Left Coast Sports Babe

Now former Alabama and Texas quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Shane Buechele are the latest to have decided to enter the graduate transfer portal, which would allow them to play for their new universities next season.

Just once, I’d love to hear one of these guys announce what in graduate program they’re supposedly going to study.

New Dodgers President of Business Enterprise Tucker Kain has some big ideas – including “night clubs and sports bars inside Dodger Stadium.”
Well, it might be one way to get fans to stay past the 7th inning.

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Bill Belichick says he’s not concerned about the freezing weather expected in Kansas City for AFC championship. Well, and even if Patriots HAD played well enough for #1 seed, forecast is for snow and sleet in Boston this Sunday.

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Interim Michigan State President John Engler was forced to say he’ll resign today after telling Detroit News that Nassar’s victims had been in the “spotlight” & are “still enjoying that moment at times, you know, the awards & recognition.”
How long until Engler gets offered a job in Trump White House?

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Trump said he bought 1,000 hamburgers for Clemson football team, White House said it was more like 300. Does this mean he’s got 700 burgers stored in fridge to survive a long shutdown?

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Possible major flooding expected with storms in California over next two days. How long until Donald Trump somehow blames the state for it?

Note to SF Bay Area drivers. Rushing across the train tracks as signals start flashing and crossing arms start coming down is never smart. Doing that when it’s raining hard with slick roads is Darwin Award material.

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Trump tweets today that “radical Democrats are the party of open borders and crime” while his cult members in Senate vote against sanctions on criminal Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. #NotTheOnion

So with SOTU being possibly delayed does that mean White House can stop work on translating it from the original Russian?

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Apparently Chris Christie’s new book eviscerates Jared Kushner. But really, did Jared ever think the man who shut down a bridge over a perceived slight would forget being kicked out of a role in Trump administration?
Womp womp.

We cannot find him in the House.
We cannot find him with his spouse.
We cannot find him in a chair
We cannot find him anywhere
#WheresMitch.

Eagles coach Doug Pederson said yesterday “Carson Wentz is the quarterback going forward.” Guessing Wentz might be forgiven for not being too unhappy New Orleans Saints came to beat Philadelphia last week?

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Brandon Wimbush is transferring from Notre Dame to UCF “I am excited to announce that UCF has granted me an awesome opportunity to play my last year of collegiate football for their great University.”
Well, at least he isn’t even pretending it’s about academics.

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So do hamberders go well with covfefe?

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The official White House story is that Trump fed the Clemson team fast food because of the shutdown. Gosh, if there were only a hotel near the White House where Trump knew the catering staff….

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British Parliament rejects PM Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the European Union – 432 votes to 202
Gosh, who knew a country could get a vote so wrong?

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So maybe Britain can just do a mulligan and have the whole country revote on Brexit?
Millions of Americans wish they could do the same with 2016.

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This 2020 election cycle is going to be tough for Donald Trump. So many women running for President, so little time to think of childish nicknames for them all.

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Open note to IRS workers, if Donald Trump calls you back to work without pay it might be an understandable error to accidentally release his tax returns.

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Surest sign things are not going well for Donald Trump? Fox News has headlines about another caravan again.

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Historically Presidents have loved to visit children’s classrooms. Guess we can be sure though Donald Trump won’t visit the new school where Karen Pence will teach,  which bans LGBTs.  They don’t allow anyone guilty of “moral misconduct” – including “heterosexual activity outside of marriage (e.g., premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex).”

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Seriously, how hard would it be for Donald Trump to end the shutdown, declare he will privately fund the wall as a profit making operation and then lie about it being done?

From Marc Ragovin  “Now that Steve King has been stripped of his committee seats, he will probably announce his retirement to spend more time with his klan … I mean clan.”

Tom Brady  – “I know everyone thinks we suck “I know everyone thinks we suck and, you know, can’t win any games.”
Not quite Tom, everyone knows the Patriots can win football games. Most of them still think you guys suck. #cheaters

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As Trump buys fast food for Clemson players, have to wonder, how many restaurants in DC are hurting big time now because furloughed federal workers aren’t eating lunch or stopping by after work?

A tanker carrying 20 TONS of liquid chocolate overturned near Flagstaff today, spilling its contents over the highway. All we need is a truck full of chilis for the world’s biggest mole party.

