Monzanator

Pol Espargaro totally choked that away. Serves him right for dissing Oliveira after last week's collision!

Then again, Joan Mir would have won it but for Vinales' brake failure.

Maverick Vinales jumps off the bike at like 320 km/h and the bike itself destroys Turn 1 tyre wall. Red flag at Red Bull Ring again.

This season has seen some crazy stuff alright.

Polish Ekstraklasa kicked off on Friday.

Meanwhile here is how Wisla Plock's stadium looks like today

Yastremska beat Venus 7-5 in the third. I don't see her reaching the final though.

Anisimova beat Riske 6-3 6-3.

34 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Gladiator, but it’s not really a historical film as much as a drama. I remember watching “The Eagle” too, but again that took place mostly in Britannia.

 

I’ve heard of the term “Roman Salute”, but I just thought it was the Italian name for the Nazi salute.

Yeah, other than soccer Americans are pretty weak in European history as well even though fascism has had quite a prominent role in the last century

Cicero who provides a written evidence about the Roman salute lived 2,000 years before Mussolini & Hitler

11 minutes ago, NMQ said:

She is a better hard court player I think. Beat Rybakina in the final of Shenzhen at the start of the year.

She'd be better at the almost defunct indoor carpet surface. Clay is where she struggles which probably explains the Palermo & Prague flop in general.

I'm waiting for the torch relay to be banned next since it was invented by the Nazi Germany after all

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

Is there a difference? (I’m genuinely asking as I didn’t know there was two different salutes)

Hitler "adopted" the Roman salute as well as the swastika (sign of good luck in ancient Rome) when he came to power. As a failed painter Hitler was always a fan of ancient Roman/classical art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute

I supose you didn't watch any movies staged in ancient Rome in your life?

32 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Nazi salutes are worse, but I’m not all that familiar with the incident you shared. Obviously, I’ve seen the video, but I don’t know a lot of the context around it. Slovan seems to have a pattern a Neo-Nazi ultras, so that’s why I said they’d be competition.

Yeah, I don't expect any American to have a serious knowledge on soccer after all. It's obviously very different in Europe. Paolo Di Canio is an open fascist and his Roman salute after a Lazio game caused an uproar back in 2005. Lazio's supporters are well known far-right extremists for many years and if you had more knowledge on soccer you'd probably be #1 Lazio critic here.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1506262/Im-a-fascist-not-a-racist-says-Paolo-di-Canio.html

This article gets it wrong on lack of black players at Lazio back then though since Fabio Liverani (mother from Somalia) played for them and I have no idea why he's not included. Things have changed in the last 15 years but Lazio fans' fascism has not 

Marc Marquez has been ruled out for two-three months now. That was the only sensible decision from day one. They should just announce his season is officially over.

Now Jack Miller can fight for that title after all

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Slovan represents stiff competition for them, as I seem to remember Slovan unveiling a “White Lives Matter” banner earlier this year.

Yeah, well, Slovakia is a predominantly white population like all Slavic countries after all. I would have thought Nazi/facist salutes are worst than everything Slovan does but guess not  

13 minutes ago, rybak said:

What did you expect? That's WTA after all  

That's exactly what I would expect indeed. Maybe it's not so obvious for people who don't follow tennis beyond Grand Slam finals.

7 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Alright, so Slovan is officially my least favorite European Football club.

Paolo Di Canio and Lazio would be happy to hear that

Alexandrova did nothing in Palermo & Prague and here she beats Rybakina.

No offense to Canucks but I preferred their old color scheme - even with this hideous 1980s jerseys. This literally looked like stuff from Star Trek goons wardrobe or something.

The modern jerseys are basically a rip-off from the Hartford Whalers IMO (yeah, I'm old enough to actually remember that team).

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Welsh League did not always exist: was only set up in 1992.  Once it was set up, teams had to calculate based in their history, fanbase etc whether it was better to be in one or the other system.  Some clubs that had only ever been in regional Leagues in England transferred to the Welsh League, but the big names - Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham - obviously preferred to stay in the FA.

Well, Cardiff and Swansea finally made it into EPL but Wrexham couldn't even stay in the top four tiers which must be considered a major disappointement.

11 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yeah...I wouldn’t be so sure that democratic-socialism is done just yet. I know the U.S. House races don’t get a lot of attention, but progressives are upsetting moderates and liberals left and right in those primaries.

International opinion doesn't really care about the Congress elections like you say. Besides, anything can be struck down by the Supreme Court. Meanwhile President is one office that always gathers international attention and first Obama said Democrats shouldn't lean too far left and if Biden wins that's game over for Bernie's Army since there's usually zero competition for a sitting President and Sanders is too old to make a genuine run in 8 years time.

On 19/08/2020 at 17:04, Grassmarket said:

One small exception is Scotland, where one English team plays - Berwick Rangers - who are about 70km from the nearest other English team.  I think there’s also N.Irish teams playing in the Irish system.  But obviously all this is because the four British systems existed long before any other organistion.

Doesn't Wrexham play in the English league too? I really wonder whether English fifth tier is better than presumably dominating the Welsh league. Maybe it's too late for a change now.

Sebastian Coe has made a complete fool of himself again. I hope he gets ripped to pieces for this LJ idea. And I'm glad to hear some top names are dragging him thru the mud right now!

Only Republican candidates (Trump) can be too old for the office Biden is four years older than Trump so it's just another case of liberal hypocrisy. Then again, if Biden wins that means we're finally done with the Bernie Sanders sociallist nonsense.

Haiti in football? Still best known for getting blasted 7-0 by Poland at 1974 World Cup

Belgium needs 2,5 years to examine the Nazi salute and blames the COVID pandemic for the delay?  Yup, it's a cover up in the making 100%

16 hours ago, phelps said:

 

not that Football, Basketball and Hockey don't have stupid unwritten rules, too...

 

try to score a TD on the last snap of a game when you're ahead in the score in Football...those Baseball brawls would easily disappear in front of what would happen in such case...

Football has some of the most crazy goal celebrations... compare this to not staring down a home run in baseball - especially when baseball basically heads down the home run derby script these days

Basketball has gone so ultra soft it's laughable. James Harden would have his ribs broken by Bill Laimbeer if he tried his flopping shtick 30 years ago.

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Why do people put up with Slovan’s crap when it seems to go so much against the morals of the rest of Slovakia?

Slovan is the most successful club in Slovakia, that's why. @hckosice might correct me but it's DAC Dunajska Streda who is the villain of Slovakian football instead (due to being associated with the Hungarian minority).