The Third Leg

It’s peanuts to them. Be like a guy with a $100MM portfolio pulling the plug on a $5k operational expense that he was using as a PR campaign for the west as they try to change world perception to draw future investors in Saudi Arabia.

They’re hurting bad for cash flows because their oil exports have fallen by 3 million barrels per day, and there is no end to this conflict in sight. LIV is an operational expense, not an investment. These are funds buying key public infrastructure and massive holdings in our AI boom. You don’t sell that shite for your war chest, you strip out OPEX.

And now they’re saying the show goes on.

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They’ve already invested $5 billion, and will cross the $6B mark by the end of this year. Sooner or later they have to see a return on all that money. Contrary to popular belief, the Saudi royals do not have unlimited funds.

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These Arab wealth funds have like $5-6T. Saudi sovereign fund is over $1T with a goal of $2T by 2030.

If they’re pulling the plug, likely because they’re battening down the hatches and preparing for a lengthy military conflict and cutting out shite to redirect money toward defense to limit US reliance for security while watching their oil exports fall off a cliff with Hormuz being closed.

The NCAAs willingness to publicly humiliate itself is never ending. Take all the low hanging fruit and don’t do shite about the systemic cheating

They self reported immediately when they realized they fricked up in early portal days.

Kirk Ferentz Statement Following Today’s Decision to Vacate Wins:

“I am disappointed by the NCAA’s decision today. Throughout the process, our program has been open and honest about my mistake – contacting a potential player in the hours before it was permissible by NCAA rules. I felt it was important to make amends for the issue, which is why I voluntarily served a one-game suspension to start the 2023 season.

I believe today’s decision by the NCAA vacating four wins in our 2023 season is overly harsh and inconsistent with the violation.

As I tell our team and staff, it is how you respond and move forward that defines you. Our focus is on the 2026 season and that is how we are moving forward.”

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is it really? A tweet that basically said "I'm so glad that school didn't offer me" can't possibly be conceived as being a negative in your eyes?

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I think anyone who is reasonable interprets it as him mocking all his attention whore peers who run to social media to announce they were offered on their visit.

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Yeah. That US Men’s Hockey win was super gay.

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Much like most of the Winter Olympic Games, hockey is played by almost nobody globally, and that was the most exciting thing to happen. The US winning a gold in an afterthought sport that nobody plays or cares about. Yawn.

Elite vocabulary in the world of announcing

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We have a board for you…..alternative….sports fans

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This is the travel ball board. #realsports #realathletes

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I’m not sure you why you’d even have a son if you don’t intend on renting a full industrial space for him to hit in and installing a trackman inside

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lol

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The hospital executive gave $180K to one kid's family.

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Lol. That’s one way to put it. Another way is that he stole half a million in money raised for a hospital and paid multiple LSU players with it indirectly by sending it to multiple family members. And it was more than $180k.

“A Louisiana man who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $500,000 from a hospital foundation and giving some of the stolen money to the parents of two former LSU football players was sentenced to federal prison Thursday.

Federal prosecutors alleged Funes defrauded the foundation, which raised money for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, from 2012 to September 2018 by submitting bogus payment authorization vouchers and check requests, including checks to himself.

Prosecutors alleged Funes approved payments of approximately $180,000 to an individual identified as "Individual C" in the bill of information.

Sources told ESPN that "Individual C" is the father of former LSU offensive lineman Vadal Alexander, who was a four-year starter for the Tigers from 2012 to 2015. His father, James Alexander, is a self-employed entrepreneur in Atlanta.

The checks to "Individual A" and "Individual B" totaled about $107,000, according to the bill of information.

Former LSU quarterback Rohan Davey confirmed to the Baton Rouge Business Report in June that his mother and sister are "Individual A" and "Individual B"”

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You keep acting like an embezzler is a worse person than the Ohio State tattoo parlor owner who was selling drugs, the Michigan auto union guy who ran illegal gambling houses, or the Miami Ponzi scheme guy. They all gave dirty money to players.

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Well Ohio state players weren’t involved with drugs, just free tats, and both Ohio state and Miami received post season bans. LSU did not.

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Ohio State has had a pipeline to Florida for years. Urban Meyer and Ryan Day have cherry picked athletes from Texas with regularity.

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Sure. They get players from everywhere, but for generations, the program was built on Ohio kids. It’s one of the biggest talent beds in the country and every big ten school recruits the shite out it, including Michigan.

They were severely punished. All of the other big cheaters outside the SEC were. At schools like Auburn and LSU, they get slaps on the wrist because the school fights the NCAA. Except LSUs glorious voluntary covid year self imposed bowl ban.

Lsu was caught red handed in summer 2019 in a scandal involving hundreds of thousands of dollars embezzled to pay players and were allowed to win a national title. It was the very definition of lack of institutional control. Cam newton was caught red handed the same year the NCAA slapped USC with institutional control. Auburn was allowed to play him and win a national championship.

Miami and Ohio state each got real post season bans, Ohio state for players getting free tattoos.

Be real, people. New Orleans is an absolute dump, riddled by crime and poverty. I’m a huge fanboy of all that it offers in the way of architecture, food, and uniqueness, and none of it overcomes the shittiness of the place.