Left Coast Sports Babe

The University of California football team will receive $1.9 million for playing the Fighting Irish at Notre Dame in 2022. It’s all good, as long as none of their boosters travel with the team and try to buy any of the players dinner.

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Terrell Owens said the NFL “should be ashamed of themselves” for the pass interference call on Kittle, especially since the league gave Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph gave a defender a near-identical shove when Minnesota scored their game winning TD against New Orleans in overtime.

There’s a lot fewer people in California this week telling Saints fans to get over it.

So did Trump fly to Kansas today to attend the Chiefs Super Bowl Parade?

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So Rush Limbaugh mocked those who said smoking was bad for your health and once said, no joke, that he should get “a medal for smoking cigars.” Well, isn’t that kind of what happened? God works in mysterious ways.

Bernie Madoff’s lawyer wants early release after 10 years, as the Ponzi schemer is dying from kidney cancer – “a prison term which was “just & proportionate at time of sentencing may become disproportionately severe based on changed circumstances.”    Uh, Bernie got 150 years..

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Words I never thought I’d write – Thank you Mitt Romney.

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Time to start a pool, so what country is Trump going to extort to try to get dirt on Mitt Romney?

John McCain would have voted “yes” today too.

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Who’s going to be be the first to sell a Nancy Pelosi origami kit?  Or a shredder?

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Wow, now it’s Newt Gingrich is calling for Pelosi to be censured for ripping up Trump’s speech last night. Your reminder that Newt wanted to impeach Bill Clinton over a blow j*b while he was cheating on his 2nd wife with his future 3rd wife.

Trump has suspended Pre-Check and Global Entry programs for New York residents over the state’s sanctuary policies for immigrants. I’m sure all his “Masters of the Universe” donors from Wall Street and banks who fly frequently will be VERY understanding while they wait in long airport lines.

So residents of the state of New York will now have to wait in long lines at airports and customs. What’s Trump going to do to California? And Mitt Romney’s Utah?

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Trump is having a press conference tomorrow at the White House post-impeachment trial where he will no doubt rant about the Witch Hunt. Too much to hope that someone shows up with a barrel of water to melt him?

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For all this argument as to who really won Iowa, we’re talking about a total of around 150,000 votes. Almost all of them from white people who didn’t have to work or take care of children at night.

From Marc Ragovin   “This just in: 1957 Rose Bowl final: Iowa 35/Oregon State 19.”

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Susan Collins “I believe the President has learned from this case.” Well, yeah, like a toddler who learns his parents will threaten but never give him so much as a time out.

Nicest story baseball story in Northern California. We can root for Palo Alto native Joc Pederson again, now that he’s been traded to the Angels.

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So did Dodgers get David Price to make Clayton Kershaw feel better about his history in the postseason?

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But hey, the SF Giants got Wilbur Flores. Well, it’s going to be a busy election season in the Bay Area.

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Researchers say a rare salamander reportedly stayed in the same spot in its cave in Europe for seven years. The lizard must have had his TV remote handy.

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Apparently some Trump supporters are upset because they thought Super Bowl halftime show was “lewd,” “exploitative of women,” one called it “soft-core porn.” I’d respond with some of Melania’s modeling pictures but those would probably get me suspended from Facebook and Twitter.

After Rand Paul tried again to out alleged whistleblower in statement on Senate floor today, perhaps question we should ask, his neighbor lived next door to him for 17 years – how did he go all that time WITHOUT attacking Senator Paul.

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For months all political eyes have been on the upcoming final count from Iowa Caucuses. It’s only January and I think we have a winner in the 2020 #YouHadOneJob competition.

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Maybe instead of an app Iowa Democrats should have built a cornfield on a baseball diamond and have ghosts come out to hand count paper ballots?

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Iowa caucuses might be a major clusterf*ck, but before anyone gets too up or down about potential winners perhaps we should ask for commentary from Presidents Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz?

Anyone else feel like they need a shower after that SOTU?

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For anyone who wanted to know what it was like at Jonestown, watching Cult 45 tonight is probably a good lesson.

Trump has the audacity to mention Harriet Tubman tonight, while he tries to keep her off the $20 bill.

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Trump also honored Rush Limbaugh tonight, who said Michael J. Fox was faking Parkinson’s disease, and was absolutely gleeful at the idea of RBG having terminal cancer. There is no bottom.

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Super Bowl LIV is finally over.   Super Bowl LV pregame show starts tomorrow.

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Quarterback K.J. Costello says he’s transferring from Stanford to Mississippi State to he can play for Mike Leach.  Well, at least he didn’t pretend it was for academics.

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Iowa’s top poll gets cancelled. Iowa’s caucus results may not be known for days. NFL refs are going “Well, at least it’s not us this time.”

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So this morning did residents of Kansas City, Missouri wake up with both a Super Bowl hangover and the news they will be annexed by Executive Order into Kansas?

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If the 49ers had won last night’s Super Bowl would Trump have congratulated the state of Nevada? Or Alaska?!. (Alaska IS the 49th state.)

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But So who drew the short straw last night and got to tell Trump that Kansas City is in Missouri.

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Never ascribe to to conspiracies what can be more easily explained by incompetence. #IowaCaucuses

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Not sure the next step for whoever came up with the new Iowa caucuses reporting app, but a Southwest commercial might be in their future. #WannaGetAway

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Maybe this is all a plot by Democrats in Iowa to stretch these caucus results out right through Donald Trump’s SOTU?

