$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And there it is...

Ten days after the Seahawks were awarded Super Bowl LX, the Paul Allen Estate has begun the formal sale process.

And that is why they at least got in the game. 

Tanking in the NBA clouds a very prescient reality the NBA can't admit for it's financial future...

One of the largest topics in the recent NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles was the continuing losing battle the NBA is fighting with "tanking" -- the practice of teams deliberately resting players to ostensibly lose games to improve their position in the NBA Draft the following season.

Adam Silver has actually now gone as far as possibly considering revoking draft picks (and he's not going to be able to do anything unless they are first-round draft picks in that regard), because he knows the fines, including a $500,000 fine applied to the Utah Jazz -- calling their violations of player participation "conduct detrimental to the league".

So how much does Mark Cuban get fined for saying today the NBA should accept and embrace tanking, in the name of the fans? 

Why the NBA should embrace tanking -

The NBA has kate been misguided thinking that fans want to see their teams compete every night with a chance to win. It’s never been that way that way.

When I got into the nba, they thought they were in the basketball business. They…

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) February 17, 2026

Then you have a problem, Mr. Cuban.  A huge one.

The moment a fan can discern that every effort is not being made to win the game in progress, that fan is being financially and emotionally harmed by continuing to take part in the experience.  

Sometimes that is a night-to-night thing:  There are certainly games where almost every team is a substantial underdog or is seen that it is unlikely that they would win the given game.  This is understandable.

This is, however, a different process.  It is the deliberate understanding that the team is setting out to just survive the game, not get it's players injured for a game that it is not worth enough for them (micro or macro) to win.

At that point, why does a fan bother paying to see it?  And, writ larger, why do teams which continue to lose year after year after year be considered allowed to call themselves "professional" teams in the top-tier league?

Let's get some realities on "paper" here:

1) There are too many teams.

2) There are too many games.

3) There are too few players of sufficient "professional" caliber to support the number of teams or games that the league is bilking players, television partners, and corporate sponsors out of.

The fact is:  All four major professional leagues, in every idea except financial bottom line (which is why it won't be done) would do better either folding 25% of the teams or going promotion-relegation.

Make "professional", and top-tier professional at that, be earned.  You do it for the players -- why not force the same on the franchises?

The fact is (and it should've been demonstrated with the Foolish and Wretched One-Dimensional Ballhog, the National Bulls Broadcasting Company, and the National Bulls Association in the 1990's) that there aren't enough players to justify the existence of the number of professional teams in the top leagues in any of the major sports.

As a result, you are seeing pressures put on the NBA franchises to play top-flight players in the national televised games -- and it still doesn't help.

The fact is, there are just too many damn teams and no justification for a number of them to continue to exist.  And, in extreme cases, you get what happens in the NBA.

4) There is no legal ramification against a league fixing the games -- if Adam Silver really wants to prevent "tanking", he's going to have to state that it is an action outside of the league's allowed purview with respect to the manipulation of the contest's result, and punish accordingly.

5) It is of no secret that the games cost far too much money to attend, and that goes double when there's no assurance on the part of the two teams to actually provide a marketable contest.  

A fan can't recover for even a "tanked" game, just as he or she can't recover for a rigged one (only entitled to a seat and a result -- 2005 US Grand Prix lawsuit).  To actually provide the kind of fan experience Cuban wants, this MUST change, by any and all means necessary.

6) The games need to be believed to be on the level, because there's no way the tanking teams even believe the games are on the level -- much as many fans are basically certain the games are not.

If Adam Silver wants to prevent tanking, he has to take the following steps:

A) He has to basically admit the NBA (as the other professional sports have) has openly manipulated the games for their own benefit, financial and otherwise.  And that this process must stop.  The games must be officiated according to the rules and all efforts (including result reversal) must be on the table to ensure that what takes place on the court is the only factor which leads to the result.

B) He has to open the door to removal of teams.  This will probably never happen as organically or on a scale which needs to happen (see above), but the only way he's going to truly be able to prevent teams from tanking games is to put the nuclear option on the table -- once other means to improve fan experience and trust in the product are enacted.

