He's admitted to have lied to the NCAA about the violations at Ohio State -- violations which directly have cost Michigan State University millions of dollars, a Rose Bowl BC$ appearance against TCU, and may well have caused another major program to lay down its season after the writing was on the wall.
(After Alabama's lay-down to Auburn in the Iron Bowl, the four non-conference champion BC$ slots were going to go to the SEC #2, TCU (forced), Stanford (forced as #4 and not a conference champion), and then a choice between Ohio State and Boise State -- probably vs. the SEC #2 in the Sugar. The writing was on the wall...)
The violation notice in April appears to specifically point at Tressel, but the question, as Pat Forde notes, is how many people within and subsidiary to the program need to go with him.
The fact is that the NCAA should never have allowed it to get this far. The NCAA should've fired Tressel (which it has the right to do - it can force any school to "show cause" to hire a crooked coach, effectively blackballing the coach from the NCAA).
Forde made two very prescient comments:
"And now Tressel has been forced out of his dream job, one of the top five in America. If he's honest with himself, Tressel must wonder today how much easier life would have been if he'd just done the right thing when he got that first email warning him that his players were breaking the rules."
"He won big and was dogged by NCAA violations at Youngstown State in the 1990s. Now the same is true at Ohio State."
The guy was a cheater from Day One, and now you have to wonder if there's a question about the 2002 BC$ National Championship Tressel and Ohio State won.
He never would've won 82% of his games at a school like Ohio State clean. No chance in Hell.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
You can bet money the Heat have been warned to shut up...
So we end up with Mavs in 5, Heat in 5.
And we can all thank Joachim Noah and Luol Dang for that one.
In the first quarter of Game 3, Joachim Noah is shown, on-camera, uttering yet another NBA anti-gay slur into the crowd. For this, he is fined $50,000.
For this, all but certainly, the Chicago Bulls and Barack Obama won no more games in the series.
In the three games (thank you again to Brian Tuohy -- Brian now has a huge picture of the only three relevant players in the NBA on his NBA Playoffs page) -- the game he uttered the slur and the two games afterward, the free throws went as follows:
Game 3: Heat 29-21
Game 4: Heat 38-22
Game 5: Heat 33-21, in Chicago, with Chicago on the verge of elimination!
I mentioned Luol Dang earlier -- he made probably the comment which sealed the Bulls' fate, as he basically said he was willing to go into the stands and punch fans for making comments like that which drew the anti-gay slur:
"But at the same time, there's times where a fan like that, honestly I feel like jumping in the crowd and hitting him," Deng said. "We're humans, and the camera is not on that fan at all."
(Source: ESPN)
After the infamous Malice at the Palace, do you honestly believe the NBA is going to allow that to go on?
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Prediction: With it being a 2-3-2 format, I do think the series will go 6. I actually had the Heat winning in 5, before I remembered that the series was 2-3-2, and not 2-2-1-1-1 like all the other rounds.
Key statistic: The Heat are 12-3 in the playoffs. In free throw attempt margin, the Heat are, similarly, 12-3. (1 game in the Celtics series, the first two games in Chicago in the Bulls series.)
The Mavericks are 7-8.
And we can all thank Joachim Noah and Luol Dang for that one.
In the first quarter of Game 3, Joachim Noah is shown, on-camera, uttering yet another NBA anti-gay slur into the crowd. For this, he is fined $50,000.
For this, all but certainly, the Chicago Bulls and Barack Obama won no more games in the series.
In the three games (thank you again to Brian Tuohy -- Brian now has a huge picture of the only three relevant players in the NBA on his NBA Playoffs page) -- the game he uttered the slur and the two games afterward, the free throws went as follows:
Game 3: Heat 29-21
Game 4: Heat 38-22
Game 5: Heat 33-21, in Chicago, with Chicago on the verge of elimination!
I mentioned Luol Dang earlier -- he made probably the comment which sealed the Bulls' fate, as he basically said he was willing to go into the stands and punch fans for making comments like that which drew the anti-gay slur:
"But at the same time, there's times where a fan like that, honestly I feel like jumping in the crowd and hitting him," Deng said. "We're humans, and the camera is not on that fan at all."
