Left Coast Sports Babe

Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups & Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were among several people reportedly arrested by FBI on Thursday as part of two separate illegal gambling-related cases,

Waiting for ESPN “This report brought to you by Draft Kings.”

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Ann Killion in the SF Chronicle “Any assumptions that this scandal was limited to those currently implicated or that this was a one-off in the sports world would be incredibly naive.”

Two words that may turn out to be the most damaging ever to the integrity of sports – “prop bets”

And not that the horse isn’t already out of the barn and half way across the pasture, but will any two words turn out to be so damaging to the integrity of sports as “prop bets?”

So if they lose this World Series will the Dodgers just buy the Blue Jays?

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A $1,000,000,000,000.00 -yes, one trillion increase in our national debt in 2 months.

Where are all the GOP deficit hawks on this one?

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To all those who want Dems to trust Trump & vote for CR because he says he’ll have GOP negotiate then Remember this on his new WH ballroom? “It’ll be near it but not touching it & pay total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” The East Wing is gone.

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So many bots and trolls trying to defend Trump demolishing the East Wing – without notice and without permits. Donald could burn the whole White House to the ground and replace it with Trump Tower and they’d shrug and say he was entitled to remodel.

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To all those who want Dems to trust Trump & vote for CR because he says he’ll have GOP negotiate then

Remember this on his new WH ballroom? “It’ll be near it but not touching it & pay total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” The East Wing is gone.

Let us be crystal clear If Donald were proud of tearing down the East Wing he would have done it on camera with him pretending to do some of the destruction work.

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Donald Trump says he builds”on budget and on time,”

He said in July his White House ballroom would cost $200 million

In September he said $250 million Now it’s $300 million. Dibs on $1 billion in the pool

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No way this destruction suddenly happened without a lot of people knowing. What happened to all the treasures in the East Wing, of real or simply sentimental value? Did he destory them or steal them?

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When asked by a reporter about not being transparent about knocking down entire East Wing, Trump said he’d shown plans to “everybody that would listen.”

Give me a bleeping break.

While he hired at least a dozen of them, he has half the people left at Fox News on speed dial.

Are these name tags in front of Hegseth and Bondi and his other cabinet members during all their joint appearances with Trump for the press, or to remind Donald of their names?

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Fox News headline JB Pritzker accuses ICE of ‘racial profiling,’ defends comparing agents to Nazis Gov. of Illinois insisted ICE agents’ misconduct happens ‘all the time’ “They’re literally going after Black & Brown people because of the color of their skin,” No lies detected.

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Amy Klobuchar this week “I don’t know what Trump is going to do…rubber stampers behind closed doors say to us, ‘We really need to do something about these [health care] premiums. We know it, we understand it, but they’re waiting for his orders.”

While Americans peacefully protest for NO Kings. GOP acts like we elected a king.

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We shouldn’t have trusted the national championship trophy in the hands of JD Vance.

Shouldn’t trust him with his hands on our democracy either.

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-On a rare bright note on a rough day. Paige Bueckers, as expected, was taken first in the WNBA draft.

Wasnt that long ago that many Americans, even sports fans, may not have realized the WNBA HAD a draft.

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Many have thought American democracy is unsinkable.. Tonight the night of April 14,/15 1912, after disregarding many ice warnings, the Titanic hit that iceberg. How many warnings do we need?

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When Hitler took power in January 1933 he started opening concentration camps. Dachau was one of the first. It wasn’t originally for Jews. It was for the mass imprisonment (& murder) of political opponents. Including journalists.

If you’re not afraid you’re not paying attention.

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Meanwhile, for those who despise elite universities.

Or those who still don’t think lack of due process wil happen to them… at least until a friend or family member is deported..

Donold still has crazy tariffs. About 60 percent of all imports sold in Walmart — were made in China.

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Remember Joe Biden calling Peter Doocy “stupid S.O.B?” under his breath, when he didn’t realize the mic was on? ” Right wing media lost their minds.

Even though Biden apologized to Doocy and Peter accepted it.

Trump says out loud to Kaitlin Collins that “CNN hates our country.” And “Let’s hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at CNN.”

Right-wing media cheers!

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Fox News headline “Senate DOGE leader (Joni Ernst) targets tax-dodging government workers.” Fine, can she include members of Congress?

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47 Democratic Senators can all express outrage.

213 Democratic Representatives can all express outrage.

Won’t matter. Republicans have the gavels. We need just a few of them to remember the oath they took to the constitution and this country.

“Homegrowns are next.”

All these people who say Democrats were fearmongering and the USA would never overturn Roe v. Wade now say Trump would never send U.S. Citizens to be imprisoned in a foreign counry.