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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 10, 2024 18:29:08 GMT -5
Three strikes, Grifter. Trump tries and fails to delay N.Y. criminal trial for a third this week NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers Wednesday failed to persuade an appeals court judge to delay the former president’s New York criminal trial scheduled to begin next week by saying the presiding judge was not qualified to oversee the proceedings and that a postponement was necessary. Appeals court Judge Ellen Gesmer denied Trump’s request shortly after it was filed. It was the Trump lawyers’ third attempt this week to delay his trial for allegedly falsifying business documents to help cover up an affair before the 2016 election. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/10/trump-new-york-criminal-trial-merchan/I expect more BS motions to come. Doesn't Trump get 15 strikes? Those are his rules, right?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 10, 2024 18:22:06 GMT -5
No, it's not just you. As social media posts are offered, it's encouraged to offer some comment or thoughts to add to the conversation, where appropriate. Do you really want me to post a Tweet about Seton Hall's schedule in the Big East thread and say "I find this interesting because by Seton Hall playing this quality opponent, it should help our computer rankings which are used in NCAA Tournament selection"? I mean, it's pretty self-evident if you're participating on this board why certain pieces of news are relevant. Also, Admin, if this applies to more than me, why are you calling me out specifically in your post that is responding to the Casual Hoya tweet I linked? Because if you're going to constantly act like Debbie Downer, you have to expect to be treated like Debbie Downer.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 10, 2024 18:10:25 GMT -5
I did not know that Othella is a coach for the Knicks. Good stuff.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 10, 2024 18:09:11 GMT -5
Johnny "they're calling it the other way" Most is rolling over in his grave.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 9, 2024 19:42:01 GMT -5
But UCONN only made 6 threes. So it's not like Purdue was trading 2s for 3s. That's why people need to watch the games and not just look at statistics. UCONN had a phenomenal gameplan. They decided to not let anybody but Edey beat them, knowing they could use Clingan and Johnson to wear down Edey over 40 minutes and that by not allowing 3s, it would be next to impossible for Edey to win the game by himself. And UCONN was correct. I was surprised not to see Painter adjust more, and he's an excellent coach. He just kept dumping it down to Edey, seemed like he fell in love with the idea of Clingan/Johnson getting into foul trouble. But the problem for Painter was, by the time those two UCONN centers got into foul trouble, the game was already over. But Purdue only made 1 three. Maybe "people" should look at the math before they start criticizing. Purdue was 1-7 from three point range. They scored 3 points from three point range. Connecticut went 6-22. They scored 18 points from three point range. 18 minus 3 is 15. In this instance, that happens to be Connecticut's winning margin. You think it mattered, perhaps? I realize that part of the 1-7 was Connecticut's strategy and great defense, of course. Purdue had to counteract that strategy, but they did not. Perhaps they couldn't because Connecticut is too good. But, instead, Purdue chose to shoot mostly twos, even though they are one of the best three point shooting teams in the country. Connecticut shutting that down essentially turned them into a two-point only team. It's hard to win that way--which was my point. I really don't think this argument holds water. First, they said on the broadcast that Purdue was the best three point shooting team in the country, probably because teams attempted to neutralize Edey and left the shooters open. UConn refused to do that and played great defense, but the reason I question your argument is that UConn attempted 15 more 3's than Purdue. Sure they made five more, but if Purdue (other than Edey) could have made any shots inside the arc (and I presume they must have taken more 2's than UConn), it would have been a much closer game. UConn is just a great defensive team and deserves full credit. But just suppose that for the 15 3's Purdue didn't take, they had made six more 2's. We have a very different game.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 9, 2024 19:12:33 GMT -5
And that somehow made you think he would scrap plans for football. OK He's obviously going to play football at Georgetown.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 7, 2024 19:07:37 GMT -5
What else could we expect from Putin's Puppet?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 4, 2024 20:53:59 GMT -5
All of the corrupt politicans who voted to acquit are cowards so of course they are "Republicans." They are disgusting. Anyone want to defend the indefensible? Portman was one of 43 Republican senators who voted against conviction. Sixty-seven votes were required to convict. If 10 additional Republican senators had joined the 50 Democrats and seven Republicans who voted for conviction, Trump would not today be the party’s presumptive nominee for president, and the country would not be one election away from a constitutional crisis and a possibly irreversible slide into authoritarianism. (Technically, a second vote after conviction would have been required to ban Trump from holding public office, but presumably this second vote would have followed naturally from the first.) It would be unfair to blame Portman disproportionately for the devastating reality that Donald Trump, who is currently free on bail but could be a convicted felon by November, is once again a candidate for president. The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, denounced