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however, that the old shells will be exchanged for new ones in a 1:1 ratio

in the range of 300-350 thousand, which could cover the needs of the Ukrainian army for at least three months

The "unnamed" buyer has some pretty deep pockets that only a few countries fit the description.

For all the faults Germany made prior to Feb 24th, 2022...they have done as much as anyone to help Ukraine in the 13 months since.

When Michigan left the Big Ten in 1907, the school couldn't play its historic Big Ten rivals. So it turned to a pair of non-Big Ten schools to create new rivalries.

Ohio State and Michigan State

In the 1960s the NCAA operated out of a hotel room that it shared jointly with the Big Ten. The NCAA had only a couple of staff members, and two young protégées to the NCAA commissioner emerged.

A little while later both the Big Ten and Big Eight had a vacancy in their conference commissioner office and the two protégées were the natural choice for the jobs. Only, both wanted to work for the Big Ten because it was the richer, more prestigious, and more influential conference. All while being in the exact same city that they currently worked at.

Both protégées interviewed for the Big Ten position and the Big Ten asked the NCAA commissioner for his advice and his choice won the job.

Naturally, this enraged the guy who wasn't picked and got demoted to the Big Eight position instead. This not only started a blood feud between the Big Eight and Big Ten, but a feud between the Big Eight and NCAA.

As the leading Big Eight school, Oklahoma was the central player in this NCAA vs Big Eight feud and the Big Eight commissioner was the main instigator in creating Oklahoma v NCAA in 1984.

The NCAA commissioner had to choose between two of his employees, and then a few decades later the employee he didn't choose destroyed his football TV contract.

If anyone wants to DM me the worst mistakes I’ll fix them

but holy moly does that site ever need a copyeditor

You're not wrong.

But not being able to vape in your own home feels like a real overreach by the board

Just because you can't smell it doesn't mean its not unhealthy for you and by extension your neighbors if you share the same air circulation.

Can /r/NFL remind me about the agent. I vaguely recall there being a story about this last week? What exactly was it?

Governments run by strongman always stifle innovation. The less innovative a society is, the balance of power favors the strongman. Strongman rule by fear, but are powerless against those who have specialized skills that are too important to be removed from their position. So they push society in a direction where specialized skills don't exist, thus they will never have a dependency on them.

This is what experts meant when they said Russia is turning into a mafia state. It wasn't that people were using intimidation to rise to power and take control of the country that was the #1 problem, but they were actively pushing their own country into a brain drain + rendering every government agency and major corporation ineffective in order to maintain the mafia state.

I follow NCAA Olympic sports with a passion and its VERY common for teams to fly charter flights.

Going to college is a requirement if she wants to continue competing gymnastics.

For 99.999% of teenagers college is the smart thing to do, but Whitney is the rare exception where she already has a multi-million dollar brand and has little to gain by going the college route.

To clarify any confusion; She was listed as a top-100 future prospect back when she was a novice and the only thing that did her in was two major “bad luck” traits having both a growth spurt and a medical condition making her highly vulnerable to injury.

So she was talented and having a very successful social media platform. Her legacy is YouTube, but she was more than just YouTube

Tagging /u/strange_shadows-45

SBJ are excellent with linear media, but they have said they haven't developed sources with the streamers

Plus, even when it comes to TV contracts they are always in this weird grey area of being just accurate enough to not be wrong, but just wrong enough to not have the full picture. They can tell you a general idea of what is going on, but don't always have it exactly right.

It's like saying "your NFL team is playing New York this week but they don't know if its the Jets or Giants"

Big 12 flairs have been doing this long before the OUT. They actively pushed rumors of poaching the Arizona schools a few years before OUT. Then before that Clemson/Florida State.

There’s a fairly large contingent of Big 12 flairs who have spent the last decade going “here’s why your conference sucks and you secretly want to be in the Big 12.”

This is so cool

And /r/CFB seems to conveniently forget that Dennis Dodd has been pushing the idea of the Big Ten taking four more Pac teams since Summer of 2022, Notre Dame to the Big Ten, and the Big 12 taking the four corner schools. At this point he claims to have sources for 9 schools, from three different conferences, and got publicly roasted by Utah over his shit.

There's nothing saying that he isn't just as big of a hack as the rest of them, and Dodd has certainly taken a specific position on what he thinks will happen and his reportage will reflect that.

All of these conference realignment reporters are just feeding on the clicks. This stuff is going to be very tight lipped because conference realignment is done very quietly at the admisntrative level.

I feel like he’s trying to say “don’t get hyper focused on these meetings…they aren’t the end all be all”

1989

Soviet Union population: 286 million

United States population: 246 million

2023

Russian population: 143 million

United States population: 336 million

Moscow went from +40 to -193 million people against the United States. That's not even counting another 120 million people from Eastern Europe switching allegiances from the Warsaw Pact to NATO.

1) Russia is not the same thing as the USSR. The USSR was a much larger country and far more competitive on the world economy than Putin's Russia.

2) The Soviets were able to produce so many tanks during WWII because the USA was subsidizing the rest of their war economy, that the Soviets could afford converting that many factories to tank production without losing balance to their war economy.

The Soviets fought on the side of Ukraine & lend lease during WWII, in 2022 they fought against both.

Russia's tank situation is beyond fucked. They were supposed to have a new model in 2014 but they can't get it to the assembly line.

Who gives a fuck about education and healthcare right?

It's sad really. But until the day comes when all the major world powers are stable, peace loving democracies, there is always going to be this painful decision of taking money away from good causes to fund a large military

I feel like that's exactly why NATO proponents are joking "thanks Putin." Now no one is kicking the can down the road after watching events unfold in Ukraine.

Isn't that one of the main themes in the rivalry between 2pac and Biggie? That Biggie came directly from the gang life and knew to stay away from gangsters who wanted to form associations as his rap career was taking off. Whereas 2pac was the opposite, didn't have the same background growing up and was way too naive with who he associated with. And then Biggie tried to warn 2pac about all of this but 2pac didn't listen?

If the 2022 invasion has proven ANYTHING, it has validated all the rhetoric regarding Soviet tactics throwing away lives during WWII. It may not have been as blatant as what we saw with Iran-Iraq or how the Enemy at the Gates movie portrays it, but how can you not look at the results of 2022 and not make the connection that this is more or less how it probably was during WWII.

Oh yeah, forgot about that whole fiasco where there was talk of collusion from ESPN