Left Coast Sports Babe

The U.S. will begin screening visa waiver passengers if they have had past travel to anywhere known as a “terrorist safe haven.” So to be safe based on recent history, will that include parts of the southern U.S, and really any state with loose gun laws?

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Donald Trump, who claimed that a number of African-American pastors were going to endorse him, now says that “Black Lives Matter” pressured them to drop their endorsement. Well, it’s better for the Donald than admitting either a- “I was lying,” or b -“I was smoking something.”

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More Trump -on Islam “There’s something nasty coming out of there.”

Another of those ‪#‎somestatementsdontevenneedapunchline‬ . But have at it friends and readers.  (use comments 🙂

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Hate speech is dangerous. Not so much the words themselves but because it can incite dangerous people. This is true when the speech is anti-American, anti-religion, anti-gay, anti-police and yes also anti-Planned Parenthood

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Meanwhile back to important unimportant things,  there are  few things are worth being awake from 200a to 500a in a European hotel room watching a computer for…. Stanford-Notre Dame game just proved to be one of those things.

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After the game, which featured only 2-3 punts on each side, have to figure any good HS student who can play great football defense has I think now a best ever chance of getting into Stanford, or Notre Dame.

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Cardiac and Cardinal both start with CARD. ‪#‎areyoukiddingme‬? ‪#‎NDvsStanford‬

Hard to believe but this year it’s an easier call to decide which four NFL teams really deserve a shot in the playoffs as opposed to in college football.

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Ben Carson is now saying Syrian refugees don’t want to come to the U.S. Makes some sense – if they figure the USA might actually elect Dr. Carson President, it might be scarier than staying in Syria.

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This year’s first holiday Darwin?    In a small town near Fresno, California,  a suspected burglar died after he got stuck in the chimney of a home and the homeowner. who didn’t realize he was in there, lit a fire.

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Btw, the above item also doubles as your early Christmas Eve safety message.

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Groupon was sending emails with several suggestions for “Small Business Saturday.” Right. Honor small businesses by buying their products and services at a discount price through a big company website that takes a good-sized chunk of the payment….  SMH

So let me get this straight, ‪#‎NFL‬ rules say SOMEONE has to win the ‪#‎NFCEast‬?

A few GOP candidates are condemning the #PlannedParenthood shooter. Wonder if anyone will demand that guards at the clinics be armed?

Who needs guns. The Germans are arming bears.

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So where are all the GOP governors and candidates demanding that we be kept safe from U.S. terrorists? ‪#‎Charleston‬ ‪#‎ColoradoSprings‬ ‪#‎howmanymore‬

I’m sure I am not the only one that has noticed this. But interesting that any time it’s a white male shooter in the U.S., a certain faction never dubs him a terrorist but instead refers to him as “mentally ill.”

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The Golden State ‪#‎Warriors‬ are now 17-0. And they don’t play the ‪#‎Spurs‬ until January….

Iowa’s college football team is 12-0 but no one takes them seriously. Shame that can’t be said of Iowa’s caucuses.

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Yasiel Puig was involved in a brawl in Miami, and reportedly shoved his sister. And MLB is reportedly looking into the situation under their domestic violence policy. Thinking right about now the Dodgers wouldn’t be too heartbroken if Puig were suspended?

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If Jim Harbaugh could have pulled off a win today ‪#‎Michigan‬‘s state pants would have become khakis. ‪#‎OSUvsMich‬

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Lakers’ coach Bryan Scott said of potentially benching Kobe Bryant. “That’s not an option whatsoever.” Because L.A.’s goal this year is to be able to draft the new Kobe Byrant?”

Apparently more than 18,000 people in Singapore have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Adam Lambert’s New Year’s Eve concert, saying the openly gay singer does not represent values that align with Singapore, Right. Citizens of the city-state should spend their money on more wholesome things like Singapore’s informal red-light district.

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Seriously, apparently people are upset because Reese’s Peanut Butter  Christmas Tree doesn’t look enough like a Christmas tree.

Think these people should be sentenced only to drink from Starbucks’ blank red cups this Christmas season.  And oh yeah, to have to watch Caddyshack at least five times.

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Avoid crowds. Right. When we are too scared to do things we want to do then the bad guys win. F*ck the terrorists.

Not sure which American tradition better illustrates our love of violence this Thanksgiving weekend – football or Black Friday shopping.

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Thought after NFL week 12: Maybe one reason beyond gambling for the popularity of Fan Duel and Draft Kings, is that with at most half a dozen exceptions, fans in most cities are otherwise stuck with just rooting for REALLY mediocre teams.

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Houston beat Navy Friday, 52 to 31, in a statement game that supposedly proved the Cougars belong in a major bowl game. Heck, some might say they even would be respectable against a team from the NFC Least.

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Today even Cowboys fans will be chanting ‪#‎DallasSucks‬

Cleveland coach Mike Pettine, asked about Johnny Manziel, “When I say I’m sorry to disappoint, I’m not really. But I’m just not going there today.
Making the Browns coach if nothing else, smarter than his erstwhile QB.

