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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?

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!

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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FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP final USA 13 Thailand 0

The United States women's national team is off to a fantastic start at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. The Americans opened Group F play against Thailand in Reims, France, and comfortably found the back of the net three times before halftime. Comfortably is being nice -- they could have led by five or six at the break. Alex Morgan scored the opener 12 minutes in before the U.S. added two more through Rose Lavelle and Lindsey Horan. The three-time World Cup winners finished the first half with 15 shots and 73 percent possession.

Tonight the Atlanta Braves won the 'World' Series, beating Houston 4 games to 2.
It was only the second time that the Atlanta Braves won the championship.

I was happy to watch the cheating Houston a**hole Astros go down in flames.
I hope the Astros never win another World Series, until every one of their teammates, who
were on their cheating team, are no longer on the Astros.

We already know the White House has been hit by COVID-19 and it's become the most tested place in the world right now. Trump and Pence have refused to wear face masks. I already brought up a possibility (other than stupidity) why they would be so bold as to do as I say and not as I do and continue... but. But, if the president and the vice-president are stricken with COVID-19 and required to be admitted to ICU, that would leave the Speaker of the House next in line to the Oval Office.




Uhh... do they know this??

Maybe it's time to Mask Up.



I selected the blog category as sports... after all, who is running the country, or should I say who will be running the country?

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.

Last night in Green Bay the officials bad calls made the difference in a football game.

The Lions had other things to be frustrated with last night, including themselves.

But the officials made such a convenient target.


The Lions were rightfully angry with a number of calls, specifically the two phantom hands to the face calls on defensive end Trey Flowers which helped the Packers come back for a win.

“I didn’t think hands to the chest was a penalty,” Flowers said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “I thought hands to the face, but I had him right here in the chest. The second time I changed it to right here [another spot on the chest]. That’s part of a move that I do and, yeah. So, nah, I don’t think that was a penalty, but they did, so . . .

“They saw something different than what actually happened and they called what they thought they saw. I was doing it all game. I didn’t know that was a flag to the chest, so I could change it to [another spot on the collar]. They called it again.”

Those weren’t the only calls that angered the Lions, as safety Tracy Walker was upset with a personal foul for a helmet-to-helmet hit when he was going for the ball. Officials explained afterward that intent wasn’t a factor, and that the foul would have been called even if Walker picked it off.

“Extremely pissed off right now,” Walker said. “It is what it is. Disappointed. Hurt. We had that game. it’s going – I’m going to say the same s—, we should have won it. It is what it is, though. Got to bounce back. . . .

“I feel like we could have had a better game and we was supposed to come victorious with that game but Green Bay came to play. There was some awful, awful calls, but we got to play through that. We got to overcome those, and so we didn’t, obviously, and we came up short.”

Walker was asked if he was worried about being fined, and he said he did not care.

“Detroit vs. Everybody,” he said. “I’m saying it. Detroit vs. Everybody. It’s awful.”

Of course, that would imply this year’s officiating problems have been unique to Lions games. They have not been, and that creates an issue the league can’t continue to ignore.

On February 22, 1980, the United States Olympic hockey team pulled off one of the greatest upsets in sports history, defeating the Soviet Union, 4-3.