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It is pretty simple to understand really. There isn't much that I'd be doing in the morning before work that would be greatly enhanced with any bit of sunlight but the opposite is the case in the afternoon/evening after work.


Yes most people still work during the day from about 8 to 4 or 7 to 3 or 9 to 5. The 3-6 hours of daylight after work is awesome. You can do stuff and it's big for kids sports like baseball during the summer. You can have extra playtime for kids, extra practice, and you do some yard work after dinner if you wish. It's more time for kids to play after dinner.

It's great for fishing as well. You can get on the lake for a 2-3 hours of fishing in the summers during the evening.

I do feel bad for the 3rd shifters though. One summer I worked from like 9 pm to 5 am. I had to rush home and hope I fell asleep before it got too bright.
Permanent DST would be awesome. I love the longer summer days in the Northern Latitudes. Being able to play ball or hang out when it's still light out at 9:00 pm is great.
I wonder why they did not go through Poland, Kaliningrad and either Lithuania or Latvia or Belarus to Russia.
Good. Teach them a lesson. High school sports is now the last bastion where students really do play the game as a game. Well until Texas and Alabama allow NIL for high school kids.
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High: about 52°F
Low: about 31°F
Daily average: about 42°F


It is most likely the NFL will go to a 18 game season by 2023 and the game will be about Feb 15. The average highs are lows are fine. In fact perfect football weather in October/November. You can walk around with your jersey, sweatshirt, and light jacket even. If you want bikini and short shorts weather and crop top weather for the ladies then you are will have to have it in Miami, Tampa, or Los Angeles every year and even LA might not be warm enough for it each year.
There's a very slight chance they could hurt the recruiting class of 2027, but not very likely. Sure maybe a handful of recruits could be turned off by this happening, but if a student was leaning toward Ohio State or Penn State anyways the gerrymandering is not going to be the deciding factor. I have never heard of an athlete stating politics is why he is not choosing a school.
Cold? Nashville in February is not February in Detroit or Minneapolis. My guess is that it will be okay. Sure there is a chance of an arctic blast coming down, but it is more likely to be in the 50s or 60s or even the 70s.

re: Rex Reed RIP

Posted by Ralph_Wiggum on 5/13/26 at 9:27 am to
Yes a LSU grad. He was proud to be from LSU. You can argue one of the most famous journalism grads ever from LSU and most famous of all LSU grads.

Yeah he was gay, but so what. He was gay and no one cared and he was so good at the wise cracks and criticisms of films. He called Nancy Sinatra a pizza waitress.

NY Times Obit. Gift article.
Good. I am fine with Ole Miss looking bad regarding football and sports. If some players don't want to go to Ole Miss because of the history of Ole Miss and its old symbols then that is fine with me.
I would add that I would watch the sex tape if there is one.
This story is a big nothing. What two consenting adults do is none of our business. Now they have family and spouses that have every right to care about this and I guess Russini broke some journalism ethics, but she was fired so this is really not a big deal anymore.
Is this an improvement? He couldn't cut it with Tom Izzo so he can cut it with LSU in the SEC? I think there's a reason he sat on the bench at Michigan State.
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The problem with American tennis started in the late 80s and exponentially got worse in the 90s and early 2000s. The WSJ or Time had an interesting piece on this about 10 years ago. Once soccer rose in popularity in the U.S. among kids, it took young players away from tennis. In other words, per the article, the kids who would have been taking tennis lessons and been playing tournaments, were now on the soccer fields. I will try to find it, but it was a good, interesting read. Basically, soccer fckd U.S. tennis.


I would count that as an improvement. Soccer compared to tennis allows more kids to participate and it should be cheaper than tennis with it's lessons and racket. What you have to appreciate about soccer is that any kid can excel at it without the expense of travel ball and lessons, but let's hope soccer doesn't get like travel baseball and stays more like basketball.
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Easy fix - require all scholarship athletes to be American citizens. Solved.


No more rugby punters from Australia and our track and field teams suffer as well. Would also hurt Hockey and LSU basketball players like Geert Hammink never would have played.

re: RIP: John Sterling

Posted by Ralph_Wiggum on 5/4/26 at 12:03 pm to
I remember when he did Braves games on WTBS.
My guess is that college football is going to resemble Minor League baseball. You will have about 50 teams (SEC, B1G, parts of the ACC and parts of the Big 12, and maybe parts of a new Pac 10). Think about the top half of the ACC and Big 12 being part of the 50.

Then you will have a AA tier (AAC, bottom halves of ACC and Big 12, MAC, Sunbelt, most of the Pac 10, Mountain West).

A ball will be FCS and the lowest of the FBS.
Good for him. He made it to the Super Bowl. Dianna Russini threw herself at him. Life has not changed much since high school.
The SEC will now get all 16 teams in. No more crying from Auburn.
The fall of NASCAR is sad. It had so much momentum in the 90s and early this century. The stages and the changes they made ruined it. F1 has continued to grow globally. There is so much to like about stock car racing, but NASCAR fricked up.
I remember when the Mall opened and how nice it was. BR was having problems in the 1990s, but if you stayed out of the bad neighborhoods you were fine.