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Olympic Trials previews

PSU/NLWC has SIX guys in this (once C-Star is added), including the PSU starters this season at 157, 165, and 174 (and Dake straight to the championship round). That's simply incredible.
(sorry if already posted) Here's the list of the 213 qualifiers as of March 25: https://www.themat.com/news/2024/march/25/2024-u-s-olympic-team-trials-qualifiers-as-of-march-25
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Big-time gambling scandal may be looming for NBA

Jontay Porter. I don't follow the league closely enough anymore to be familiar with the name, but he's a bit player for the Raptors...averages 4 points a game.

The NBA is now investigating two games this year where he played only a few minutes and didn't score before taking himself out of both contests, once due to unspecified illness and once because he claimed to have reaggravated a previous eye injury...though he hadn't been listed on the team's pre-game injury report.

Attention has been focused on a potentially suspicious pattern of prop gambling on both games where big bucks were bet on Porter's under number for points and rebounds. In fact, DraftKings reported that Porter prop bets were the #1 gambling moneymaker for both nights of NBA games.

A source tells ESPN: "People were trying to do whatever they could to bet Jontay Porter props [against the Clippers]...and then, just a few days ago, the same thing. We had a bunch of people trying to bet under for more."

To be clear, there have been no accusations (yet)...nor even allegations. But gosh, it does have a fishy feel to it.

Jontay is the interpreter.

Worst way to lose a wrestling match?

IMO, the worst way you can lose a wrestling match is the same as the worst way you can win a wrestling match. That is waiting to actually do anything offensive until the last 30 seconds of the 3rd or until SV. I just can’t imagine being proud of that kind of performance regardless of who wins.

The spladle is certainly embarrassing, but I’d rather get spladled and lose once in a blue moon because I was trying to win rather than trying not to lose and force a 1-1 match into SV.
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Big-time gambling scandal may be looming for NBA

I think you'd have to be naive to be shocked by this -- granted, I'm a cynic by nature -- but it is a wake-up call of sorts with potentially reverberating consequences.

I mean, the prop betting on player stats is an open invitation to corruption and cheating.

It will be interesting to see where this goes next.
Sarcasm. The stupidity of professional athletes knows no bounds.
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Worst way to lose a wrestling match?

Might be up there as one of the worst.
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Much worse to get carted out of the arena.

One year at states, Thomas Haines spladled a kid to the hospital. It wasn't vicious -- the poor kid just wasn't flexible enough and tore his groin or hamstring during the roll. The video is probably still out there (maybe on Flo?) but don't watch it with sound. The screaming was awful.

The most embarassing way to lose? Probably getting pinned by someone who is so gassed they can barely stand.

“Stop all prop betting” says NCAA

Horse Sense is what keeps ponies from betting on people.
I just don’t understand the draw of gambling. I was on a golf trip with friends last summer. Several wanted to stop in the local casino after dinner one night. I was bored to near tears watching for about an hour until a few finally decided to leave. Never had the desire to bet a dollar.
I have an extended family member who is addicted and has no interest in stopping. I can’t wrap my brain around that.
I would rather burn my money for a little heat than use it to place a wager.
Horse racing is actually entertaining, particularly the Triple Crown races. Most exciting 2 minutes in sports, right? Somewhat similar vibe to college football. I agree about casinos. I don’t get the attraction. My real problem with gambling is that state governments push it to the detriment of those least able to afford it. Pennsylvania’s recent lottery campaign is downright criminal. They show a beautiful young black woman talking about how great it makes you feel to play the lottery. And then how about the groundhog campaign? Budweiser and Camel were stopped from advertising their products with animal characters because that was grooming kids. But it’s A-OK for the state of PA. It’s disgraceful.

Who or what inspires you?

I have plenty of “the usual” inspirational figures. But I recently noted one at a “womens history month” event at work.

The late Helen Segall was my Russian advisor as an undergrad. Instilled a love of literature, always practiced “yes and” rather than “no,” and just a wonderful woman and patient teacher.

