Hongbit

I absolutely understand your sentiment. In a fantasy world, the Russians need to be involved for a true best of best tournament. In our current world, the Russians are not accepted on the global stage for various political reasons. I’d rather have a very competitive international tournament in place of a boring all-star game. I’d especially hate that reason we would be deprived is due to anything having to do with the Russian leader.

Both of these catches are better than any made on the field.

Everyone gave up on Levi and was close to doing the same with Paschal. We saw how both of those guys have responded this season. Let’s give Martin some time.

Kevin Mitchell

How and why Vincent Trocheck and Brock Nelson are on this roster and Tage Thompson, Clayton Keller, and Cole Caufield at home. Still a strong enough roster to scare Canadians into pretending not to care.

Canada roster looking old.

Sweden looks amazing. They may be the favorite. Canada without a reliable goalie may only be the 3rd best team. US & Canada will release later tonight.

So it doesn’t get lost in the catch all thread. Tourney starts on February 12th and will replace the All-Star game this year. Swedes and Finns named their stacked rosters today.

No reunions

Super important day but I think the portal will be more important if they want to get back to the crystal that quickly.

Signing day sure is different now. So many big flips going on today with 4 and 5 stars. It looks like Oregon, Ohio, Texas, and maybe even Michigan have reached into their bags at the last minute for that little bit extra to land some of these top guys Even the biggest spenders have a budget and it will be interesting to see who can spend like they don’t care in both recruiting and the transfer portal.

He needs to accept the reality that he’s a G5 QB. Thats where he needs to go to have success.

Bucks are going to hit 80 in the first half with Giannis only taking 3 shots. Wow that is terrible defense.

Unless you are already on a great NIL deal, it makes the most sense for every player to put their name in the portal every season.

Clearing space for Jeremiah and Nick Marsh.

I’m trying to do my part. I bet a Giannis points ladder from 30 up to 45. Also sprinkled on his triple double. Figure the way that my NBA bets are going at the moment these will all lose. I can see a blistering 20-6–6 first half turn into Giannis having to leave with injury in the 3rd quarter.

Will they let him wear #24?

Are any people in the Michiverse bringing up what would be the ultimate kick them when they are down move? Getting Danarys Ellison to pony up however many millions it would take steal superstar WR Jeremiah Smith. OSU fans would absolutely lose their ****.

Ohio State has higher expectations than Michigan. Football is all they have. It is essentially the purpose of the University. There are no academic or research merits that matter to anyone. They want to win championships. They have won zero and only played for one in six seasons. The overall record is deceiving as well seeing how weak the teams from 5 through 14 have been in the conference up until this season.

Urban is the perfect fit them. The question is that now they have to pay players $25M a year, do they really want to pay a $37M buyout and the cost for a new coach.

Trump is not in anyone’s pocket anymore. He can literally get away with anything at this point. Russia could put out the clearest evidence possible that they’ve compromised Trump and have been doing it for years and it won’t matter. He will deny everything and maga will believe it and his cronies in government will support him.

A Ravens win today would be huge for us.

The staff figured it out at the end of the season but the defense should’ve been much better than it was for most of the year. What we saw yesterday should have been close to the norm especially when Will Johnson was healthy. I wonder if they run it back with Wink especially with the massive rebuild that needs to take place on that side of the ball. They will hit the portal hard but that’s still building almost an entirely new defense. Crazy to think about how much defensive talent they will have cycled through over the past two seasons.

The deck will reshuffle yearly now in our new NIL/Portal world especially without a real governing body and any spending guardrails in place. I doubt that those 3 will fade for very long and won’t be surprised to see all of them back in the thick of it next year.