(Source: ESPN)
After the infamous Malice at the Palace, do you honestly believe the NBA is going to allow that to go on?
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Prediction: With it being a 2-3-2 format, I do think the series will go 6. I actually had the Heat winning in 5, before I remembered that the series was 2-3-2, and not 2-2-1-1-1 like all the other rounds.
Key statistic: The Heat are 12-3 in the playoffs. In free throw attempt margin, the Heat are, similarly, 12-3. (1 game in the Celtics series, the first two games in Chicago in the Bulls series.)
The Mavericks are 7-8.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Well Well WELL... The US Government exposed as steroid-athlete pushers???
I have friends who sometimes give me information, and I have to say that I got a pretty good dose of it from one recently which may expose a large part of The National Sports Machine I spoke of earlier with the $Cam Newton situation.
For many years, the entire basis of the US Olympic propaganda was the whole "U.S. vs. Them" motif, where the United States would be the only country in the world with the Olympic team which could, across-the-board, match up with the Evil Empire of the Soviet Bloc.
This propaganda also included that it was eventually exposed that many of the Eastern European sports machines were government operations, and many openly used illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Well, I firmly have believed we've taken a number of cues from that mechanism.
Now, we might have proof of a big one.
On "60 Minutes" last Sunday, professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton reported (there are seven web pages in this article, the link is to the first one) that:
The team was sponsored by the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE.
If the team management was involved in steroid pushing, illegal EPO use and blood doping, etc., The United States Government would be involved in encouraging the use of performance-enhancing drugs in their athletes, and sports bribery.
We would, today, be no different than those damn Russkies back in the day.
Surprised? Hardly! They need to cancel all of professional cycling. You give me one cyclist, even a domestique!, in an elite race like the Tour de France, who's clean, and he'll be the first in years!
But would this mean that the US government, without some knowing of it, has openly been pushing drugs onto athletes for at least the professional cyclists?
No wonder they think this interview might change sports history, and for far more than just cycling!
For many years, the entire basis of the US Olympic propaganda was the whole "U.S. vs. Them" motif, where the United States would be the only country in the world with the Olympic team which could, across-the-board, match up with the Evil Empire of the Soviet Bloc.
This propaganda also included that it was eventually exposed that many of the Eastern European sports machines were government operations, and many openly used illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Well, I firmly have believed we've taken a number of cues from that mechanism.
Now, we might have proof of a big one.
On "60 Minutes" last Sunday, professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton reported (there are seven web pages in this article, the link is to the first one) that:
- He himself was doping, even though he had denied it for years and refused to cooperate with an ongoing Federal probe of Lance Armstrong and his team, which won seven editions of the Tour de France. (The team didn't win, but you don't win the yellow jersey without team help.) Only a subpoena forced him to testify to the probe, in which he admitted everything, his career being a drug-induced fraud.
- As a result, he has repudiated and turned in his Olympic gold medal.
- Hamilton: "He took what we all took, really no difference between Lance Armstrong and I'd say the majority of the peloton, you know. There was EPO, there was testosterone, I did see a transfusion, a blood transfusion,". The transfusion would be evidence of another illegal practice in cycling, called "blood doping". It is a practice in which oxygen-rich blood is taken from the cyclist and re-transfused back into him when needed during competitions like the Tour de France.
- That Armstrong had used EPO at least as early as 1999, and openly was using it to prepare for the 2000 Tour de France and beyond.
- Doping on Armstrong's team pre-dated Armstrong joining the team.
- The most damning thing, though, might well be this exchange with interviewer Scott Pelley:
"Is it just a bunch of guys making decisions on their own about what they want to do? Or is this a doping program that was directed for the rest of the team?" Pelley asked Tyler Hamilton.
"You know, the team really encouraged it," he replied.
"The team management?" Pelley asked.
"The team management encouraged it, yes," Hamilton said.
- Additionally, Armstrong might've bought his "innocence" through top cycling officials. A Swiss lab had tested a sample of Armstrong's urine and found it "suspicious" toward the use of EPO. In a highly-unusual manner, Armstrong was able to arrange a meeting with the International Cycling Union (the UCI), himself, and his team manager. Around the time of the meeting, he gave the UCI's dopers $25,000.