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49ers picked a bad time to do their Atlanta Falcons imitation.

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Not my original line but sent to me by a friend “What do the Super Bowl and Republican party now have in common?” Neither one has Patriots.

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No one tried it, but  the way to beat the Chiefs might have been to let THEM have a 10 point lead.  The alternative  sure didn’t work.

So who can we blame for no Super Bowl Ad featuring the Clydesdales?

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Before the Super Bowl, Trump did not say who he was rooting for.   

Which reason was it?  1. He couldn’t remember who’s playing.   2. He can’t bear to take the chance of being wrong. 3. He thought the 49ers would win and he linked them with Nancy Pelosi.

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Trump congratulated the Kansas City Chiefs for representing the great state of Kansas  so very well. Some statements don’t even need a punchline.

If the 49ers had won think Trump would have remembered they play in California?

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Waiting for Trump to attack Jennifer Lopez for dressing in a foreign Puerto Rican flag during the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Open note to Kansas and Missouri.  Amy Klobuchar might be Vikings fan, but she knows the difference between your two states.

Yes, I know Barack Obama once said he had campaigned in 57 states. People misspeak. But pretty clear that Trump actually THOUGHT Kansas City was in Kansas. Speaking of Kansas, wonder if Donald knows Laura Kelly is now Governor.

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This Groundhog Day thinking maybe Punxstawney Phil went back in his hole immediately after seeing what he thought was a dead relative on Trump’s head.

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Pamela Anderson is splitting from her 5th husband Jon Peters after 12 days! 12 days?! That’s barely a Scaramucci.

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I’m #VoteBlueNoMatterWho2020 But thinking back to Reagan, “officially” diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at 83, and clearly affected sooner, will Democratic candidates who would be 80 in their first term all promise to take regular cognitive tests?

Joe Montana retired 25 years ago this year. I feel old.

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QB Alex Smith told ESPN  he is “very much lucky to be alive” after his November 2018 leg injury, which resulted in life-threatening sepsis and doctors suggesting amputation.    Of course, compared to death and losing a leg, returning to the Redskins doesn’t seem so bad.

Mitch McConnell apparently left DC Friday night with Donald Trump for a Super Bowl party at Mar-A-Lago. And isn’t American system of justice all about the foreman of the jury celebrating with the defendant before a verdict?

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DOJ says now they have emails where Trump discussed withholding foreign aid over information on Biden.   Well if only there were a trial or something where such information might be relevant.

Amazing how many who support Trump and are using Coronavirus as an excuse to be anti-immigrant, are still also so anti-science as to ignore things like flu vaccines and washing hands.

The release of the last supposedly best Iowa Poll has been cancelled, reportedly over an error that left Pete Buttigieg off the list with at least a few callers.
Though to be honest, if you need a poll to tell you who to caucus for, you probably shouldn’t be caucusing.

Rudy Giuliani tweets “admiration for Donald Trump for withstanding the worst and most unjust attack ever on an American President and his family.”

Uh, JFK and Abe Lincoln say “Hi.”

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How times have changed,. I remember traveling with my future husband and having to pretend we were married to check into a hotel. Now a VRBO commercial is touting “find out more about each other.”

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Honestly, GOP Senators already know what Bolton was going to say, & probably believe him, so it wouldn’t have changed verdict. But clearly they decided optics of him speaking at trial were worse than optics of denying witnesses. So his story must have been REALLY bad for Trump

Not this way, never this way, but Kobe Bryant would have to have smiled a bit at completely overshadowing Super Bowl Week.

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“He was somebody that I always respected just because he was so much more than a basketball player. He was highly intelligent, inquisitive, curious. We all know about his competitiveness, but he was a strategist. He focused. He was driven. And would have been successful no matter what he chose to do in life.”  – Quote about Kobe from Gregg Popovich

(Also this post-game quote from Sunday night after the crash –  “Good game, tough loss, who cares?,”

“We all have special thoughts of him to varying degrees no matter whether you knew him a little bit or not at all, even the millions that admired him and cherished just knowing you could watch a game with him in it. You feel like he was your own. That’s when happens when you’re iconic and you’re basically a superhero.”

John Delaney has dropped out of the Presidential race. Shocking millions of Americans who didn’t realize he was ever in it.

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Trump now imposing a travel ban on foreign nationals who have been in China in the past 14 days. Because US Citizens who’ve been in China can’t possibly be infected? I miss having a President who believed in Science.

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So far,  CDC says 10,000 people have died and 180,000 people have been hospitalized during the US 2019-2020 flu season.  If we had a President, she or he might tweet to people that as scary as the Coronavirus is, a simple smart thing Americans might do now, besides washing their hands, is to get a flu shot!!!

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Even the O.J trial had witnesses.

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Mitt Romney was first GOP senator to call for witnesses. Was he putting country above party? Or was Mitt just happy to have the prospect of further days in the Senate where besides water, the only approved drink was milk?

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At a Bernie Sanders rally tonight, Rashida Tlaib led the crowd in booing Hillary Clinton.  Maybe Rashida should pay attention not to Bernie’s campaign but to Amy and Elizabeth’s campaigns.  They disagree without personal attacks. And they respect the roads paved by Hillary.

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Nigeria is on Trump’s new travel ban. Because Donald doesn’t want any competition as the U.S’s #1 Nigerian prince?