Left Coast Sports Babe

Oklahoma Sooners fans have to be upset about their team blowing a 17-0 lead to lose to the Crimson Tide tonight.

Also upset, millions of Americans who really didn’t want to see Alabama anymore in the playofs.

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Ohio University fired football coach Brian Smith allegedly – “for cause” – extramarital romantic relationships, (including one he admitted to with a student) as well as an allegation of public intoxication.

How long until Smith gets hired for a position involving athletics at Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon?

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So it takes less than 24 hours to put Trump’s name ON the Kennedy Center. But 30 days is not enough to take Trump’s name out of the Epstein files.

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Did anyone think he was really going let Pam Bondi release the files?

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The difference between Democrats and Republicans. If Bill Clinton or any other Democrat, were found guilty of raping an underage children, Dems believe he should go to prison. If Donald Trump were found guilty, GOP would blame the jury, the victims, anyone but him.

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Buried in Fox News story: “DOJ redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.” “Politically exposed individuals.” Like the President.

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As Trump buyer’s remorse sweeps the country. Wyoming GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis says she will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2026.

Anyone seen Liz Cheney lately?

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Hard to know truth of Trump claims today on deals to lower prescription costs, though Dems have fought to lower drug prices for years.. But buried lede? “The 9 companies also will sell discounted medications directly to consumers through TrumpRx.” There’s ALWAYS a grift.

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If you’re a parent and your kid’s teacher says they’re calling other kids names like “retard” and “piggy, and attacking relatives of classmates who just died, you’d be appalled, right?

So why if you’re a GOP member of Congress are you okay with such behavior from the President?

There have been six College Football Bowls already.

Wonder how many Americans, including alumni, can name a participant in any of them.

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From Marc Ragovin “The Colts are hoping that Grandpa Phillip Rivers will lead them to the promised land. Well he is a generational player. Unfortunately it’s the Greatest Generation.”

Your reminder, Colts QB is not only the oldest player in the NFL, he is eight years older than retired QB Andrew Luck.

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Portuguese are considered white Europeans. So is Trump now going to limit white European immigration and start some EU travel bans?

But yes, even though they are white Europeans and Caucasians, Fox News headline “Foreign national suspected in Brown shooting, MIT murder, found dead in storage unit, officials say” “Foreign national?”

Fox can’t spell “Portuguese?” Or it drives them crazy that they can’t call him Palestinian?

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Too soon to know all the details but imagine if a mass shooing suspect had escaped during Biden’s presidency and allegedly murdered another person. While the FBI director did a publicity tour with his girlfriend..

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GOP blocks measure 50-50 – to reverse RFK move on HHS transparency which would’ve required HHS again to make its rulemaking and budget slashing open to public comment. GOP Senator Bill Cassidy MD voted no… Once again “Pro Life My Ass.”

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Whatever you think about transgender people, still stunning that GOP House can’t be bothered to pass legislation to save healthcare for millions of Americans, of all political persuasions but can pass a bill basically banning all gender treatments for minors…

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Again, when you’ve even lost the Daily Mail..

Last night’s headline ‘ Trump promises massive holiday gifts to millions of Americans in primetime tirade blaming Biden for all his problems”

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“Transgender for everybody?” WTF does that even mean?

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If anyone’s aging parent had delivered a speech like Donald did last night that parent’s next address would be an assisted living home. #Presidentialaddress

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MNSure, Pennie, Apple Health, Husky Health, MaineCare, Soonercare, Covered California, TennCare, Healthcare .gov These and others are all Obamacare. How many Americans, especially Republicans have no idea?

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So many new plaques with insane claims under on the Presidenial Walk of Fame at the White House

I would say our President has the mentality of a 10 year old bully but at least kids can be educated or grow out of it.

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Pretty clear Trump has informed Carr that the only allowable media is state media. Remember, Donald wanted Kimmel canceled for mild comments about MAGA and Charlie Kirk. Amy Klobuchar correctly points out -what if Jimmy had posted anything like what Trump did about Rob Reiner?

How is SNL going to top Wednesday night’s Presidential address for this weekend’s cold open?

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It will ALWAYS be the Kennedy Center. Period.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys were both eliminated from playoff contention this weekend. Who says there’s no good news these days?

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Former Gaelic football Charlie Smyth is great story; just won game for New Orleans Saints w/ 47 yard kick. He says, ‘I’d like to be here for a long time.” Hope he is. Although let’s be accurate w/ description. Smyth’s from NORTHERN Ireland.

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Newsflash. The San Antonio Spurs are good at basketball.

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Trump is now trying to take over management of Washington DC’s three public golf courses.

He’s going to brand them all with his name and make the courses the most expensive in the US, isn’t he?

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Note to CBS head Bari Weiss, now promoting Erika Kirk in her efforts to turn CBS into another Fox.

Fox news viewers won’t switch. You will be losing mainstream viewers for nothing

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Only in America do we see a town or university trending on social media and immediately think “mass shooting.” Only in America are we usually right. Saturday it was Brown University.

“How many deaths will it take until we know, that too many people have died..?”

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One of the saddest things listening to college students talking after the Brown mass shooting is how many of them reference their active shooter drills. Remember when the Columbine massacre was actually a shock….only about 25 years ago.

Not the SNL cold open: “Amid worsening affordability crisis, w/ health insurance premiums about to spike dramatically for over 20 million Americans, Trump revealed today his domestic policy chief’s main priority is building triumphal arch for Washington DC.”

