Hongbit

Things will move quickly from here. The rest of the Pac will be courted. If I had to guess the B10 takes Oregon, Washington, Cal, Stanford. Big 12 gets Utah, Colorado and the Arizona schools. The ACC is the one to watch. Their terrible TV deal that keeps schools rights until 2035 is really the only thing holding it together. I’m sure lawyers from places like Clemson and Miami are trying to find a legal loophole. If they can, then expect the ACC to get swallowed up by SEC and Big12. That’s where things will get interesting and what do the B10 and SEC do with their Nebraska,Rutgers, and Vandy type schools. Do they kick them to the curb or are they grandfathered in? Big 12 has a chance to stay around for a while as a 3rd major conference if they play their cards correctly and pick up remnants of ACC and Pac. Fun times…

The PAC-12 presidents made a huge mistake not firing their previous commissioner, Larry Scott, five years ago. He had a pipe dream vision to solely own the Pac-12 Network and that failed miserably. He should’ve taken a network partner like all of the other conferences. He had come from running the Women’s Tennis Association prior and had this silly idea that the PAC-12 olympic sports had tremendous TV value and would boost the network. He was very wrong. This created the huge financial inequality that wasn’t helped with a down stretch for USC football, UCLA & Arizona basketball. The PAC-12 was sliding into oblivion and it was only going to get worse with the next TV contracts. I think everyone can see that contraction of the traditional power 5 conferences is coming at some point into a new model and the PAC was going to get left behind. And yes @lordstanley, the Song Girls do travel.

I’m a little surprised that UCLA can do this without taking Cal. They are part of the same university system and ultimately run by the same people. Hell, they have the same fight song.

I love Shamatuerism!

I did not see this one coming. Wow. The new Pac-12 commissioner knew he was signing up for a tough job. It just got tougher.

Dead & Co. absolutely killed it last night at Pine Knob. Amazing show with a bunch of unreal jams. John Mayer has found his niche blending his style into the old Jerry parts of the band. Tough choices for sure as I’m sure Derek and Susan did the same downtown.

As expected MAGA mouthbreathers just want to focus on the steering wheel story and ignore all of the other damning things that came out yesterday. There is no hill of complete idiocy that these folks aren’t willing to die on.

Does anyone really believe that President Pussygrab barely noticed the attractive 24 year old working at a desk 15 feet down the hall? He knew exactly who she was and probably tried many times to get her alone in the Oval Office study.

Meadows should stay the line. If he can stay loyal to Trump there are many more millions to be made grifting from the MAGA cult. He’s got a get out of jail free card if the GOP can win in 24. Roll the dice

I think this time it will be too embarrassing to our country to do nothing.

The problem is next years pick is still going to be in the lottery. If they trade it, you can rest assured that will be the one time the Wings finally move up in lottery.

Maybe but I still think they would also want one of the top 4 Swede prospects behind Edvinsson. He is still viewed as a possible franchise player and definitely a 1C.

I think Buddha is much closer to what it would take for the Devils to drop down and pass on Wright. There’s no way they do it for just an extra 2nd and 3rd pick.

I think they will sign one of these three.

Today was a good day for Ron DeSantis 2024.

I dont think you would like what this trade would actually cost.

I’m excited to see how the FoxNews crew is going to spin this one. Tucker is going to have dig deep into his infinite bag bullshit.

It’s both Sedin’s, Luongo, and Alfredsson.

Plot twist: This is DC and there is no big plot twist. This was the only day they could do it where everyone would show up due to either yet another vacation or big lobbyist golf event at an exclusive country club.

When I lived in California we had great fun watching Speedway motorcycle racing. Single cylinder bikes that ran on Methanol with no brakes. They would just slide around the short track.

Dead & Co. ran up against the curfew at Wrigley Field this past Friday and didn’t play an encore. They also fittingly opened the show with “Man Smart, Woman Smarter” under a pink stealie banner with a save our rights fist.

All this conception talk makes me think back to the Monty Python “Every Sperm is Sacred” skit from The Meaning of Life.

Fuck Mark Burnett! None of this happens without The Apprentice. Trump was in very bad shape financially around that time with debts far outweighing assets. He was living a facade that was close to falling apart. The show came on and re-launched his public brand and this time it stretched far outside NYC. The millions he made from the show made a big impact to his floundering personal wealth and also allowed him tap into credit sources that would never given him the time of day. He used this same fake platform to fool everyone into thinking he was something he was not when running for President. Crazy to think how different the world would’ve been had Burnett just been happy making Survivor episodes.

One nation under god with liberty and justice for all who worship that one god.