Something about playing all the new USFL’s games in a single venue feels half-baked. It’s like going to the set of your favorite Western and discovering that all the “buildings” are all just false fronts. There won’t be any “New Jersey Generals” or “Jacksonville Bulls” when the league kicks off (if it does kick off, and if those teams are among those playing). There will be the Birmingham Generals and the Birmingham Bulls and the Birmingham everything elses.
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Donald Trump is an everyday citizen now. He can’t assert executive privilege because he doesn’t have standing. Because of this, any judge who sees Trump’s lawsuit come before him has only one real choice, under the law. He or she must bang that gavel, stare Trump’s attorney in the eye, and say, “Case dismissed!”
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When he fought Tyson Fury for the third time, Deontay Wilder showed guts and he showed determination. But those things do not equal heart. Heartless people have them, too. So do people with fragile egos who play the victim to avoid admitting they lost to the better fighter. That’s what Deontay Wilder did. Respect? He doesn’t deserve it.
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ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith was emphatic: “Jon Gruden’s career is over. It’s over.” But then he said something I found simply unbelievable: “I cannot imagine even a white male with influence and connections and some degree of power that can overcome what The New York Times reported and what we all now know.”
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Golden State has plenty of talent and depth at small forward. They don’t need Wiggins. His absence will give Jonathan Kuminga time to develop and perhaps take his place in the starting lineup permanently.
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The influence of Citizens United was predicated on two assumptions: First, that facts mattered and needed to be “spun” through messaging, and second, that money was necessary to get that messaging out. But Trumpism obliterated both of those assumptions.
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