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While Trump spoke in New Orleans today, originally he was confused and said he wsa going to Nashville. They both start with N. What’s the problem?

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Trump praised Saints once he figured out he was in New Orleans & not Tennessee. Guess no one told Donald this comment last season about him from Sean Payton “I think we need a little more wisdom in that office. Seems like every time he’s opening his mouth, it’s something that is dividing our country & not pulling us together.”

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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who criticizes socialized medicine as much as anyone in Congress,, will travel to Ontario, Canada later this month to get hernia surgery.    Is this a stealth move to try to get Canada to build a wall to keep him there?

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While Donald Trump rants about “Angel moms” & falsely limits them to moms whose children were killed by undocumented immigrants, your reminder he has still said NOTHING about police officer #NatalieCorona, 23, from a Mexican immigrant family, murdered by a white man.

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When asked to comment on Steve King racist remarks, Donald Trump responded “I haven’t been following it.”
Translation: the story hasn’t been covered on “Fox and Friends.”

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Donald Trump, ignoring his merit-based immigration claims from the past today to farmers – “people aren’t going to come, except for the people we want to come, because we want to take people in to help our farmers.”
Uh, one of the people he used as a racist dog whistle last fall was the killer of Mollie Tibbetts, who had been a reliable  and good – albeit undocumented – immigrant worker for four years in Iowa.

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Former Trump campaign advisor, Barry Bennett who has a political consulting firm with Corey Lewandowski, about furloughed workers “It’s inconvenient that they’re not getting paid. But it’s for time they’re not even going into the office.”
So the question of the day “Evil? Or just amoral?”

Today’s 14-point New Orleans Saints comeback was the largest in the team’s playoff history. Of course, last year in Minnesota coming back from 17-0 would have been the record. Not, not still bitter.

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Much talk of how Saints might have drafted Mahomes if KC hadn’t.   Yeah, Patrick was on the Saints raider. Right below the guy Sean Payton did draft, and said he wanted more – Marshon Lattimore.

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Anyone else noticed time never goes as slowly as it does when your team has a 4th quarter lead. #WhoDat #Saints

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As for the Chargers against Patriots, well, at least they helped cover the over.

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Not a Cowboys fan, but Terrell Owens calling out coach Jason Garrett as “not the answer” after their loss to Rams yesterday.
Because TO knows all about winning a Super Bowl?

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Jeanine Pirro asked Trump if he ever worked for Russia.
“I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked.”

Uh, wasn’t there a possible one word answer?

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Lots of snow in DC. Hope it doesn’t shut down the government.

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A 21-year-old man playing hide-and-seek in an abandoned building in Detroit with friends died last night when he ran to hide and fell down an elevator shaft.
Let me guess, alcohol might have been involved. #DarwinAward

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Lindsey Graham complaining about New York Times story on alleged FBI probe of Donald Trump after he fired Comey, “That story came from somebody who leaked it with an agenda.”
That’s like blaming Deep Throat for Watergate

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Now Trump tweeting that “Border is eventually going to be militarized and defended or the United States, as we have known it, is going to cease to exist.”
Uh, in many ways the United States, as we have known it, has ceased to exist since Donald moved into White House.
I miss having a President.

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More from Trump tweet storm “Best line in the Elizabeth Warren beer catastrophe is, to her husband, “Thank you for being here. I’m glad you’re here” It’s their house, he’s supposed to be there!”
Uh, where’s Melanie?  (sic)

Lawrence Taylor reportedly sent prostitutes to his opponents’ hotel rooms before big games

Thinking on a more PG level  Saints  fans should be hospitable hosts and send King Cakes to Eagles’ hotel rooms tonight. Lots of big King Cakes with gooey icing, maybe pecan and cream-cheese filled too.

Okay, who had Colts scoring first TD in 2nd quarter, before they had a 1st down?

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At times like this with bombshells about Trump rvealed by Washington Post and NY Times, it is important to remember that Barack Obama once wore a tan suit.

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Trump may have gotten rid of records from his private meeting with Russia’s leader. But I’ll bet Putin kept his.

California police officer Ronil Singh, 33, fatally shot by an illegal immigrant, tweeted about and eulogized repeatedly by Donald Trump.
Natalie Corona, 23, fatally shot by a white man with a battery conviction, and crickets.
Sad, and pathetic.

