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Cape Verde already has the moral victory, let's see how long they can keep it going!

As mostly a World Cup soccer fan who has still really loved the action throughout, I can't say I don't feel a little bit of this. I was thinking to myself last night, if the offside rule was a little more lenient in a couple of different ways, it could still serve most of its purpose and yet many of these most exciting plays would become legal.

I think that was 3 actual goals and 4 goals taken away by offside just in the second half.

Almost goals are just as entertaining as actual goals. And boy, did that first half have several of them. Incredibly fun half.

That game had 6 yellow cards and yet was still by far the game I felt like the referees swallowed their whistles the most in this World Cup. It seemed like Curacao's strategy was just to run over everybody and hope the refs kept them in the game and it seemed to work, There were a lot of bodies on the field down the stretch.

It's still strange watching it on TV live. It's only been on TV live in Indy a handful of times in my lifetime.

The race has diminished in importance quite a bit over the last 30 years, but the product has never been better than the last few years. That was an electrifying race all the way through today.

I think the Knicks could beat the Spurs. Not so sure about the Thunder. But I think things are more chaotic in general than ever before. I don't think anything is a foregone conclusion. OKC, Lakers, and Toronto are the only teams left who have won a title in the last 7 years. If anyone else wins this year, it will be 8 different winners in 8 years.

If the Bulls are entering a rebuild, contracts like Williams are exactly the type they should be trading for, not away. Cutting him isn't great asset management either IMO. Just keep him for a couple more years and maybe in the last year of his deal he can be used as a matching salary in a deal if the Bulls are ready for that in their building process by then.

Yup, I think there is a decently high likelihood that the failed physical was somewhat on purpose. The Ravens knew they paid too much and that was their way out. Similar to the Lakers failing Mark Williams last year.

My top tiers of Olympic disciplines: S: Short track speed skating, Volleyball, beach volleyball, Swimming, Curling A: Handball, Rugby Sevens, Gymnastics B: Road Cycling, Track and Field, Skiing, Badminton, Fencing

I can completely respect that even though I'm 100% the opposite. I tried to figure out why that was the case and I think this is why The Summer Olympics have so many either A) team sports or B) sports where lots of competitors compete together at the same time (swimming/track for example). I like that competitive aspect. My favorite events in the Winter Olympics are short track speed skating and curling, which follow that same formula. Many of the other events involve person after person racing against a clock/set score/judges, which can still be fun but just aren't as captivating for me.

It's not about assigning blame at this point. It's about rights and leverage. If he fails the physical no matter if it was known or not, the Hornets have the ability to cancel the trade. They can use that threat to re-negotiate the trade instead, which is what both sides did. The Bulls could have fought it in the sense they could have refused to re-negotiate and dared the Hornets to cancel the trade, but that's risky because if it actually happens you get nothing.

It's a lot, and I don't love it from the Pacers side. But it's a modern NBA type of trade. The Pacers did it because Zubac's contract is really good compared to his production for the next couple of years. So they can make a run at the title the next two years with a great starting lineup. I understand it even though it's a little more than I would have given up.

The Ivey trade makes sense as a guy who you can build up his value. But it could be another long restricted free agency situation like the Giddey one was this summer. I'm not quite sure as a general NBA fan what the Vuc trade is about. Earlier in the day I would have said maybe they want a look at Simons and to consider keeping him...but they just got Ivey? Or they are taking on the extra salary and doing the Celtics a massive favor in luxury tax bills for draft capital, but each side is sending out a second rounder? I assume the Bulls one is better, but that can't be the main motive? Which makes me wonder if they are just taking Vuc off the team to try to secretly tank and don't care that they didn't get anything.