Left Coast Sports Babe

Shocking SEC upset as Ole Miss upset #4 Tennessee

(Yes, in basketball.)

“Senior Jaemyn Brakefield ended the first half scoreless. But as the final seconds ticked off, Brakefield found himself at the center of a sea of red and navy blue — with fans storming the court to celebrate his heroic team-high of 19 points in 20 minutes.”

Especially shocking .. a major college basketball program now has a star who has actually spent four years at the school?

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Wondering idly if we would get better participation in politics if we could somehow make elections more like the NCAA Tournament. Favorites, underdogs, betting…

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There are legitimate arguments to have about transgender girls and women in women’s sports.

But: 1. Over 500,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championship sports. About a dozen are transgender. 2. Is this really what GOP Senate thinks is most important issue?

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Pete Buttigieg last night on “The smallest popular vote margin since Nixon. I wonder how he feels about something important being that small.” (mushroom emoji)

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This is something I didn’t know 33% of federal workers in 2024 said they would vote GOP. (16% independent.) We are gonna need a face-eating leopard emoji.

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Donold ranted last night about spending millions on “transgender mice”

The mice he referred to are “trangenic”

“Transgenic refers to “an organism or cell whose genome has been altered by the introduction of one or more foreign DNA sequences from another species by artificial means.” (it’s a way to study human diseases by using lab animals.)

Reminds me of all the Republicans who were against Arabic numbers.

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Egg prices going up just in time for Easter. And now Trump tariffs will jack up the prices of tequila and avocadoes before Cinco de Mayo.

What’s next, fireworks on the Fourth of July? (Actually, fireworks are mostly made in China…. hmm)

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Wired reporting DOGE paying hackers tearing apart government up to $194,000 a year- highest government salary level there is for employees. And paying them out of budgets of depts they’re gutting. Musk pretended the work was “tedious” & compensation is zero. Liars gonna lie.

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Again for those in the back. Government workers paid by strict scale. GS-1 up to GS-15.

Doesn’t matter if you have decades of experience or several degrees, scale tops out at GS-15. And young DOGE employees are being paid GS-15 salaries.

Why isn’t there bipartisan outrage?

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Canada PM Justin Trudeau: “While less than 1% of fentanyl intercepted at U.S. border comes from Canada, we’ve worked relentlessly to address this scourge, adding Canada is spending $1.3 billionn new border security measures. Tariffs aren’t about fentanyl. Maybe it’s about this?

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