In basketball, there are three main categories of fouls - personal, flagrant, and technical. There are numerous types of personal fouls, which include blocking, charging, defensive, illegal screen, loose ball, shooting, and team fouls.
We just ripped out most of our front yard landscaping and replaced it with all succulents and cacti. The diversity in beautiful flowering drought tolerant plants that are available at nurseries now is truly amazing.
We're seeing the backlash of decades of restrained compensation and competition for college football players, especially those at the skill positions.
This is actually evidence for an argument that college football should be something different altogether and that the NFL should form and fund its own minor league(s).
It's AAC (American Athletic Conference) rather than the ACC. AAC is kind of what the Big East had turned into. ICYMI, San Diego State nearly joined the Big East before backing out.
I'm an Omaha native. It's still weird to me that Creighton is in the Big East. The Missouri Valley days were good. Nonetheless, the majority of Creighton fans (including me) are happy with the step up in average competition. Plus, Omaha loves the East Coast tourist money coming into Omaha for the away games.
I changed my running route to go by the SC. There were a handful of anti-abortion folks with a megaphone out front chanting "Roe must go" and other slogans. There was a similar number of pro-choice people with signs. The combined total was outnumbered by press people and all of those were outnumbered by curiosity seekers like me. Lots of Capitol police out across the street around the Capitol but I'm not there often enough to know if it was more than normal.
i doubt it will happen, but maybe this will get left-leaning people to think about Supreme Court picks and Senate races more cohesively.
personally, that is the primary reason i pick a president/party but have run into few other people who do, especially on the left because top of mind issues are the issues themselves, not the Supreme Court
So much of the Republican agenda has built around overturning R v W for so long that you have to wonder what will happens if they get what they wish for. Opposition politics has worked for them. So what happens when you check all of your boxes? Horrible for humanity, but a good way to galvanize the left again headed into midterms.
Move on to the next group whose rights they want to remove: marriage equality, further erosion of the civil rights act and votings right act, etc. They'll always find some group to stigmatize and if they don't, they'll invent one (antifa, CRT, "woke mobs").
The opinion explicitly outlines what they're coming for next. -- every other opinion that they don't consider to have been inherent in the constitution and hasn't been present since the beginning (even though abortion has been legal for 150 years and illegal for only 100 in the history of this country). Gay marriage, sodomy, birth control, interracial marriage , voting rights -- all of those opinions were cited in this opinion as being on the same general poor footing.
I agree and to be honest the GQP isn’t done with abortion. They will not stop until they have passed a national law criminalizing abortions and restricting access to abortion nationwide. They are coming for places like California and NY next with the full force of the federal government.
Tucker Carlson, a hate mongering, spewing piece of trash. Just read the article on him in yesterdays NYT. In the name of ratings, anything is fair game, until our freedoms are lost.
i watched the first half of the game vs the Mavs. they pretty much had their way w/ them. i think it will be a tough matchup for the Warriors if they can beat Memphis.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
In more happy news, cake for breakfast.
Las Vegas bans lawns
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/climate/las-vegas-lawn-grass-ban.html
Good, lawns are such a waste of water in drought stricken regions
Sagebrush, native plants, cacti, succulents. Natural garden/no water.
We just ripped out most of our front yard landscaping and replaced it with all succulents and cacti. The diversity in beautiful flowering drought tolerant plants that are available at nurseries now is truly amazing.
Like basing a water collection system off an inconsistent snow pack?
To say nothing of a population probably exceeding the capacity of that inconsistent snowpack.
This too
eh, that would work minus the climate change.
Sure, so would lawns
Nah, lawns in Las Vegas were always dumb.
Foul
I hosted Bruce Bowen in Shanghai when he was on a media tour for the NBA - and he was one of the nicest people I've ever met.
An Egyptian dish that is often had for breakfast, pronounced fool. It's essentially fava-based hummus.
https://www.themediterraneandish.com/foul-mudammas-recipe/#tasty-recipes-33099
A foul pita wrap can be had from street vendors in Cairo for 1-2 £E or 5-10 cents, slightly more with eggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHIFLMgE3E
Apparently, the Supreme Court majority is foul.
That is all.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Something is out of whack
https://twitter.com/vetchy119/status/1520822842778173440
Reggie Bush is wondering where this was 20 years ago.
We're seeing the backlash of decades of restrained compensation and competition for college football players, especially those at the skill positions.
This is actually evidence for an argument that college football should be something different altogether and that the NFL should form and fund its own minor league(s).
ICYMI: Makai Polk transferred to MS State thinking it would boost his draft prospects. He went UDFA to Ravens, same as Trevon Clark.
https://twitter.com/skrajisnik3/status/1520594921325006851
MSU degree over Cal?
did he get his degree?
He will by this May
Source: https://www.djournal.com/sports/college/mississippi-state/makai-polk-succeeds-because-he-believes-hes-the-best-nfl-provides-chance-to-prove-it/article_9f8c67a8-2ccc-5ffd-befa-d1634e20d356.html
Cincy, Houston, UCF begin payout to exit AAC
https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/cincinnati-houston-ucf-negotiating-settlement-to-join-big-12-2023
Let me get this straight, Cincinnati, Ohio and Houston Texas were in the ATLANTIC COAST conference. Geography has become meaningless.
