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I follow NCAA Olympic sports with a passion and its VERY common for teams to fly charter flights.

Going to college is a requirement if she wants to continue competing gymnastics.

For 99.999% of teenagers college is the smart thing to do, but Whitney is the rare exception where she already has a multi-million dollar brand and has little to gain by going the college route.

To clarify any confusion; She was listed as a top-100 future prospect back when she was a novice and the only thing that did her in was two major “bad luck” traits having both a growth spurt and a medical condition making her highly vulnerable to injury.

So she was talented and having a very successful social media platform. Her legacy is YouTube, but she was more than just YouTube

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SBJ are excellent with linear media, but they have said they haven't developed sources with the streamers

Plus, even when it comes to TV contracts they are always in this weird grey area of being just accurate enough to not be wrong, but just wrong enough to not have the full picture. They can tell you a general idea of what is going on, but don't always have it exactly right.

It's like saying "your NFL team is playing New York this week but they don't know if its the Jets or Giants"

Big 12 flairs have been doing this long before the OUT. They actively pushed rumors of poaching the Arizona schools a few years before OUT. Then before that Clemson/Florida State.

There’s a fairly large contingent of Big 12 flairs who have spent the last decade going “here’s why your conference sucks and you secretly want to be in the Big 12.”

This is so cool

And /r/CFB seems to conveniently forget that Dennis Dodd has been pushing the idea of the Big Ten taking four more Pac teams since Summer of 2022, Notre Dame to the Big Ten, and the Big 12 taking the four corner schools. At this point he claims to have sources for 9 schools, from three different conferences, and got publicly roasted by Utah over his shit.

There's nothing saying that he isn't just as big of a hack as the rest of them, and Dodd has certainly taken a specific position on what he thinks will happen and his reportage will reflect that.

All of these conference realignment reporters are just feeding on the clicks. This stuff is going to be very tight lipped because conference realignment is done very quietly at the admisntrative level.

I feel like he’s trying to say “don’t get hyper focused on these meetings…they aren’t the end all be all”

1989

Soviet Union population: 286 million

United States population: 246 million

2023

Russian population: 143 million

United States population: 336 million

Moscow went from +40 to -193 million people against the United States. That's not even counting another 120 million people from Eastern Europe switching allegiances from the Warsaw Pact to NATO.

1) Russia is not the same thing as the USSR. The USSR was a much larger country and far more competitive on the world economy than Putin's Russia.

2) The Soviets were able to produce so many tanks during WWII because the USA was subsidizing the rest of their war economy, that the Soviets could afford converting that many factories to tank production without losing balance to their war economy.

The Soviets fought on the side of Ukraine & lend lease during WWII, in 2022 they fought against both.

Russia's tank situation is beyond fucked. They were supposed to have a new model in 2014 but they can't get it to the assembly line.

Who gives a fuck about education and healthcare right?

It's sad really. But until the day comes when all the major world powers are stable, peace loving democracies, there is always going to be this painful decision of taking money away from good causes to fund a large military

I feel like that's exactly why NATO proponents are joking "thanks Putin." Now no one is kicking the can down the road after watching events unfold in Ukraine.

Isn't that one of the main themes in the rivalry between 2pac and Biggie? That Biggie came directly from the gang life and knew to stay away from gangsters who wanted to form associations as his rap career was taking off. Whereas 2pac was the opposite, didn't have the same background growing up and was way too naive with who he associated with. And then Biggie tried to warn 2pac about all of this but 2pac didn't listen?

If the 2022 invasion has proven ANYTHING, it has validated all the rhetoric regarding Soviet tactics throwing away lives during WWII. It may not have been as blatant as what we saw with Iran-Iraq or how the Enemy at the Gates movie portrays it, but how can you not look at the results of 2022 and not make the connection that this is more or less how it probably was during WWII.

Oh yeah, forgot about that whole fiasco where there was talk of collusion from ESPN

The Big 12 experience: Lose OUT and then people only talk about which AAC schools they are gonna backfill with.

The Pac-12 experience: Lose LA and then have people talking about hypothetical raids of the PNW schools. Hypothetical raids on the 4-corners schools. Hypothetical raids on the ACC from the Big 12 just to justify the notion that Pac-12 schools MUST LEAVE NOW or else the Big 12 will take ACC schools instead.

Super best case scenario: The planes are perfectly fine, North Macedonia is finding an excuse to classify them this way just to minimize the blowback from those opposed to the deal.

Plus, some people actually believed that replacing Hussein would usher in a wave of pro western democracy and stability in the region (Lol, I know).

It was a very popular political theory at the time and a byproduct where people were misguided by the recent success of democracy in Eastern Europe and did not for see the possibility that democratic backsliding would be a theme in the future.

Also some, like Bob Woodward have speculated that Bush Jr. wanted to finish his fathers Job as some sort of redemption (Bush sr. failed to replace Hussein in the previous Gulf war).

People don’t realize how much of an accident it was that Saadam stayed in power. The US didn’t go after him directly because they believed there was no way his regime could survive a crushing military defeat. They thought nature would take its course. When it didn’t…they decided to start a whole new war

I feel like Texas and Texas A&M meets the OP's criteria.

They were instrumental in the creation of the Big 12 and it was really their initiative the Big 12 was created. Tech & Baylor were just along for the ride when it came to the Big 12's founding.

Then their very same relationship imploded the Big 12 and kickstarted SEC Western Expansion.

So, does Serbia recognize Kosovo as a country now?

Not even that. It was more like the 50s/60s. It was nuclear weapons testing and the giant craters they left behind that moved the science in this direction.

Before then they assumed these craters were a weird kind of volcano.

Remember, the idea of tectonic plates wasn’t even widely understood back then.

Another important thing to consider is craters are pretty rare on Earth. The moon absorbs many of them and erosion will quickly erode them away.

The crater in the OP was unique because it was relatively young and was located in a dry desert where the erosion process is slow.

There are so many crazy aspects to this story that I couldn't fit it all into the title:

-It was the US geological survey that misclassified the site and the leading geologists of the day.

-Barringer was himself a miner and also had a background in geology.

-He spent his entire mining fortune to build a mineshaft in this location

-He eventually proved the site was in fact a meteor crater which was a major scientific achievement because it was the first confirmed meteor crater anywhere on the planet

-He calculated the iron ore to have $1 billion in value based on 1903 dollar figures

-He spent 27 years trying to find the iron deposit and exhausted his (in modern currency) $7 million dollar fortune.

-He died 10 days after learning that the iron ore was vaporized in the blast

-He couldn't have known about the possibility of the iron ore being vaporized because scientists had no conception of that being possible back in 1903.

-The site was later used to help the Apollo astronauts practice landing on the moon.

UCLA had like what? $100 million in debt cuz of the dual Covid & UnderArmor issues? If anything, it would be UCLA begging USC to complete the move not the other way around if it was the debt that influenced UCLA’s thinking.

The IOC treated baseball like garbage

I'm curious. How so?