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1 minute ago, Deleterious said:

Reed just ate KAT's soul

i bet it tasted like a soft, gooey marshmallow.

caris lavert taking the ball to the basket against kat: the resistable force versus the moveable object.

Kat cringing and moving out of the way while cade dunks is the ultimate kat play.  pussy.

the pistons are just better than the knicks now.  cade is better than brunson.  ausar has gotten better on defense and can shadow brunson everywhere.

kat is still invisible. 

whenever i read "i trust trajan", i'm going to say two words: caris lavert.

what a terrible acquisition.

jose alvardo would have been a nice pick up.

as long as there is a draft, there will be tanking.

you could penalize teams by "adding wins" to their record if they win less than a specified number of games.  all these ideas MIGHT affect the margins, but will not stop the problem.

14 hours ago, RedTeamGo! said:

Like I said, it’s not a negative and I am not hating. It’s fact, tho. Duke‘s best player is a teenage freshman, an actual college aged kid. Michigan’s best player is a grown ass man that should be playing in the NBA right now. I’m sorry but it’s fact. 
 

I am only saying it’s ship or bust this year for UM. 

boozer isnt a mercenary?  how much do you think duke is paying him?  more than they paid zion under the table?

If anyone knows what "the best team money can buy" looks like, its an ohio state football fan.  🙂

This is the new Michigan hater narrative.  mercenaries.  best team money can buy.

All the best teams are "the best teams money can buy."  duke?  come on.  Michigan's most talented team - the fab five - was paid for by ed martin.  a young Lew Alcindor was taking a bag at ucla.  Its ALWAYS been the "best team money can buy", the only difference now is that you buy a new team every year.  at least you do if youre smart and want to win.

putting together a team and coaching it is impressive.  it's very impressive what michigan and dusty may have done.  

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

There are quite a few names on that list I would take Cade over.  Mitchell, Booker, Brunson for starters.  Healthy Embiid, Steph, and KD.  

 

who is "healthy embiid"?

poor edman.

france suspends crimon for the rest of the games for fighting.  canada gives wilson a medal and a beer.

i watched an insurance industry presentation on brain injuries probably 8 years ago.  they brought up cte, but more in the context of how the nfl and the movie on cte had entered the public realm, and now minor concussions with no long term effects were still being regarded by juries as multi-million dollar claims.  after all, they saw this movie and now they know all about brain injuries...

anyway, at the time it was thought of as "you have a series of concussions over time and it could lead to brain damage.  or not.  plenty of nfl players are just fine.  some arent."

but we have to price the risk (we used to insure riddell and the ncaa...we used to make a lot less money...) , and now the public has made any kind of concussion quite expensive.  ergo why it costs so much to insure your little league baseball team, or pop warner football team, or kids' hockey team.

or your car, but that's another story and i'll get off my soapbox now.

On 2/10/2026 at 1:27 PM, RedRamage said:

Yeah, that's of course the big question... I mean good on the NFL for having new procedures/policies to try to address this. I've heard at least some talk that this doesn't do squat to help, usually without any real evidence. But that makes me wonder/panic a bit whether the NFL knows that this doesn't really do anything and they're just doing it more for show than to really help the players.

Just to be abundantly clear: I have ZERO evidence of this being the case... just idle thoughts and random speculation. The NFL certainly seems to be caring much more about concussions and potential brain injuries and seems to be taking steps to try to improve player safety (concussion protocol, tackling changes, helmet options), so that's a good thing. 

The nfl will give lip service to a lot of things.  in the end, they care about money.  if player safety were really their goal, they wouldnt be asking for an 18th game.

i dont blame the owners, its a sport played for money and a multi-billion dollar business.  at the end of the day, its a violent game and if they limit the violence too much, people will stop watching.  not many people are watching a flag football game between the lions and jets.

the industry has a lot of questions about "cte" and whether it is actually anything special or just run of the mill brain damage.  also, players in the past certainly have arguments against the nfl for such injuries, but now?  you know the risks.  you can go to another profession of you dont want to play the game.

On 2/9/2026 at 7:35 PM, lordstanley said:

Strong words from the family about CTE and how in their view “the NFL was ultimately the cause of his untimely demise”. Yes, I’m not a fan of sourcing TMZ but it posted the statement unlike some other outlets  

 

They want to get paid.

On 2/9/2026 at 7:35 PM, lordstanley said:

Strong words from the family about CTE and how in their view “the NFL was ultimately the cause of his untimely demise”. Yes, I’m not a fan of sourcing TMZ but it posted the statement unlike some other outlets  

 

when i worked at barnes and noble in rochester, tracy scroggins came in one day.  he was a massive person.

he asked for romance novels.

4-3 in that stretch would be a good result.

That's the lowest i've seen mcgonigle ranked in a while, but i dont spend a ton of time looking.

1 hour ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

I've decided that I am mostly fine with this. I know if I could have continued to extend my college experience, I certainly would have. Add in the fact that they are now getting paid (though these guys likely not a lot) and they aren't prospects at the next level, so I have no problem with them hanging on as long as possible. Is it a little bizarre? Of course. But there are plenty of other things wrong with college athletics that are worse than this.

I say let them play as long as they want.

dont they need to be, you know, students?

I didnt see a whole lot of the game, but what i did see appeared more competitive.  they even tried a bit on defense.

a bit.

but "a bit" is a big step up from previous years.

wilson got into a fight.  of course he did.  what an ass hole.

5 hours ago, slothfacekilla said:

Looks like Pettersson and Raymond are playing well together 👀

where is my dislike emoji when i need it.

chicago traded away half their team, they are tanking.

18 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Yeah, players are lining up to live on the south side of Chicago....OK.

(they dont live in bridgeport...they live in winnetka...)

sam presti should win executive of the year every year.

the only alternative is to give it to the guy who helped build the spurs but i'm sure adam silver would be too embarassed to accept.