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...there, I said it. Not even 50 characters, either.

Two-time Olympian and two-time major tournament tennis champion Shuai Zhang was competing against Hungarian Amarissa Tóth in the WTA Tour's Hungarian Grand Prix.
(Women's Tennis Association)

Playing on clay, Zhang hit a shot that kicked up chalk on a line that would have given her a point. The judge ruled it out, the umpire agreed, but they looked at themselves as to question the decision. When Zhang appealed to the judges to take a closer look, her opponent Tóth walked over to the spot and wiped away the mark with her foot and giggled.

Shaken by the judges decision and Amarissa covering the mark, Zhang decided to pull out of the match. She received boos from the crowd and mocked by her actions.

It's been years since I followed tennis, but I believe with a questionable call like that, the judge should have given her a replay.

In the 1970's John McEnroe would have insisted it!

Brit Hamilton wins, with German Vessel second. Mercedes' 100th as constructor. I'm entering my Green 1994 Mitsu 3000GT as the Maine coastal self pissing grand dad's first GP attempt next week in Austin, Texas. We'll carve up that sissy Mr. Hamilton and his girly 230MPH Mercedes. Stay tuned.

Yes, Brady versus Mahomes,

The Buccaneers versus the Chiefs,

Tampa Bay, versus Kansas City

It should be a fun game.

The national anthem will be sung as a duet by Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church





Kickoff is scheduled to happen at 6:30 pm eastern standard time.
The game will be televised on CBS.

Thus, if you want to make a pick on the game, make it BEFORE 6 pm eastern standard time on Sunday 2/7/2021. Any picks made after that will not count towards the 2021 CS Superbowl Championship.

You get 100 points to bet or not (no money involved).

Up to 50 points on the winner (if you don't bet on the winner you retain the 50 points).
If you bet all 50 points on the winner, you get 100 points for that part.

You can bet any whole number amount up to 50 points on who wins.
You retain the amount you don't bet.
You double the amount you do bet, if that team wins.
You lose the amount you bet, if that team loses.

You can also bet up to 25 points on the total game points scored by the Chiefs
and up to 25 points on the total game points by the Buccaneers.

If you guess the right amount of points scored by a team you get double the amount you bet
plus whatever amount of the 25 you didn't bet.
If you are one point off, you get the ((amount bet -1) x 2) + amount not bet.
If you are 2 points off, you get the ((amount bet - 2) x 2) + amount not bet etc...
The lowest you can get on either team is 0 (no negative tallies).

The the maximum total one could end up with is 200 points total.
Thus, the range can be between 0 and 200.

Lets see who the 2021 CS Superbowl Champion is this year.


It might be you.

I'm listed with the Federal Aeronautic Administration (FAA) and the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) to fly drones and model aircraft. I get email updates all the time for new laws (good and bad) about recreational flying. Checking this morning I see on the FAA website some new changes will go into effect for 2020.
Okay, I'll have a look and downloaded the document to see it's a 462 page PDF.
Thanks, but not today!

Flying this weekend is totally shot in Palm Beach County as the president is hanging out at his Mar-a-Lago resort until the new year. I'm sure all the model aircraft pilots who had plans to fly at the county approved site are out doing other things as the field is closed, as in totally locked out. It's so bad they cannot hang out at the pit to BS and BBQ under the tin roof canopy! How's that for a kick in the arse?

Anyway, there is some possibly good news listed for low altitude authorization to recreational flyers... I guess I'll have to read the document.

In America this past weekend we celebrated the start of the 100th season if The National Football League. For 100 years the NFL has successfully created football widows. Some wives do all they can do to distract their husbands on football Sundays. Some actually enjoy the game and actively root for their favorite teams. Some succumb to their husbands by hosting football parties for their men and their friends. Some act like they are fans but really know very little about the game.

So this is a question for the ladies. What kind of football fan are you?

Like there really should be any debate on which two are better than the other. Lets face it, Michael Jordan wins hands down. LeBron James is more of a "poor mans" Jordan.

Like to add your thoughts on this topic, feel free...

Anyone got a tip or two on the outcome of this game played in about 15 minutes from the placing of this blog?



Have a great weekend regardless.

Video evidence of da Bears training camp.

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another.
Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.

But that was merely an appetizer for Owens. In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race.

Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of global politics. Berlin, on the verge of World War II, was bristling with Nazism, red-and-black swastikas flying everywhere. Brown-shirted Storm Troopers goose-stepped while Adolf Hitler postured, harangued, threatened. A montage of evil was played over the chillingly familiar Nazi anthem: "Deutschland Uber Alles."

This was the background for the 1936 Olympics. When Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves had single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.

He gave four virtuoso performances, winning gold medals in the 100- and 200- meter dashes, the long jump and on America's 4x100 relay team. Score it: Owens 4, Hitler 0.

A remarkably even-keeled and magnanimous human being, Owens never rubbed it in. Just as sure as he knew fascism was evil, he also knew his country had a ways to go too in improving life for African-Americans.

"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus," Owens said. "I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either."


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