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I really hope to not sleep through the men's downhill again like I did 4 years ago (when I woke up and the first 20 or so had already gone, including the medal winners). Finally, my chance for redemption

Well, that should have been 1-2 for Vitesse, but that referee (Ivan Bebek) disallowed Vitesse's goal because a Vitesse player was on the ground or something Wait, in the replay it was apparently because Vitesse's player pulled a Belgian's shirt, who did the exact same thing (but slightly worse) This referee was kind of sad. Just like the match anyway

Well I can watch 45 minutes of Panathinaikos and then switch to Real

@dareza Help me, which one today? I'm thinking about Panathinaikos at home because I like those Horto Magiko videos

We have that one too

Good move I'm now going to make it my goal to follow the Lesothoan/Lesothoese (?) competitions and open a thread

Nice new suit for the Brazilians, only problem is that it's not for them, but for the Germans...

Wait, Europe still has a communist party with more than just a handful of members?

But NBA is so much bigger than all other national leagues. Why not have one for the NBA (which in general is the main/biggest/best competition), and one for the other national leagues? Just like in football the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and possibly Ligue 1 deserve an own thread and the rest can all be thrown together. We have a 'subforum' for every Olympic sport, use it. It's ok to have a good number of threads in a 'subforum', that's the whole point of this kind of subforums. A basketball subforum which is filled with all kinds of basketball threads, a road cycling subforum which is filled with all kinds of road cycling threads, etc. Having a subforum about one sport filled with 15 threads (national league, some fun thread someone comes up with etc) really makes more sense than an entire subforum with one 'discussion thread' and one 'all national leagues' thread or something. If new user A wants to talk about biathlon, he'll go to the biathlon subforum. It's easy, and having 10 threads in a biathlon subforum does not make that harder. The strict thing should be that threads about sport A should be in subforum of sport A (obviously, so there's no water polo thread in the cycling subforum), but inside of the subforums, it really should be less strict.

Can't we just stop with these shenanigans of things like changing an NBA thread to a 'National Leagues Discussion Thread' (with capital letters for every word, which by the way is annoying)? I don't give a rat's ass about all other national leagues, that's exactly why I opened an NBA thread, to keep the NBA (by far the biggest) separate from all the other stuff. Just, let it go, give your users some freedom, seriously. I'm barely even opening threads because anyway someone will change it in some way, because there is a 0,01% difference with the exact convention that is needed or something. It's so frustrating.

People in Malaysia have been afraid of a nicely made doll http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/police-forced-deny-rumours-bizarre-11362290?service=responsive

Also, Chicago Bulls' Nikola Mirotic is out for a couple of weeks.....after a fight with one of his own team mates https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2017/10/17/16492374/chicago-bulls-fight-nikola-mirotic-bobby-portis-injury-cheap-shot

Men's Basketball NBA 2017 - 2018 National Championship - 17 October 2017 - 17 June 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Minister of Human Rights: "Homosexuals are trash" Not entirely surprising that it's a minister from Morocco, given some of the medievel laws and stuff there.. https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/10/230923/mustapha-ramid-human-rights-gays-morocco/ Meanwhile, this same piece of garbage, who is supposed to be the minister of human rights, does like child marriage. http://indignado.es/marruecos-legaliza-matrimonio-hombres-ninas-bien-ellas/

Switzerland has again said it wants to have 2026 Now, don't be assholes and just don't have a referendum, that has turned out to be mistakes all the time so far, so, let's go Switzerland!

Wow, France got screwed big time...no way this was a penalty, that Spanish guy clearly stumbled over his own feet (watch the replays and put YouTube in 0.25x speed if you can't see it, to be sure)....89th minute penalty deciding the match was not a penalty, damn

Because having the Netherlands in your group is so hard.... Man, I'd rather have the Netherlands in my group than Gibraltar, Kosovo or Andorra.

And on the other hand, if we see snow it's like "oh ok", but if there's snow in Algeria, it's news immediately https://watchers.news/2017/01/21/algeria-snow-january-2017/

And Portugal

Wait, one more question: if Sliedrecht wins 3-0 now, is a 1-3 loss in Belgium later enough to qualify?

So: - 12 teams in round 2 - 8 teams in round 3 (6 round 2 winners + Vafikbank and Enisej, which seems odd, because why not last year's runner-up Conegliano?) That gives four round 3 winners....the other 12 teams for the group stage are prequalified? Then again, why would 12 teams be prequalified, but both finalists of last year have to play qualifications? Or is that only due to their position in the national leagues?

Well, but all the teams in the competition will play in this 2nd round that started today? Or do the winners of this 2nd round advance to the 3rd, and the winners of those go to the group stage? Or is there no group stage? It's annoying that there's no English wiki page

Why does the women's Champions League start with a 2nd round? And does every team participate in that? I'm confused about the format, but interested since for the first time in 9 years there's a Dutch team in it https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEV_Champions_League_2017-2018_(pallavolo_femminile)#Torneo

I mean, pursuits are fine for stage races, but not for stand-alone races and most certainly not for medal events. It's already unfair enough to have the biathlon pursuit as Olympic medal event, don't start this with cross-country as well.