Tim Tebow is engaged. So guess he’s finally been completing his passes.

Two-years, $20 million for Jed Lowrie, 34, with Mets. Nice deal. And maybe at his age Lowrie is tired of dealing with playoff pressure?

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Congratulations to Gregg Popovich, now #3 on all-time NBA coaching wins list.  The Spurs this year have EIGHT new players on their roster and no real point guard. It is just possible Pop is GOAT coach.

And 56 points from Lamarcus Aldridge and an NBA record 84% (16-19) on 3-pointers, and 154 points in double OT.  Just like everyone expected for the second game of a back-to-back.

Unidentified person reportedly decapitated by a helicopter at a small Florida airport. The local sheriff called it “a “very serious aircraft accident.”
I think I prefer- a serious Darwin winner.

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Iowa GOP Rep Steve King -“White nationalist, white supremacist… how did that language become offensive?”
But hey, a Democratic woman Rep. called Trump a “motherf*cker” and another woman danced. #priorities

Someone registered officialsecuretheborderfund.com

Worth a click.

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If Donald Trump wants to prove Democrats are lying about meetings why doesn’t he just televise all meetings he has with them?

A police officer was shot and critically injured in Davis tonight. No comment from Donald Trump – and no doubt there won’t be. Unless it turns out shooter was undocumented.

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Trump fundraiser of the day:
“Look at just a few examples of what the Liberal Elites had to say about the Presidential Address:
Jim Acosta: “Trump address hazardous to the truth.”
Jimmy Kimmel: “Rarely does a president of the United States interrupt primetime television to warn us about a completely made up thing.”
Chuck Schumer: “This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis.”

Clemson DT Dexter Lawrence, who was suspended indefinitely over PEDs and missed Tigers’ postseason games, has announced he will leave early for 2019 NFL draft. Makes sense, because in NFL a positive drug test only costs you 4 games.

Eight NFL head coaches fired, six white men – so far hired. How’s that “Rooney Rule” working out?

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More from our well-regulated militia:  A former LSU offensive lineman lost a leg in a duck hunting incident after his dog reportedly jumped on his gun and, the weapon went off.    Well, dog-gone it.

SF Giants changing name from AT&T Park to Oracle Park. And it’s only a coincidence if fans suddenly end up with a major increased in dropped calls?

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FDA issued recall notice for “Modjeskas” candy, sold by Kentucky company and QVC as it might be contaminated with Hepatitis A. Okay, MAGAers, you know what to do. Defy science, buy more of the candy and “own the libs.”

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Trump argues we need wall to stop migrants driving right across in their “unbelievable vehicles… stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, than ICE has” So Trump is TRYING to get more Americans to buy cars made in Mexico?

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Maybe if someone told Donald Trump that until the shutdown is over, health inspectors won’t be able to vouch for the safety of his fast food orders…

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Trump insists walls work.   But curiously a wall didn’t work to stop Dorothy, a tin man, scarecrow and lion.   Speaking of REALLY successful witch hunts…

Coast Guard suggested their employees consider a garage sale during their furlough. Hmm, or maybe some private sales of stuff they might happen to find on boats trying to sneak into the US?

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So when the next hurricane destroys parts of Florida, Louisiana or Texas, will Trump withhold FEMA money until people stop building near the shoreline?

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None of the headlines today seem to have real Trump Oval Office Tuesday speech message right. “My campaign manager shared political polling data with a business associate tied to Russian intelligence but I REALLY hope you won’t notice.”

Warriors haven’t beaten up on a team in recent memory. Tonight they beat NY Knicks  by 27, and it wasn’t that close. A message to Kevin Durant just in case he’s thinking about “trying to make it there” to prove he can “make it anywhere…?”

Give Trump some credit for distraction. While we were focused on his train wreck in Washington,  Wizards outscored the 76ers by 9 in the 4th quarter and still lost by 17.

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Actually, Trump has something in common with the hapless Washington Wizards.  For the forseeable future, they’re both going to be Wall-less.

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So after Dabo Swinney’s description of where they were last night will Santa Clara change their name to “wherever-the-heck California?”

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On a brighter note for 49ers fans last night at Levi’s Stadium, with Trevor Lawrence they may have gotten a glimpse of the QB they can draft in 2021 if they keep s*cking.

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So no smugglers will ever bring drugs in by boats or planes ever again if we put up steel slats. Got it.