But much more than that. The most formidable woman, at 5’ 1”, I’ve ever met. As a polish Jew, helen survived both the communists and the nazis in ww ii. Hid in an oven (horrific irony in retrospect) once to avoid detection by German soldiers. (You can google her oral history from the holocaust museum). What did she take from that experience? Not resentment or anger. She just decided that she was never, ever, going to let anyone tell her what she had to do for the rest of her life. And even more amazingly, she managed to execute that in the most cheerful way imaginable. Like when she brought an entire suitcase of marlies through soviet customs to barter for things for us students while we were in class. By the time we left Russia, every guy in our party was gladly carrying an extra piece of her luggage full of gifts for people back home, because resistance was so futile it became something you were actually happy to do. And I can thank her for my greatest “brush with greatness”: playing beer pong with the great Russian satirist Vladimir voinovich. (I rank that over meeting Bob dole, and watching a World Series game next to joe DiMaggio).

Helen died a few years back, at 87, from a cardiac event while swimming in a lake in Maine.

One hell of a human being. RIP.
So, in a coincidence that quite literally has my head spinning right now, I got a text about a half hour ago from my sister-in-law, who is an endocrinologist, asking me if I knew of a person named Helen Segall. I responded in the affirmative, giving her the "short version" of how I knew Helen and how much I admired her.

Just got a text back from sister in law saying she saw Helen's granddaughter today who was wearing a Dickinson sweatshirt (my alma mater), which led her to mention Helen in their conversation. Just unbelievable really.

OT - Dogs in strollers

The CC course is not always open or it may be closed until the frost has lifted or it may be raining and no one is out.. We don't walk on the course if golfers are there. There is a service road that does a half circle around the course - we walk the pups on that.
There's nothing wrong with that. I just don't like when people use the cart paths as their own walking/jogging path while the course is open. It is very dangerous.

NFL is becoming a joke: New tackling rule implemented.

Not sure who you are yelling at.
It's 100% true that athletes today are larger and stronger than in the past.
It's basic physics that that larger and stronger athletes create more severe collisions and more stress on soft tissue like tendons and ligaments and brain matter.
When pointed out, your response is, "Hey, there once was a guy who played DT at 306." It's clear, that if "Big Daddy" played today, he would be 350.

If you want to debate specific rule changes and their impact on the game, fine, but there is no debate that bigger bodies cause bigger collisions and more trauma and that, on the margins, some rules changes may be warranted to reduce significant injury. The NFL's challenge, selfishly, is balancing keeping it's star players on the field, versus watering the game down to something that is not appealing to fans. No one wants to watch a game with a bunch of hurt players on the sidelines and no one wants to watch flag football. Respectfully, I detest wokeness, and I don't think the NFL is immune from it, but I don't think this has anything to do with it.
It's all about the biggest bottom line and how the NFLPA and owners jointly agree on how to synthesize player safety and impacts to the revenue they all depend on.
They need eyeballs and they need healthy players.

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Not yelling at anyone. My first post was just quoting Lambert and his statement about putting skirts on players who didn't want to play football. (Lambert's thoughts, not mine). Other posters interjected the size factor apparently to help with their argument that had nothing to do with my first post. In response, I just pointed out the NFL's hard move to wokeness by softening the way the game is played (whether you and others consider it legitimate or not). For proof, look at the way the defense has been hamstrung since the 60's, regardless of if it's the correct move or not. I just agree with a previous poster who stated we probably won't recognize football in 50 years or so as the NFL keeps softening the game to avoid huge settlements and lawsuits. Really, who can argue with the fact that players are significantly larger. My last point, the way they are protecting QBs now, it's as if they are wearing skirts without wearing skirts.

Big-time gambling scandal may be looming for NBA

Shocking.

I think you'd have to be naive to be shocked by this -- granted, I'm a cynic by nature -- but it is a wake-up call of sorts with potentially reverberating consequences.

I mean, the prop betting on player stats is an open invitation to corruption and cheating.

It will be interesting to see where this goes next.
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State by state breakdown

Joe drew a 500-mi radius circle around State College and called that his primary recruiting region.

Of course he went outside that for the right kids. But that was the focus.

Cael has always been willing to go farther for the right kids -- Morgan McIntosh early on. But with PA, NJ, NY, and OH all being among the strongest states, he can build a formidable roster from nearby.

M2 and the other clubs help with that. As do the National Preps teams nearby -- Kingston is a lot closer than STL for recruiting Lilledahl.
Joe had a lot of VaBeach kids
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