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Rockets defense closed that one out. That block by Harden.

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Big 34 point win for the Rockets. First time they have had everyone healthy since the restart. Westbrook’s shot had some rust but his playmaking got guys like Covington going.

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Stipe

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Yes a local comp doesn't include PI teams, not like thousands of local Fijians attended the NRC when they played. Get the core teams settled and working. The Fijians got great crowds? They've consistently pulled the best crowds in the NRC since their inception. Yep. About double the league average....

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Yes a local comp doesn't include PI teams, not like thousands of local Fijians attended the NRC when they played. Get the core teams settled and working. The Fijians got great crowds? They've consistently pulled the best crowds in the NRC since their inception. Yep. About double the league average.

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Rockets playing well. Going to be interesting to see what they can do at full strength when Gordon returns.

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The Japanese union wants a combined tournament with Australian and NZ sides in June-July. RA in particular should be interested in this it’s something they have been pushing for. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/07/88c1b651e8f7-rugby-jrfu-exec-pushes-for-new-top-league-super-rugby-tournament....

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There have been UFC trilogies in a series that started 2-0 before. One is scheduled for the end of this month. Holloway-Volkanovski is former champ vs champ with a lot of debate over this result. There’s reason for them to fight again.

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The third round was very close. Probably a slight edge to Holloway but I’ve seen worse decisions. They should fight again though.

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Went pretty much how I thought it would. Holloway deserves a third fight.

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I give him all the credit for taking the fight. If he can stuff Usman’s takedowns for the first couple of rounds and make him stand and trade or do what he did to Askren and connect when he tries to shoot that’s his best bet. But if he can’t get an early finish I see Usman just grinding him down wit...

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Jorge Masvidal has agreed on short notice to fight Usman. They hate each other so I am expecting a war. For Masvidal the main concern has to be that Usman’s wrestling will wear on him after a few rounds, especially since he had to cut a bunch of weight on short notice. He has a clear edge as a boxe...

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Interesting, The guardian ahs come out with two pieces today raging on China and rightfully so. Perhaps a bit of cultural change. Looks now Xi is being given the Putin treatment and they have remembered that China's treatment of Muslim make's Trump's comments homely, also why the heck are Saudi Ara...

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This has the support of everyone from Marco Rubio to Joaquin Castro. It will pass both houses easily. WASHINGTON—Lawmakers of both parties launched a bill to give refugee status to Hong Kong residents at risk of persecution under the Chinese territory’s new national-security law, which local rights...

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This has the support of everyone from Marco Rubio to Joaquin Castro. It will pass both houses easily. WASHINGTON—Lawmakers of both parties launched a bill to give refugee status to Hong Kong residents at risk of persecution under the Chinese territory’s new national-security law, which local rights ...

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Poland and the Baltic countries are in NATO. EU wants Ukraine to join (which basically makes it de facto NATO). Don't. Poke. The. Bear. No it doesn't. Maybe if the Bear wasn't such an asshole with a historic record of poking it's neighbours, commiting genocide they'd get on better with everyone. Th...

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This is the future leftists want Blame NATO for encroachment. What happened to East Germany being the eastern boundary of Nato expansion?? fudge off with this bullshit you stupid plum. Maybe blame Russia for being such monumental plum all their neighbours want nothing to do with them. NATO has high...

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Idea of summer rugby in that freezing cold heartland of French rugby. :lol: :lol: :lol: Right? Its absolutely bonkers theyre even thinking about it. Anyon,e who has ever set foot on french soil in summer knows its not happening. We don't do summer/winter sports, we just dont. Every sport club in Fr...

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Probably the Fight of the Year. Poirier’s hands just too quick. Much respect to both fighters.

Hooker’s eye was fucked.

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What a war! https://www.viprow.me/ufc-fight-night-post-show-dustin-poirier-vs-dan-hooker-2-online-stream Kiwi Hooker taking heavy shots. Handing them out too. Wow really entertaining sport watching too bloodied guys grovelling around on top of each other. Might as well watch jelly wrestling. x( It ...

