Two of the most well-known ski resorts in the West are making a change that is sure to turn some heads and upset more than just a few guests.
Starting next winter, Snowbasin Resort, Utah, and Sun Valley Resort, Idaho, will begin charging $10 per person per day for access to its resort lodges. The cost for children 12 and under will be free, while 13–17-year-olds will be $6. Season pass holders will be able to add lodge access all winter for an additional $199. For Ikon Pass holders, both resorts will use the “Pay with Pass” feature, which allows pass holders to link their credit card to their pass and scan it for lodge access.
more interesting about AI. i have beem working w/ some math professor who is incredibly wary of "using AI"
one comment ... "the word on the streets in faculty meetings is that LLM can dilute unpublished research results, code, and the uniqueness of one’s scientific ideas"
if i type a diff eq into Claude, does it remember it and go into Claude's future memory for others?
No. Claude has no shared or persistent memory across users or conversations. When you close a conversation, everything in it is gone — it doesn't go into any training data in real time, and other users have no access to anything you've typed.
The only memory that persists is the file-based system I maintain for you in this project, and that's only readable in your own sessions.
why is everyone so worried that "using claude is not private?"
is this diff in Claude code and the web interface?
The concern is mostly about enterprise/workplace policies and terms of service, not technical exposure. A few real reasons people worry:
Legitimate concerns
- Anthropic may use conversations to improve models (depending on your plan/settings) — though this is reviewed by humans rarely and with safeguards
- If you're at a university or company, your IT policy may prohibit sending sensitive data (unpublished results, patient data, proprietary code) to third-party services
- Anything you type goes to Anthropic's servers, so it's not "local"
Claude Code vs. web interface
- Functionally the same privacy model — both send your messages to Anthropic's API
- Claude Code (Pro/paid) and API users generally have stronger opt-out defaults from training data use than free web
users
- Claude Code runs locally but the inference still happens on Anthropic's servers — your prompts travel there
What's actually not a risk
- Other users seeing your content — not possible
- Real-time training from your session — not how it works
- Claude "remembering" your equations for others — no
Bottom line for a research lab: the main real concern is unpublished data or patient data leaving your institution's network. For general coding help and math, the risk is essentially the same as using Google.
Any tool that learns has to at least in aggregate harvest data. This is not new, just a newly elevated awareness that comes with a newly elevated scope and scale of it.
The real issue is the degree of malicious use of any tool or product vs reasonable use. Its a people problem, not a technical one.
i have had to put together a couple powerpoint style presentations last few days, "intro to github" and "intro to quantum computing". given that none of the content is particularly hard or novel, i just used Claude to create these slide decks for me. then there is of course a lot of back and forth to get the tone and the details right. still, saves a lot of time for everyday things.
Yeah I do use AI tools for this kind of thing. Like, I've got all the info already so just help me do some of the drudge work (I hate creating slides myself) and then I'll edit it to make sure it's right.
My boring opinion is that neither the most apocalyptic warnings nor the grandest promises will come true about AI. It will be useful for some things, harmful for some other things.
That said, there could still be a lot of economic disruption along the way, similar to the original dot-com boom/bust.
Worst case scenario is the end of life as we know it. Best case scenario is cure for all cancers. I hope AI cures cancer before it wipes us out, so we can all be healthy when it happens.
Of course on Monday I forgot to give my Bangkok update so I did it yesterday. And then yesterday I forgot to give my Angkor Wat summary so I'm doing it today.
Got there Monday after lunch and it was hotter than hell (96 by 11 am and over 50% humidity). So I hung out in my room for a little bit and went out for an early dinner. I was staying over by the river near the night market. Found a few places on the internet and ended up going to one of them. It was really good and inexpensive. I had the Chicken amok and spring rolls. I got the hotel tuk tuk driver for 5 AM Tues morning to see the sunrise over Angkor Wat.
Angkor Wat, Ta Phrom (Tomb Raider temple), and Angkor Thom were amazing. Got back at 10:30 and was DRAINED. Laid in the tub on the patio to cool down and took a nap for a couple of hours. Went to see the landmine detecting rats museum and the Angkor National Museum because it was indoors and had dinner.
On Wed morning I took a cooking class and learned to make Fish amok, green papaya salad, and Banana with Passio Syrup dessert.