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Nothing Donald Trump hates more than being upstaged. So please, next time he demands airtime for a “National emergency” can some celebrity have a friend drive them slowly on LA freeways in a white Bronco?

So Wednesday morning Rush Limbaugh, arrested for abusing oxycodone and hydrocodone, will commend Donald Trump, who abuses Adderall, for Trump’s speech condemning illegal drugs in this country.

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This SHOULD have been the #Pelosi #Schumer rebuttal. From Dec. 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Serious note.  Few things get me as genuinely livid as the fact that in this country if you are a police officer killed by an American citizen, or a woman killed by a husband or boyfriend, or a child killed by a family member, you will get crickets from Trump. But ah, if your killer is undocumented, then you are a posthumous saint.

Trevor Lawrence said he hopes to win “at least 3” more championships at Clemson. If he were a basketball player he’d be packing up his dorm room tomorrow.

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Your reminder that Clemson senior QB Kelly Bryant transferred to Missouri this year after he said starting job was unfairly taken away from him & given to Trevor Lawrence.

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Hard to believe but this Clemson team needed a 4th quarter comeback led by 3rd string QB Chase Brice earlier this year to beat Syracuse.

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Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa sure looked like an NFL quarterback tonight. Unfortunately the QB he looked like was Mark Sanchez.

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Carl Grove, 90, was stripped of his gold medal in cycling he won at Masters Track National Championships after testing positive for a PED.
He blamed the result on “bad meat.” Really, wouldn’t it have been more believable to claim a tainted supplement? Like Ensure?

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Nonpolitical rant of the day: If you have about 10 items in a “10 items or less Express Line” AND you have two return items for credit requiring manager approval, AND you want to complain because you spent 25 cents for a bag last time and the handle broke… just maybe you shouldn’t be in the Express Line.

If it was a REAL national emergency , why didn’t Donald Trump have his press conference preempt the National Football Championship?

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That moment when the Bachelor is ready to start up another season tonight and you realize it’s much more reality-based than the show coming out of the Oval Office.

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About this national emergency Trump wants to declare to build the wall: he had over 700 days with GOP in control of House and Senate when he could have passed almost anything he wanted….

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So POTUS who refers to media as “enemy of the people” just got all major networks to give him free time for an immigration speech, when those same networks turned down Obama’s request for same thing in 2014.
But yeah, Democrats need to be more civil.

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Just guessing Tuesday night that Trump will
1. Declare a national emergency giving him power and unlimited money to build his wall.
2. Declare he will sign a bill to open government and take credit for it.
3. Declare victory
4. Declare he has earned a vacation.
And then, like with the caravan and his middle-class tax cut and most everything else and drug prices, he will do nothing except search for the next shiny distracting object.” 

Any Bears fan blaming Cody Parkey for the loss today has to ask themselves – if you couldn’t contain Nick Foles and Eagles when it mattered how the hell did you expect to stop Jared Goff and the Rams?

What went wrong for Ravens?  Waiting for media to ask Ray Lewis to take a stab at it.

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Seriously, anyone but me really tired of seeing Ray Lewis being honored and over at football games. Heck, NFL pretends OJ Simpson doesn’t exist. 

#JacinthBaker #RichardLollar

Thinking all Sean Payton and Drew Brees have to do to keep Saints from getting too complacent against Eagles is show a replay of New Orleans last play against the Vikings from 2018.

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Poor Sebastian Janikowski, injured in first half of Saturday’s wild card game.. Suppose it’s not much consolation for him and Seahawks that his medical bills should be covered by Medicare.

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At least 49ers and Raiders fans didn’t have to deal with playoff drama. #smallmercies

Trying to remember the last time a male Presidential candidate was referred to as “unlikable.”

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Fox News top story about funeral for California police officer Ronil Singh “who was gunned down after stopping an illegal immigrant.”
47 officers were killed in line of duty in 2018. Wonder why Singh is the biggest headline?

(And somehow Fox didn’t mention that Singh himself, while legal, came here as an unskilled immigrant from Fiji, and trained at various jobs  for 8 years to become an officer.)

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Trump today on furloughed government workers, 16 days into the Trump Shutdown ‘I can relate and I’m sure that the people who are on the receiving end will make adjustments, they always do.”
He can relate? What, because he hasn’t been able to golf in Florida?

