are treated. Knight walked out of the room.> Thomas was the only truly great player who played for Knight at Indiana. The only player he couldn't bully. He won with players like Buckner, Cheaney, Alford, Woodson and Scott May. |
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| Aug-01-25 | | unferth: <Wonder how many times in MLB history each team had put up eight runs in an inning before last night--if it had ever happened.> looks like it had happened twice before:
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/breaki... |
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Aug-01-25
| | perfidious: That chart demonstrating the opponents' winning chances must be one of the wildest in recorded history from the eighth onwards. |
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Aug-01-25
| | perfidious: Getting away from the Joneses:
<Dallas Cowboys edge rusher Micah Parsons has requested a trade amid contentious contract negotiations with the team, he announced Friday. The three-time All-Pro is entering the final year of his rookie contract and wants to become one of the highest-paid players in NFL history, but Parsons and the Cowboys have been unable to strike a deal after months of discussions. "Yes I wanted to be here. I did everything I could to show that I wanted to be a Cowboy and wear the star on my helmet. I wanted to play in front of the best fans in sports and make this America's team once again. The team my pops and I grew up cheering for way up in Harrisburg, PA. Unfortunately I no longer want to be here," Parsons wrote on social media. "I no longer want to be held to closed-door negotiations without my agent present. I no longer want shots taken at me for getting injured while laying it on the line for the organization, our fans and my teammates. I no longer want narratives created and spread to the media about me."....> One of Jerry Jones' favourite recurring themes is: 'I sign the cheques!' Looks as though he may no longer be signing those of Parsons'. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/... |
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Aug-01-25
| | saffuna: Cowboys fans hate Jerry Jones.
I went to one of their practices a few days ago and everyone was screaming "Pay Micah!" at Jones |
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Aug-02-25
| | perfidious: Wish they would sell to an owner who prioritises winning over playing power games. |
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Aug-02-25
| | HeMateMe: I read somewhere that Jones really, REALLY wanted to draft johnny Manziel ("Johnny Football"), the popular college quarterback with dubious talent. But Jones's son and the professionals hired to right the Cowboy ship talked him out of it. |
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Aug-02-25
| | plang: More weirdness than normal in MLB these days. Pirates scored 9 runs in the top of the first in Colorado and lost. They were still up 16-10 going to bottom of 8th and 16-12 going to bottom of 9th but lost 17-16. Also:
<The Marlins handed the Yankees their first loss on the road when scoring 12 runs or more since July 24, 1940, vs. the St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park. > The Marlins are 28-14 since June 9th. |
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Aug-02-25
| | saffuna: <More weirdness than normal in MLB these days. Pirates scored 9 runs in the top of the first in Colorado and lost. They were still up 16-10 going to bottom of 8th and 16-12 going to bottom of 9th but lost 17-16.> One Rockie had four doubles.
Pirates manager left Santana in to get hammered for five runs in the ninth. Announcer said one of the Pirates had always hit well at Coors Field. I heard "Forbes," and thought "What year is this?" |
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Aug-02-25
| | saffuna: Fun game:
"Where's Tommy today?"
https://www.baseball-reference.com/... |
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Aug-02-25
| | perfidious: The game in Denver was played between the-then two lowest-scoring teams in the majors and was one of nine one-run games last night. The outcome also meant that teams scoring 16 runs finished 1-1 on the night, as many wins as teams scoring one run only managed. |
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