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by PresidentOso
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 02:57 PM PDT
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I get it. I made a conscious decision a few years back to stop watching football. But it’s still a major cultural event. I watch one game a year. It’s worth watching, even if you are only watching the commercials. I just saw a Kennedy for President...
by Bruce The Moose
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 05:23 PM PST
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Swift.com
Since my fate is to write KTK on Sundays, it inevitably falls on Super Bowl Sunday. �I really have very little interest in this, but for many years we have been invited to a party, ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 05:30 PM PST
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I can now reveal that I am a deep cover operative, working on a team with with Taylor Swift for the Biden campaign, and it was my job to make sure the Chiefs win the big game, so that she and Travis Kelce could share a big, photogenic smooch on the...
by Aunt Acid
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 05:14 PM PST
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The Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC Championship against the Baltimore Ravens Sunday, meaning they will be facing off against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Feb. 11. It ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 09:30 AM PST
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2023 was the hottest year ever record on Earth with accompanying climate disasters. More than 40% of the planet’s surface was at least 1.5°C (2.7°F) warmer than in the late 19th century. Many scientists believe that 1.5°C temperature increase over...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 06:36 AM PST
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We call it football. A game that evolved from the REAL football (what we call soccer, which truly and completely focuses on the role of the foot) into something completely different, and then hijacked the name of its distant relative. A "sport" that...
by Gregg Fritchle
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 02:52 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
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While watching some college football playoffs on ESPN, I noticed that the screen showing the playing field was diminished. The ESPN “announcers” were the members of the entourage for the Pat McAfee and his show. I thought this was going to be an...
by bonitamia
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 11:01 AM PST
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The Washington Post has an interesting article on two economists, married to each other, who share Democratic politics but disagree about why Biden is polling poorly on economic matters. �One, the ...
by angryea
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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The first day of the year is like a 24-hour hangover, no alcohol consumption necessary. The marathon holiday season—from Thanksgiving on through the December holidays and New Year’s Eve—is finally over. New Year’s Day is the day after the party, when...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST
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Here is my Super Bowl LVlll prediction and projected game highlights for next Sunday’s game. Kansas City Swifts, née Chiefs: 38 — San Francisco 49ers: 35 — Trump and MAGAs: The Real Losers I predict a back and forth game with both teams doing a...
by Gutenberg
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 10:29 AM PST
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Because Ron DeSantis is such a supporter of colleges, he has asked for budget money to pay for Florida State University to sue the NCAA over their exclusion from the College Football Playoff (especially since University of Texas made it in). ESPN is...
by tjlord
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 06:57 AM PST
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May I kindly ask our DKos football fans: Who is this McAfee guy who wears a wife beater on his ESPN show. I don’t watch his show, but sometimes restaurants my husband and I frequent have the show on w/ no sound nor closed captions. Therefore I have no...
by bonitamia
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 10:13 AM PST
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The New York Times has a heartbreaking story of loss. This link should allow full access. The issue of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (C.T.E.) is of increasing concern as studies are finding it in places that had been overlooked — until now. They...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Nov 17, 2023 at 08:43 AM PST
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On Sept. 1, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders held a big fun party for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks football team at the governor’s mansion. The invitation-only event took place on the eve of the Razorbacks’ first game, with head coach Sam Pittman,...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 11:29 AM PST
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I was born a Cornhusker fan; and through the first four decades of my life, it was an easy thing to be. Two National Championships in the 70’s and another three (ok, I’d argue four) during a dominant 90’s – all that under only two head coaches and one...
by davelovell
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on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 08:47 AM PST
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The Colorado State Open Thread is many things to many people. But for the two or three people who read it, it’s an opportunity to see what are some topics of conversation in the state. This week, there were at least three major topics of conversation...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 06:01 PM PDT
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by Nick Anderson
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 02:24 PM PDT
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NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD
Sunday, September 10th, 2023
WEEKLY EDITION #433
This blog is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue . The platform gives readers interested in North Carolina ...
by randallt
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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