Another sacrifice to football...

Rondale Moore.

Suicide by gun.

25.

Lost both knees the last 2-3 years to the fringes of the NFL. 

$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). 

NFL and Politics: A Curious Fact came up today...

A survey came out of 24 states worth of NFL players.

752 voting registrations were looked at, about the equivalent of 14 NFL rosters, slightly less than half of the league.  The company doing the survey, VoteHub, probably couldn't gain access -- legally or otherwise -- to the others.

The team with the highest skew of each party may surprise you, both ways.

The Republican winner?  The San Francisco 49ers, making the team itself probably one of the least representative parts of their city.

The same can be said for the Democratic winner:  The Green Bay Packers, in a very Trump-loving part of Wisconsin with a very rural fanbase.

Overall, of at least the 752 they could find:  44% independent, 34% Democrat, 20% Republican.

One more thought:  Could this be one reason that two 49er players have been shot in their city in the last couple of years.  Asking for a friend. 

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And the most important numbers of the day just came in...

The Ratings Report.

This is usually true every year, because the Super Bowl is, and largely by a multiplicative amount, the most-watched event of the television year.

More so this year with the Terrorist Point USA and MAGA screaming.

Well, the verdict came in late this afternoon.

And, per Sports Media Watch:

If there was a boycott, then MAGA and TPUSA can claim a fair, if not substantial, victory in the ratings numbers (that is, the percentage of all television sets viewing the given event).

Super Bowl LX, with a comparative game structure (basic non-competitive blowout throughout), lost 6% of that percentage of TV sets viewing.

LIX:  41.7

LX:  39.4

The share was also down 4 points -- 83% of all television sets turned on during the game were watching the game at LIX.  LX?  79%. 

It is the first non-COVID Super Bowl to fall below a 40 since 1990.  To give a comparison, once you go back from 1990, you'd have to go back to Super Bowl IV to get a rating that low.

That's the good news for TPUSA and MAGA.

There is some bad news however, and it comes in two flavors.

First, the viewer total for Super Bowl LX was 124.9 million, a decline of slightly over 2%.

LIX:  127.7M

LX:  124.9M

TPUSA/MAGA may still attempt to claim a victory here as well, but they might have a bit of a problem here more than above.  Two reasons:

First, the number still represents the second-highest Neilsen viewership in Super Bowl history (behind LIX).

And second is this little thing called Taylor Swift.  One COULD make the case the entire almost three million could've been the Swifties tuning out because their girl's fiancee was not in the game.

And then the main event:  The halftime show.

LIX claimed 133.5 million, a Super Bowl record.

LX did fall down about 4%, to 128.2 million.  Far below claims of 10, 20 million -- I heard one claim on their social media saying half the viewers of the game left before the show.

They can claim a victory here too, maybe.  But there's one problem:

Almost three million of that would've had to have been a full boycott of the game, leaving the real departure to the Charlie Kirk Satanist Memorial Event somewhere around 2 - 2 1/2 million.

So, verdict?

It might well be a victory for MAGA, but it will be very overstated on their part.  

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And what was being talked about in there, Commissioner Goodell?

 

SCOOP @PuckNews:

Media executives in NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s box at Super Bowl:

* Mathias Dopfner (CEO of Axel Springer)
* Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google)
* Neal Mohan (CEO of YouTube)
* Ted Sarandos (CEO of Netflix)
* David Ellison (CEO of Paramount)
* Josh D'Amaro…

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 9, 2026

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: I was wrong -- they went kayfabe.

Did not watch any of the game -- no, no support of the MAGA boycotts, etc. and so forth.  Just sick of a lot of crap (mostly RL) and decided to spend the day relaxing until the fucking neighbors decided no one around them is worthy of such a privilege.

quietly fumes about that    

29-13 Seattle.  That was about how a lot of people felt it was going to go.

So I'm left with the same question I had last year:  Why did you push New England so blatantly, and then leave them at the door just as blatantly.