- Three years later, he tacked on another $100,000.
The team was sponsored by the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE.
If the team management was involved in steroid pushing, illegal EPO use and blood doping, etc., The United States Government would be involved in encouraging the use of performance-enhancing drugs in their athletes, and sports bribery.
We would, today, be no different than those damn Russkies back in the day.
Surprised? Hardly! They need to cancel all of professional cycling. You give me one cyclist, even a domestique!, in an elite race like the Tour de France, who's clean, and he'll be the first in years!
But would this mean that the US government, without some knowing of it, has openly been pushing drugs onto athletes for at least the professional cyclists?
No wonder they think this interview might change sports history, and for far more than just cycling!
Monday, May 23, 2011
Two ESPN stories which expose The National Religion for the violent "game" it is...
Thirteen years ago tomorrow, I got arrested in New York City.
Even I am having trouble wrapping my brain around two stories I've read in the last 18 hours on ESPN.
1) "Murderer" Ray Lewis basically exposes football fans for the violent savages they are, almost threatening to turn them loose if they don't get what they want out of the NFL lockout.
In this ESPN interview, Ray Lewis basically throws down the following gems.
"Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game."
Actually, I've done some research. I've actually seen studies which indicate that unexpected upset results increase domestic violence rates. (In fact, here's one link to a 2011 study on just that!)
"There's too many people that live through us, people live through us," he said. "Yeah, walk in the streets, the way I walk the streets, and I'm not talking about the people you see all the time."
Oh, like your fixers, Mr. Lewis? The ones that got you out of a murder rap from that party before Super Bowl XXXIV? Where you gave misleading statements, by your own freaking admission, to the police??
How you have had any business in the NFL for the last eleven years, I have no idea. But, again, you admit you walk with some very "dark" people -- and I'm not talking necessarily color of skin.
I'm talking conduct.
When asked why he thought crime would increase if the NFL doesn't play games this year, Lewis said: "There's nothing else to do Sal [Palontonio, the interviewer]."
Because the NFL (and larger religious culture of football) has made it that way, literally from Friday night in the high schools through Monday night with the national primetime pro game.
But basically, Ray, you all but admit that the NFL is a violent game for a violent culture. You all but expose the conventional NFL fan as a freaking savage who needs his literal religious drug, called the NFL, or all Hell will break loose.
Sadly, I think you're right, Ray. I think the conditions in this country are absolutely ripe for massive unrest come this fall -- gas prices, food prices, the debt ceiling, etc. And no NFL will effectively cause massive wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Well, maybe it needs to. Perhaps the Teddy Roosevelt solution to football (banning it!) might be the only answer for people like you.
And answers like the culture which leads to the second ESPN story of football violence today.
ESPN has found the guy accused of poisoning Toomer's Corner in Auburn.
Interviewing him, you basically understand that the poison he is accused (and may have admitted to on a local radio program) of laying is not the only poison surrounding football in the Southeast.
You see, he's an Alabama fan -- and Toomer's Corner is almost sacred in Auburn.
Look, I have no use for $Cam Newton and all the corruption in Auburn either, but basically the whole response to the 2010 Iron Bowl capitulation by Alabama (which not only handed the national title to Auburn, but also caused Boise State to lay down to college football reality later that night!) is even interesting to someone like me.
Someone poisoned the trees in Toomer's Corner the weekend after the Iron Bowl.
Someone needed to tell whoever did it that Alabama was ordered to lie down to $Cam and Auburn. Everything was already mapped out from almost a year before: the SEC title, the national title, the Heisman, the #1 draft pick.
Mr. Updike/"Al from Dadeville", if you actually did it, you're a bigger dupe than people felt I was for going to New York City to talk to Deborah Gibson thirteen years ago -- and many felt to kill her.
(Did a year in jail and three years probation for it.)
If you're scared, perhaps there's two reasons. One, any serious football fan in Auburn wants you dead.
Two, you got so taken in by the religious culture of football that you actually believed the game you saw (apparently in person) where Alabama went up 24-0, only to lay down and lose 28-27, was legitimate.
