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The NFL will use false positive COVID tests as cover to let star players like Patrick Mahomes play on Sundays

The NFL has muddied the waters enough that we can now safely go into the NFL season just assuming every test that is positive is not actually positive until it's negative. Patrick Mahomes test positive on a Sunday morning... they'll be like, it's a false positive. He's going to play and then two days later be like, well the for positive reading footballs good job NFL

While there were false positive clusters (like the New Jersey lab mentioned), there is no public evidence the NFL systematically faked test results to keep stars on the field.

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Aug 24, 2020
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The Hawks and Kings missed out on a generational superstar in Luka Doncic and they will regret it for the next 20 years.

I'm just going to say it to the Hawks who traded [Luka Doncic] on draft night to the Kings that took Marvin Bagley—bad drafts happen. They'll worry about it. You miss on a generational superstar that is going to be incredible in the NBA for the next 20 years. Shit happens, man.

Luka Doncic quickly became a perennial All-NBA First Team selection and one of the league's faces, while the Kings' pick Marvin Bagley struggled.
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Aug 24, 2020
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Paul George is a pathetic second banana who stinks in the playoffs and doesn't deserve to be called a superstar.

Playoff P, Playoff PP—holy shit, that guy stinks. I don't understand how you can be considered a superstar. You would say that Playoff P is at the top of the list for second bananas, and then the playoffs come around and it's like, dude, have you played basketball before?

George's playoff reputation remains a point of intense debate, but his 2020 performance was statistically poor.
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Aug 24, 2020
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Giannis Antetokounmpo must make the NBA Finals this year or the narrative will turn against him

I got to take about giannis... he's got to go to the finals this year. That's all I'm going to say because when he dunks on the magic up 20 and like pounds his chest... if he gets stopped in the Eastern Conference Final again, like you can't do that where you just in the first round your piece and then in the second and third round you get shut down.

The Bucks lost in the second round to the Miami Heat in 2020, leading to exactly the narrative Big Cat predicted, until they won the title in 2021.

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The goal allowed by the US goalie was the most embarrassing possible

What about the goalie? Yeah, I mean he... that was the most embarrassing goal that I've ever seen. Possible.

While subjective, the blunder by the US goalkeeper (Freeze/Turner) was widely mocked as a 'MAC football' level mistake.
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The USMNT is the 'James Franklin Penn State' of soccer

People were making very mean jokes online that we were James Franklin, Penn State. And it is actually perfectly appropriate because if you look at who we played, we beat the teams we're supposed to beat... and then we absolutely got ass fucked by the team that was better than us in Belgium. We are not who we thought we were.

Subjective comparison.
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We just suck at soccer as a country and that's okay

My take is we suck at soccer and that's okay. Like, I don't care that we suck at soccer anymore. I'm going to root for the US team. I'm gonna get excited when we're in a World Cup. I'm gonna get hyped up and it's gonna be fun to watch. And then I'm gonna be reminded that we suck at soccer and that it's just gonna be like, okay, yeah, that's okay.

Subjective perspective on American soccer.