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And the WNBA won’t enforce the rules for the National Anthem
The WNBA’s own rulebook requires players to stand for the National Anthem.
A league that writes rules it refuses to enforce has a leadership problem, not a rulebook problem.
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Seconds before the national anthem begins, players from both WNBA Finals teams jog off the court. And for the third straight game, they don't return until the song is over.
The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries repeat the routine Wednesday night at State Farm Arena, despite league rules requiring players, coaches and trainers to stand in line during the anthem.
@Outkick reports that the WNBA, both teams and the NBA have yet to answer questions about the repeated absences or whether any disciplinary action is being considered.
See what else OutKick observed during the Game 3 anthem: foxnews.com/outkick-sports/a…
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The NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles almost killed Jalen Hurts for a Week 5 international showcase.
The full details of what happened behind closed doors in London just surfaced, and the negligence is staggering.
Before kickoff in London, Hurts was in a hospital bed until 4:00 AM undergoing emergency vascular testing. Medical staff instructed him not to sleep because sleep was considered an active health risk.
Instead of shutting down their $255 million franchise quarterback, the team cleared him to play 60 minutes of brutal, high-impact collision football on zero sleep.
Then, they loaded him onto a pressurized, 8-hour transatlantic flight back to Philadelphia.
Every doctor on the planet knows that long-haul flights and cabin pressure are the exact triggers that cause lower-extremity blood clots to break free. The Eagles spent days assuring the public it was just a "minor, superficial calf clot".
Now the truth comes out: the clot dislodged, shot through his bloodstream, and caused multiple pulmonary emboli in his lungs.
Hurts is officially out for the season, placed on blood thinners where taking a single routine tackle could cause a fatal internal hemorrhage.
He isn't just lucky to play football again, he is lucky to be alive.
When the NFL preaches "player safety," remember this moment. They ran a human being into the ground for television ratings in the UK, almost lost him to a preventable medical catastrophe, and cratered their entire season in the process.
Who inside that building signed off on letting him play and board that flight?
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The DC Council should take a real look at SFO. For the safety of DC Residents, let’s hit the brakes. We already face obstacles navigating city streets and an over-burdened 911 system. DC Firefighters have no training on how to handle Waymos.
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🛶On October 14, 2005, while reporting on flooding in New Jersey for NBC’s ‘Today Show,’ correspondent Michelle Kosinski infamously paddled a canoe during a live segment, only for two pedestrians to stroll through the shot, revealing the water to be just a few inches deep
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Cavemen Issues Dire Warning That The Wheel Is Going To Eliminate Countless Jobs
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A MUST LISTEN - DISPATCHER’S CLAIM IS ASTOUNDING
Here’s a phrase I’ve never heard a DC911 dispatcher say: “DC 295”. That’s not an exaggeration. At DC911/@OUC_DC, that very busy, four-mile stretch of highway doesn’t exist. It is ALWAYS erroneously dispatched as Interstate 295. For decades, I-295, travelling north from Oxon Hill, ended in the middle of the old 11thStreet Bridge. It now ends where the highway splits between the I-695 Bridge and DC 295. Despite what OUC dispatchers broadcast on the radio multiple times each day, the interchanges of “I-295 and Pennsylvania Avenue SE”, “I-295 and Benning Road NE” and others don’t exist. I’ve always chalked these constant mistakes up to OUC’s poor training. That assumption changed yesterday morning when I heard a conversation that blew my mind.
A frustrated DC Fire & EMS battalion chief had been calling on the radio for almost 30 minutes with the correct location of a highway crash. No matter how many times he explained it, two different dispatchers couldn’t get it right. The crash was where southbound DC-295 and I-695 meet. It’s a location every dispatcher should know. Despite his many explanations, the chief saw that the dispatch computer still claimed the crash was on “I-295”. He also saw DC police officers that he needed at the scene riding the opposite way and going south on I-295. When challenged, this bizarre explanation came from one of the dispatchers: The computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system won’t accept “DC-295” as a location, only "I-295". WHAT???
I have so many questions. Is the dispatcher correct? Has this been the problem all of these years? Is the CAD in the Nation’s Capital so wanting that its database has long been missing a high-volume highway that’s the source of multiple 911 calls each day? Is OUC leadership so inadequate that they can’t either put “DC-295” in CAD, or properly train the staff to know the difference between “I-295” and “DC-295”, or do both?
All of this is maddening and disheartening. This may not seem like a big deal, but I can assure you that it speaks volumes about the chaos and constant confusion that emanates daily from DC911. It’s a root cause of mistakes and delays. Mistakes and delays at a 911 center can cost lives. #FixDC911
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The TJ and Tom tradition lives on…even if TJ’s not wearing his pads anymore 🤣
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After the Bears fired him in 1993, Ditka made a cameo appearance on the SNL cold open with the Superfans. What a loss.
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A pastor asked an older farmer, who was wearing bib overalls, to say grace for a morning breakfast at church.
"Lord, I hate buttermilk", the farmer began.
The pastor opened one eye to glance at the farmer and wonder where this was going.
The farmer loudly proclaimed, "Lord, I hate lard."
