Left Coast Sports Babe

So the ACC college football championship is going to be University of Virginia vs Duke?!

Wonder what odds you could have gotten on THAT at the beginning of the year?

Heck, at the beginning of the month?

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So Stanford as expected got crushed by a playoff bound Notre Dame.

But not a bad weekend when Cal knocks off SMU and the Cardinal still has the axe.

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Things Fox News is NOT covering:

Trump pardoning ex-Honduran president serving a drug trafficking sentence. Even GOP being upset at reports Hegseth had survivors of boat strike killed

What Fox is covering? Donald Trump put short chip shot in the hole yesterday. #Priorities

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While Americans stress over holiday flights, Sean Duffy tells people to make experience better by dressing up. And Trump eliminates requirement for airlines to pay compensation for delays & cancellations, while he unilaterally says US will close airspace in…Venezuela? WTF?

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So uh, how many millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump because they wanted to go to war with Venezuela?

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Today’s fundraiser from Donald

“THIS IS THE ONLY TARIFF REBATE EMAIL AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP

I’m so sorry if you fell for the other scams out there, but I’m so grateful to have found you before it’s too late.

Would you accept a TARIFF rebate check signed by Trump?”

Fell for the OTHER scams? So he’s admitting it?

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First Marge Three Names, now Troy Nehls, who’s been a strong Trump supporter, says he will not run for re-elections

And the rats are packing their bags and looking around for the lifeboats on the Trumptanic.

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So are the normally cowed NY Times headline writers taking the weekend off? “In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions” And better “As Trump Threatens Cartels, He Vows to Free A Cocaine Trafficker.”

And then NY Times headline writer Sunday: “Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.

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20 days left for the government to release the Epstein files. Anyone think they’ll make it?

You know you’re getting older when college and pro coaches are no longer younger than you…. but they’re about the same age as your child or or children.

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Random NFL New Orleans Saints fan thought. In 2019 the Saints were robbed of a Super Bowl berth by a bad no call on pass interference.
Which put the Rams into the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots.

Two best teams by record in 2025 – the Rams and Patriots.

But within range… Denver Broncos at 9-3. Led by Saints coach at the time Sean Payton.

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Trump used a Thanksgiving message to refer to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as “seriously retarded.

Walz’s response? “Release the MRI results.”

(If you already didn’t love Tim.)

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NY Times story discusses Trump’s ever expanding ballroom plans..

Also “A White House official said that a large-scale renovation of the West Wing was not currently under consideration, but that Mr. Trump would be making more changes.”

He wants to tear it all down, doesn’t he?

Or at least put awful gold signage on the roof.

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Problem for Afghan refugees, most of them are at risk from Taliban leadership back in Afghanistan because they HELPED AMERICANS.

So Taliban has no reason to give Donald a gold tchotchke to stop his deportations. In fact, they’d probably like to have them returned to be punished.

Better than normal NY Times headline

: “Trump Announces Pardon of Honduran Ex-President in Major Drug Case Pardon for Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said had taken bribes from a drug kingpin, would come amid U.S. strikes on alleged cartel vessels in the Caribbean.”

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So one Afghan refugee shoots two National Guard members and Trump wants to stop inmigration from Afghanistan and all “third-world” countries. Meanwhile a Saudi prince orders the killing of an US-based journalist and Trump fetes him at the White House.

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The man who wants to invalidate anything Joe Biden signed with an autopen, cannot even remember what part of his body he had MRI’ed. Just saying.

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So now Trump called Nancy Cordes, CBS News chief White House correspondent “a stupid person” after she brought up how his White House had vetted National Guard shooting suspect and “he came up clean.” Hey Bari Weiss, how’s that deal with the devil feeling now?

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred “What I would say about the issue of competitive balance is that we have a significant segment of our fans that have been vocal about the issue of competitive balance and in general we try to pay attention to our fans, So it is a topic of conversations.”

Translation, everyone who isn’t a Dodgers fan is unhappy. But I’m making $25 million a year. And I don’t care.

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Nine ranked SEC teams in the top 25 of CFP rankings

Which begs the question. What number will be bigger? The number of SEC teams who will make the playoffs?

Or the number of SEC teams who will whine about not getting in?

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Nalin Haley, son of Nikki Haley, says now “I think we need to stop legal immigration. “My friend group from high school, all graduated, great degrees from great schools. It’s been a year and a half, and not one of them has a job, not one. So I’m angry at that. So when you see a bunch of foreigners coming over here to take jobs that [my friends] wanted “they have every right to be pissed, and I’m pissed for them.”

Yes, the son of Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley. Whose Indian parents immigrated to the US for thim to to take a job as a professor in South Carrolina only three years before she was born.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was “deeply disappointed” that the Senate didn’t amend the bill to release the Epstein Files. Translation “Daddy yelled at him and he’s trying to pass blame.”