It's AAC (American Athletic Conference) rather than the ACC. AAC is kind of what the Big East had turned into. ICYMI, San Diego State nearly joined the Big East before backing out.
I'm an Omaha native. It's still weird to me that Creighton is in the Big East. The Missouri Valley days were good. Nonetheless, the majority of Creighton fans (including me) are happy with the step up in average competition. Plus, Omaha loves the East Coast tourist money coming into Omaha for the away games.
Tennessee pitcher Ben Joyce threw 105.5 MPH. I'm told that's pretty fast.
https://twitter.com/wesrucker247/status/1520865817969238024
https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1520850142865276932
USC QB Caleb Williams, Matt Leinart launch NFT platform to help college athletes build NIL value
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/usc-qb-caleb-williams-matt-leinart-launch-nft-platform-to-help-college-athletes-build-nil-value/
TODAY IN COVID
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
overall i think the Republican strategy is to cast everything as a fight for "freedom of X"
but X is now "not X" or some convoluted version of it
so instead of "freedom to practice religion" it is "freedom to impose religion"
Politico obtains a draft of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade. Crowd control fences have already been erected in front of SCOTUS.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
I changed my running route to go by the SC. There were a handful of anti-abortion folks with a megaphone out front chanting "Roe must go" and other slogans. There was a similar number of pro-choice people with signs. The combined total was outnumbered by press people and all of those were outnumbered by curiosity seekers like me. Lots of Capitol police out across the street around the Capitol but I'm not there often enough to know if it was more than normal.
Justice Roberts confirms the draft is authentic
https://twitter.com/GregStohr/status/1521509448480702464
The right is SO ANGRY about the leak . . . and not anything else.
Why would they be angry about the rest? They're getting what they want.
The logic Alito uses can be used to overturn almost anything, these people are the true radicals. Or extreme reactionaries.
If you look at Alito’s opinions, they’re just that - his opinions. Not sure he’s ever taken a glance at the constitution.
i doubt it will happen, but maybe this will get left-leaning people to think about Supreme Court picks and Senate races more cohesively.
personally, that is the primary reason i pick a president/party but have run into few other people who do, especially on the left because top of mind issues are the issues themselves, not the Supreme Court
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the barricades have actually been up since a scientist self-immolated to draw awareness to climate change. things are fine why do you ask
So much of the Republican agenda has built around overturning R v W for so long that you have to wonder what will happens if they get what they wish for. Opposition politics has worked for them. So what happens when you check all of your boxes? Horrible for humanity, but a good way to galvanize the left again headed into midterms.
Move on to the next group whose rights they want to remove: marriage equality, further erosion of the civil rights act and votings right act, etc. They'll always find some group to stigmatize and if they don't, they'll invent one (antifa, CRT, "woke mobs").
The opinion explicitly outlines what they're coming for next. -- every other opinion that they don't consider to have been inherent in the constitution and hasn't been present since the beginning (even though abortion has been legal for 150 years and illegal for only 100 in the history of this country). Gay marriage, sodomy, birth control, interracial marriage , voting rights -- all of those opinions were cited in this opinion as being on the same general poor footing.
Why stop at the constitution. They should just go all the way back to the Bible.
Well, now. I think you've hit on their operating blueprint.
The Bible is the first and true constitution.
I don’t know, that sounds like a lot of socialism.
They just move on and create the next big problem: CRT.
agreed. you can see it already when you read Fox News. the new bad word is "woke" and the backlash against it.
I agree and to be honest the GQP isn’t done with abortion. They will not stop until they have passed a national law criminalizing abortions and restricting access to abortion nationwide. They are coming for places like California and NY next with the full force of the federal government.
Of course they'll move on to other issues, but those aren't nearly the lightning rod that abortion is.
I think same sex marriage is for conservatives and CRT isn’t far behind.
I wonder how Clarence Thomas is going to feel writing the opinion that his marriage is unconstitutional.
Tucker Carlson, a hate mongering, spewing piece of trash. Just read the article on him in yesterdays NYT. In the name of ratings, anything is fair game, until our freedoms are lost.
PRO
CLE Browns had a kicking competition after drafting a PK in the 4th round of the draft. Naturally, the guy named Blewitt lost and was waived.
https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2022/05/browns-waive-chase-mclaughlin-chris-blewitt.html
hahahaha
D'oh!
https://twitter.com/goncalo_diass17/status/1521230955222114304
Carolina Hurricane Vincent Trochuck had a filthy goal from behind the line and off the back of the goalie's head.
https://twitter.com/NHL/status/1521305991849156608
Phx Suns are good.
i watched the first half of the game vs the Mavs. they pretty much had their way w/ them. i think it will be a tough matchup for the Warriors if they can beat Memphis.
Dallas looked shellshocked in the first couple minutes. Phoenix opened that game with a strong statement.
The Mavs came back behind strong shooting by Luka, but they look overmatched compared to the Suns
I picked the Suns to win the West in January. They look good.
Yeah, they are absolutely the odds on favorites to win the whole thing.
DeAndre Hopkins suspended 6 games for PED violation
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-suspending-cardinals-wr-deandre-hopkins-six-games-for-violating-ped-policy