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  1. Celtic had a week to remember. a 6-0 Loss and a 6-0 win. (does that mean Atletico Madrid would beat Aberdeen 12-0, or is it squared, 36-0?). Comparing the two games is like comparing Scarlett Johansson to Roseanne Barr. Same parts, but put together oh so very differently.

  2. Funny thing is despite me making an American Pro/Rel pyramid mod for FM24, I recently got into it with a bunch of "MLS Promotion/Relegation NOW!" Mouthbreathers On Twitter/X. Why do I call them mouthbreathers? Because they're Don Quixotes, tilting at windmills. As long as MLS can make a couple hundred million bucks for flogging off expansion franchises, they're never going to want to open it up to teams not already in their club. I stated that fact, and got told I'm an "abuse victim acquiescing to the abusers"... which.. yeah.. there's no rationalizing with that kind of people.

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  3. Arizona is fucked. Hugely, absolutely fucked. "We're off in our calculations about how much money we have by $240 MILLION" fucked. U of A (as a whole, not just the Athletics program) thought they had more than five months of money in cash on hand. They just have barely more than three. This is despite raising $2 billion in donor funds so far (out of a targetted $3 Billion)

     

    Of course, football probably won't be affected, but yea, there are suddenly a bunch of people who won't be answering the phone soon in hopes of avoiding the bad news.

     

    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2023/11/09/amid-financial-crisis-ua-leader-will-consider-cutting-sports/71480946007/

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  4. I think we have a winner for "Most petty way to deny opponent's celebration"

     

    In the second leg of the Peruvian championship, the home team was confident of a victory, having drawn the first leg away to their rival, 1-1. However, things they did not go their way, and they lost the second leg, 2-0 (and 3-1 on aggregate).

     

    The opposing team however, did not get a chance to celebrate on their rivals turf, as moments after the final whistle, the lights in the stadium went completely out, except for the LED advertising boards. The general belief is that it wasn't a "power outage", but someone backstage furious that their hated opponents were going to celebrate the title on their pitch.

     

    If so, they did get their wish, as the post-match celebration was cancelled due to the "power outage" (and as fighting broke out between rival fans).

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/09/football-daily-email-universitario-alianza-lima-peru?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

     

    edit: Now that I think about it, this does have some upsides, in that it allows the team to officially raise the trophy at home with their supporters this weekend, but kinda unfair that they didn't get to celebrate on enemy turf.. I think before the next derby between the two teams at that stadium, they should be allowed to reenact the trophy celebration, complete with confetti cannons, etcetera.

  5. 15 hours ago, The Natural said:

    Strickland vs. DDP at UFC 297, Volkanovski vs Topuria at UFC 298 and O'Malley vs. Chito at UFC 299.

    I was like "Wait, Dallas Page vs Swerve Strickland? That's random, even for Coach Tony!".. then I realized we're in the Boxing/MMA folder.

     

    Speaking of UFC, ESPN.com has a front page article about one of the fighters from UFC 1, Art Jimmerson, for years mocked because he thought that he could fight Royce Gracie with one boxing glove (protect his jabbing hand to keep the fight at a distance, and then throw the ungloved hand for the knockout blow when set up). He was  apparently a top 10 boxer at the time, and was inline for some bigger money fights, but his boxing career was basically glass ceilinged by his UFC 1 loss (he admits in the interview he had no idea of what he was getting into, so much so that Big John McCarthy, who was travelling with the Gracie camp, actually showed him how outclassed he was backstage in a sparring session, taking him down. But I don't think anyone could really blame him, as at the time no one understood that UFC 1 was basically the Gracie's showing the world that no one who hadn't specifically trained to defeat Brazilian jiu-jitsu could compete with it in the UFC ruleset (such as it was at the time). Good to see he's had a good life and has no bitterness about what happened in UFC 1.

    edit: Link to article: https://www.espn.com/mma/ufc/story/_/id/38827608/art-jimmerson-one-glove-ufc-1

    Oh, and speaking of early UFC's and people outclassed, myself and a few friends actually ordered the UFC 2 pay per view, and one of my friends (eric), who is a ninja-fanatic, had his eyes light up when he heard that Scott Norris's style of fighting was listed as "American Ninjitsu". He confidently turned to us and said "This guy knows ninjitsu. He'll beat this kickboxer (Pat Smith) easily!".

    Note: He did not win easily.He did not win. Instead, he got the ever loving CRAP knocked out of him, including quite possibly the most vicious elbow strike to a downed opponent I've ever seen (one of those where you hit the guy so hard that his head bounced off the mat back up into the elbow). I actually rewatched that fight just now and yeah, it's... eek.

    Needless to say, we teased Eric for YEARS after that

     

     

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  6. Hoooooboy Australia are in deep stinky doo doo against Afghanistan, who will move into the knockout places with a win...

     

    edit: also, Shakib's World Cup is over, as he fractured a finger while batting.

  7. Saw this from ESPN's Kevin Seifert:

    "Josh Dobbs didn't take a single rep with the offense in practice. No snaps from the center. Had never thrown passes to anyone and didn't know most of their full names. "That's for next week", he said."

    Apparently familiarity with a team is overrated.

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