Retailers were expecting  disappointing Black Friday receipts this year. And not just in Dallas and Green Bay where fans had money on the Cowboys and Packers

From Bill Littlejohn “Relatives of Frank Gifford say that CTE was found in his brain.Preliminary indications are that 80% was due to football and the other 20% due to working with Howard Cosell

(or maybe Kathie Lee…)

At Katz’s delicatessen on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.  And yep. they got it in one sentence.

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Kobe Bryant, after last night’s blowout loss to the Warriors. “My shooting will be better. I could’ve scored 80 tonight. It wouldn’t have made a damn difference. We just have bigger problems.” Uh, if Kobe thinks he could have scored 80, add a possible concussion for him to the Lakers list of problems.

The NCAA has ruled Kansas freshman Cheick Diallo, who arrived in the US in 2012 from Mali, will be eligible to play after a long review of his high school coursework. And at Kentucky they’re going “coursework?”

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Some are now questioning whether Johnny Manziel will ever quarterback in the NFL again. Not just because of his off-field antics, but because he forget the Namath rule – you only get to party that hard when you WIN.

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Red Lobster says they will increase the size of shrimp in some of their dishes. Shocking. Red Lobster uses real shrimp?

The NBA Philadelphia 76ers tonight fell to 0-16. How much longer does the streak have to continue until the 76ers receive at least an invitation to the NIT tournament?

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Dancing With the Stars ‪#‎DWTS‬ crowned a new champion last night. So now America is left with the 2016 Presidential Campaign, aka- Dancing with the Truth.

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The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party proposed a legislative special session on joblessness and poverty in the black community. And a GOP manager tweeted out “MN ‪#‎DFL‬ now propose a ‘special session’ to deal with their self-created ‘‪#‎negroproblem‬.”
The head of the Republican party in the state has apologized. And the tweeter has ended up creating one job, his own. ‪#‎cantfixstupid‬

So the Golden State Warriors broke the NBA record by starting 16-0, with a game against the Lakers. Of course to be fair the Warriors should have been faced with a more difficult chance -like shooting fish in a barrel.

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Stanford is undefeated in these late night games that finish in the wee hours on the east. Time to change the school song to “After midnight?”

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Arizona’s Carson Palmer has been fined $11,576 by the NFL for what he said was a pelvic thrust just to entertain friends in the stands. On a brighter note, Palmer’s just been named the honorary QB of Rocky Horror Picture Show. ‪#‎letsdothetimewarpagain‬

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Early days, but ‪#‎Stanford‬ may lose out on a playoff berth because of fumbled snaps, and ‪#‎Michigan‬ may lose out because of a fumbled punt. I thought baseball was supposed to be the funny game? ‪#‎Thatsfootball‬

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The Michigan Wolverines were 5-7 last year, so far they are 9-2, even with that disastrous game ending punt against MSU. The SF 49ers were 8-8 last year….. ‪#‎MaybeHarbaughcancoachalittlebit‬

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Colin ‪#‎Kaepernick‬ apparently will have shoulder surgery and his year will be over. Making him luckier than ‪#‎49ers‬ season ticket holders.

Good for the Citadel in beating South Carolina, and for FAU almost to beat Florida. The only bad news for both schools, they may not get many futures next year to be a high-priced SEC cupcake.

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I just love watching ‪#‎UrbanMeyer‬ lose. That is all. ‪#‎MSUvsOSU‬

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Some Americans are now apparently fearful of going to Europe and will stay home this year. Where about 100 of us will die every day on the nation’s highways.

Adele apparently has a good marriage and a healthy 2 year old son. So,anyone who bet she’d do happy songs once she got her life together – pay up.

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In New Jersey, a woman leaving a bar drunk spotted a nearby police car, and made a fake 911 call to divert them so she wouldn’t get a DUI. It worked, until she got home and posted about it “lmao.. 2 mins later the cop peals out..silly piggies tricks r for u”
Now that’s snatching a ‪#‎Cantfixstupid‬, and an arrest, out of the jaws of victory.

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Alaska, in the process of legalizing recreational marijuana, is apparently going to allow to people to use pot at stores that sell it – “Dude, is that Russia over there?”

Damn, I miss Molly.

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Not so many sports jokes tonight. But wonder how many heads would explode on both sides if say, a star Muslim football player made a public statement that he was pro-life, meaning anti-abortion and pro-gun control.

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Will Grier, who was the University of Florida’s starting QB, has lost his NCAA PED appeal and will be suspended a full year, until the 7th game of the 2016 season. Unless Grier goes to the NFL, where such offenses mandate a serious four game suspension.

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A Massachusetts woman who won $1 million in the lottery in 1996 just won $1 million again. Wouldn’t you think that a $1 million win would give you enough money not to need to play the lottery?

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J.R. Smith was accused of choking a 19-year-old man who reportedly heckled the Cavs guard about his trade to Cleveland from the Knicks. And the NBA is thinking “whew, at least it wasn’t a young woman.”

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Chris Christie’s United Airlines flight today from SFO to Boston was delayed almost 6 hours to remove a passenger who was turned over to police. Not as some might think, because the airline hadn’t put enough food on board.