Had a flight from Cambodia back to Bangkok at 7 pm, then Bangkok to Taipei to SFO at 2 am. 30+ hours from leaving the hotel to get home. Luckily I slept the 3+ hours to Taipei and probably 7 or 8 of the 11 to SFO and got in at 6:30 AM and didn't have much jet lag at all. Didn't have to take a nap and was able to go to bed by 9 the first couple of days.
I've been to Angkor Wat twice. The second time I went, there was the same t-shirt vendor outside one of the temples. She remembered what I bought years earlier. I was blown away by her memory.
the landmine detecting rats museum is cool. they actually show you how the rats (which are not small) sniff out the TNT and they weigh less than the amount that triggers the landmine.
so once they identify a landmine, and anti-landmine team comes to defuse or take it away somehow.
seems crazy to think that there are still MILLIONS of mines just buried in the ground.
Yeah the rats are from Tanzania because they live for a very long time, like 6-10 years vs just a couple for a regular rat. They're HUGE, like a small opossum or something like that.
• Birthright brawl: Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism during oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order that attempts to end automatic birthright citizenship.
• What the justices said: In response to the Trump administration’s argument that “we’re in a new world” since the 14th Amendment was passed, Chief Justice John Roberts shot back: “It’s the same Constitution.” Conservative justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch also questioned Trump’s central arguments.
some new history quiz game where you drag events onto a timeline. today seemed pretty straightforward for those who remember dates associated w/ history.
my guess is that "kids these days" would not far so well because their history education and testing didnt emphasis dates so much.
MILLBRAE - The California women's golf team finished in second place for the second consecutive tournament Tuesday at The Silicon Valley Showcase, their fifth top-five finish of the season. Senior Adora Liu led the Golden Bears carding a 2-under 211, finishing in second place, the highest finish of her career since tying for second at the rain-shortened Causeway Invitational as a freshman.
The 2026 California Football Spring Game, presented by Dosanjh Auto Group, will kick off the newly minted "Lupoi Era" of Golden Bear football on April 18, as Travers Family Head Football Coach Tosh Lupoi and the 2026 Bears invite fans to California Memorial Stadium for an open intrasquad scrimmage, food, activities and a postgame concert featuring 1 Umbrella and Rexx Life Raj. The event will be free to the public, with fans encouraged to RSVP via this link to be entered to win raffle prizes and game tickets, in addition to claiming their own personalized "Committed" graphic.
The California softball team (12-25) will host Louisville in ACC play at Viking Field at West Valley College in Saratoga. The Golden Bears and the Cardinals will get their series started on Thursday at 2 p.m. PT.
This will be the fifth all-time meeting between Cal and Louisville with the Bears leading the series 3-1. The last time they met was Feb. 25, 2017, when Cal defeated Louisville 5-2.
The Major League Baseball Players Association is carrying a war chest more than two times larger than it did at the same point ahead of collective bargaining with MLB in 2021 as it prepares for the possibility of an extended lockout when the CBA expires Dec. 1.
Players Union getting ready for a prolonged fight. No way they allow any sort of cap without a floor. Cheap teams better get ready to do some spending. No more collecting the competitive balance tax payouts without putting it back into the team.
The owners want to have some sort of cap because they want to not allow the Dodgers to spend 4/240 on someone with deferrals. They want to lock the players out, which makes no sense because they're making money at an all time high and doing so will lose them fans. I get limiting deferrals but players will NEVER agree to anything that limits salaries.
There's probably also going to be discussion on when players can go into free agency. right now, it's 6 years of service time from when a player is added to the 40 man roster. So I bet if the owners push a cap, there also will need to be discussion on when a player can go into free agency and not be under team control for 6 years limiting salary.
i dont follow the economics that closely, but it seems that NFL/NBA do a better job w/ salary cap, parity, competitiveness, and that is what MLB sort of wants (maybe?)
there is obviously still quite a bit of money. it is slowly (or rapidly) losing to the other 2 no?
All owners, except for a few, want to stop runaway spending. I think the NFL, and maybe the NBA, has a salary floor that is 85% of the cap. I don't think MLB owners will ever, ever go for something that high. The cheap owners just want to collect the competitive balance tax and use it as profit. This offseason the A's spent some money getting free agents. I wonder if the MLB said something to them that they had to spend some money in order to get to move to Vegas.
