
Jay Lay
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@arielhelwani I thought Lerone was winning the fight even before the point was taken. Also, I walked away from that fight wanting to see more of Lerone and wanting to see less of Movsar.
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I rewatched Movsar x Lerone this morning, and I feel very confident in how I scored the fight.
I had it 3–2 for Movsar — Rounds 1, 4, and 5 for him. However, he loses a point in the fourth, and as a result, I feel very comfortable saying this was a 47–47 draw.
This was a very frustrating and somewhat depressing fight to watch. It was so bizarre. Movsar is a dominant grappler, yet he wasn’t doing what he does best.
He’s undefeated, at the top of his game, should have already fought for the belt — and he’s out there seemingly choosing to abstain from what got him to this undefeated position. And this is the byproduct of the UFC not giving title shots to those who are most deserving.
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@JonnyBones @arielhelwani There are UFC fighters making $15,000/fight. But Jon Jones is angry they ONLY offered him $15,000,000. Maybe if he'd fight more than once every 5 years, then he wouldn't need money so badly.
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was ready, willing and physically able to step in. I was willing to take substantially less than the Aspinall ask but they wouldn’t budge one dollar over $15m. I felt like our fight was worth more. x.com/zmfr15/status/…
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No. I’m saying in 10 years , this is how new houses will be built. Less acreage. Less internal square footage. More actual human living space. Far easier to maintain and lower maintenance costs.
Less cost to build.
That’s why we will go in this direction.
David Mavis@DavidMavis11
@tbpn @mcuban There will be a few homes built that way, but the existing housing stock still has to be serviced, He is pretending we would somehow remodel 100 million dwellings instead of using a robot that can function in those existing buildings
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@juvehearts @arielhelwani If not the UFC where do you see the best fighting the best? I'll watch whoever has the best.
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@arielhelwani Fuck the ufc. MMA is way better without it. We want the very best vs the very best for all the money possible.
Simple.
Should be on a match contract only. Not tied down if you can pull in numbers.
If they can do that with McGregor why not the rest??
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I can tell you the UFC was interested in bringing Nate Diaz back, but at the end of the day, this was a no-brainer for Nate. I don't think it's going out on a limb to say this could be the most-watched MMA card of all time, because it's on the biggest platform in the world.
You go out and win this fight, and all of a sudden you can go back to the UFC and say, 'Alright, the number just changed.' This level of competition is great for the fighters and the health of the sport.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s rise has caught the eye of not only some of Trump's closest allies, but the president himself, who in private has been noting how “popular” and “loved” Rubio has become as part of his team, multiple sources told @ABC News. abcnews.link/2cpsgmB
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@Tsartoshi @cb_doge Why would you sue the gun manufacturer? If death was caused my malfunction, then I get it. But the shooter missed the tool. This is like suing Toyota because a drunk driver drove a Prius into a group of people.
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BREAKING: CHATGPT HELPED THE SHOOTER KILL 8 KIDS!
A teen in Canada used ChatGPT like her secret murder buddy for months.She told the AI all her evil plans to attack the school.
OpenAI knew what she was doing the whole time. OpenAI has said it considered but didn’t alert police about the activities of the person who months later committed one of Canada’s worst school shootings.
Now the parents of one hurt kid are suing OpenAI. They say ChatGPT was the shooter’s “trusted partner in crime”!
The AI didn’t stop the killer… it actually HELPED her do it!
This has to stop.
Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT.

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@ABC When a news source writes a whole paragraph and they put quotations around just two words from the person they are talking about...I get skeptical. If he really said all of that, then just quote the whole thing. You wrote fifty words explaining what his two words meant.
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President Trump said he doesn't "know enough" about the strike on an Iranian elementary school that Iran says killed at least 168 people, but that he was "willing to live" with the findings of a U.S. investigation into the incident.
abcnews.link/JvVfMy6
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@bluebirdpoopies @NBCNews The men who threw the explosive were... Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi.
Do those sound like your typical Christian Nationalist names? Maybe get a fact or two before you start insulting an entire religion.
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@NBCNews This is all because of Trump anti Muslim hate. American Christian nationalist are disgusting.
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BREAKING: A device ignited outside Zohran Mamdani's mayoral residence yesterday during an anti-Islam protest and counterprotest was confirmed to be an improvised explosive, New York City police say. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g…
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@archeohistories The story of Nearest Green is great. That's why I loved when they started the Uncle Nearest distillery.
But unfortunately, the people running the distillery robbed it dry. Now it's on the verge of collapse. It's a shame.
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This turn-of-the-century photograph shows Jack Daniel (in the white hat) seated beside George Green, the son of **Nathan 'Nearest' Green, the man widely recognized today as America’s first known Black master distiller.
For generations, it was believed Daniel learned whiskey-making from a local preacher and landowner, Dan Call. But historical records and family accounts revealed that the real teacher was Nearest Green, an enslaved distiller hired out to Call. Green mentored the young Daniel and later worked with him after the Civil War, helping shape what would become one of the most famous whiskey brands in the world.
Green’s role remained largely overlooked for more than a century until Brown-Forman, the company that owns Jack Daniel’s, officially acknowledged him as the distillery’s first master distiller, with Daniel considered the second.
The Jack Daniel’s distillery sits in Lynchburg, Tennessee, located in a dry county. Visitors can buy commemorative bottles at the distillery, but the whiskey technically isn’t “sold” there due to local alcohol laws.
© Old Historical Photos
#archaeohistories