I'll check on plays and the like in a bit.   But one thing is, hence, clear:  The eventual decision was to try to line the pockets of the NFL by increasing the value of the Seahawks -- and all the "THE NFL IS WOKE!!!!" screaming from MAGA probably was the final kicker.

To give you an idea of how bad it got for the normal rigging?  We have the first running back as a Super Bowl MVP since Terrell Davis of the Broncos over the Packers in 1998.  Kenneth Walker III was named the MVP -- and it appears the Seattle kicker (SB record 5 FGs plus the two extra points) would've won, had the NFL not disqualified him for being a kicker.

So now we wait for the ratings numbers. 

Super Bowl ICE: Some numbers at 8 PM PST the night before...

Seattle -4.5 has solidified all across Vegas, according to vegasinsider.com -- various juices are still invoked, but the -4.5 has held since late the evening of the conference championship games.

Total is 45.5 across the board, basically standard juice everywhere, with maybe one or two exceptions.

Moneyline is Seattle -235 - -250, New England +185, with as high as +200 at the likes of the MGM and the Hard Rock.  With all applicable disclaimers:  If they're giving you a flat 2-1 that New England wins this Super Bowl, YOU TAKE IT!!!!   

And the Prediction Markets:

Kalshi and Polymarket are still 68-32, as it pretty much has been since the matchup was set up.

 

Reason #2,753,882 that some people need to be dealt with by getting decked...

YouTube prankster Jack Doherty has been banned for life from all PGA Tour events.

This week is the annual idiocy in Phoenix, the Waste Management Open.

This fucking waste of human oxygen paid $100 for someone to yell the Happy Gilmore "Jackass" at one of the golfers.

Seriously.

Super Bowl ICE: The pick...

I usually post this on Sunday, but this is the easiest call I've made in years -- meaning there is a very real non-zero chance this is a sucker bet and this game goes "kayfabe".

There is no doubt in my mind that Seattle is the better team, is considered the better team, and is being bet as the better team.

There is an interesting dichotomy, however, in the betting, according to Yahoo! Sports:  Almost nobody thinks that Seattle is going to win this game within the 4.5 points.  Either Seattle wins by a lot (Seattle backers laying the points) or New England wins outright (most New England backers).

There is one angle, and only one, which has surfaced within the conspiracy circles which would indicate a Seattle win.  It is little secret, now, that the belief (at minimum, though the ownership denies it -- see earlier post) is that, after the Super Bowl, the Seahawks will be put up for sale.  It would be no secret, then, to correctly conclude that the team is in Super Bowl LX to increase it's value on the open market.

That's fine. And, as I'd said for several weeks, the NFC was such a political mess (as in lack of any real political interest in the NFL picking an NFC team win the Super Bowl) that any angle that could be found would be enough basis to push it over the top.

But the additional angle circulating is that the Seahawks are actually going to be force-sold, as their current state as being owned by the late Paul Allen's trust is an illegality within the league.  This is why there were rumors circulating (denied by Roger Goodell) that a $5,000,000 fine had been assessed the franchise because the ownership situation is now illegal.  There must be an individual controlling owner of all NFL teams (with the probable exception of the Packers because of their unique structure, and they grandfathered that in because of the makeup of how the team is controlled in that case).

There is also a potential billion-dollar tax bill the team could be levied at some point.

So, if Seattle does pull it off and especially if the game goes "kayfabe" (Seattle wins at minimum, full kayfabe probably has Seattle covering in a lopsided affair), it almost-certainly indicates that not only is the team going to be sold, it's going to be forced, and they're trying to inflate the value by far more than the billion dollars which would be taxed.

