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Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 9:59 am https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics ... index.html

But, his policies....

Both teams race down the field in transition. I think NU can get sloppy in transition and it will happen against Florida. Florida will be +8 or more on the draw and can play make it take it better than any team in the country. Florida will put the pressure on Northwestern. I'm thinking(hoping) Flor...

I'm going with the upset here. Florida 12-10 Florida is big, physical and fast all over the field. If they can give Izzy and Erin a not so easy time with clear paths to the goal, they can hang around. The only drawback to this game will be the incessant flopping from both teams. Your lips to God’s ...

Third time this year, this time to make the final. I think Syracuse is capable of doing it, but just think it is unlikely. BC looked pretty sharp against Michigan. Still, the regular season meeting between these two was 11-10 in OT in Chestnut Hill. I'll be a dutiful homer and say Syracuse wins, 12-...

Thought I'd make thread for these two games.

Semi No. 1: unseeded Florida against the prohibitive (my view) favorite. I was impressed with Florida against Maryland, but this is a different mountain to climb. Better defense than Maryland; exponentially better offense than Maryland. 18-11?

Nice workaround: https://apnews.com/article/montana-attorney-general-campaign-finance-primary-opponent-54b427bb9f71d51adadcf76ca244c8c6 "Montana’s attorney general told supporters he skirted the state’s campaign finance laws by inviting another Republican to run against him as a token candidate...

Yawn. The capo skimmed a little from mob boss. This was all brought out on direct examination a week ago. Sure, but how do 12 trust anything he says has merit. Hell, Cohen and Stormy could have been banging and set trump up to fleece him :lol: Rooting for an acquittal, YA? You believe he didn't do ...

njbill wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 11:08 am So we hear this morning in court that Trump had to pay people to attend that ceremony years ago when he came down the elevator at the Trump Shed. The crowd was completely phony, just paid actors.

Shocked. At least John Barron was there to fairly report on the event.

coda wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 5:14 pm I think he is in the crease, but it isn’t clear

Looks like a toenail on the blue.

F&M takes down Tufts in OT, in a game Tufts led the whole way until Dips scored with .15 left in regulation.

Semifinals:

Middlebury v. F&M

Salisbury v. William Smith

Should be a nice weekend of lacrosse.

Middlebury up 10-1 with 11:00 to go in the second quarter. Women against girls. Just not on the same planet.

Pretty fair summary of the trial so far, together with the as yet unknown consequences that lurk just out of sight, by David French in the Times today: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/opinion/trump-trial-election-appeal.html "I can’t remember when I’ve been more disturbed by a criminal trial...

Trump's real legacy and gift to the country: violent words and imagery, and political violence itself, mainstreamed: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/us/politics/political-violence.html "One Friday last month, Jamie Raskin, a Democratic congressman from Maryland, spent a chunk of his day in c...

Essexfenwick wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 5:17 pm So Luke Wierman is not 1st team AA?

Not sure about that. But he’s a man, so I don’t think he qualifies for the women’s AA honors. Had a nice game against Duke today.

coda wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 4:40 pm

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 4:34 pmDuke stinks

Went the club offense. Dodge, stand around and watch, pass, Dodge, stand around and watch, repeat

Seems like a coaching deficit here, particularly with Duke on offense; no adjustments from Duke this whole half that I can see.

Well I was wrong about Ithaca-PPC. Pomona Pitzer controlling Ithaca; 15-7 with 5:25 to go. I don't see PPC giving Middlebury a scare. Middlebury's speed and discipline at both ends is just at another level.

Garland in Contempt? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69022395 Assume that the GOP House Oversight Committee contempt citation is issued. Now what happens? The President has interposed executive privilege against disclosure of the videotapes. The DOJ will likely contest the legal basis for ...

Colby up 7-5 over Wes with about 3:30 to go in the game.

Colby wins, defeats the No.2 team in the country at that team's home surface.

Middlebury cruises and will likely play Ithaca tomorrow afternoon.

"Dems like me" are not 100% happy with Biden, and don't pretend to be. But it is a reality that one candidate and one party are still interested in democracy, an unfettered right to vote, the rule of law and other outdated stuff like that. The GOP has rejected democracy; this is the lesson...

You see this reality most plainly in the daily Republican theatrics surrounding Trump’s criminal indictments. Rather than wrestle seriously with the profoundly troubling claims against him, they treat the criminal cases as proof of Democratic perfidy. They believe every claim against Hunter and Joe...