Now the pastor was growing concerned.
Without missing a beat, the farmer continued, "And Lord, You know I don't much care for raw white flour".
The pastor once again opened an eye to glance around the room and saw that he wasn't the only one wondering what this was.
Then the farmer added:
“But Lord, when You mix them all together and bake them, I do love warm fresh biscuits.
So Lord, when things come up that we don't like and when life gets hard.
When we don't understand what You're saying to us.
Please help us to just relax and wait until You are done mixing.
It will probably be even better than biscuits. Amen."
Within that prayer there is great wisdom for all when it comes to complicated situations like we are experiencing in the world today.
Stay strong, my friends, because our LORD is mixing several things that we don't really care for, but something even better is going to come when HE is done with mixing it.
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Exactly 21 years ago Monday, Caps captain Alex Ovechkin was a fresh-faced, barely 20-year-old rookie about to make his NHL debut.
929 goals (and counting) later, Mike Vogel recounts the career of the #Gr8 — one that still has at least 82 more games to go. nhl.com/capitals/news/one-mo…
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The question isn't whether the Washington Capitals should build Alexander Ovechkin a statue, it's how big that statue should be.
Ovechkin Deserves a Statue—But How Big?
The question isn't whether the Washington Capitals should build Alexander Ovechkin a statue, it's how big that statue should be.
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Alex Ovechkin is one of the greatest players ever to play our game. But for Washington @Capitals fans, and for all of us who have had the privilege of watching him here in Washington, he is so much more than that.
For more than two decades, Alex has given our fans everything they could ask for: the goals, the records, the physicality, the passion, and an unmatched desire to win. He has made countless nights at @CapitalOneArena unforgettable. He brought Washington a Stanley Cup, and he helped create some of the most joyful and unifying moments this city has ever experienced in sports.
Alex helped turn the Washington region into a true hockey market, inspiring a new generation of young fans to fall in love with the sport and young players to pick up a stick. Across our community, you see the influence he has had on children, families, youth hockey programs, and the many people who now proudly call themselves Capitals fans.
What has always stood out to me is Alex’s connection with our fans. They have watched him grow from a young superstar into the face of this franchise, and they have been with him through every great moment. That relationship is rare. It is built on loyalty, shared memories, and the feeling that every time Alex steps on the ice, something special can happen.
It’s going to be a special and memorable final season, and I look forward to sharing the journey of @ovi8's final chapter with our fans.
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Alex Ovechkin announced to his teammates this morning that this season will be his final in the NHL
Respect
An NFL rookie walked into a stadium today with four names stitched on his jacket.
They were a Black Hawk crew that went down last September.
One of them was the son of a man whose restaurants play the national anthem every day at noon.
The rookie is Landon Robinson, a defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals, a Naval Academy graduate and a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
The jacket has four patches on it. Every one of them says C Company, 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The Night Stalkers. The unit that flies special operations missions in the dark. That company calls itself the Chupacabras, and the regiment's motto is stitched on every patch.
Night Stalkers Don't Quit.
Under each patch is a name.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Andrew Kraus, 39, of Sanibel, Florida.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Andrew Cully, 35, of Sparta, Missouri.
Sergeant Donavon Scott, 25, of Tacoma, Washington.
Sergeant Jadalyn Good, 23, of Mount Vernon, Washington.
On the night of September 17, 2025, their MH-60 Black Hawk went down near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. None of the four survived.
Now here is why a Navy man put an Army patch on his coat.
In 2011 a marketing executive at Under Armour named Bill Kraus and a restaurant man named Steve Newton opened a barbecue place in Glen Burnie, Maryland. They picked the opening date deliberately.
September 11, 2011. Ten years to the day.
Mission BBQ is in 23 states now. Every location plays the national anthem every day at noon. On Veterans Day and on September 11 they feed military and first responders for free. The company became a significant supporter of Naval Academy athletics.
Bill Kraus has sons.
Alex went to the Naval Academy and became a Marine pilot.
Andrew flew for the Night Stalkers.
Three months after that crash, Army played Navy in Baltimore for the 126th time. Navy players wear unit patches in that game, more than 100 of them, picked because a player has family in a unit or because an alum wrote in and asked. Navy's defensive coordinator P.J. Volker called it "a way to respect and honor a lot of people."
Navy's captain and starting nose tackle picked the Chupacabras.
That was Landon Robinson. Today he wore the same four names into an NFL stadium.
Be honest about the limits. It is a jacket, and patches do not bring anybody home. Robinson never served alongside those four.
But Bill Kraus opened a restaurant on the tenth anniversary of September 11 so that every day, at noon, in every room he owns, somebody would stop and play the anthem for people who serve.
Then the thing he spent 14 years honoring took his son.
And a kid from his school keeps saying the names out loud.
Kraus. Cully. Scott. Good.
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“Fun Uncle” Vincent Desharnais with Ryan Leonard, Cole Hutson and Ilya Protas at the Ravens game.
Desharnais mentioned that he and Hutson both love football and they’d definitely be getting together some Sundays to watch games. Get a chance today.






