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From today’s Trump fundraising email “Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer shut down YOUR government by choosing illegal immigrants over hard-working American patriots like YOU. NO MORE!
The only reason Democrats shut down the government is because they know they can’t win in 2020. They don’t care about your safety, they only care about Presidential Harassment!”

Again , Dec. 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

QB Joe Flacco, now the backup to Lamar Jackson for tomorrow’s Ravens wildcard game against Chargers. “It’s definitely not the most fun position in the world.”
As opposed to a tee-time to get Joe home in time to watch his team watch Steelers play instead?

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DeMar DeRozan, on his first triple-double to help the Spurs trounce the Raptors, who traded him for Kawhi Leonard despite his desire to stay in Toronto – “It wasn’t emotional at all for me. … It was just a fun game for me.”
Good thing for San Antonio that DeRozan is a better player than he is a liar.

So about halfway through the NBA regular season, and basically every in the Western Conference still has a realistic shot at the playoffs.

Well, except for the Phoenix Suns, aka “Chopped liver.”

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Georgia QB Justin Fields is leaving the school, reportedly for Ohio State. Fields will apply to NCAA for a hardship waiver so he can be eligible to play in 2019: The hardship, he lost his starting job to another student-athlete. What a system.

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Can we declare a national emergency to deal with a President who thinks he can declare a national emergency over a stupid wall?
Asking for a country.

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When I woke up and read someone called Donald   Trump a “motherf*cker” my first thought was “Now which member of his Cabinet?”

Trump now threatening to keep government closed for “months or even years.”
So over 800,000 workers will continue to go without a paycheck because of his tantrum. Rep Rashida  Tlaib, who called him a “Motherf*cker”  may have been too kind

Trump said of Rhasida Tlaib’s “motherf*cker” comment “she dishonored herself and dishonored her family using language like that in front of her son and whoever else was there.”
Right, the correct way to honor your son is to sleep with both a porn star and a Playboy bunny while he’s an infant….

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Trump also today “I want Apple to make their iPhones and all of the great things that they make in the United States.”
Wonder if MAGAers would cheer quite so loud if they realized this would mean needing a mortgage for a phone.

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RIP Herb Kelleher, 87, founder of Southwest Airlines. No cause of death given. Maybe he just wanted to get away?

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So is GOP problem with the video of Alexandria Oscasio Cortez’s dancing as a young woman that she wasn’t also chanting “I like beer?”

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Your reminder that Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of a Baltimore mayor, and the mother of five. So a perfect match for Trump – she has experience with mob bosses AND children.

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It  4:07 p.m. ET Sarah Sanders announced a press briefing starting at 4:10 p.m.  It started late with a brief Trump appearance but the real subject was probably “Waaaaa. Nancy’s getting too much attention.”

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Bernie Sanders told CNN he didn’t realize women in his 2016 presidential campaign were being harassed because “‘I was a little bit busy running around the country.”
Trying to imagine if a woman made that excuse.

So an American citizen is supposedly arrested in Moscow and Trump State department responds by issuing a travel warning for… China?

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As Trump rants today about the Pope having walls, guess if he ever traveled beyond his own properties, he’d know that anyone can enter Vatican City, and you don’t even need a passport.

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Nancy Pelosi said she’d give Trump $1 for his wall. Considering Mexico is paying for it shouldn’t that be enough?

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So maybe Trump would give in on the funding bill if instead of offering him $1 for his wall Nancy Pelosi just offered to fund some great shutdown commemorative coins?

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Dianne Feinstein says she is supporting Joe Biden for President. Well, of course… she’s always thought Joe was such a nice young man.

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Today’s reminder that Nancy Pelosi is badass -: “As President Reagan said in his last speech as President: ‘If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.'”

Tickets for the College Football National Championship  Game Monday are down as low as $151 on Stubhub.
If this keeps up there’ll be so many empty seats fans will think they’re at a 49ers game.

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And hey, who’d a thunk people might not want to show up for an Alabama-Clemson matchup.  Why, those teams haven’t played each other in about 370 days.

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Not sure if an eight-team playoff would have produced more interesting games.  But it might have produced more ticket buyers.

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NY Giants GM Dave Gettleman on 2019. “My commitment is to make this team the best team it can be. If that happens to have Eli playing quarterback, it does.”
Translation. maybe if Eli wants to play at the Meadowlands he should talk to the Jets?