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In Saudi Arabia same-sex sexual activity is illegal and carries a maximum penalty of death. Yet openly-gay Tim Cook was happy to join Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) for dinner at the White House

Guess Tim didn’t bring a date.

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How far has Tim Apple fallen?·

Epstein files distraction alert: Bondis’s DOJ had a press conference iindicting Canadian ex-snowboarder Ryan Wedding on new murder & drug trafficking charges.

(Wedding is already on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.)

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So many Republicans talk about “protecting women.” Why are none of them speaking out about the way their President speaks to women?

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Amy Klobuchar, asked about the very real worry that Trump and Bondi will try to set up roadblocks with the Epstein files: “I don’t think people are going to tolerate this.”

I think Senator Klobuchar is, as usual, right.

The NY Knicks at 8-5 are off to a solid if not wildly impressive start.

OTOH, 11 weeks into the season with the two NY NFL teams having 4 wins, between them, the high side of mediocrity is looking pretty good.

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Meanwhile, lLouder for those in the back

US intelligence UNDER TRUMP in 2018: “The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”

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Every line written opining about a certain Georgia member of Congress these days distracts from the fact that the President of the United States is systematically trying to enrich himself and destroy democracy on a daily basis.

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The President of the United States told a female reporter “Quiet piggy,” and much of the media shrugged.

Fox News didn’t even cover it.

Meanwhile the media lost their minds for days when Biden under his breath referred to Peter Doocy as a “stupid son of a bitch.” And Joe later apologized.

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If the Epstein Files incriminated Democrats Trump would have not only released them a long time ago, he’d have them read nightly on Fox News.

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Remember this about Donald Trump & his distraction efforts from Epstein files – trying to shift attention to Democrats “He listed Reid Hoffman, J P Morgan and Chase and ‘many other people’ to remind donors of what could soon emerge.” He thinks JP Morgan & Chase are living people

While he seems increasingly confused, Trump’s ego knows no bounds.

Seriously wonder if someone told him an Epstein victim said he was lousy in bed if he’d come back with “Absolutely not. She said I was the best ever.”

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Fox News: “GOP staff wrote 10-page internal memo for lawmakers “arguing Dems intentionally misrepresented information obtained by GOP to create narrative that was not there.” If narrative was “not there,” why did Johnson keep House home 2 months to avoid releasing Epstein files?

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Have to wonder now if the grown-ups who provided guardrails in Donald’s first administration didn’t lull many Americans into a false sense of security. As in, “Biden hasn’t been perfect, not sure about Harris, Trump wasn’t THAT bad….”

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President Trump instituted a ban on all visas from several Muslim countries. Donald is also revoking visas and attacking universities supposedly over anti-semitism And he has now decided to sell F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia. Okay then.

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So a question for Trump and GOP – if consumers weren’t the ones paying tariffs, why will rolling back food tariffs decrease prices? Asking for a country.

Meanwhile, give this man a Pulitzer

At least some chatter that the Los Angeles Dodgers might turn down a White House visit due to Trump’s ICE/National Guard attempted takeover of Los Angeles.

If that happens this SF Giants fan will actually applaud the Dodgers.

(All but MAGA Blake Treinen who would probably go for lunch with Donald himself.)

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Meanwhile, 66 (!) fouls called in a THREE hour Los Angeles Lakers- San Antonio Spurs game.

As much as I complain about baseball umpires the referees in tonight’s games made realize officiating could be much much worse.

Nobody pays their way in or turns on the TV to watch a foul shot competition.

Trump’s buddy Gianni Infantino says he will award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC- to go to “individuals who help unite people in peace through unwavering commitment and special actions.” The draw which will be at the Kennedy Center in on Dec 5.

Wonder who he’ll give it to?

This award will have all the cachet of that “Michigan Man of the Year” Donald’s always talking about…

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So after Trump sent election monitors to heavily Latino areas in California, in hopes of intimidating voters to stay home, Prop 50 still won in landslide w/ nearly 2/3 of the vote.

Apparently voters believe pretty strongly in democracy. Maybe GOP should take a hint

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WTF? Mike Johnson talks about “the tragedy” in California.

Claiming Texas was following the law & California wasn’t.

Uh, CA actually asked voters instead of forcing more gerrymandering through.

If he’s not lying, maybe Mike needs to also take one of those cognitive tests?

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Trump fundraising emails in last two days: (Nov 5 was the anniversary of the election.)

“Should I wear this on our anniversary? “Our anniversary is tomorrow & you haven’t unlocked your MAGA membership” “

Our anniversary is today & you haven’t unlocked your MAGA membership.” T

Think he remembers his anniversary with Melania?

Congrats to all the Democratic winners last night.

But for those who want to say NYC was proof Americans want democratic socialism.

In Minneapolis, Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey defeated democratic socialist Omar Fateh.

It’s about knowing, and connecting with, your constitutents.