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Bela Karolyi, Olympic champion coach to gymnastics legends Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton, and the Magnificent Seven, died today at the age of 82. Karolyi is an undeniably controversial figure, and I do not post this without reservations or a sense of thinly-vielded contempt. But I do not wish...

… and now he’s waived.

Shortstop caught the most hell. Brewers Announcer: “Jose Hernandez has almost no range whatsoever at shortstop. That’s a play Jose Valentin would make in his sleep.” Weird twist, Hernandez would later become an All-Star in 2002 … with the Brewers Valentin did not. But he did get into the...

Jon Lieber Twice in two different games. For 3 RBIs.

I have to apologize to the Hornets. My youth spent in some dreadful summer football camps at Sac State decades ago colored my belief it was a podunk bottom-feeder program of the Big Sky conference. Had no idea they’d become a veritable powerhouse to the FCS in the last 5 years. Way to go...

Sure, PAC ‘em in! The keys are: No real deadweight dregs (Although UNLV would look better than Utah State), represents arguably the best teams available outside Power 4, and regional divisions limit extensive travel. To illustrate, here is a mock schedule in this imaginary league for Memphis...

I saw this as a pie-in-the-sky proposal of a new completed Pac 12 Pac West WSU OSU SDSU Boise State Fresno State Utah State Gonzaga (BB Only) Pac East Colorado State Memphis Tulane USF UTSA UConn (Football Only) GCU (BB)

The Aztecs and Zags in the Pac 12 together is something of a fever dream for me; SDSU is my alma mater and my family is from Spokane. At least one of my March brackets every year has them facing each other in the finals. Not that bad a bet recently. But even in saying this new Pac 12 is built...

Link: USC product played five games for the Kings in Las Vegas summer league The Sacramento Kings announced today that they have signed guard Boogie Ellis. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ellis appeared in five games for Sacramento at NBA 2K25 Summer League in Las Vegas...

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) … At the drive-in. Went all the way retro with this one. Watched the original during Halloween last year, and said at the time “there’s no way this movie gets made today.” Now that the sequel has come out more than 30 years later, I stand by that statement. This...

Legend of French Cinema's golden era, once described as the most beautiful man in movies, Alain Delon died today at 88-years-old following several years of debilitating health issues that ostensibly forced him into reclusion. Star of 60s French classics including The Leopard, Purple Noon...

… And it just keeps going: Link: Head of Panel that Stripped Chiles of Medal has Represented Romania for Decades But to their credit, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation continues to claim they never wanted Chiles to lose her medal, and are pushing for the bronze to be shared. Link: Romania...

That is a very “Chiles” accessory. I could see her rocking it in LA28.

Because Romania’s artistic women’s gymnastics history at the Olympics is the stuff of legends and rightfully a huge source of national pride. For decades the modest Eastern European nation went toe to toe with the Soviet gymnastics juggernaut and more than held their own. It’s been more than a...

I can’t imagine Voinea’s goal was ever to legitimately get the bronze outright. Well, except as a longshot backup plan if Chiles’ score was allowed to stand so Romania still had a chance to grab hardware. MAYBE as a wild gambit on the off chance the IOC announced “Screw it; all three of you get...

Romania can challenge a points adjustment that all sides agree made the score correct, but the US cannot present evidence that proves the reason for Romania winning that challenge and reversing the point to its incorrect pre-adjustment total is bogus? Honestly, this all just reeks of...

I apologize if in my ranting diatribes I hadn’t made all of this clear.

Literally, the ruling body said the request came to the judges 4 seconds late. This has nothing to do with rules, or inquires, or score changes. This is a nation whose been starved for a medal in a sport they used to dominate, hardcore white knighting for an 18-year-old woman who got the most...