(a friend of mine suggested, Rutgers?)

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RIP Daryl Dragon, 76, the Captain of “Captain and Tennille.” With luck he’ll go to heaven where no one has to hear “Muskrat Love” ever again.

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How many children growing up in Fox News households are going to get “F”s on future history tests that ask about the collapse of the Soviet Union?

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Donald Trump telling Mitt Romney to be a “team player” is like Bernie Sanders telling a Democratic senator to be a ‘team player’

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Now Trump is claiming that even though Mattis handed him a resignation latter, he “essentially fired” his defense secretary.
In other words “He didn’t break up with me I broke up with him. Nobody breaks up with me.”

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Fox News ridiculed Elizabeth Warren for drinking beer on camera in a Instagram New Year’s Eve video at her house. So they think instead of running for President, Warren should be nominated to the Supreme Court?

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Happy New Year’s. And to all my friends on both sides of the aisle -may your troubles last as long as Donald Trump’s promises.

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Tickets for the National Championship game next Monday night are now going for as low as $200, less than half of face value.   So wait, fans don’t even want to come to the 49ers Levi’s Stadium to watch teams that don’t suck?

Urban Meyer’s wife Shelley “I would be ecstatic if he didn’t [coach again] “I’m done. I want him to be done. He’s too intense.”
Over-under on how many months he’s around the house before she begs him to go back to work?

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On New Year’s Eve, Stanford won the Sun Bowl and Oregon won the RedBox Bowl. Two Pac 12 wins on the same day? Hope this isn’t a sign of the apocalypse.

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Melania Trump posted a smiling selfie from Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve.  Well, of course she was happy, she was in Florida while Donald stayed in Washington, D.C.

I’m so old I remember when Christmas and New Year’s holidays meant seeing cheerful pictures of the First Family smiling and enjoying time with their children.

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Just wondering, how much of our taxpayer dollars are going to shuttling Melania back and forth to Florida, AND paying for double Secret-Service while she, Ivanka and Jared vacation and Donald stays in DC?

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Now that she’s running, the attacks on Warren, who wouldn’t be my first choice, have begun. But somehow I’ve missed all the stories questioning Bernie’s likability.

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Trump afternoon tweet – “For FAR TOO LONG Senate Democrats have been Obstructing more than 350 Nominations…”
Wonder what Justice Merrick Garland thinks…

So if Mitt Romney REALLY wants to make a statement to Trump, perhaps he can actually vote against any budget with money for a wall?

Your daily reminder from December 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Can’t imagine how Stanford got the #NerdNation nickname

From Twitter tonight, @CaptAndrewLuck

Maybe it’s just me but thinking while jokes about school shooting survivors may distract people from remembering your sexual misconduct, those jokes won’t much for your overall image.  #LouisCK

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So if Mexico is supposed to be paying for the wall, why hasn’t Trump shut down the Mexican government?

Today’s Trump fundraising email “While Nancy Pelosi sits at her luxurious resort in Hawaii, I’m at the Oval Office working for YOU.”
Uh, wasn’t it the Senate who refused to go along with Donald’s ransom demands? And Mitch is in Kentucky.

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A new report found half of US adults have an immediate family member who has been in jail or prison. Well, soon maybe we won’t be able to say Trump family can’t relate to average Americans.

So apparently when you spot Alabama 28 points they have a pretty good chance of winning a football game.

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Your reminder that of four teams in CFB Playoff only one of them was from a state that elected a Democratic senator in 2018.

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To be fair, these CFB Playoff routs ARE the committee’s fault. In choosing between top college-level teams this year they didn’t even consider the Oakland Raiders.

OPM- Office of Personnel Management message to federal employees started –  “Feds, here are sample letters you may use as a guide when working with your creditors during this furlough. If you need legal advice please consult with your personal attorney.”

Uh, federal employees are not allowed to access their government emails during a shutdown. So how are they going to see this? For that matter if you can’t pay bills how can you pay an attorney?

Can someone remind Donald Trump that Congress HAD deal to prevent shutdown, until he threw a tantrum & got departing House members to pass ridiculous new bill on way out.

No doubt Nancy Pelosi would never think of just passing the original bill on Jan 3?.