However, the pick is still New England -- and if I had lottery-level money, there would be five digits laid by me on the Patriots in Vegas tomorrow.  And, in picking New England, I'm making three points in support of the Patriots winning, all of which could well be answered tomorrow if Seattle wins:

1) If the ownership situatio‌n in Seattle is, in fact, an illegality:  Why, in the rigged NFL, are the Seahawks in the Super Bowl in the first place?  This would almost be like the 49ers running a salary cap scam under Eddie DeBartolo.  The NFL started an investigation in 1999 against the 49ers for those violations, the team didn't see it's next Super Bowl until the 2012-13 season, and hasn't won one since.  So why would the NFL reward the Seahawks if it was clear their situation is so illegal, the team is going to be sold?

2) I hearken back to the numbers I posted last week about the Patriots:

4-13 the last two years, 16-3 this year -- and all the statistical differences.

There is no natural way, in much of any sports league, you get that level of a reversal, especially with a second-year quarterback.

3) Since the Bad Bunny controversy (from which, again, New England has lost precisely one game since), it is clear this is going to be the most (real-life, not just what I call it within the NFL and rigging) political Super Bowl in a quarter century.  I fully forecast an incident with Bad Bunny somewhere ancillary to the halftime.  I do believe any supposed boycott will have minimal, if any, effect when the numbers come out early next week, unless Bad Bunny is arrested/killed by MAGA/ICE and is not permitted to take the stage at all.

But the fact is there is no way that New England is where they are without the same concept which rigged the other rings for this franchise:  Patriots Are Champions.

It's the same drill the NFL foisted upon us after 9/11, and a good ol' White Boy Quarterback shall lead them.

I don't know if this means Drake Maye gets 4-6 rings or not.  But I do think he gets this one, and I will predict the very same 20-17 score of that fateful rigged Super Bowl XXXVI.  And the same manner of it ending with a field goal at the gun -- whether or not it actually unduly runs out the excess time on the clock.

Well, this is something I have never seen before...

If I'm reading this right, the Western Athletic Conference has thrown Utah Valley University out of the conference entirely, effective immediately.

 

Ms. Ray has declared Utah Valley not in good standing with the Western Athletic Conference and has removed them from all broadcasts the conference licenses.

Utah Valley is 17-6 on the season, 23 consecutive wins at home.  Fourth-longest streak in the nation.

The dispute appears to be that Utah Valley will be leaving the Western Athletic Conference -- or whatever the new conference is next year when they and the Atlantic Sun Conference merge next year.

This will cost the university seven figures (at least a million dollars), which the university has refused to put up.  The two sides are already in court litigation on the question.

This means that Utah Valley, leading in the conference (tied with Riverside, California's California Baptist University) will almost certainly be disqualified once the regular season ends, probably ending their season in a couple weeks. 

It does beg the question:  At what point does the ultimatum go out that no further games can be played with Utah Valley by other members of the conference? 

A new fucking low for the orange cocksucker...

Donald Trump, today, posted a video on his Truth Social account Thursday night (since deleted) depicting the Obamas as monkeys.

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And people wonder why I have had one visit from the Secret Service already in his second term, and that it is becoming harder to foresee not having a second one.

Super Bowl ICE: A betting tidbit with an ominous undertone...

It's the Friday before the Super Bowl, and ESPN has taken the pulse of the Las Vegas betting landscape on the game.

The books apparently will win nicely if it's a defensive struggle -- and the second reason they want it, given what has happened across American sports with the legalization of state gambling in about 3/4 of the states, should raise eyebrows.

The first reason is, after the institutional bettors slammed the total under at 46.5 when it opened after the conference championship games (moving the line to 45.5), the books expect the public to really hit the over on the game, thinking the NFL is going to want a high-scoring Fantastic Finish.

In fact, as of right now, at least two major books are reporting a slight skew of bets to the over.

The second reason is that a LOT of money is going down on spot-fixing abuse bets -- the props.  The passing yards and "anytime touchdowns" apparently are getting big numbers.  So big, Jason Smith-Njigba and Kenneth Walker III of the Seahawks are odds-on bets to get in the end zone at some point in Super Bowl LX.

(Kind of interesting when the current line and total indicate something of the order of 26-20 Seahawks.) 

Massive spot-fixing situation in Major League Baseball?

