Left Coast Sports Babe

Iowa’s Elite Eight women basketball win over LSU averaged 12.3 million viewers and peaked at 16 million viewers. Only NC State – Duke in the men’s tournament was higher.

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Even potentially more impressive, tickets to the Final Four in Cleveland are considerably more expensive to the men’s Final Four in Glendale, AZ

The Oakland As are reportedly talking to Sacramento about relocating there for at least three years. But wait, doesnt Sacramento already have a minor league team?

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Terrifying quote from Washington Post “More than 80,000 women get an abortion in Florida in a typical year — about 1 in 12 abortions in USA. Now, most of those women will need to find somewhere else to go.” Not a FL resident? What if you have a medical emergency while visiting?

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In Wisconsin, President Biden won 88.5% of votes in Presidential Primary, despite some protest votes for “uninstructed” & Dean Phillips. Donald Trump only got 79.1%. With 13.8% for Nikki Haley plus scattered others.

Let’s see if ANY major media reports this as positive for Biden

Lauren Boebert doing well after emergency surgery for blood clot. As member of Congress, Boebert has great healthcare insurance. But she won GOP primary in 2020 by attacking Rep. Scott Tipton for failing to kill Obamacare. Think she’ll be more empathetic now? Me neither.

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Donald Trump says Nov. 5, Election Day in the United States this year, will be “Christian Visibility Day.”

Uh, in England Nov 5 is already on calendat, closest thing they’ve had to Jan. 6. In 1605 on Nov 5, Catholic Christians attempted to blow up Parliament & assassinate Protestant Christian King James

#GuyFawkesDay

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Alex Wagner points out that Trump lackey Judge Aileen Cannon has still not set a trial date in the Classified Documents case.

Pretty sure Cannon has a trial date in mind – as in the day after never..

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Reminder. In Trump/MAGA world, having a family member with political views is enough to demand a judge be recused from a case. What about this deal? NY judge recuses from the hush money deal at the same time Clarence Thomas recuses from all cases involving the 2020 election.

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Just heard a Republican strategist on CNN say “Abortion is not high on the list of where voters are.” Has this woman actually talked to any other women about reproductive rights. We vote. And we’re pissed.