- The Army and Navy service academies both have undefeated football teams. Yesterday, I learned they can’t partake of NIL, making their undefeated records even more impressive. I also learned that with all the college conference changes, they are both in the same conference. Their annual rivalry game is considered a non-conference game. However, depending on their win/loss records and conference, there can be a scenario in which they would play each other again the following week. That brings up all sorts of questions regarding tradition and the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy (CIC Trophy).
- Speaking of the Army-Navy game, I left a message on the Hardline Helpline about it last night, referencing that it’s never called Navy-Army and that we should never hear the Red River Rivalry called the OU-Texas game. It just doesn’t flow or sound right. And yes, I ended it in typical Helpline fashion using that word that starts with a Q.
- Why did villains in silent movies always tie women to train tracks? I mean, of all the options, why a train track?
- What is a sports equinox? Here’s when MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL will come together in 2024 – Oct. 28, 2024, will be the 31st sports equinox in history.
- Oct. 28, 2024, is one of the rare dates on the sports calendar that will feature professional baseball, football, basketball and hockey games. From the World Series to Monday Night Football to the NBA and NHL seasons, there is action across the board.
- The first one occurred on Oct. 17, 1971, with a World Series Game 7, 12 NFL games, three NBA games and six NHL games. Nine sports equinoxes occurred between 1971 and 1980, another fell on Oct. 27, 1985, and then it was 16 more years before another one happened again on Nov. 4, 2001. There has been at least one sports equinox every year since 2015, including three in 2022 and one in 2023.
- Stacey Williams, the former Sports Illustrated model who accused Donald Trump of groping her in 1993 with Jeffrey Epstein witnessing, is originally from Dallas. At least, that’s what her Wiki page said.
- Reading this was maddening. It proves McConnell has no spine and is nothing but party over country.McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ Trump’s GOP
- “I’m not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable offense. I think it is. Urging an insurrection and people attacking the Capitol as a direct result … is about as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine, with the possible exception of maybe being an agent for another country,” said McConnell.
He called the rioters who entered the Senate chamber, “narcissistic, just like Donald Trump, sitting in the vice president’s chair taking pictures of themselves,” adding it was a “shocking occurrence and further evidence of Donald Trump’s complete unfitness for office.”
McConnell also expressed support for special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s actions around the 2020 election and the insurrection. “I think it was the single most – in a category by itself – of how wrong all of it was and there’s no doubt who inspired it, and I just hope that he’ll have to pay a price for it,” said McConnell. “If he hasn’t committed indictable offenses, I don’t know what one is.”
- But he does know what he’s talking about:“Trump is appealing to people who haven’t been as successful as other people and providing an excuse for that, that these more successful people have somehow been cheated, and you don’t deserve to think of yourself as less successful because things haven’t been fair,” he said.
- I wonder what prompted Helen Mirren to say this; it seems so random:
- “I always say it’s so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did because he never saw GPS as it’s the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street. I just find it completely magical and unbelievable,” she said.
- True in 1984, true today in 2024, or at least, should be.