In short, bad franchises need to die. 

C) The fact that teams with incompetent/lazy/greedy ownership can still advance through the ranks needs to be ended.  I'm about 70-80% toward getting rid of the NBA Draft entirely, and that can be a means in which bad franchises can rot and die.  At the barest of minimum, we need to get rid of the the worst team getting the best chance at the one or few relevant draft players. 

D) He needs to recognize that there will be games in which players need to be rested for their health and safety. 

Sports and Politics: Why We Can't Stick To Sprots

Part of this, and only part of this, may be considered a breach on the boycott on the Transphobe Games, because a large part of this has come from Italy and several American Olympic athletes speaking out against Trump, ICE, and, basically, their place on the US Olympic Team.

Since this does raise to a larger question, however, I'll speak on it.

What finally motivated me on it was Karl Denninger's post on the subject on his White Right website The Market Ticker. 

His stand has a number of problems, not just with the Olympics, but I'll state the ones evident with the Olympics as they come up:

• Anyone who does not believe the Olympics specifically haven't been abjectly taken over by politics has their head so far in the sand, it's in proverbial China (that it went all the way through and came out the other side of the world).

This could go any of a number of different directions.

Anyone who lived through the Cold War had to know that the Olympic Games, and especially the National Dick-Waving Contest which is the top of the medal table, especially in the Summer Games, and doubly especially between the United States and the Soviet Union, was a national propaganda exercise as to the superiority of one or the other of the two systems.  (Though this has also occurred on a lesser extent with the Summer Games between the United States and China in more recent years.)

A prominent example can be given through the Miracle On Ice.  How much of the actual morale boost came from the fact that it was specifically the Russians that the US college boys defeated in Lake Placid?

We could also discuss the entire regime-led drug rigging of the Sochi Games, and the attempts by Russia to completely manipulate the home Games medal table using a state-sponsored doping ring which has partially led to the to-date permanent expulsion of Russia from the Olympic movement.

We could even decide to discuss the Transphobe Games themselves, since the movement to expel transgenders and anyone of Differences of Sexual Development in the different disciplines -- and eventually the IOC itself -- comes from the Donald Trump Movement in the United States.

• This extends beyond the Olympics, as has been evidenced even this week.

We could even, as Denninger notes, speak of the recent Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show, and the White Right-led controversies that they believe that an existential fraud has been committed as to how many people watched the game (Terrorist Point) and the halftime show.

People who've read this website basically know of a continuing political movement by the NFL (in some concert with the Federal government -- though, after last Sunday, there is some question as to just how much) to exert political propaganda into the presentation and into who wins and loses.

(Which makes it completely hypocritical that Boomer Esiason has come out in support of Donald Trump and ICE and in opposition to the Olympic athletes speaking up.)

• The entire existence of women's sports (Title IX) and it's end (see boycott post) is political. 

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I am of three different minds with respect to 2026 politics and the athletes speaking out.

1) This is the United States Olympic Team, so the argument can be made that it's athletes do need to be allegiant to the United States.

I have always believed that, by the Trump Olympics in 2028, a loyalty test to Trump will be required to be a member of the team.  I am doubly certain of that fact now.

2) Especially vis-a-vis the Olympics, politics and sport will forever be aligned.  A key component of politics is propaganda, and sports have always been used as propaganda instruments:  East, West, Nazi, etc.

3) There's a very real problem no one else is going to say.  Because of the nature of the United States Sexual Assault (Olympic/Paralympic) Committee and said political ties, every athlete on the Olympic Team is compromised -- as a function of being on the Olympic team.  

The United States has no place on the Olympic movement, as I've said before, because of the number of it's athletes which are on drugs (note that, just before the Transphobe Games started, Trump signed a bill withdrawing all dues-paying from the World Anti-Doping Agency, months before a Trump-family sponsored Enhanced (Steroid) Games event in Las Vegas), as well as the rampant sexual-assault screening of athletes to the team.

