Various Sports News, Videos etc.

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The conspiracy of Olympic skateboarding.
You just know they were waiting for Tony Hawk to become too old to compete before they recognised it as an Olympic sport.
If they added it in 1988 he would have won every single medal at every games untill 2004.

No other skateboarder would even bother knowing Tony would take all the spots on each podium for each event.
As we all know, Tony Hawk was the only skateboarder in the world between 1986 and 2004.

Actually your countrymen the Pappas Brothers were very competitive with Tony in their primes in the mid-90s so Australia could have brought home Gold

Watch the documentary All This Mayhem if you're unfamiliar with them. They were great and then went crazy on drugs.

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PGA Tour, LIV Golf, DP World Tour announce merger

The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and the LIV Golf League, which have been embroiled in a bitter legal battle for more than a year, have agreed to merge and move forward in a larger commercial business, the circuits announced Tuesday.

The tours called the stunning development "a landmark agreement to unify the game of golf, on a global basis."

In a statement, the circuits said the parties have signed an agreement that "combines PIF's golf-related commercial businesses and rights (including LIV Golf) with the commercial businesses and rights of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour into a new, collectively owned, for-profit entity to ensure that all stakeholders benefit from a model that delivers maximum excitement and competition among the game's best players."

"After two years of disruption and distraction, this is a historic day for the game we all know and love," PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said in a statement. "This transformational partnership recognizes the immeasurable strength of the PGA Tour's history, legacy and pro-competitive model and combines with it the DP World Tour and LIV -- including the team golf concept -- to create an organization that will benefit golf's players, commercial and charitable partners and fans."

The LIV Golf League, which was being financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) and fronted by two-time Open Championship winner Greg Norman, and 11 of its players, including Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, had sued the PGA Tour in federal court last year, alleging that the PGA Tour had used its monopoly power to squash competition and influence vendors, media companies and others from working with LIV Golf.

The PGA Tour filed a countersuit, alleging that LIV Golf had interfered with its contracts with players.

The Public Investment Fund had dumped more than $2 billion into the golf enterprise, which critics have claimed is a form of sportswashing to repair the Saudi Arabian monarchy's history of human rights violations.

The landmark deal was reached without the knowledge of many PGA Tour members and LIV Golf players and agents.

Said one PGA Tour player reached by ESPN on Tuesday, "No f---ing way."

Source: ESPN

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WWE doesn't give a single shit about morals. They didn't go because they weren't sure how FOX and Universal would feel about renewing their television contracts since LIV could only get a bad deal with CW Network. They get tons of money to do two shows in Saudi Arabia and their commentators have to keep mentioning how wonderful Saudi Arabia is between matches.

And hilariously Prince bin Salman keeps asking them to bring Yokozuna, a wrestler who died 23 years ago, and nobody wants to tell him.

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WWE doesn't give a single shit about morals. They didn't go because they weren't sure how FOX and Universal would feel about renewing their television contracts since LIV could only get a bad deal with CW Network. They get tons of money to do two shows in Saudi Arabia and their commentators have to keep mentioning how wonderful Saudi Arabia is between matches.

And hilariously Prince bin Salman keeps asking them to bring Yokozuna, a wrestler who died 23 years ago, and nobody wants to tell him.

Yeah I think it's weird to use WWE as an example. Lord knows what someone like Vince McMahon could do without any restraint.

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Apparently he's fine.

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54% Republicans for NASCAR I don't believe. Maybe 85%. It's a sport mainly watched by white men in the south and midwest.

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Wow, that horse was so far in front from an early stage. Crazy.

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Um.. what the shit am I looking at?

Looks like James Cameron blew the budget of the next avatar movie on getting Ed Sheeran instead of make up and effects.

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It's from the bizarre Olympics opening ceremony.

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All I saw of the opening ceremony was some boats going at 2km/h down the river and a bunch of dancers.

Even the news report on the opening ceremony felt like it took a million years. I'd have put all the crowds on the river and had the athletes run down the streets to speed it up. Still there's been some pretty awful shit in Olympics ceremonies, and this is more confusing than bad.

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The blue guy is Dionysus aka Hedonismbot

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I only watched the beginning of the opening ceremonies. The final torchbearer was pretty cool but I wasn't paying attention when Papa Smurf came out. The worst part for the U.S. audience was Mike Tirico and Peyton Manning.



Boring and weird is a good way to describe it. Conservatives in America are melting down about the whole thing.