Here's a hint: If, as "Al" and I believe, the season was stolen by Auburn, why in the Hell should anyone not believe that basically everybody wasn't behind it, including the B$C$ themselves?
The B$C$ has emerged from this $Cam Newton farce the only real college football sanctioning body, even subsuming the NCAA. Why would they not want one of the preferred schools (read: the SEC plus maybe two or three others) to ensure that schools like TCU (Boise State is no longer worth mentioning, because of their NCAA violations!) never see the title?
That game was a rigged farce, "Al". Simple -- as -- that.
But it shows what fandom has become today.
And people thought I was nuts...
Even I am having trouble wrapping my brain around two stories I've read in the last 18 hours on ESPN.
1) "Murderer" Ray Lewis basically exposes football fans for the violent savages they are, almost threatening to turn them loose if they don't get what they want out of the NFL lockout.
In this ESPN interview, Ray Lewis basically throws down the following gems.
"Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game."
Actually, I've done some research. I've actually seen studies which indicate that unexpected upset results increase domestic violence rates. (In fact, here's one link to a 2011 study on just that!)
"There's too many people that live through us, people live through us," he said. "Yeah, walk in the streets, the way I walk the streets, and I'm not talking about the people you see all the time."
Oh, like your fixers, Mr. Lewis? The ones that got you out of a murder rap from that party before Super Bowl XXXIV? Where you gave misleading statements, by your own freaking admission, to the police??
How you have had any business in the NFL for the last eleven years, I have no idea. But, again, you admit you walk with some very "dark" people -- and I'm not talking necessarily color of skin.
I'm talking conduct.
When asked why he thought crime would increase if the NFL doesn't play games this year, Lewis said: "There's nothing else to do Sal [Palontonio, the interviewer]."
Because the NFL (and larger religious culture of football) has made it that way, literally from Friday night in the high schools through Monday night with the national primetime pro game.
But basically, Ray, you all but admit that the NFL is a violent game for a violent culture. You all but expose the conventional NFL fan as a freaking savage who needs his literal religious drug, called the NFL, or all Hell will break loose.
Sadly, I think you're right, Ray. I think the conditions in this country are absolutely ripe for massive unrest come this fall -- gas prices, food prices, the debt ceiling, etc. And no NFL will effectively cause massive wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Well, maybe it needs to. Perhaps the Teddy Roosevelt solution to football (banning it!) might be the only answer for people like you.
And answers like the culture which leads to the second ESPN story of football violence today.
ESPN has found the guy accused of poisoning Toomer's Corner in Auburn.
Interviewing him, you basically understand that the poison he is accused (and may have admitted to on a local radio program) of laying is not the only poison surrounding football in the Southeast.
You see, he's an Alabama fan -- and Toomer's Corner is almost sacred in Auburn.
Look, I have no use for $Cam Newton and all the corruption in Auburn either, but basically the whole response to the 2010 Iron Bowl capitulation by Alabama (which not only handed the national title to Auburn, but also caused Boise State to lay down to college football reality later that night!) is even interesting to someone like me.
Someone poisoned the trees in Toomer's Corner the weekend after the Iron Bowl.
Someone needed to tell whoever did it that Alabama was ordered to lie down to $Cam and Auburn. Everything was already mapped out from almost a year before: the SEC title, the national title, the Heisman, the #1 draft pick.
Mr. Updike/"Al from Dadeville", if you actually did it, you're a bigger dupe than people felt I was for going to New York City to talk to Deborah Gibson thirteen years ago -- and many felt to kill her.
(Did a year in jail and three years probation for it.)
If you're scared, perhaps there's two reasons. One, any serious football fan in Auburn wants you dead.
Two, you got so taken in by the religious culture of football that you actually believed the game you saw (apparently in person) where Alabama went up 24-0, only to lay down and lose 28-27, was legitimate.
Here's a hint: If, as "Al" and I believe, the season was stolen by Auburn, why in the Hell should anyone not believe that basically everybody wasn't behind it, including the B$C$ themselves?