As people know, former Cleveland pitcher Emmanuel Clase is under indictment for spot-fixing pitches in various Major League games.

Now, we get an idea of at least an extent to the charges.  Documents today pulled by ESPN state that Clase, over the two-year period alleged that Clase is being indicted for, rigged pitches in no less than a quarter of the games he appeared.

In the period, Clase is now believed to have rigged pitches in at least 48 of the 197 games in which he appeared.

Three-time All-Star...

Best relief pitcher in the American League twice. 

$2 million in 2023, the first alleged year.

$2.9 million in 2024.

$4.9 million he would've been paid in 2025, with three more years, including two club options that would've gotten him $26,000,000 thereafter.

All for bettors in the Dominican Republic to win about a half million dollars, as currently alleged.

On top of suspended during COVID for 80 games for the substance policy.

I would not be out of line to start asking questions about not only his entire career, but how many games he has openly thrown as a Major League pitcher.

And then the real questions:  Why?  And who was being threatened to ensure compliance?? 

Super Bowl ICE: As expected, the Seahawks are far heavier favorites than Vegas has them to be...

And now we are getting the predictions, and they are about as expected.

ESPN has the Seahawks has heavy favorites among their cadre of NFL experts.

47 of the 57 polled believe they will win.

30 of them believe they will cover the 4.5.

20 of them believe they will win by double digits.  The Bengals reporter has them winning 30-10.

Let's be blunt:  The only reason the Patriots are here is government propaganda -- Patriots Are Champions.  It is clear that the Seahawks are the better of the two teams.

And, in the last few days, it appears that there may be the first angle that actually would have the Seahawks win the game, but it would require that the Trumpies stay out of it.

More on that later. 

Super Bowl ICE: It's official, the game has been overshadowed.

Today was Goodell's Super Bowl LX press conference, and his plate was full.

• For the second time, Goodell denied a $5,000,000 fine had been levied on the Seahawks for violations with respect to their ownership situation. I'd have to agree:  If things had gotten that far, I'd have to think the Rams would be in the Super Bowl.   
• Bad Bunny was raised, in light of statements that there are no planned immigration operations scheduled for the game.  Goodell looked forward to Bunny's performance, hoping it will unify (it won't, Terrorist Point USA has announced it's lineup too), and saying the Grammy winner understands the weight of the platform.  If anything happens as I expect, the NFL is also going to pay a heavy price.   
• Epstein was raised.  At least a pre-investigation will be held on Giants co-owner Steve Tisch.  From there, Goodell believes reporters are getting ahead of themselves.  No surprise.  Especially with even David Stern now probably a client, one almost has to wonder when we are going to find out Goodell was too -- that you don't get that high on the food chain without it.  And if we're going to investigate Tisch, how about the owners in New England, Washington, and Carolina?   
• The Belichick Hall of Fame controversy was also raised.  Goodell believes Belichick will be in Canton.
• The officiating got compliments from Goodell as to the quality of the officials.  Doing their jobs well.  Just not the jobs most people think the officials SHOULD be doing.    
• The Rooney Rule, in the face of ten white NFL head coaching hires, will be re-evaluated.  Does ANYONE see this as a surprise in White Right Donald Trump America?    

Super Bowl ICE: Bad Bunny appears to be preparing for a showdown...

Bad Bunny won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, last night at the 68th annual awards.

He had this to say about ICE, drawing a standing ovation at the event, courtesy Entertainment Tonight:

 

Sounds to me someone is preparing for a showdown in a week.

The shit is hitting the fan...

Unsportsmanlike conduct, just about everybody...

Here are at least a couple recent examples:

• Tuskegee University coach Benjy Taylor was arrested on Saturday, and put in handcuffs on the court for an altercation with a police officer after a rivalry game at Morehouse.

Taylor was objecting to the presence of several Morehouse football players in the handshake line after Morehouse won a narrow victory over Tuskegee.  Taylor had reported several obscenities being fired from the football players at his team, and felt a confrontation would occur if the security breach was not rectified.