I applaud those that speak out against the Piece of the Ultimate Shit and ICE -- even though, in many countries (and soon to be here), that will be a death sentence to do so with that platform. 

God, I hate when I'm right...

(Disclaimer:  Opinions are mine alone, and this post will almost certainly violate Blogger/Google Terms of Service, but this has to be said somewhere before this fucker gets any further traction.  I've lost between 6-10 X and Reddit accounts for less than what I'm about to say here...) 

I, recently, have gone on record when I've been wrong.

The recent Super Bowl, for example. 

I happened across something on one of my news sources that I had to second-source, because it falls under the category of...  "No.  He didn't just say THAT, did he?"

Well, he did.  And I've got something to say to him in response.

First, so that you don't think I'm crazy, the background.

Nick Fuentes, the Nazi incel piece of shit waste of human oxygen and space, was online at some point last night.  He was streaming somehow, as evidenced by that he was taking a Super Chat (the ability of a person to pay to ask a question or make a comment the host would see and almost-certainly respond to). 

He was asked:  When he, hypothetically, becomes President, who goes to the gulags first?

Fuentes said his view of America's enemy:  Women.  Every last woman in the country.  Jail them all and let God sort them out.

Nick Fuentes declares all women the number 1 political enemy in America 😂

"They go to the gulag first!" pic.twitter.com/nCAdAf74Zl

— Fuentes Updates (@FuentesUpdates) February 11, 2026

He said it.

And there's the reason I now address every Trump-supporting woman as a whore, the White ones needing to shut up and answer what White American Landowner Male allowed them to speak, and that they need to get on their backs, because their owners like Fuentes need more White Rapist Boys.

Oh, and I will add here because I can't do it anywhere else:  Someone needs to end this motherfucker.  Find some legal way to remove this incel jackass from the planet before violence really DOES end up required.

The more I hear the conservative/MAGA manosphere, the more I understand why people were so frightened of me in my teens and twenties -- because there was only one way that was ever going to end, per any "reasonable person test".

Attitudes like this.  (My opinions on the matter be damned.)

Listen to him for yourself. 

$uper Bowl $eahawks: MAGA thinks Nielsen is lying in a BIG WAY...

Well, I will say one thing for them, even though my first glance of this would be "This is what this nation has to deal with with MAGA.", it certainly does fall under the purview of this website.

That said, a YouTube video I was presented with this morning basically lays a charge which would not only end the Nielsen company for massive orchestrated fraud, it might finally break the national chokehold of the National Religion, because, if the Nielsen company did as this video charges, the Nielsen company would be exposed as being "on the take" with at least the NFL, if not far more companies.

Not only that, but the numbers would be utterly devastating, and many advertisers would be left asking a LOT of questions.

So here's the video:

Sure. They were lying about the game. 29% less viewership than last year. And more ditched af halftime. Nielsen fessed up and you can check the Samba or Luminate data. Look up Forbes. They concur with VR. https://t.co/c3SINCTHGW

— Istaphobos (@IstaPhobos) February 12, 2026

The level of MAGA victory alleged by this video, using Forbes, Samba, Luminate, or whatever other numbers you would have would be devastating.

Istaphobos did the work for me on the key number I was looking for, but the charge is basically that they overreported the game ratings by over a quarter.  At that point, almost 40% of the viewers left for Terrorist Point USA.  Istaphobos, in another post, actually claims the walkaway rate was over 50%.

But let's go with the 38% walkaway rate alleged, use the numbers at least from last year's game numbers, and show how devastating this charge is, and what could probably result:

Nielsen alleges 127.7 million watched last year's Super Bowl.

If this is the case, and Istaphobos' claims as to the success of the MAGA/Terrorist Point boycott are valid, this would mean that the number of people actually watching the Super Bowl itself would be (and this is if you believe last year's Nielsen number -- which you then CAN'T!) only 90.7M.

That's for starters, then we get to the main event.