Trump for his actions on January 6, and yet still voted to acquit him. Trump’s continued political viability is as much McConnell’s fault as anyone’s. The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, one of the world’s leading experts on authoritarianism, wrote in 2020 that complicity, rather than dissent, is the norm for humans, and especially for status-and-relevance-seeking politicians. There are many explanations for complicity, Applebaum argued. A potent one is fear. Many Republican elected officials, she wrote, “don’t know that similar waves of fear have helped transform other democracies into dictatorships.” On February 13, 2021, Romney was joined by six other Republicans—North Carolina’s Richard Burr, Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Maine’s Susan Collins, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, and Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey—in voting to convict. If the United States and its Constitution survive the coming challenge from Trump and Trumpism, statues will one day be raised to these seven. As for Rob Portman and his colleagues, they should hope that they will merely be forgotten. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/rob-portman-donald-trump-january-6-impeachment/677833/It's my view that Mitch is more responsible than any other Republican. He was the damn majority leader. If he had done what was right, it's possible that nine other Republican senators (including Portman) would have joined him. Perhaps not (I know that the Traitor Brothers, Cruz and Hawley, would not have done so), but we'll never know.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 4, 2024 19:51:17 GMT -5
I did see that, and my response is so what? The ACC isn't exactly a model of stability these days, and USC is going to the Big 10. Meanwhile, USC probably got a better coach, Bronny or no Bronny.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 2, 2024 23:01:54 GMT -5
He spoke to a nephew's cousin four times removed. Works for me.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 2, 2024 22:54:49 GMT -5
That was a great day.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 2, 2024 22:53:06 GMT -5
NC State's rise from the grave has given me optimism for the future of GT. Living in the state, I witnessed firsthand how godforsaken that program had become. Their last Elite 8 was in the middle of the Reagan administration, yet the utterly delusional fanbase continuously measured themselves against UNC/Duke who combined for 9 championships since then. I honestly expected a Browns Super Bowl appearance before an NCSU F4. On a related note, I remember vague mentions of Kevin Keatts in the GT coaching search last year. It was probably just internet speculation, but now I feel a little foolish for laughing so hard at it. His coaching has been outstanding this postseason. Welcome to Hoyatalk, and I love your moniker. My favorite character from Godfather II.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 19:10:03 GMT -5
Wow. I've actually stayed there, but that was a long time ago.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 19:01:31 GMT -5
Luck definitely has a lot to do with it. If Duke played a best of 7 series against NC State, would they win? Maybe. Houston? Much less likely. Also, keep in mind NC State would not have been in the tournament without the autobid. So they also had to get some unlikely wins in the ACC tournament to be here, too. Keatts lucked out. He very well could have been fired, and now instead he's a Final Four hero. That's part of what makes the tournament fun. Though I wish Georgetown could be on the "beats expectations" front one of these years (soon). NC State had to face Duke in what Amounts to two elimination games and won both. 2-0 vs Duke in Elimination games. I would argue that NC state has had the toughest road so far. Beat Duke Twice, UVA on a Hail Mary 3pt by o Connell to send it into overtime, and beating UNC and Marquette. I have to agree with this. Also, while I don't see any reason to take issue with Scheyer at this point, I wonder if Quinn Snyder would have taken the job if approached. I'm guessing not, but who knows?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:47:41 GMT -5
I wonder if Trump doesn't actually want this, as then he could scream that he is being persecuted, and his First Amendment rights being denied while the election is bein interfered with. The morons will go crazy.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:43:03 GMT -5
Isn't Trump worse than Jimmy, Jim and Tammy Faye? They may have been con artists, but they at least had some devotion to the Bible, didn't they? Unlike Trump. He's certainly worse than Oral Roberts, who has a legitimate college named for him (see Trump University).
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:39:33 GMT -5
When was the Key Bridge Marriott demolished? And what is the ongoing litigation about?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:32:29 GMT -5
LOL. And no doubt Epps would have gone for 50.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:23:00 GMT -5
Lampkin just posted an image of a meal at Nobu in NYC. So I am not sure he'll be announcing the commitment imminently. I guess we will see. Pitino! That would seem to follow, wouldn't it?
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 30, 2024 19:09:55 GMT -5
These things tend to happen in critical games. Patrick would be NBA World Champion but John Starks goes 2-18 in game 7 of the NBA Finals. The main problem for Marquette though was that NC State disrupted their offense with Diarra and Burns. Igororo was ineffective which led to a breakdown of their system and they just resorted to throwing up 3s cause they couldn’t attack the basket. I do recall that John Starks game, but the big problem for Marquette was that they contracted a serious case of Hoya Disease.
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