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***Big Ten Tournament Session II Thread***

Some tough semifinal matches for the Hawks. Riggins can secure an auto bid to NCAAs with a win over Malczewski.

Semis:
133: 14 Teske vs. 2 Shawver (RUT)
141: 3 Woods vs. 2 Mendez (OSU)
157: 4 Franek vs. 1 Haines (PSU)
165: 3 Caliendo vs. 2 Messenbrink (PSU)
174: 3 Kennedy vs. 2 Griffith (MICH)
197: 3 Glazier vs. 2 Smith (MD)

Consis:
125: 2 Ayala vs 8 McCrone (OSU)
149: 3 Rathjen vs. 12 Stauffenberg (MSU)
184: 13 Riggins vs. 6 Malczewski (MSU)
HWT: 7 Hill vs. 9 Terrill (MSU)


Team standings:
Penn State 83.5
Michigan 70.5
Iowa 57.5
Nebraska 46.5
Minnesota 34.5
Rutgers 31.5
Ohio State 28.5
Maryland 20.5
Wisconsin 17
Indiana 16
Mich State 11.5
Illinois 10.5
NW 7.5
Purdue 4
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'A stunning turnabout': Voters and lawmakers across US move to reverse criminal justice reform

Interesting article. Although it looks like some still want to avoid mentioning the fact that the "further ruptured public trust in police" in the Brown case was based on a false narrative of "Hands up, don't shoot".

Gelb said the goal should actually be the recent lows in 2014, before the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri further ruptured public trust in police.

Should I have ordered the Cole slaw?

Here in my last night in Cleveland and I’m at the bar of a restaurant I like. Sitting there have a few cold ones and ready to order exactly what I want. Guy and his wife saddle up next to me. Nice folks.

Anywho…right before I order, he exclaims, “They have the best Cole slaw here I’ve ever had. You gotta get the Cole slaw. It’s so good. You won’t believe it.” Easily the strongest Cole slaw recommendation I’ve ever gotten. Problem is, I didn’t want anything to do with Cole slaw. But it was only 2 bucks so I was torn.

I didn’t order it. And you could tell he was pretty upset about it. Not being a dick about it or anything. Just disappointed in me. And I have to admit…I felt bad for not ordering it.

Should I have gotten the Cole slaw?

WBB Bracketology

ESPN has Iowa back on the 1 line this morning. Something close to a dream bracket for Iowa here — UCLA would be a challenge, but so would any 2-seed.

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It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

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The Hadrian Gap Sycamore lives on

or at least it’s seeds and scion are. Yay!,

When the tree came down, local horticulturist Rachel Ryver sprang into action - climbing over the damaged tree and wall to collect what is called scion - young twigs with buds. This was vital raw material for grafting genetic copies of the tree.

"It was drying out fast - we had to save whatever we could. Hours later I was standing at Hexham post office thinking "nobody knows I'm carrying what's left of the Sycamore Gap tree"," Rachel says.

The five bags of twigs, seeds and a few leaves arrived in Devon at 09:30 the next day.

Chris Trimmer was waiting. He has worked with plants since he was 12 - decades later, he is one of the UK's leading horticulturists.
For him, like many across the country, the story is personal. The first film he went to see with his now-wife was Robin Hood Prince of Thieves - its scene of Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman at Hadrian's Wall catapulted the tree to global fame.

Chris is softly-spoken, talking scientifically about the process. "It's our job to graft this stuff," he says.

He unpacked the bags, ran tests to check the material was free of disease, then bleached it for five minutes.

It was quite a moment. "If one had shown disease, it all would have been destroyed," he says.

  • Poll
Regular Season or Tournament title?

Would you rather:

  • Win a Big Regular Season Title?

    Votes: 55 79.7%
  • Win a Big Tournament Title?

    Votes: 14 20.3%

My opinion has evolved over the years. I would love to win a regular season title again, but I think winning the tournament is much more fun. Of course, making the Sweet 16 once in a while would be great.

Court votes to bar Bolsonaro from running for office

Too bad we can't do this with Trump:

Brazil’s top elections court voted Friday to bar Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years — a period that covers the next presidential election — for making what members of the panel said were claims he knew to be false about the integrity of the country’s voting systems.


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As president, the “Trump of the Tropics” repeatedly asserted without evidence that the voting systems in Latin America’s largest country were vulnerable to fraud. With the vote of Supreme Court President Cármen Lúcia on Friday afternoon, the seven-member Superior Electoral Court reached a majority to convict the right-wing populist of abuse of power for undermining faith in the country’s young democracy.
The ruling, if it survives a planned Supreme Court appeal, means Bolsonaro, 68, won’t be able to run for president until the 2030 election, when he’ll be 75. It is the first time in the court’s 90-year history that it has applied the ban to a former president.

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