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@Rory_Johnston @esaagar I don't see how Iran can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. Their navy and air force has been demolished and survival is their #1 priority right now. I think the restricted movements are out of an abundance of caution (understandably). But will resume shortly.
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As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:
Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.
Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.
Ben Carlson@awealthofcs
Oil prices won't peak until we start getting predictions from someone at Goldman Sachs that it's going to $200/barrel Those are the rules
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@theLisaAlso @ABC Are you criticizing her for dressing too nicely? Or because her job is too easy? I don't understand the motivation for the comment? Do you just hate women? Or do you just hate her husband? Why does she deserve that?
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During his State of the Union address, President Trump awarded two Congressional Medals of Honor, one for heroism from more than 70 years ago and the other from the U.S.’s most recent military action.
abcnews.link/qesDlhG
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@arielhelwani Makes sense. No one knows how to promote like Zuffa. And it's not even close. I know they are new to boxing, but they are going to make boxing relevant again.
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Had to share my immediate reaction/thoughts to Conor Benn leaving Matchroom to sign with Zuffa Boxing.
Here you go: youtu.be/7BqJ8UTUZdc?si…

YouTube
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Michael Black says he was in the stands of Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he says he struggled with shooter Robert Dorgan, who fatally shot their ex-wife and adult son and wounded three other people at a youth hockey game. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…
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@mcuban “They will take a pay cut”…….. but they certainly shouldn’t have to.
Would a male college player be expected to take a pay cut to play in the NBA?
I think not.
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The crazy part, is that no matter what the WNBA does with salaries, every star college player will take a pay cut to play in the WNBA
I asked a few ADs what the going rate is for the star player on a power conference WBB team -$500k to $1.2m.
And, you are always a free agent with the portal. You get your room and board paid for. And you can get a good education if you work at it.
It’s all subsidized by donors and shared school revenues. Which makes it more similar to Europe, where companies subsidize teams , than to the WNBA
In the NBA, a team can’t go to a sponsor and negotiate a direct payment deal for a player. In college they effectively can with NIL money. When I have written checks to IU, I knew which players were trying to get with the money (although I never tie the money to specific players. It’s up to them )
The WNBA needs to look at allowing the same thing. Let the teams go to local sponsors and work out payments to players as part of sponsorship packages.
The big name players have agents to do this. The rest make minimal amounts. With or without an agent.
Let WNBA teams pay “NIL” money to its players.
It’s counter intuitive for NBA folks, but here is the issue. WNBA teams don’t have the margin dollars from tickets, sponsors and shared revenues like tv to pay bigger salaries using their own cash flow.
With help from the league , they could create NIL deals with sponsors that go directly to the players. From the sponsors.
Make it legal. Create a cap per player, based on years of experience.
Yes, some teams will suck at it, that’s where the wnba comes in to help. They will suck at it as well for some period. But like collegiate NIL, the sponsorship packages will supplement player salaries without undermining the economics of the teams and league itself.
The next question will be competitive balance issues. The big markets can do this better. They have a great addressable market for sponsors. The wnba could require that some percentage of the NIL money deals go into a pool for a version of revenue share.
This is effectively what happens (or did ) with jersey ads. I remember advocating that the jersey ads be split with all teams, because the greatest value to sponsors comes not from local tv or games, but from national tv, playoffs and jersey sales.
This would be similar.
Obviously I’m just spitballing this , but if they came on shark tank , that’s what I would suggest !
What do you think ?
Legion Hoops@LegionHoops
REPORT: WNBA players are asking for an average of 27.5% of league revenue and team-provided housing for all players in recent CBA discussions, per @FOS. The WNBA’s response: “Unrealistic and would cause hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for our teams.”
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@richphotoio @MKBHD The "a" series is not about innovation. It's about making a budget friendly version of their flagship. It's always been that way.
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