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Decent card tonight. Every time Perry fights something ridiculous happens and the main event has potential to be a war. Hooker is a tough dude but in the end I think Poirier has been in there against better fighters and gets the W. Lightweight Dustin Poirier vs. Dan Hooker Welterweight Mike Perry vs...

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Been to Rick’s Cafe and did the cliff dive.

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It will be interesting to see who benefits most from the combo of the layoff and short season. Rockets maybe... come in fresh and push the tempo against everyone. :nod: The Rockets get the biggest boost from the hiatus because their team is uniquely built. They have a powerful backcourt in James Ha...

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Schedule out. Lakers vs Clippers on the first night of games.

https://www.nba.com/article/2020/06/26/ ... ding-games

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Idea of summer rugby in that freezing cold heartland of French rugby. :lol: :lol: :lol: Right? Its absolutely bonkers theyre even thinking about it. Anyon,e who has ever set foot on french soil in summer knows its not happening. We don't do summer/winter sports, we just dont. Every sport club in Fr...

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of course the SH unions could invest in their stadia Stadiums are not the answer. Not entirely, hence my other proposals. But the fact is when countries like Wales which have both a smaller population that any tier 1 country can use their stadium as their primary income provider to remain competiti...

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OptimisticJock wrote:Hats off to all the first responders and members of the public assisting yesterday. Particularly the lone cop who tackled him and his colleagues trying their best with the casualties.

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Actually the western media are trying to portray a crisis but in fact, it is a disputed area. The Indian abd Chinese have played it down. https://www.google.com/amp/s/zeenews.india.com/india/india-china-standoff-govt-says-situation-sensitive-but-not-dangerous-2286294.html/amp Good call dude. :lol: ...

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Club rugby in summer, with Cricket and league......Again why is it the club system in the north has to move to summer, why not the south? Nations championship, please f##k off with this idea. Less is more, over playing the same players and teams against each other is part of the problem Agreed. Sum...

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There’s something about the reach issue you seem to be missing. I didn’t read JTB’s post above until after I wrote mine but he’s correct - Tyson being a midget is too much to overcome against a good HW with such a big size advantage.

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Under 4 rounds :lol: Fantasy land. James Tillis, Mitch Green, James Smith, Tony Tucker all went the distance against young Tyson. All had a reach over 80”. Douglas knocked him out so bad he didn’t know what happened after the fight. Lennox Lewis is in a totally different class and never struggled wi...

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I just don’t see it. Douglas put his lights out with a long reach and decent jab... Lewis was on another level in that department. I think a few of the superheavyweight era champs would have given prime Tyson problems. Vitali and Fury would have been tough for him to get to.

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McCall and Rahman both had an 82” reach. Tyson 71”. Lewis basically only struggled against guys who had a reach close to his while throughout his career Tyson had problems with guys 80”+.

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no heavyweight in history could have dealt with him.

Yeah nah. Tyson wouldn’t have beaten Lewis at any age. Lewis only had trouble against guys with a long reach like his, Tyson couldn’t do anything with those little T-Rex arms.

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Its the same in most states, most of the metropolitan areas are Blue while the country side is red. Indeed. A glance at this map of the 2016 presidential vote bears that out. https://mk0brilliantmaptxoqs.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016nationwidecountymapshadedbyvoteshare.png Literally every s...

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Devil's advocate here - is it that millions of Chinese are emigrating in an unusual pattern or is it just that there are 1.5bn of them and they emigrate in the same proportion as any other country, thus creating what looks like an exodus to us? I don't think that you can look at it as "proportion"....

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You can keep repeating it but that doesn’t make it true. The UK did the best that they could in a tough situation and got China to agree to a 50 year deal. As was mentioned there was some thinking at the time that the rest of China would become like HK which ultimately turned out to be flawed, but t...

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One of the main arguments in the west in favor of handing over HK was that it would cause the whole of China to embrace similar philosophies. Obviously the opposite has been true with regard to civil liberties and over time they have tried to make HK more like China. Thatcher expressed that hope in ...

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Close to 90% of HK’s territory was under a 99 year lease that China wouldn’t extend, the terms of the handover were agreed to several years before Tiananmen, 50 years of “One Country, Two Systems” was a compromise between the British and Chinese positions. And now the UK are stepping in and promisi...

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