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That's probably the result of the insane thing that's been going around on Tik Tok telling people to go loosen all the lug nuts on someone's car.The future's so bright - I gotta wear shades.
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Is tik tok really doing that? I know they encourage some sh!t. If so, they need banned from our country.Originally posted by Aargh View PostComment
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It’s not TikTok doing it, it’s the people on TikTok. And they will keep doing it elsewhere. These are the same kids that used to torture puppies for fun.Originally posted by Atxshoxfan View PostPeople who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov
Originally posted by C0|dB|00ded
Who else posts fake **** all day in order to maintain the acrimony? Wingnuts, that's who.Comment
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It doesn't take very much coaxing to get unstable people to do bad things to others. "Group Think" is a real thing. TikTok does have some dangerous interactions on it. Since that business is beholding to China, I think Americans should decouple from it, and more of our businesses who have gone to China (for production, etc.) need to go elsewhere (Singapore, Viet Nam, etc.), or maybe come back to America is another thought. Just my opinion.Originally posted by shock View PostComment
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I have read that tic tok is educational for the youth in China but is quit the opposite for kids in the US in order to dumb down our kids. If true...how in the wide wide world of sports is that allowed here?FINAL FOURS:
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Sure, but the issues being complained about in the post I quoted will persist across other social media platforms.Originally posted by Shockm View PostPeople who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov
Originally posted by C0|dB|00ded
Who else posts fake **** all day in order to maintain the acrimony? Wingnuts, that's who.Comment
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We've had guns available for a long time. Even "AR style" or "assault" as the media loves to frame some guns. It's hardly new. I want to see the correlation between the rise of social media and these type of crazed incidents. I might be way off base, but I bet the time lines follow a similar tack.Comment
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Probably.Originally posted by WuDrWu View Post
but the better thing to track is the rise in mind altering pharmaceuticals being used to treat adolescents.People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov
Originally posted by C0|dB|00ded
Who else posts fake **** all day in order to maintain the acrimony? Wingnuts, that's who.Comment
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Homoerotic offset wheels on an HD pickup strike again.
...and again, actually.
And yeah dude, the auto-pilot on your Tesla is so awesome that it had you run over all the crash debris.Comment
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This is a "cone of shame" from the past regarding KU recruiting. A new story came out today and the story is in "rags" like the KC Star, and Sports Illustrated. Billy Preston and his mother are quite angry on the publicity on BP's recruitment in 2018. Bill Self and KU left BP, and his mother, hanging when they threw them "under the bus" for the illegal recruitment of BP. They didn't argue that they received cash from Adidas, but were quite angry that KU was called a "victim", and blamed Adidas, and the Preston's for the illegal cash payments. Billy Preston stated that Curtis Townsend put them in contact with Adidas, and indicated they would be awarded cash payments if they came to KU. They further said that the Jayhawk coaching staff knew all about the cash payments. Self basically accused the Preston's of lying. However, Bill Self is such a great man and someone that all should worship.
Former KU forward Billy Preston alleges Jayhawk coaches knew about payments from Adidas
Preston and Player disagreed with that language, specifically taking exception to the word “victim.”
“They ain’t no victim; they knew what was going on, too,” Preston said in the podcast. “They put the whole thing together. They set it up. Like, KU was the whole reason we even met.”
With that last comment, Preston was referring to meetings between his mother and Adidas representatives. Preston shared one example, claiming KU assistant Kurtis Townsend directly told him he would “introduce” Player to Gassnola and “link them up together.”
“Victim? If anybody was a victim it was the family that Adidas preyed on,” Player said. “We left the school and weathered the storm and never one time did I come out and say we’re victims. When the reality is, if anybody is a victim here, we’re victims of a corrupt system. We’re a victim of college corruption, corruption that has gone on for decades before us and will continue to go on decades after us.”
KU issued a program-imposed four-game suspension for Self and Townsend before the 2022-23 season, among other self-imposed sanctions.
On Wednesday, SI’s Pat Forde reported Kansas had its IARP hearing this past weekend.