As seen from this HBCU sports video, it was not rectified...

We have new new footage and insight from Tuskegee 👀: https://t.co/eDyEz8cuSK pic.twitter.com/WdcYkcaCpE

— HBCU Gameday (@HBCUGameday) February 1, 2026

A lawsuit is planned, no further comment at this time. Unless there's more video than that shows which indicates otherwise, appears to me the Morehouse cops were WELL out of line!

• Here's a couple of recent brawls on the court to indicate more of the shit hitting the fan...

 

 

12 players were suspended, 8 for Aquinas. One of them got a six-game suspension for his role in the event.

After a flagrant foul, the officials confer, the player is correctly ejected. Obviously, the coach is unhappy with probably the call, but (given the game situation and things appearing to be about to get out of hand) correctly pulls his team from the floor, forfeiting the game. Three adults from the school which forfeited charge the floor and the winning team. One of the forfeited players attempts to intervene and is misinterpreted as trying to get involved, and it is ON. The ejected player got the standard one-game suspension, there is rumor (but I'm not finding it) that the forfeiting coach was fired.

Epstein: Brian Tuohy catches a DOOZY!!!!

David Stern!

And he's into orgies, probably underage ones, according to the Justice Department PDF drop!!!

(From X account "Basketball Examined")

 

Apparently David Stern was depraved enough to contact Epstein about orgies, but not depraved enough to rig basketball games for ratings/advertising & betting.#fanlogic@TheFixIsInTuohy pic.twitter.com/WU29Yhf4Tu

— Basketball Examined (@Bballexamined) February 1, 2026

Super Bowl ICE: Holding steady on the Vegas lines...

USA Today reports this morning that the line for Super Bowl LX still remains a farcical Seattle -4.5 -- even though the last ten meetings between the two teams were within one score at the two-minute warning.

Fanatics is back down to -4.5, after earlier being up at -5, according to Vegas Insider.  The only question, from there, is the juice you get.  It now does appear that most lines are at least tilting to Seattle, with the -4.5 most places now going -112 to -115, where the +4.5 now only means you lay somewhere -105 to -110.

(The Vegas Insider link will give you the current number, so if it changes, you'll see it there.) 

Money line is Seattle -225, New England +190.

Betonline.ag actually has a prop -- you get 20-1 (+2000) on Bad Bunny being arrested on stage during the halftime show.  (I'd lay a few bucks on that.  I have, more, wonder if someone might not actually shoot the guy during the show.)

ICE raiding a Super Bowl tailgate party in the parking lot will only get you 3-1 (+300) on the yes side.  (That surprises me.  If it's 20-1 for them to go all the way and take Bad Bunny out of the equation, why would it be as low as 3-1 for a parking lot incident?) 

On the other side of the coin, if you really wanna piss off MAGA, Bad Bunny is odds-on to don a dress during the halftime show (-150).  And there's a prop onto which style of dress he will wear. 

(Information courtesy lousianasports.net) 

Prediction Market Kalshi (as well as Polymarket) has the probability of a Seattle win at 68%.  This means that Seattle is actually a little overpriced in Vegas, as computational analysis indicates a 68% probability to win is about -212, rather than the -225 you are getting (about 69 1/4%).

However, that probability indicates that Seattle is UNDER-priced at -4.5 -- that the line should be effectively a touchdown (-6 to -6.5). 

The Transphobia Games: And this is no surprise whatsofuckingever...

Combining two recent threads...

Going through the Epstein Files, what do people see, but the head of Trumplympics Los Angeles Organizing Committee Casey Wasserman, in 2003 e-mails to Ghislaine Maxwell.

And Maxwell is still alive...  shockingly and for now.

And the head of the International Transphobia Committee, Kirsty Coventry, is having a sad over all the distractions the Trump influences (Epstein and ICE) are having over the Milan-Cortina Transphobia Games.

Awwwwwwwww...  Fuck off.