If, from that number, you then have a 38% (and I'm using the conservative number, pardon the pun -- Istaphobos claims the walkaway was half, if not more) walkaway rate, then Bad Bunny, et. al. would have performed in front of only 56.2 million viewers.

So, (bolding for emphasis so that if someone doesn't want to read my supporting claptrap, he or she can at least get to the money numbers here) for comparison (and, again, this is using numbers from LIX which would then be almost-instantly discredited!):

Game:  Nielsen:  124.9 million  Samba/Luminate/Forbes alleged:  90.7 million.

That would be an overreport of 34.2 million viewers, or an overreport of 27.3% -- on the game.

Halftime:  Nielsen:  128.2 million  Samba/Luminate/Forbes alleged:  56.2 million viewers...

... a staggering overreport of SEVENTY-TWO MILLION VIEWERS, or 56.1%! 

I have already told Interphos that the person needs to be in contact with relevant lawyers.  The level of fraud being alleged here would kill Nielsen.  It would end the company. 

Every company who paid a reported $8-10 million for 30 seconds would be left scratching their heads -- including, almost certainly, companies who laid their entire corporate futures on the line for the 30 seconds (which we know has happened in past Super Bowls).

This might finally break the chokehold that The National Religion of Football would have on the nation, because it would expose a deliberate conspiracy between the NFL and relevant companies.

I have little doubt that the numbers could well be somewhat cooked -- but to this extent?  27% overreport on the game, 56% on the halftime? 

And the discrediting wouldn't end there.  It would raise an even bigger question:  How much does the NFL pay on a weekly basis to cook the books on the ratings it reports week to week? 

Someone needs to contact lawyers with this information.  NOW. 

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: MAGA thinks Nielsen is lying...

I've already seen this three times this morning from White Right influencers.

This should scare the NFL. pic.twitter.com/4qbiFX9BaA

— The American Girl (@TheAmericanGrl) February 11, 2026

It's a chart from a group called Samba, an alternate TV ratings situation to Nielsen, which is openly charging that Nielsen is blatantly lying about it's numbers for Super Bowl LX, especially as they relate to the Bad Bunny halftime show.

Remember that Nielsen has stated that viewership was going up into the halftime show and peaked during it.

Samba is charging a flagrant 10% drop in the number of people watching Bad Bunny vs. the previous part of the game.  If this is the case, it would mean that Nielsen is actually overcounting the halftime show by at least a factor of 15-20%.

They're saying 110M (at best! -- because I can't think they then believe the Super Bowl numbers are accurate either!) saw Bad Bunny. 

NBA Discipline Blotter: Monday brawl leads to one of the longer recent suspensions...

And the numbers came down today:

• Jalen Duren (DET) got two games for starting it. 
• Miles Bridges and Moussa Diabate (CHA) got four each for escalating it.
• But the big one was a repeat offender, Detroit's Isaiah Stewart, who, for coming off the bench to flare up the confrontation, put one of the Hornets in a headlock and repeatedly punch him, and his lengthy record, got seven games.

Duren is an Eastern Conference All-Star reserve.  As of right now, that has not been removed.  It should be.  Not only because of the nature of the event, but he started the damn thing too!

First off, I think all the suspensions are low.  This had multiple flare-ups and the very real possibility the game should've been terminated.

Second, here's Stewart, from Spotrac, in his six-year NBA career:

• November 22, 2021:  Two game suspension, escalating a fight.
• February 22, 2024:  Three games, starting a fight.
• January 31, 2025:  $50,000 fine for obscene gestures following an ejection.
• Also suspended a game, because he had committed his sixth flagrant foul in just 47 games that season.
• April 1, 2025:  Two more games for escalating another incident.
• February 11, 2026:  He now gets seven.

That should be at least TWENTY.

Enough with "The Show Must Go On". 

That's three high-level suspensions in basically a calendar year.  He leaves the bench to join the altercation.  Headlock.  Punches.  Police are involved in the altercation (which should've terminated the game immediately and for the night -- that's a general pet peeve of mine, that any time the cops get involved, that's it for the night).