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Eastwood

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  1. That's among the reasons for sure, but anyone who has been paying attention could see the Big12 wasn't sustainable long term without adding some big names...who are just fine where they are now and feel no obligation to save a dying conference. Also, there is no use in battling against SEC bias anymore. Every year, without fail, the media tries to shoehorn in two SEC teams into the playoff. 1 loss, 2 loss, doesn't matter. They do backflips over it every year. Take a look at the proposed playoff expansion: The SEC conference champ will always have a 1-4 seed. That leaves 5-12 for them to try to place 2 or more additional SEC teams into the playoff. Bottom line is that NIL has changed the recruiting and economic landscape and the coming playoff expansion will change the post-season landscape. Both of those changes greatly benefit the SEC. To sit around and wait for the Big 12 to finally do something assertive to improve its position in college football would be an absolute disaster of a choice. The Big 12 isn't going to help Texas and OU, so they said to hell with it and decided to help themselves.
  2. Yeah, gentleman's agreements are cool... An extra couple hundred million dollars over the next couple decades is even cooler.
  3. I'm waiting for the click-baiters to start murmuring whether leaking the move and trying to stop it, despite the rest of the SEC's interest, could be just cause for Texas A&M's removal from the SEC. That'll drive some clicks...
  4. I'll go ahead and be the first to predict what will be an inevitable click-bait article that will come out if this goes through and the SEC adds Texas and OU: What is More Valuable: The SEC or the AFC? It's just a race between ESPN, SI, BR, and Barstool to research it out and print it up, at this point.
  5. OU will do it because: 1) Money - Money me. Money Now. Me a money needing a lot now. 2) Hubris - they think they'll still keep winning the conference. And they might. It's not like we're talking about a bowl game, here.
  6. Some of y'all need to sack up, stop wringing your hands, and just embrace the chaos this brings regardless of the end result.
  7. Maybe, but this current brand of SCOTUS has already shown that, outside of Kavanaugh, they will not be in lock-step with the GOP. Amy Coney Barrett may have been appointed by Trump, but she is still a Con Law legal scholar that is more likely than not to stick to First Amendment principals and precedents. And by the time the case even gets to SCOTUS, the court may look different. A conservative judge might keel over, the Court might be expanded, or any combination of the two that makes Fox News vulnerable. I know that a lot of the Vaudeville slapstick lawyers that have been getting dunked on by courts over the election challenges have really made it seem like the legal profession is one big "fuck it, let's sue and who cares if we lose" party, but I would be willing to bet that Fox News has some legit Con Law attorneys that are willing to be risk averse when the times call for it.
  8. I'm anxious to see if "inciting others to imminent lawless action" gets tested after everything that happened on 1/6. There have been bar exam questions in the past that have had facts patterns extremely close to the speeches on 1/6 that didn't confer First Amendment protections on the speaker. As far as what may have spooked the Fox News lawyers, the freedom of the press allows Fox News and the like to publish matters of public concern. It is very broad, as even the Pentagon Papers were determined to be protected, and that contained a few defense secrets. However, I would think that ever since Fox News issued that legal defense that Tucker Carlson is an entertainment program and not a news program (cite: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye ), then I would think that Tucker, Hannity, and the like could actually be classified as commercial speech as it is speech on the behalf of a company with the intent to earn profit. Commercial speech is not afforded First Amendment protections if it is false, misleading, or deceptive. And even if it isn't commercial speech, a couple of well-placed subpoenas could reveal that Fox News is knowingly falsifying the news that they put out there. Possibly even with malice. With Murdoch's deep pockets, Fox News will always have a "don't like it? Sue me" approach to civil claims regarding their content, but the US government has deeper pockets. If Fox News is pulling back, it's because their lawyers are worried that they are risking the loss of First Amendment protections, not civil suits. And Tucker knows that Fox News will gladly push Tucker and whoever else out to sea and let the sharks have them just to spare Fox News even one red cent.
  9. Said the man posting on an internet message board...
