Left Coast Sports Babe

College football has tradionally made a big deal of “Signing Day.” Where high school athletes make their decisions on where they will start their collegiate careers.

So when is ESPN going to come up with a made-for-TV event on when NCAA comes up with a “Transfer Portal SIgning Day?

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One thing that might keep “student-athletes” in college longer.. they have a lot more flexibilty to leave for a better deal with the NILs and transfer portal than when they actually sign an NFL contract.

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So for anyone parsing the #CNNTownhall responses from Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, here’s a simple question: Why can’t either of them articulate a clear answer why it would be a disaster for our country for Donald Trump to return to the White House?

Nikki Haley tweeted “My heart aches for victims of Perry, Iowa & the entire community.” When asked on Kate Cox, “my heart broke for her…” We don’t need a President who talks about their heart. Americans need a President who supports gun control and protects women.

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A 6th grade student is dead in Iowa, and five others are in hospital. Will ANY of the GOP candidates running for President offer anything more than thoughts and prayers? It’s the guns, stupid

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Meanwhile those in todays’ GOP who are against any reasonable change in gun laws put today’s shooting down to “mental illness”

Same in GOP who want to cut Obamacare and other government programs including mental health funding

Makes sense, many of the same GOP scream about the border while opposing funding for border control.

“Thoughts and prayers” cost nothing. And they are uneffective.

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“What’s his name who’s running for President.” Nancy Pelosi with one of the best nicknames for Donald Trump yet.

Alabama had nine players enter the transfer portal today.

Now that it’s an all future Big-Ten National Championships, wonder if they’re getting out of the second-tier SEC?

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Washington coach Kalen DeBoer said of moving to the Big Ten “I think it will be a transition that will be pretty smooth for us…” 

Well, the Huskies probably will take chartered planes. Unlike their poor fans about to discover the joys of say, flying to Chicago and driving to Champaign or Madison, for example, But leaving aside time zones, thinking the team is going to get a crash course in appreciating Seattle weather.

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If Elayne Stefanik claims she cares so much about anti-semitism, why hasn’t she said one word about Trump’s dog-whistle phrase “Soros-funded Democrats?”

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Matt Gaetz “If this border is not shut down, then we must shut down the government.” Shut down? No President has ever shut down the border. Which Gaetz should know since he was elected in 2016…. Missed his outrage during the Velveeta Voldemort years.

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Jake Tapper to Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson ‘You would turn down a compromise on immigration or the border if it wasn’t everything in HR2?” Johnson comes back with a long-winded way of saying “Yes.” GOP doesn’t want to fix the problem.

If a woman who had a miscarriage can be charged with abusing a corpse, can we charge a man self-pleasuring himself detroying future babies? Cue a rousing chorus of Monty Python’s “Every sperm is sacred.”

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It’s not just living in Texas now. Imagine being pregnant while visiting the state and having a life-threatening emergency, including discovering an ectopic pregnancy… you could die before you have a chance to get home. Why does GOP hate women?

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Trump and GOP now are “Forget the constitution, let the people decide.” Okay then, so that means Republicans are also declaring voters can limit the Second Amendment!

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Matt Gaetz “If this border is not shut down, then we must shut down the government.”

Shut down? No President has ever shut down the border

Which Gaetz should know since he was elected in 2016…. Missed his outrage during the Velveeta Voldemort years.

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And if President Biden did issue some sort of Executive Order about the border, GOP would call him a dictator and declare it reason for impeachment.

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Seriously, If House GOP really gave a damn about the border crisis they’d be working on bipartisan legislation with Democrats, as the Senate is doing. Instead of more performative BS with impeachment inquiries, now including DHS Sec Mayorkas.

House GOP is all about crisis and drama

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.

More snark later today, but Ashton, who turned 17 years old on New Year’s Eve, thinks he should have a post to himself