Throughout the four-episode podcast series, Preston made other allegations regarding KU’s relationship with the former Adidas representatives. Self has not disputed having contact with those representatives, though he has maintained in previous interviews that such interactions are commonplace in college athletics and, in context, can be acceptable.
“I can say that we all know shoe companies have influence on all levels of basketball. They work hard to develop brand loyalty with top high school prospects, and they have some influence with them, which is totally permissible under NCAA guidelines, just like a high school coach could, an AAU coach, a trusted adviser, and especially a parent,” Self said in 2018.
Later, Self added: “You should be able to have relationships and talk to people you want to talk to obviously in the proper way.”
Preston, again, maintained KU wasn’t a victim.
“As soon as we got to KU, I’m an Adidas kid now that I play for KU,” Preston said. “He (Gassnola) is an Adidas rep. They’re an Adidas school. They put us together just off the strength of them being an Adidas school and them having that type of power where they can be like, they can tell him, ‘Oh yeah, we want you to get in contact with Billy. We want you to tap in with Billy and get that whole process rolling.’ Yeah, that’s the only thing I’m going to say about that. KU wasn’t no victim.”
Preston was asked directly on the ESPN podcast if KU coaches “knew that Gassnola was giving your mom or giving other people money.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Preston began, repeating the word “yeah” four more times. “They wasn’t blind to that. They weren’t blind to that at all.”
Self, in a statement made in 2018, sharply disputed that allegation.
“When recruiting prospective student-athletes, my staff and I have not and do not offer improper inducements to them or their families to influence their college decisions, nor are we aware of any third-party involvement to do so,” Self said at the time.
The ESPN podcast states the payments to Preston were initially uncovered by KU after Preston was in a single-car accident while driving back from Kansas City with teammate Marcus Garrett. Speeding to make a team meeting, the podcast said, Preston lost control of his vehicle and hit a curb. He called Townsend after the accident, and, after it was reported to the university, questions arose about how Preston had acquired the vehicle in the first place, the podcast said.
It is worth noting Preston did not play in the game before the apparent car accident.
KU withheld Preston from competition in the meantime. He didn’t play for the team, leaving in the middle of the 2017-18 season to play pro basketball in Bosnia. After an injury cut short his time overseas, Preston went undrafted, which he said was partially due to how the last year had played out.
“It was impacted a lot,” Preston said. “If I was able to play that whole year at KU it would’ve been a whole different outcome.”
Preston did stay “on good terms” with Kansas and Bill Self, the podcast said, and even received a ring after the 2017-18 season culminated in a Big 12 title and Final Four appearance. He would later play for the Cleveland Cavaliers’ G League affiliate, the Canton Charge.
He was cut after a few months.
“It did mess me up, though — seeing everybody that I played with, they on the stage where I was supposed to be,” Preston said. “I was depressed about it for a while. I couldn’t accept where I was at in life, knowing where I was supposed to be.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nca...as/ar-AA1a6A6lLast edited by Shockm; April 21, 2023, 01:36 PM.Comment
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And we ask, why are so many teens causing so much trouble today?Originally posted by SubGod22 View PostComment
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What a piece of trash. Guessing this is not Mr. Aponte-Gonzalez first run in with the law. SMH.Originally posted by SubGod22 View PostComment
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As Cones of Shame go this one is pretty minor. It's on the coach.
A HS pitcher in Tennessee pitched a complete game no hitter. There was a problem. No one had been watching his pitch count. Tennessee has a HS pitch count max of 120 pitches in a day. He had thrown 121 pitches. The game was forfeited. The no-no was wiped off the books and the team's season was ended due to the forfeit.
The future's so bright - I gotta wear shades.
We like to cut down nets and get sized for championship rings.Comment
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Now as far as the Cone of Shame goes, I don't direct this towards Huggins. I direct this towards the alphabet people who have this country by the balls.
If you are a member of a group that:
- Corporate America at every level panders to
- You can't insult without paying a hefty price (in this case, millions of dollars)
- Is over-represented in every area of pop culture
Then maybe, just MAYBE, you're not that "marginalized.""In God we trust, all others must bring data." - W. Edwards DemingComment
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