so the Knicks lost. they played hard and tough and in the end they were tired and hurt but they made me believe in the impossible more than once this season and I will always cherish the memory of this peculiar group of misfits.
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admirable run from the knicks. It’s tough to succeed in the NBA as a small market team without the financial resources and media attention some of these other teams are blessed with.
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Nice little documentary on local motorsport
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In what might be the most noteworthy day in the history of US Cricket, we won a game against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup today. Heck of a game too. Went to a super over.
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I didn’t post about it when this game came happened a couple weeks ago because it sucked so bad. The goals were both so embarrassing man and the reffing was pretty awful. Came away feeling super down on the team. Now it has been a couple weeks and I’m back on the wagon, playing in @yeso 's own Wrigley Field this weekend against the Red Stars.
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topsy-turvy world sports week, with the US beating Pakistan in the cricket and Iceland beating England in their last Euro '24 warmup.
Caught some WNBA tonight. Clark has such a quick release and is so smart off the ball, really impressive to watch. I’ve learned to ignore all social media talk about her.
The Storm have been on a winning streak. Noticable chemistry for a team that’s only played ~9 games together. Their pace and defensive pressure seems to be where they hang their hat. I ought to go see them live! I’m watching them play the defending champs as I type. Go Storm!
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I still have my hopes set on 2026 bringing excitement back to F1 racing
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lol nice try
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I doubt it. They need to stick to the regs for more than 3 years. 2021 was fantastic bc we had stable regs so teams could close the gap. By 2025 we’ll probably be in the same situation. Then one team will get lucky in 2026 and by the time the teams catch up…new regs.
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I think that was probably our most complete effort so far, hopefully a good sign of things to come. Loved seeing the team push up aggressively more this game instead of opting to pass back to defenders or the gk and letting the other team set up or press. The smaller field size was interesting to observe too, seemed to suit us.
Kiki Pickett has been unbelievable stepping in for Alex Loera. Kundananji I hope starts putting it together more. She’s explosive and exciting but she loses possession fairly often while dribbling because of her heavy touches. And Katelyn Rowland is not it, our gk situation is dire. I don’t know if we have cap space left but I feel like bringing in another gk during the summer window needs to happen if the team has ambitions for this season.
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I at least partially agree with you, however one problem the current regulations have that won’t be remedied by team development is just how hard it is for these cars to actually race. The vortex effects coming off the diffusers, wings, barge boards, etc ruin the aero effects for any following car, meaning that we only really ever see overtaking via DRS – and these are almost never contested. We haven’t seen a great deal of genuine racecraft in a long time in F1.
Hopefully these new regs in 2026 will solve at least some of that. There is every chance that one team makes a development breakthrough before any of the others, you are right. We’ve seen that with pretty much every major regulations change that I can remember. I’m just hoping that we can at least see some genuine midfield battles, even if one or two cars are off over the horizon.
We had that in 2022 before the teams ignored the spirit of the regs and added all the aero bits. The racing is still better throughout the fired than in the Mercedes dominated years, Alonso made some stellar passes last year. I would love to see less aero sensitive cars and less vortices but that’s always the best way to gain lap time. Nixing DRS and adding active aero should help a lot for raceability.
Personally I would love them to relax the regs completely in a few areas. With a strict cost cap that should be enough to force teams to be mindful of their tech developments vs black and white rules. Meaning, (hypothetically and with some guidelines) if a team wants to pursue active suspension or 4WD drivetrain let them, doing so would prevent them from monetarily from doing all the things. It would create actually different cars instead of this increasingly strict borderline spec series that lacks the engineering creativity of the 90s or the racing action of modern Indycar. If Mercedes could have developed an active suspension along with their zero side pod they would have been a much more competitive team, and we wouldn’t have another RB clone on the grid today.
I’m hopeful the new regs improve things, just really really want them to let things be for a few years with the overall regs and possibly stricter with adding new clauses to prevent those aero bits from cropping back up. Those last 15 laps of Silverstone 2022 was my ideal.
Canadian GP was actually quite fun.
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I do hear this occasionally. There’s a UFC fighter whose official nickname is “Gamer,” I believe for the reason you described and because his last name almost has “Gamer” in it.
He only ever said it at least partially in jest, but perhaps Bernie Ecclestone’s old suggestion of installing sprinklers at each track has some merit…
Americans, feel free to ask about our silly game if you want to try understanding cricket presently
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As an American that only became a cricket fan about a year and a half ago, I gotta say I’m pretty stoked about this turn of events.
I had only seen the US international team play once before, in the series they did against Canada recently, and they seemed okay. Watching them play in the T20 cup so far, they actually seem like a real cricket team! It’s nice to have one of those.
It’s Le Mans weekend.
A shame it is starting at 2am here but I’ll try to stay up to watch the first hour of racing.
It really feels like its anyones race this year. Porsche, BMW, Caddilac, Ferrari & Toyota are all looking fast. Hopefully Alpine, Lamborghini and Peugeot aren’t far behind either.
Hope we get some mixed conditions ahain this year but without the long safety cars
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