The B$C$ has emerged from this $Cam Newton farce the only real college football sanctioning body, even subsuming the NCAA. Why would they not want one of the preferred schools (read: the SEC plus maybe two or three others) to ensure that schools like TCU (Boise State is no longer worth mentioning, because of their NCAA violations!) never see the title?
That game was a rigged farce, "Al". Simple -- as -- that.
But it shows what fandom has become today.
And people thought I was nuts...
Sunday, May 8, 2011
The road was clear, but loose lips sink ships...
Strike One: Kobe slurs a referee. If $tern is God, the refs are his "angels".
(And that's exactly how he feels about his role in the league.)
Strike Two: Jackson exposes the desire of the NBA to lock out the players -- earning him and the team a $75,000 fine.
Strike Three: Jackson then compares Donald Sterling to the soon-to-be-former owners of the Dodgers.
YER OUT!! The brooms were brought by $tern and Company.
What did I say? They either shut their mouths, or their reign was over.
They kept flapping their gums, and now it's tee time for the Los Angeles Kobes.
And now it really sounds like the Laker run is truly finished: Two Flagrant-2's in the fourth quarter, down 30. That's going to go over real well at the league office.
(And that's exactly how he feels about his role in the league.)
Strike Two: Jackson exposes the desire of the NBA to lock out the players -- earning him and the team a $75,000 fine.
Strike Three: Jackson then compares Donald Sterling to the soon-to-be-former owners of the Dodgers.
YER OUT!! The brooms were brought by $tern and Company.
What did I say? They either shut their mouths, or their reign was over.
They kept flapping their gums, and now it's tee time for the Los Angeles Kobes.
And now it really sounds like the Laker run is truly finished: Two Flagrant-2's in the fourth quarter, down 30. That's going to go over real well at the league office.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
So I guess it's now accepted practice to rape a cheerleader if you are a star athlete, eh?
I got myself in a lot of trouble, in my youth, hanging around the cheerleaders and the like.
Can't lie and say part of it wasn't that I considered them sexy, but the fact is that I didn't want that to overwhelm the hard work they did (and the sport they were cheering at itself), so I tried my best to keep everything in check.
After something I had been following got resolved over the last couple of weeks, I really now have to wonder if it's not akin to the old saying that one should not steal -- only because the government hates competition.
I had sat for years wondering if the only purpose of cheerleading was the sexual gratification of the fans and especially the athletes they were cheering for.
A decision out of Texas, affirmed by the US Supreme Court last week, removes almost all doubt of this theory.
A basketball player in southeastern Texas raped one of the cheerleaders at a house party (which quite a number of fellow students attended). The court dropped the rape charge, in exchange for a sentence of two years' probation, anger management classes, and a fine.
This ALLOWED HIM TO RETURN TO THE SCHOOL AND HIS PLACE ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM.
Let me say that again, and please note that I did not stutter:
THIS ALLOWED HIM TO RETURN TO THE SCHOOL AND HIS PLACE ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM.
And, on top of it, when his victim was put on the cheerleading squad, she was ordered to cheer for the guy!!!
Well, she didn't, was fired from the team, sued the school, and LOST!!!
The school basically says that, by being a cheerleader, you give up all right to personally speak -- you are speaking only for the school you are cheering for.
If that isn't an open sanctioning of raping of the cheerleading squad by the school district, I don't know what is!
And, in the final insult, her family has been ordered to PAY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT $45,000 for defending this SON OF A FUCKING BITCH!!!
And you wonder why there are many people who believe a woman deserves rape for wearing a short skirt.
(And one must similarly wonder why I would, instead, say that a woman should never expect appropriate conduct from a man in a social situation, and must prepare accordingly.)
We had an Athletic Code back in the day that you got suspended for 1/4 of the season for simply drinking alcohol. This Texas school district basically enforced it's social standing that the athletes could rape whomever they wanted without ramification.
Prediction: Over-under one year, and we have a suicide.
Can't lie and say part of it wasn't that I considered them sexy, but the fact is that I didn't want that to overwhelm the hard work they did (and the sport they were cheering at itself), so I tried my best to keep everything in check.