Damn.

Loved Rob Reiner as a kid as “Meathead” But when I think of my favorite films: “The American President,” “A Few Good Men” and “When Harry Met Sally” – which I can quote almost entirely – are all up there.

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And yes, I know he didn’t write the lines… Aaron Sorkin did in the American President. But this line sticks out in my mind -Annette Benning as Sydney Wade to the President “This isn’t about me. How can you keep quiet? How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can’t stand Americans?”

Apparently the Indianapolis Colts will activate formerly retired quarterback Philip Rivers for their game against Seattle. Not just that Rivers, 44, is two years older than Aaron Rodgers, who was the leagues oldest player, but he’s EIGHT years older than retired QB Andrew Luck.

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More on Jeff Kent in the baseball hall of fame. He was a good player. But as far as one of the greatest of his era? Kent wasn’t even the greatest in the Giants lineup.

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So as a San Antonio Spurs fan in Golden States country, have to ask – will Warriors fans all be rooting for the unlikely underdog Spurs to keep the Thunder from breaking Golden State’s record to open the season tonight?

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The Epstein Files Transparency Act says documents must be released by Dec. 19, next Friday. So what crisis will Trump try to create to stop it?

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Gavin Newsom responded to a Twitter anti-trans insult by Elon Musk saying “Sorry your daughter hates you.”

Ted Cruz called Gavin a “sick b*stard” and told him to “leave kids alone.”

How how about the insult hurled by Trump at Tim Walz,who has a neuro divergent son. Crickets from Ted and others on that.

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Donald Trump yesterday, praising Melania “She’s got a wonderful boy and she’s very proud of her boy.” “Her boy?”

On top of everything else is Donald trying for “Father of the Year” award?

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In Indiana being in State Senate isn’t even a full time job. It pays just $32,070 per year, with nothing like congressional power (or security) Many GOP got death threats over redestricting. And yet they stood tall against Trump. Unlike GOP cowards in Washington.

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GOP in Ohio is attacking Amy Acton, the former state health director who’s now running for governor as a Democrat over lockdowns etc during COVID. But term-limited Governor Mike DeWine is responding, “The decisions that were made during COVID, they were my decisions, so no one should blame someone else if they don’t like it. The buck stops with me,”

Not a fan of DeWine but he is a conservative with a soul. Increasingly rare these days.

As Trump keeps trying to find judges and courts who will support his retribution efforts against Letitia James and James Comey a simple question – how many of our US taxpayer dollars are we spending on his petty vendettas?

It’s only a hoax if you have so much money you no longer need to keep score

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Meanwhile, as Trump threatens to primary anyone in Indiana who voted against his plan to get 2 more congressional seats, have to think anyone looking at this week’s elections has to figure…. promise?

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After repeated cajoling and the threats from Donald Trump on a redistricting plan that would have eliminated ALL Democratic congressional seats in the state, Indiana GOP Senators voted the bill down 31-19.

(and this in Indiana, where Republicans hold a 40-10 supermajority in the State Senate.)

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Sounds like Hoosiers don’t like mob threats. Good for them. First Mike Pence and now the Indiana Senate. I think I might have to root for the Hoosiers to win the College Football National Championship.

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Heritage Foundation on Twitter “President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.”

This tweet from Heritage Action should be aired on every network by Democrats!

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How long until Trump blames JD Vance for today’s loss in Indiana?

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Trump pardoned Colorado Clerk Tina Peters on State Election tampering conviction.

Except that besides the usual grift, Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for among other things, tampering with voting machines in 2020 for Donald, and convicted by a STATE not a federal court. So to paraphrase Wizard of Oz “Go away, you have no power here.”

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Trump in Pennsylvania…. “I love miners” Miners/Minors? Call for you on line one, Dr Freud.

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So now Trump has seized a Venezuelan oil tanker?!!

Wonder how many Americans voted for Donald last fall because they were thinking “We really need to get into another way with a country that hasn’t attacked us.” And how many of our military want to risk dying for oil?

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Foreign tourists spent $250 BILLION in the USA in 2024.

2025 numbers are already cratering. And now Trump wants to require potential visitors to turn over their social media history.

Is Donald TRYING to kill the tourism (and business travel) industry?

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At news conference on expiring ACA subsidies, Senator Amy Klobuchar: “Instead of spending this week working on it, working on a compromise, this President is off saying ‘affordability is a hoax…” She’s right.

Although to be fair he was also probably planning his weekend golf matches.

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Senator Raphael Warnock:

“After today’s vote I really have one question. ‘Who do Washington Republicans work for?”

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So Michigan coach Sherrone Moore, a married “Christian” father of three, gets fired for an “inappropriate relationship with a staffer (he allegedly got her pregnant, and a few hours later is ‘detained by police’ I miss times when this when this would be most insane story of the day.

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But Tommy Tuberville, attacking ACA/Obamacare on the Senate Floor just said “76% of Americans have at least one chronic disease.” Does he realized he just said out loud why going back to allowing insurance companies to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions would be a disaster?

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If you’re not SF Giants fan you may not know Kruk & Kuip: Mike Krukow & Duane Kuiper. 2 of baseball’s VERY best broadcasters. But Joe Buck? WTAF? Almost as bad as FIFA Peace Prize winner. “Giants announcer Duane Kuiper passed over for Hall of Fame as Joe Buck wins Frick Award”