Currently there is not a cap but luxury tax levels. Exceeding the luxury tax levels results in losing 1st round - 4th (?) round draft picks, along with I think International Draft bonuses. I think you can reset when you go below certain levels. For example, Ohtani's salary is 10/700 but each year he's paid 2 mil and 68 mil is deferred for 10 years. So the effective payroll/luxury tax number is something like 46 mil. Each year the Dodgers still have to take the 68 mil and put it in some investment fund so they Dodgers still pay 70 mil each year. But what he wanted was to have the Dodgers take the savings in luxury tax and get other players so I think that year they got Yamamoto (10/350?) and Glasnow. He offered this to all the teams that were interested but I think only the Dodgers took him up on the offer. Meanwhile, I don't think any of Soto's 15/765 is deferred so it's harder for the Mets to stay "under" the luxury tax levels.
Also, I think in the first year, the Dodgers have made back all that money and then some with marketing in Asia so from a team revenue POV, they're profiting by signing him.
If you’re new to these parts — “these parts” being the generic internet space surrounding the San Francisco Giants — then you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the lingo. Namely, one phrase: a “Webbing.”
LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani hasn’t hit much yet this season, but Tuesday night was a reminder that the four-time MVP is also an excellent pitcher. The Dodgers needed his arm to beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 in the middle game of their interleague series at a damp Dodger Stadium that was much closer than the final score indicates.
Probably not Lasorda. Probably was in the 80s or 90s, and the team started off winning the first 3 or 4 games, and suddenly the coach has a weekly radio show. After a few weeks, the record evened out, and the radio show disappeared.
Tour of Flanders - 2nd monument in pro cycling -this Sunday. tune up race in the same area happening today (Dwars door Vlaanderen), followed closely by the 3rd next weekend, the Paris-Roubaix.
Cycling's Holy Week" refers to the intense, prestigious seven-day period between the Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen) and Paris-Roubaix.
The Most Baffling Streak in Sports Continues: Italy Will Miss the World Cup Again
The Azzurri, who lost to Bosnia and Herzegovina in a do-or-die playoff on Tuesday, last qualified in 2014. But the wait will go on for at least four more years.
Fool
The Lock Picking Lawyer always has great April Fools Day videos. This is the one from this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY8azAWTiYM
And previous years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9VewWKfH_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRozAbaKs9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joed0P3hhbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-tKnjFwleU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhuNRWskgNQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2PuE6ELmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPQaLk1MZ8
Snowbasin, UT, and Sun Valley, ID, to Charge $10 for Daily Lodge Access Next Winter—Bathrooms Included (Sort Of)
https://snowbrains.com/snowbasin-ut-and-sun-valley-id-to-charge-10-for-daily-lodge-access-next-winter-bathrooms-included-sort-of/
Two of the most well-known ski resorts in the West are making a change that is sure to turn some heads and upset more than just a few guests.
Starting next winter, Snowbasin Resort, Utah, and Sun Valley Resort, Idaho, will begin charging $10 per person per day for access to its resort lodges. The cost for children 12 and under will be free, while 13–17-year-olds will be $6. Season pass holders will be able to add lodge access all winter for an additional $199. For Ikon Pass holders, both resorts will use the “Pay with Pass” feature, which allows pass holders to link their credit card to their pass and scan it for lodge access.
musings on AI
more interesting about AI. i have beem working w/ some math professor who is incredibly wary of "using AI"
one comment ... "the word on the streets in faculty meetings is that LLM can dilute unpublished research results, code, and the uniqueness of one’s scientific ideas"
so i tried to see how this might be true.
if i type a diff eq into Claude, does it remember it and go into Claude's future memory for others?
No. Claude has no shared or persistent memory across users or conversations. When you close a conversation, everything in it is gone — it doesn't go into any training data in real time, and other users have no access to anything you've typed.
The only memory that persists is the file-based system I maintain for you in this project, and that's only readable in your own sessions.
why is everyone so worried that "using claude is not private?"
is this diff in Claude code and the web interface?