After something I had been following got resolved over the last couple of weeks, I really now have to wonder if it's not akin to the old saying that one should not steal -- only because the government hates competition.
I had sat for years wondering if the only purpose of cheerleading was the sexual gratification of the fans and especially the athletes they were cheering for.
A decision out of Texas, affirmed by the US Supreme Court last week, removes almost all doubt of this theory.
A basketball player in southeastern Texas raped one of the cheerleaders at a house party (which quite a number of fellow students attended). The court dropped the rape charge, in exchange for a sentence of two years' probation, anger management classes, and a fine.
This ALLOWED HIM TO RETURN TO THE SCHOOL AND HIS PLACE ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM.
Let me say that again, and please note that I did not stutter:
THIS ALLOWED HIM TO RETURN TO THE SCHOOL AND HIS PLACE ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM.
And, on top of it, when his victim was put on the cheerleading squad, she was ordered to cheer for the guy!!!
Well, she didn't, was fired from the team, sued the school, and LOST!!!
The school basically says that, by being a cheerleader, you give up all right to personally speak -- you are speaking only for the school you are cheering for.
If that isn't an open sanctioning of raping of the cheerleading squad by the school district, I don't know what is!
And, in the final insult, her family has been ordered to PAY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT $45,000 for defending this SON OF A FUCKING BITCH!!!
And you wonder why there are many people who believe a woman deserves rape for wearing a short skirt.
(And one must similarly wonder why I would, instead, say that a woman should never expect appropriate conduct from a man in a social situation, and must prepare accordingly.)
We had an Athletic Code back in the day that you got suspended for 1/4 of the season for simply drinking alcohol. This Texas school district basically enforced it's social standing that the athletes could rape whomever they wanted without ramification.
Prediction: Over-under one year, and we have a suicide.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
And I thought I saw everything on professional football players as supposed "amateurs"...
But ESPN's Outside the Lines has shown that this goes far beyond college football.
About six months ago, as part of this blog post, I gave you two Floridian high schools who should've been shut the Hell down for ineligibilities and openly lying to investigators on them.
But that apparently has nothing on the youth football scene in Florida, thanks to ESPN's investigation.
Dear God, is this what our ghettos and sports have fallen to?
These fucking gang hoodlums bet tens of thousands of dollars a game on leagues where the kids can be as young as 5!! Though most of the betting appears to be on kids more junior-high and high-school age, these drug dealers (who are often accepted to be the only people who could have the money, in their culture, to bet on these games) have been known to bet up to $75,000 on a league championship game!
And, what's more, they're paying some of the kids!
They're paying parents to recruit them to certain teams (sometimes thousands of dollars). They pay the parents and the kids for good play -- some of the "Superstars" can make upwards of $10,000 over a season.
Small cash for someone who can make three times that gambling on the poor kid.
This is the way many of these families make rent -- which is why it's basically a Mafia-style situation, where the police openly turn their backs on this conduct, even though most anyone has been saying this has been going on for years.
It makes me wonder if Teddy Roosevelt was right, just for the wrong reasons...
About six months ago, as part of this blog post, I gave you two Floridian high schools who should've been shut the Hell down for ineligibilities and openly lying to investigators on them.
But that apparently has nothing on the youth football scene in Florida, thanks to ESPN's investigation.
Dear God, is this what our ghettos and sports have fallen to?
These fucking gang hoodlums bet tens of thousands of dollars a game on leagues where the kids can be as young as 5!! Though most of the betting appears to be on kids more junior-high and high-school age, these drug dealers (who are often accepted to be the only people who could have the money, in their culture, to bet on these games) have been known to bet up to $75,000 on a league championship game!
And, what's more, they're paying some of the kids!
They're paying parents to recruit them to certain teams (sometimes thousands of dollars). They pay the parents and the kids for good play -- some of the "Superstars" can make upwards of $10,000 over a season.
Small cash for someone who can make three times that gambling on the poor kid.
This is the way many of these families make rent -- which is why it's basically a Mafia-style situation, where the police openly turn their backs on this conduct, even though most anyone has been saying this has been going on for years.
It makes me wonder if Teddy Roosevelt was right, just for the wrong reasons...
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