Just started on ABC. Full Court Press?

Last month Spencer Lee won the 57 KG spot on the US Olympic team for the upcoming 2024 Olympic games in Paris. But he'll only get to compete in the Paris games if the U.S. qualifies the weight. He has an opportunity to do so at this weekend's World Olympic Qualifier in Istanbul, Turkey.

He needs to win four matches to qualify the weight and his quest got started earlier (much earlier) this morning.

He rolled in his first match over Ben Tarik of Morocco.

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The whole match took 23 seconds:

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Despite calls from Democratic lawmakers, there are no indications that Justice Clarence Thomas will recuse himself from Tuesday’s case.
Democrats have questioned whether Thomas can remain impartial in Jan. 6 cases, given that his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, pressed the Trump White House and lawmakers to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and exchanged more than two dozen text messages with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the weeks after the vote.


Ginni Thomas corresponded with lawyer John Eastman, a former Thomas clerk who had advocated a fringe legal theory that Vice President Mike Pence could block the certification of Biden’s electoral college win. She also attended the Jan. 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally before the Capitol attack and told the House committee investigating the attack in 2022 that she still believed the 2020 election was stolen.
“I don’t think Thomas will recuse because he fails to recognize that his wife’s active involvement in the ‘Stop the Steal’ effort means his impartiality might reasonably be questioned, which is the test for recusal here,” Stephen Gillers, a judicial ethics expert at New York University’s law school, said in an email. “He’s wrong in thinking that.”
Mark Paoletta, the D.C. lawyer and former White House aide who is a staunch Thomas defender, told The Washington Post that there is “no reason” for the justice to recuse himself from the obstruction case or the upcoming presidential immunity case, in which Donald Trump is arguing that he cannot be prosecuted for actions he took while in office.
“These baseless calls for recusal are simply an effort by the Left to shrink the Court so that their preferred Justices decide these cases,” Paoletta said in an emailed statement. “Justice Thomas’ wife has no ‘interest’ as defined in the law in these cases that would require his recusal.”
If Thomas were to recuse, only eight justices would hear the case, which could result in a 4-4 tie.
He very rarely does so. Thomas didn’t sit out oral arguments for February’s ballot disqualification case or deliberations over whether to fast-track consideration of Trump’s immunity claim. The justice missed Monday’s court session but did not provide a public explanation for his absence.

And not because I think OSU will be a contender in the not so distant future. But I’m jealous because at 60 years old, this is the time of year where I use to get excited about the next season.
Couldn’t get enough of the off season moves and recruiting. Planning for next years NCAA trip that we never missed. The news on recruiting victories
The Okie St fans had to wake up feeling like kids on Christmas today.
I’m jealous because I want to experience the excitement, expectations, anticipation, and pride like the old days
I won’t rip on TnT right now, but we have none of that anymore. We have a new facility that was supposed to be a game changer, but from reviews and opinions it’s just ho-hum. We have little to get excited about. Been that way for a few years
Can you imagine the money being thrown at the OSU program this morning?
That’s what excitement and hope does -gets donors to open up the check books
With the stagnant state of the program, people are reluctant to give when they expect nothing but the same.

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Other articles state 18-23. My question is what makes 23 the magical number?

Per his agency:
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ESPN/ABC has a new ESPN+ docu-series airing this weekend, Full Court Press. It features a behind-the-scenes look at Caitlin Clark, South Carolina center Kamilia Cardoso, and UCLA guard Kiki Rice.

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Episode 1: 12 PM CT (Saturday, May 11)
Episode 2: 1 PM CT (Saturday, May 11)
Episode 3: 11:30 AM CT (Sunday, May 12)
Episode 4: 12:30 PM CT (Sunday, May 12)

All four episodes are an hour long and will air on ABC. They'll be available to stream on ESPN+ after the initial broadcast.

More info:

That is all. On Max.

Welfare roles reduced by one and a biden/walz voter gone! They should have wasted idiot number 2 also for not telling them idiot number 1 had a weapon.

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Some surprises, some disappointments.

