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It's just a 3-pt shooting contest most of the time and moreover, everyone is still more or less playing small ball. A center who can pass the ball is kryptonite in the modern NBA. And most opponents just want to outscore the other team than play genuine defense.

Celtics vs Bucks is the popular East choice. Have the US media finally given up on the Sixers? They ain't winning anything over there. West should be Nuggets, Warriors and Suns with the usual Lakers hype mixed in.

Craig Kimbrel basically blew it for the Phillies when they had the early series lead and the bats went cold in the deciding games as well.

WTA Elite Trophy has kicked off in Zhuhai. Meanwhile Karolina Muchova has WD from YEC due to a wrist injury (she didn't play since USO anyway) and will be replaced by Maria Sakkari @Makedonas

This season is as predictable as it goes but a minor plot twist as Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were DQ from USA GP results due to excessive skid plank wear. That guy from Pays Bas with a Belgian mother won the 50th Grand Prix of his career

Yeah, I noticed the name coincidence and her age Arguably both Mesikova and Kapustikova made the correct decision to train in Polish clubs. After Karpiel and Rajda threw a tantrum and packed their bags retired our women's roster is extremely thin with almost no hope expected. Twardosz is slooowly getting back to quasi form after her injury but Przybyła looks miles off after her knee injury.

[hide] Knockout Stage October 14th - October 28th, 2023 Third-Place Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 October 27th, h. 21:00 Argentina 18 England Final Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 October 28th, h. 21:00 New Zealand 6 South Africa [/hide]

Polish teams are training in snow tunnel in Oberhof and well, Monika Hojnisz's "don't call it a retirement competition pause" has been extended to TBA

Polish national championships were held this weekend and claimed 1-2 in the women's competition @hckošice See, who says Slovakia sucks in ski jumping?

Alexander Shevchenko (aka Anastasia Potapova's fiancee) wants to switch to ?

Whoa! England blew it big time!

Well, the post-season was hardly a classic (especially for Dodgers & Braves) but the CS series look promising. Astros lost two games at home but then beat Rangers on the road three times and have the edge again. Phillies were 2-0 on Dbacks but Craig Kimbrel blew it twice and the series is tied instead of a sweep

Anfisa Reztsova - Olympic champion in biathlon - passed away at the age of 58.

Yeah, let's see if Neymar's injury actually turns out to be a good thing for the Selecao

Historically religious wars were part of European Christianity but they all ended in the 18th century. One might argue the French Revolution was the last major European conflict aka civil war where religion played a huge part. But it seems like you're the expert on European affairs too so I will move aside. You can laugh all you want and well, maybe you will also enlighten us on Islam as well? It seems like you have the perfect answers for all questions so I'm all ears to hear your solutions? Because the take "Muslims shouldn't fight Israel because Hamas leaders are staying in luxury hotels in Qatar" ain't gonna work IMO.

As long as there is no Palestine state those terrorists will keep on fighting regardless of where the Hamas leaders are staying. Since I don't believe they will accept the Israeli authority rule under any condition otherwise. Again, European Christians and atheists don't think like Muslims and then they are shocked their so-called solutions don't work or are ignored wholesale.

That's an European way of thinking but not the Muslim way of thinking. It's a popular mistake repeated over and over again. Meanwhile Quran allegedly says the only way to avoid suffering in the after-life is dying in jihad or a martyr. And that is probably what those Hamas terrorists think, if they die in the war they will be rewarded in after-life. Not what a Christian or atheist would buy however they're not the buyers here in first place

Joe Biden has cancelled the trip to Jordan to meet the Arab leaders. No surprise. The senile fool can't even bluff them with jack high at this stage

I don't believe Stan Kroenke thought FIFA would allow a soccer game to be played on a too narrow field unless he truly makes all the stereotypes about Yankees not knowing a damn thing about soccer true Looks like another dick-measuring contest but FIFA wouldn't mind pulling the plug on SoFi Stadium if they have to.

I suppose the old fool Joe Biden's mission to Israel won't mean anything - like it was a PR stunt to begin with. I fully expect more Palestinian hospitals to be destroyed - Israel is in war with Palestinians and not just Hamas like they claim. A perfect moment in time for Netanjahu to kill as many Palestinians as possible and burn the Gaza Strip to the ground. I'm surprised it has taken him this long to do it but he ain't turning back now and that old fool Biden ain't gonna stop him either.

I see you've done a complete backflip here. Just two years ago you argued that people who opposed breakdancing as Olympic sport (myself included) are stuck in the past, too outdated for modern reality and the so-called youth is the primary target that will dominate the future selections. Well, that narrative didn't last long, did it? Looks like the dreaded tradition actually matters more than short span tiktok generation After all, gridiron football has a long - careful, outdated word - tradition in USA which ultimately send the progressive breakdancing straight to the trash can. I'm not surprised that the "sport of the future" got axed so quickly. But that's not my problem, I never considered breakdancing as Olympic sport so I won't miss it whatsoever. USA is a very closed market for new sports tbh. Hell, the one sport that is getting some visibility push lately - also thanks to Lionel Messi - is soccer - which is kinda popular all over the world already. While some of the previously established popular US sports are regressing and will probably never regain it's showtime status - gymnastics thanks to Larry Nassar scandal or figure skating which is no longer seen as a Cold War battle with Soviet Union.

What aged fast is breakdancing as Olympic sport. Like the old saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Olympics is business. Business thrives on reliable long-term customers. Tiktok generation is NOT a reliable customer. The breakdancing craze is almost over before the sport even made it's Olympic debut and USA - a country that understands what business is like no other - punted on the sport in favor of lacrosse The issue isn't that complex if you understand that sport is a business. It's not 1984 anymore when Ingemar Stenmark got banned for making too much money It appears that breakdancing simply isn't making enough money and it has no history or the dreaded tradition to lean on either. So it was swiftly removed after just one attempt.

What are the odds the suspected shooter is a Muslim?

Btw, just a couple of years ago some people were going crazy how breakdance is the sport of the future targeting youths and now it's axed from LA Games to make room for cricket - a sport historically associated with colonialism I suppose that's a huge progress indeed. Where is all the support for breakdance now?

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