The concern is mostly about enterprise/workplace policies and terms of service, not technical exposure. A few real reasons people worry:
Legitimate concerns
- Anthropic may use conversations to improve models (depending on your plan/settings) — though this is reviewed by humans rarely and with safeguards
- If you're at a university or company, your IT policy may prohibit sending sensitive data (unpublished results, patient data, proprietary code) to third-party services
- Anything you type goes to Anthropic's servers, so it's not "local"
Claude Code vs. web interface
- Functionally the same privacy model — both send your messages to Anthropic's API
- Claude Code (Pro/paid) and API users generally have stronger opt-out defaults from training data use than free web
users
- Claude Code runs locally but the inference still happens on Anthropic's servers — your prompts travel there
What's actually not a risk
- Other users seeing your content — not possible
- Real-time training from your session — not how it works
- Claude "remembering" your equations for others — no
Bottom line for a research lab: the main real concern is unpublished data or patient data leaving your institution's network. For general coding help and math, the risk is essentially the same as using Google.
Any tool that learns has to at least in aggregate harvest data. This is not new, just a newly elevated awareness that comes with a newly elevated scope and scale of it.
The real issue is the degree of malicious use of any tool or product vs reasonable use. Its a people problem, not a technical one.
i have had to put together a couple powerpoint style presentations last few days, "intro to github" and "intro to quantum computing". given that none of the content is particularly hard or novel, i just used Claude to create these slide decks for me. then there is of course a lot of back and forth to get the tone and the details right. still, saves a lot of time for everyday things.
Yeah I do use AI tools for this kind of thing. Like, I've got all the info already so just help me do some of the drudge work (I hate creating slides myself) and then I'll edit it to make sure it's right.
in a series of flash interview questions once, i was asked to rate myself on scale of 1-10 on a bunch of attributes.
when i was asked about PowerPoint i said 0!
i explained that if i do them badly, no one will ever ask me to do one again.
My boring opinion is that neither the most apocalyptic warnings nor the grandest promises will come true about AI. It will be useful for some things, harmful for some other things.
That said, there could still be a lot of economic disruption along the way, similar to the original dot-com boom/bust.
Worst case scenario is the end of life as we know it. Best case scenario is cure for all cancers. I hope AI cures cancer before it wipes us out, so we can all be healthy when it happens.
Cambodia
Of course on Monday I forgot to give my Bangkok update so I did it yesterday. And then yesterday I forgot to give my Angkor Wat summary so I'm doing it today.
Got there Monday after lunch and it was hotter than hell (96 by 11 am and over 50% humidity). So I hung out in my room for a little bit and went out for an early dinner. I was staying over by the river near the night market. Found a few places on the internet and ended up going to one of them. It was really good and inexpensive. I had the Chicken amok and spring rolls. I got the hotel tuk tuk driver for 5 AM Tues morning to see the sunrise over Angkor Wat.
Angkor Wat, Ta Phrom (Tomb Raider temple), and Angkor Thom were amazing. Got back at 10:30 and was DRAINED. Laid in the tub on the patio to cool down and took a nap for a couple of hours. Went to see the landmine detecting rats museum and the Angkor National Museum because it was indoors and had dinner.
On Wed morning I took a cooking class and learned to make Fish amok, green papaya salad, and Banana with Passio Syrup dessert.
Had a flight from Cambodia back to Bangkok at 7 pm, then Bangkok to Taipei to SFO at 2 am. 30+ hours from leaving the hotel to get home. Luckily I slept the 3+ hours to Taipei and probably 7 or 8 of the 11 to SFO and got in at 6:30 AM and didn't have much jet lag at all. Didn't have to take a nap and was able to go to bed by 9 the first couple of days.
I've been to Angkor Wat twice. The second time I went, there was the same t-shirt vendor outside one of the temples. She remembered what I bought years earlier. I was blown away by her memory.
did you get one or two t-shirts?
One t-shirt. An Angkor Beer t-shirt that fell apart very quickly.
I'll bet that you are quite a memorable character.
sounds like quite an action-packed agenda. you got a lot done in a short amount of time.
the landmine detecting rats museum is cool. they actually show you how the rats (which are not small) sniff out the TNT and they weigh less than the amount that triggers the landmine.
so once they identify a landmine, and anti-landmine team comes to defuse or take it away somehow.
seems crazy to think that there are still MILLIONS of mines just buried in the ground.
Yeah the rats are from Tanzania because they live for a very long time, like 6-10 years vs just a couple for a regular rat. They're HUGE, like a small opossum or something like that.
DBD Book Club
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
this is sort of a career-ending retrospective. sobering and funny as usual.
nothing new (2005) - i just recently found it at a bookstore.
now i am tempted to go back and re-read some of KV's books. it has been quite a few years and i dont remember much of the details.