Sounds like the Orient Macksburg school district will decide on dissolution next week.

Cutting funding to public schools has consequences.

Chalk one up to Dim Kim's efforts to reduce staffing challenges.

Oh, well!

I'll start. Like an insatiable little bird in the nest that requires constant feeding and attention.

This doomsday solar storm sucks butt

This is the best article I’ve seen yet to explain this.

If this goes through it would help a lot to add some stability. Importantly, the schools would buy the exclusive rights to the players NIL, which would make things like the Swarm a thing of the past. It would also institute a salary cap of roughly $20m per school.

It would also give them 8-10 years worth of protection from further lawsuits and then according to the article they would need action from Congress to get protection beyond that.

It’s not clear to me how the settlement gets approved - like do all NCAA athletes get a vote and then if >50% say yes the settlement is adopted? If I was an athlete at one of the wealthier schools I wouldn’t vote for this. $20m per year is a lot for some schools but for the wealthy schools it’s not very much. You would also be signing away your rights to NIL outside the schools.

The article also talks a little about Title IX and they evidently think they can get by without giving equal amounts to the women athletes, but I’ll believe that when I see it. From the article:

In an interview in January, Baker said he believed that Title IX terminology is more “about equal participation” and not “so much about equal amounts.” That would open the door for a school to share more total revenue with men athletes as long as the school offers revenue to an equal number of women athletes.

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Not a cake walk by any means, but it is Spencer Lee.

FROM FLO:

INDIA - #6 Aman Aman (2022 U23 World gold)

CHINA - #7 Wanhao Zou (2022 World 5th)

TURKIYE - #10 Muhammet Karavus (2021 U20 World silver) OR Suleyman Atli (2019 World silver)

MONGOLIA - Munkh Erdene Batkhuyag (2023 U23 World bronze) OR Zandanbud Zanabazar (2022 World bronze) OR #18 Narankhuu Narmandakh (2022 61 kg World bronze)

NORTH KOREA - #17 Chongsong Han (2023 Asian Games silver)

IRAN - Ahmad Mohammadnezhadjavan (2022 U20 World bronze, 2021 U23 World bronze)

KAZAKHSTAN - Meirambek Kartbay (2023 World 5th) / Yerassyl Mukhtaruly (2023 U23 World 5th)

GEORGIA - Roberti Dingashvili (2024 Euro bronze)

GERMANY - Horst Lehr (2021 World bronze)

Who wins?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...-beat-caitlin-clark-one-on-one-in-basketball/

Beat ya Fran!

Two preseason WNBA games in a row. Crazy

Donald Trump’s fortune got another boost as stock in Trump Media & Technology Group surged again.

Trump Media shares climbed 14% to $66.22 on Wednesday, giving the company a market value of roughly $8 billion. That would make Trump’s approximately 60% stake worth about $5.2 billion. The company’s stock market debut under the DJT ticker followed its merger with special-purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corp.

That would give Trump an overall net worth of $7.1 billion and make him one of the 400 richest people in the world, according to the Forbes list of billionaires.

The move in shares on Wednesday boosts his wealth on paper by nearly $700 million in one day. The former president could receive tens of millions of additional shares if the stock stays above certain levels in the coming weeks.

BTW Rico is reaping the rewards of this goldmine.

In the past structure, the 5 major conferences mostly split evenly 80% of the CFP’s $460 million in revenue.

The CFP is barreling toward a new 14 team format and revenue model that skews toward the new Power Two of college athletics, creating a more formal delineation between two groups: the SEC and Big Ten; the ACC and Big 12.

With a 14 team playoff, the difference in distribution between the two sets of conferences — SEC/Big Ten and ACC/Big 12 — will likely exceed $300 million a year. The Power Two will earn around a combined $760 million versus around $440 million for the ACC and Big 12. Roughly $115 million is slotted for the Group of Five.

Considering the distribution percentages, SEC teams will earn as much as $23 million annually, Big Ten $21 million, ACC around $13.7 million and Big 12 around $12.3 million. Group of Five teams are expected to earn a figure just south of $2 million

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