Left Coast Sports Babe

Referee Brad Allen, who muffed pivotal call in Lions-Cowboys game AND shafted both Chiefs against Packers & Saints against Falcons with missed PI calls in 2023, will now call Steelers-Ravens Sunday. Good thing neither team has postseason aspirations. Oh wait, never mind.

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National Championship for college football will be next Monday with Michigan vs Washington. Wonder if ESPN and the CFB Playoff committee are working to see if there’s a way the winner can play another game against SEC’s Georgia?

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Amazing job by cabin crew on JAL flight to safely evacuate 379 passengers in 90 seconds after jet collided w/ small plane at Haneda Airport. Wonder what if 379 Americans were on board? Would they have followed instructions? Or stopped to grab bags, post on social media etc.

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College admissions applications are in, but acceptances/decisions are months away. Young women considering schools in Texas, know now if you get pregnant, even choosing to have baby, if you have ectopic pregnancy or other live-threatening condition, state says you should die.

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Meanwhile conservative pundit Scott Jenning, ranting on CNN about Claudine Gay repeatedly refers to Harvard as “our national flagship university.” He’s going to be real popular at Yale and Stanford. For starters.

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Ivy League presidents absolutely fumbled question about genocide and Jews in a GOP=led congressional hearing. Now under pressure, presidents of Harvard and Penn have resigned. But would be President of United States fumbled a question about slavery and Republicans shrug it off.

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While Elyane Stefanick is gleefully all over Claudine Gay for alleged antisemitism I missed her condemnation of the man who said about Nazis in Charlottesville there were “many fine people on both sides.”

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CDC shows respiratory virus activity is high and rising across United States, COVID, flu and RSV. At same time GOP is leaning into the anti-vax mentality. No wonder Republicans are fighting against voting rights, they’re killing off many of their base.

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