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Starbucks is trying to get a liquor license in Utah. Makes sense. For all those Mormons who don’t want anyone to see them heading into a real bar.

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Jeb Bush says that Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rants are “just wrong,” and that the Donald is “manipulating people’s angst and their fears. That’s not strength. That’s weakness,’
Forget winning the nomination, is Jeb trying to get himself kicked out of today’s GOP?

Roanoke Mayor David A. Bowers, who praised the internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII, and drew a rebuke from George Takei, today apologized, saying “No one else is to be blamed but me,” adding “I anticipated that the statement might receive some coverage in the Roanoke Valley, but I did not in any way anticipate that it would trend internationally over the Internet.”

Uh, if that last sentence is true, forget the bigotry, Bowers is too STUPID to be mayor.

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And then with all that is going on in the world, this email “from” Debbie Wasserman-Schultz -“Janice, we were just getting ready to seal the Vice President’s birthday card and send it over to the White House when I noticed that your name isn’t on there yet.” Uh huh, I am sure Joe Biden will be heartbroken….. ‪#‎SMH‬

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The CDC said today the E. coli outbreak affecting Chipotle Mexican Grill  has now spread to California, Minnesota, New York, Ohio. Time for some GOP candidate to talk about shutting down the Cabinet Department of Health and Human Services?

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Statement of the day -“”While recognizing that security concerns must be fully addressed, we should not turn our backs on the thousands of legitimate refugees..” The statement is from the National Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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A friend posted the names of California Democrats in Congress who joined the GOP in voting for that rushed bill against Syrian Refugees, even though the U.S. already had a year-long vetting process in place: Pete Aguilar , Ami Bera, Julia Brownley, Jim Costi, John Garamendi, Janice Hahn, Scott Peters, Raul Ruiz.
Well, i just reduced my future emails a bit, as I unsubscribed from the four who had me on their list. ‪#‎cowards‬

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Mark Zuckerberg says he will take two months of paternity leave after his daughter is born. And Facebook does allow four months of leave for new parents. Although, unlike other FB employees, Zuckerberg doesn’t have to worry about losing his position or status during his leave.

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Off-duty police subdued a masked man without injuries after he entered Apple’s flagship store in Manhattan brandishing and swinging a Samurai sword. So which GOP candidate will be the first to call for profiling Japanese?

Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema, to help with strength of schedule for the playoffs, is proposing an annual “Big 12/SEC Challenge,” so that each team in the conference plays a game against the other. So meanwhile will the Pac 12 match up against the ACC or Big 12 in the “Chopped Liver Challenge?”

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Police in Northern California have released a picture of a female robbery suspect. She apparently took a selfie with a stolen phone, and the photo was then uploaded to cloud storage. So we might have a winner in this week’s ‪#‎cantfixstupid‬, women’s division.

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The Rockets fired coach Kevin McHale after Houston started the season 4-7. And 76ers fans are saying “Was he fired for over-achieving?”

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A new Harvard study claims that people who drank 3-5 cups of coffee per day “had about a 15 percent lower [risk of premature] mortality compared to people who didn’t drink coffee.”
And presumably their significant others also had a lower risk of premature mortality after these caffeine addicts had their 3-5 cups of coffee.

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President Obama, in an October 5 GQ interview that just hit the newsstands, compared himself to Aaron Rodgers. And now doubt some Packers fans are going “So it’s all YOUR fault.”

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So for those looking for a break from reality, reportedly two contestants on the upcoming “The Bachelor” are twins who formerly aspired to be Dallas Cowboys’ cheerleaders. ‪#‎youcannotmakethisshitup‬

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Headline ” Ben Carson is fading fast in the latest Fox News New Hampshire poll.” Did the state’s GOP just figure out Carson was stupid, or that he was black?

A 12-ft 600 lb alligator was snared at a Houston golf course today. The gator, nicknamed Chubbs, was not killed but will be relocated to live out his days at a local alligator farm. Sounds like both he and the folks who snared him might better be nicknamed “Lucky.”

(or as my friend Michael S. says, as opposed to “Gucci?”)

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Sports is ultimately trivial in the grand scheme of things.  But anyone looking for a small gesture could do worse than to root for French citizen Tony Parker ‪#‎Spurs‬

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Tony Romo says the Dallas Cowboys season “Is not over.”  But “you just have very little room for error.”  Is Romo aiming to be an advisor to Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign?

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So the House GOP has now moved on from trying to shut the government down over Planned Parenthood, following their attempts to shut it down over Obamacare, because some now want to shut it down over Syrian refugees.

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Leaving aside what liberals and moderates think is the absurdity of all this, do Republicans, who hope to take back the White House, really want to give Democrats the idea that this is the way you fight a President?

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Chris Christie is slamming President Obama saying he “allowed the situation in Syria to happen, he hasn’t set up a no-fly zone that could create a safe haven for these refugees to live safely in their own country…”
And presumably Christie thinks if he were President he’d have just kept ISIS out by closing down some of Syria’s bridges?