Private Citizens —Tulathimutte (dark comedy, pre-08 San Francisco)
Some very funny lines but the characters are unbelievable and the plot doesn’t cohere
The Endurance Artist --Beasley
Thought-provoking biography of the creator of the Barkley Marathons
Political stuff goes here
Supreme Court skeptical of Trump’s birthright citizenship order
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/live-news/supreme-court-birthright-trump
Today in court
• Birthright brawl: Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism during oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order that attempts to end automatic birthright citizenship.
• What the justices said: In response to the Trump administration’s argument that “we’re in a new world” since the 14th Amendment was passed, Chief Justice John Roberts shot back: “It’s the same Constitution.” Conservative justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch also questioned Trump’s central arguments.
I’m not a lawyer, but I thought the conservatives were “originalists” and it’s a new world doesn’t seem like an argument to sway them.
Trump probably thought that he got some of them on the court so they'll do whatever he asks.
This post feels like an April fools joke.
Word(le) Games
some new history quiz game where you drag events onto a timeline. today seemed pretty straightforward for those who remember dates associated w/ history.
my guess is that "kids these days" would not far so well because their history education and testing didnt emphasis dates so much.
Flashback for March 28, 2026
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Not that difficult as you suggest.
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good start (i guess). process of elimination.
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I also whiffed on the first two rows but it ended up taking me five.
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Cal
[WGOLF] Bears Place 2nd At Silicon Valley Showcase
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/31/womens-golf-bears-place-second-at-silicon-valley-showcase.aspx
MILLBRAE - The California women's golf team finished in second place for the second consecutive tournament Tuesday at The Silicon Valley Showcase, their fifth top-five finish of the season. Senior Adora Liu led the Golden Bears carding a 2-under 211, finishing in second place, the highest finish of her career since tying for second at the rain-shortened Causeway Invitational as a freshman.
[FB] Cal Football Spring Game Set For April 18
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/31/cal-football-spring-game-set-for-april-18.aspx
The 2026 California Football Spring Game, presented by Dosanjh Auto Group, will kick off the newly minted "Lupoi Era" of Golden Bear football on April 18, as Travers Family Head Football Coach Tosh Lupoi and the 2026 Bears invite fans to California Memorial Stadium for an open intrasquad scrimmage, food, activities and a postgame concert featuring 1 Umbrella and Rexx Life Raj. The event will be free to the public, with fans encouraged to RSVP via this link to be entered to win raffle prizes and game tickets, in addition to claiming their own personalized "Committed" graphic.
[SB] Cal Returns Home For ACC Series Against Louisville
https://calbears.com/news/2026/3/31/softball-cal-returns-home-for-acc-series-against-louisville.aspx
The California softball team (12-25) will host Louisville in ACC play at Viking Field at West Valley College in Saratoga. The Golden Bears and the Cardinals will get their series started on Thursday at 2 p.m. PT.
This will be the fifth all-time meeting between Cal and Louisville with the Bears leading the series 3-1. The last time they met was Feb. 25, 2017, when Cal defeated Louisville 5-2.
PRO
MLBPA increases war chest to $415M ahead of possible lockout
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48360278/mlbpa-increases-war-chest-415m-ahead-possible-lockout
The Major League Baseball Players Association is carrying a war chest more than two times larger than it did at the same point ahead of collective bargaining with MLB in 2021 as it prepares for the possibility of an extended lockout when the CBA expires Dec. 1.
Players Union getting ready for a prolonged fight. No way they allow any sort of cap without a floor. Cheap teams better get ready to do some spending. No more collecting the competitive balance tax payouts without putting it back into the team.
so is the proposal basically to do away w/ the luxury tax but put in a NFL/NBA style salary cap to have more parity across the league?
The owners want to have some sort of cap because they want to not allow the Dodgers to spend 4/240 on someone with deferrals. They want to lock the players out, which makes no sense because they're making money at an all time high and doing so will lose them fans. I get limiting deferrals but players will NEVER agree to anything that limits salaries.
There's probably also going to be discussion on when players can go into free agency. right now, it's 6 years of service time from when a player is added to the 40 man roster. So I bet if the owners push a cap, there also will need to be discussion on when a player can go into free agency and not be under team control for 6 years limiting salary.
i dont follow the economics that closely, but it seems that NFL/NBA do a better job w/ salary cap, parity, competitiveness, and that is what MLB sort of wants (maybe?)
there is obviously still quite a bit of money. it is slowly (or rapidly) losing to the other 2 no?