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I’m so old I remember “I’ll tell you what, I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, So, I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

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Headline from NY Daily News “Reports that “Robert Mueller has obtained ‘nude selfie’ from Russian company targeted in his investigation: court filing.”

And if anyone needed a potential image to use as an appetite suppressant for their New Year’s diet?

Stanford vs. Pittsburgh in El Paso, Dec 31….. where at least Cardinal will no longer carry the weight of an entire conference on their shoulders…. because.

Washington State and thus the Pac 12 actually won a bowl game. Just when conference was finally about to get regular offers to play SEC teams.

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Watching MusicCityBowl with Auburn and Purdue and knowing Boilermakers were  the team that beat Ohio State…. well, it does not strengthen Buckeyes’ contention that they should be in CFB playoff

Teddy Bridgewater starting for New Orleans at QB on Sunday. One argument for Drew Brees as  NFL MVP might be having done such a good job he AND many other starters can rest week 17.

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Tigers are a 12.5 point favorite on Saturday, but apparently most betting money for CFB Playoff game between Clemson and Notre Dame is coming in on the Fighting Irish.

Will winning bettors be required to donate some of their profits to Notre Dame. #TouchdownJesus

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Question of the week, what are more meaningless in December?  Most college football bowl games, or most NBA “regular season games?”

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Today’s fundraising email to me said President Trump “was SHOCKED to see that your name was missing from the list of Official Build The Wall Members.”

Well, if Trump really were shocked we’d have even more ammunition for 25th amendment.

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Just wondering, could we get Donald Trump put federal money towards eradicating dangerous diseases if we told him the viruses came into the country illegally?

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Trump now says he will stay in DC and miss his New Year’s Eve bash at Mar-A-Lago.    But okay, let’s be logical here — all the VERY expensive tickets have been sold that guarantee access to the President.

So choice here is, go down to see the few people he actually likes in January or February when shutdown is over, or stay home, avoid the rich donors he tolerates,  plus the germs he fears, and blame it on the Democrats….

San Antonio Spurs last night beat NBA’s Western Conference current best Denver Nuggets. While the Golden State Warriors lose back to back home games against Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers.

So is NBA about to change their motto to “Any given Sunday, or Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, or Friday, or Saturday?”

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Wisconsin 35- Miami 3. Almost as low a score for Hurricanes in New York as the Yankees averaged in ALDS.

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41 bowl games this season…. for how many of this young men will it be the most overhyped and meaningless game of their lives… until they get drafted by a team like the Jets.

Can we get bipartisan agreement on the fact that when it’s a 45 minute line to order a grilled cheese and someone sees a friend in line and says ‘”hey can I order with you too” that should be a felony?

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As Trump uses sad shooting death of policeman to push his wall, guess no one told him officer Ronil Singh came here from Fiji as an unskilled young immigrant who wanted to be a police officer.

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While Trump lies about a fake 10% pay raise for military, members of US Coast guard will be working without pay starting tomorrow due to his Shutdown. #Details

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A cell signal reportedly put former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen outside Prague around the time of the alleged Russian collusion meeting.

“Fake cellphone signal” tweets in 3.2.1….

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But okay, should we really be surprised same Trump administration that doesn’t seem to believe in records of what they write and say in public also didn’t understand the concept of locating cell phones?

144 USA police officers killed in line of duty in 2018 and Trump decides to tweet about the one who apparently was shot by someone in the country illegally.

Think I raised my son right, this was his Christmas present to me.

Tom Brady “I know I’ve talked about it for a long time. I have that goal to not only play next year, but beyond that.”
Possible translation, “Giselle isn’t ready for me to just sit around the house.”

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Whats a bigger shock, that the Lakers beat the Warriors 127-101 on Christmas? Or that they were only up 71-57 when Lebron James got hurt in the third quarter.

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A foot doctor’s daughters now say their late father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs to help him avoid the Vietnam War draft as a “favor” to his father Fred Trump.
So can we start calling him #CadetFakeBoneSpurs?

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I’m so old I remember staying up late Christmas Eve in hopes of hearing Santa.
Instead of in dread of what POTUS might tweet.

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Apparently 7-year-old who Donald Trump said it was”marginal” for someone her age to still believe.in Santa said she’d never heard word “marginal” before.
Again, education causes Democrats.

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Apparently the three ghosts who visited White House last night didn’t make much impression on Donald Trump.

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