  10. Definitely gives 2002 Hill Country flood vibes. Had to head for higher ground and stood on top of the highest hill we could get to in Uvalde County and watched the flood waters carve a new path through the countryside just like in the photo.
  11. Pfff, what do you know, anyway... /s
  12. Sidney Powell saying she will need a transcript of the hearing before she can start drafting a supplemental briefing is like Conor McGregor saying he'll need video of the fight before knowing what kind of medical treatment he will need.
  13. They specifically condition their shins. Some MMA guys do it. Maybe more should.
  14. https://streamable.com/gwu4yy Final sequence. You can see it was broken before the step back. He throws that final punch and it snaps. He picks it up to step back and seals the deal. Brutal.
  15. If a fighter can't accurately land the calf kicks, they're tagging the knee or the other person's shin. If the fighter has been training the kicks heavily leading into the fight, they could also have their tibias absolutely littered with unhealed micro-fractures. Then it comes down to who has the stronger bones. I think that is what happened here. It was obviously a heavy part of Conor's game plan because Dustin absolutely embarrassed him with the calf kicks in the second fight. So, I think Conor was trying to give him a dose of his own medicine. However, unlike Conor's half-assed checking in the second fight, Dustin was very effectively checking the kicks right out the gate. I think in the future we'll see higher level fighters test out their opponent's ability to check kicks and toss the strategy if the opponent is effective in checking. It is worth it for a fighter to revisit it in the later rounds, though, to see if the checking is sloppy or thrown out of the window due to fatigue. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing some camps getting the occasional tibia x-ray to monitor tibia health going forward if leg kicks are going to be a part of their overall strategy. Kicking the pads hundreds of times a day combined with high impact cardio like jump rope and jogging leaves very little recovery time for lower leg. Doc says the tibia is starting to look a little brittle, it's time to mix in some swimming, airdyne bike, and laying off the kicks for a week.
  16. Now that everyone at the top level knows how to check kicks effectively, it's time to lay off the lower leg kicks. If a guy is effectively checking your kicks, it's time to throw that strategy out for the rest of the fight.
  17. The DA who prosecuted did so with a couple days to spare on the statute of limitations, so it looks like he wanted to charge Cosby but absent the depo testimony, just didn't have what he needed. So, he unseals the depo testimony at the 11th hour and proceeds. Looks like a Hail Mary play that would result in at least a perp walk and SOME jail time for Cosby regardless of the ultimate result.
  18. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/12/07/the-russian-navys-only-flattop-is-a-bad-luck-wreck-but-moscow-is-fixing-it-up-anyway/ Compared to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz And we have 10 of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier I almost want to start a thread asking if anyone can come up with a historical equivalent to the current global dominance that the US Navy has. The current US Navy very well may be the most dominant military force in the history of the world. The only real danger from Russia is their submarines, but they guard the information relating to their subs very closely so as to keep us guessing whether or not the subs have true retaliatory strike capability. Their older subs could be in worse shape than their carrier, for all we know.
  19. Calling for Pierce to be fired is some next-level UT fan bitchassery. I swear to christ...
  20. Eastwood

    Feefing

    Well, it's obvious the airman picked the wrong one if his dick fell off.
  21. They better watch out because Russia's diesel fueled aircraft carrier, and the flagship of their entire navy, might be patrolling the region. Oh, wait, it caught fire and isn't expected to be back in commission until 2023...
  22. They did. They stopped working at restaurants for $2.13 an hour plus tips and found work elsewhere. Now restaurants are mad because other industries lured away their cheap labor, but instead of looking inward and realizing the labor market has changed, they'd rather blame the dwindling pool of poor people who would rather stay home and collect checks. Unemployment has gone down month over month for some time now. It was sitting at 5.8% last month and slowly returning to the pre-COVID level of just under 4%. Yet restaurant jobs in some areas are still running a labor deficit of 25%. The overall job market improves while the restaurant labor market remains stagnant. Bottom line is that people HAVE gone back to work. They refuse to do it for $2.13 an hour plus tips, though.
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