All owners, except for a few, want to stop runaway spending. I think the NFL, and maybe the NBA, has a salary floor that is 85% of the cap. I don't think MLB owners will ever, ever go for something that high. The cheap owners just want to collect the competitive balance tax and use it as profit. This offseason the A's spent some money getting free agents. I wonder if the MLB said something to them that they had to spend some money in order to get to move to Vegas.
Currently there is not a cap but luxury tax levels. Exceeding the luxury tax levels results in losing 1st round - 4th (?) round draft picks, along with I think International Draft bonuses. I think you can reset when you go below certain levels. For example, Ohtani's salary is 10/700 but each year he's paid 2 mil and 68 mil is deferred for 10 years. So the effective payroll/luxury tax number is something like 46 mil. Each year the Dodgers still have to take the 68 mil and put it in some investment fund so they Dodgers still pay 70 mil each year. But what he wanted was to have the Dodgers take the savings in luxury tax and get other players so I think that year they got Yamamoto (10/350?) and Glasnow. He offered this to all the teams that were interested but I think only the Dodgers took him up on the offer. Meanwhile, I don't think any of Soto's 15/765 is deferred so it's harder for the Mets to stay "under" the luxury tax levels.
Also, I think in the first year, the Dodgers have made back all that money and then some with marketing in Asia so from a team revenue POV, they're profiting by signing him.
A reverse Webbing! (Giants beat the Pads 9-3)
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/san-francisco-giants-scores-standings/104514/giants-padres-recap-score-logan-webb-willy-adames-jung-hoo-lee
If you’re new to these parts — “these parts” being the generic internet space surrounding the San Francisco Giants — then you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the lingo. Namely, one phrase: a “Webbing.”
Shohei Ohtani zeroes in on great pitching season, too (Dodgers beat the Guardians 4-1)
https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-scores-standings/112494/shohei-ohtani-scoreless
LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani hasn’t hit much yet this season, but Tuesday night was a reminder that the four-time MVP is also an excellent pitcher. The Dodgers needed his arm to beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 in the middle game of their interleague series at a damp Dodger Stadium that was much closer than the final score indicates.
I faintly remember some manager--maybe Tommy Lasorda?--saying for the first couple weeks of the season, don't get too up, don't get too down.
If it was Tommy, he probably said "don't get too fuckin up, and for fucks sakes, don't get too fuckin down.
Probably not Lasorda. Probably was in the 80s or 90s, and the team started off winning the first 3 or 4 games, and suddenly the coach has a weekly radio show. After a few weeks, the record evened out, and the radio show disappeared.
Tour of Flanders - 2nd monument in pro cycling -this Sunday. tune up race in the same area happening today (Dwars door Vlaanderen), followed closely by the 3rd next weekend, the Paris-Roubaix.
Cycling's Holy Week" refers to the intense, prestigious seven-day period between the Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen) and Paris-Roubaix.
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Wout Var Aert on a long breakaway gets caught at the line by time-trial specialist Filippo Ganna .. great stuff!!
1000a ET is a little early for a bike race in Eurozone to end. usually it is closer to 1100a. i tihnk the women's race is next or in progress already
early season MLB enthusiasm .. Mets lose.
Ramón Urías homers and Cardinals hold Mets to 3 hits in 3-0 shutout
Italy miss out on third straight WC in shootout loss to Bosnia
not that i follow intl futbol that closely - i generally root for the Italians so i am sad to see this.
Debutants: Uzbekistan, Cape Verde, Jordan, Curacao.
is there a replacement for the Iran team? maybe that is part of the peace negotiations.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48357592/fifa-chief-infantino-insists-iran-play-world-cup-no-plan-b
nice to see some variety.
even made news on WSJ
The Most Baffling Streak in Sports Continues: Italy Will Miss the World Cup Again
The Azzurri, who lost to Bosnia and Herzegovina in a do-or-die playoff on Tuesday, last qualified in 2014. But the wait will go on for at least four more years.
The tournament is even expanded this year and Italy STILL missed out! Such a hard fall for a strong soccer nation.
C.B. Buckner has become a parody of himself.
https://www.cbssports.com/watch/mlb/video/umpire-c-b-bucknors-tough-start-to-the-season-continues