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    Chess

    There’s a new “We Wuz Kangz” / Hidden Figures-esque mini series on Netflix called The Queen’s Gambit based on a book written in the 1980’s. It is basically a ripoff of Bobby Fisher’s story arc: rise from nothing and self taught to international fame beating the high powered Soviets at the height...
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    2020 College Football Week 11

    Riley Smith with his 1st career TD. Boise cruising early
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    2020 College Football Week 11

    CSU / BSU with the lone thursday night game tonight. Both teams have had a bit of a QB carousel to start the season but it looks like it’ll be Bachmeir back in action for Boise against the now cemented starter Patrick O’Brien for the Rams
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    2020 College Football Week 10

    Let’s see if Football upsets join BLM “protests” and democratic led presidential, women and science marches as media acceptable large gatherings not fit for the “superspreader” event term or if they’ll fall into the MAGA / sturgis categories
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    2020 College Football Week 10

    make that another one to Rex! 31-3
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    2020 College Football Week 10

    BYU starting to pull away to start the third! 23-3 after a Wilson to Isaac Rex connection! Fun team to watch. It’s early but I’m hoping that they can sneak into the playoff his year
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    2020 College Football Week 10

    for some reason I had him pegged as a junior! Agreed, definitely one to watch out for the next couple of years
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    2020 College Football Week 10

    Looks like the PAC is gonna roll back the clock to 1977 and compete as the PAC 8 to kick off football. AZ / Utah and Cal / Washington called off
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    2020 College Football Week 10

    Chad Muma with 9 first half tackles against the rams
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    2020 College Football Week 10

    Trey McBride with the TD awful start for Wyo. 14-0 6 minutes in
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    2020 College Football Week 10

    Two mountain west games on the slate tonight. It looks like Thursday and Friday games will be the theme for the MWC for the rest of the year now that the PAC is back and they get the Saturday time slots. USU / Nevada. Carson Strong continues his strong start to the season. Up to 9 TD and no INT...
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    Coronavirus thread

    It was very apparent early on that one of the key ancillary effects of covid (whether intended or unintended) was the caste system in the restaurant and retail industries. Big box chains got to continue operations status quo while the mom and pops had to jump through draconian hoops to get by...
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    2020 College Football Week 9

    Didn’t come across anything. ESPN ticker said “did not travel with team, no reason given”
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    2020 College Football Week 9

    USC transfer Jack Sears got the start over Hank Backmeier for Boise tonight and he’s been efficient. 13/16 189 and 2 TD midway through the 3rd
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    The Trump Era Begins

    The timing of these celebrity endorsements is interesting. In 2016 there seemed to be a steady stream of them one or so a week leading up to the election in the late summer and fall months. Now a large push of them a few days before the election and a ton of early voting Jack Nicklaus lil Wayne...
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    2020 College Football Week 9

    that was the first thing I went to look for after seeing the start of the game lol, but couldn’t find anything. I want to say they may have in the 70s time frame but can’t recall. He’s had some “electrifying” runs that I’m sure the boosters will gawk over and some throws that would make Joe...
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    2020 College Football Week 9

    Two games on tonight: CSU / Fresno State South Alabama / Georgia Southern Steve Adazzio goes against the depth Chart and out of nowhere starts the black quarterback o_OHis speciality at BC.
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    Caste football 2020 top 10 favorite NFl players

    1. Christian McCaffery 2. TJ Watt 3. Tom Brady 4. Joey Bosa 5. Harrison Smith 6. Sean Lee 7. Rex Burkhead 8. Ryan Tannehill 9. George Kittle 10. Josey Jewell
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    2020 College Football Week Eight

    Kyle Patterson with the TD To finally get Air Force on the board
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    2020 College Football Week Eight

    Mel Tucker laid an absolute dud in his highly touted $5.5 million debut against Rutgers
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    Cast(e) Aside Football Players

    Matt Jones. 4 solid receiving years with the jags then never to be seen again after a positive substance abuse test all the while the Antonio brown, josh Gordon and Joe Mixons of the world get chance after chance after chance.
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    Whitest College Teams - 2020

    Well here we are at the end of October and it looks like 127 of the 130 FBS teams will be playing (all except Old Dominion, New Mexico State, and Uconn). Out of the 123 teams previewed so far, there are roughly 712 white starters or about 5.8 per squad, which works to about 26.3% of total...
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    College Football News

    CSU / New Mexico game canned due to COVID concerns (by order of New Mexico public health dept). I think this may be the first one due to no cases on either team but “prevalence in the county” where the Lobos play. Oy Vey
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    2020 NFL Week 6

    Can’t wait for sports center to highlight all of kyler Murray’s TDs and gloss over his putrid 8-20 passing performance
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    2020 Wyoming Cowboys

    Looks like Levi Williams is listed below the quota on the week one depth chart Others of note ... the local kid from Sheridan Parker Christensen gets the start at FB. Treyton Welsh at TE ANd Rudy Stofer at LT might be looking at around an uptick 10
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