What is the coolest, awesomest, most mind-bendingest thought you’ve thought while high?
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Fans and players from five African World Cup countries face $15,000 bond to enter US
(www.theguardian.com)
No because I was lying and have no idea what any of that means lol
The boombox is the only concrete clue I can identify. It’s an am/fm cassette, but doesn’t seem to have a cd player, so I’m assuming it went out of style in the early aughts. Best guess, this trash is about 20 years old.
Well, I mean, of course you would want to avoid being either conformal or equal-area. As an experienced cartographer, I am both intimately aware of the technical meaning of both those terms, and their drawbacks in map composition.
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Frankel Could, And Likely Should Be The First Goaltender To Win The PWHL's MVP Award
(thehockeynews.com)
I'm no linguist, but four seems like it's repeating?
The league does list past infractions, as they did with Rebecca Leslie's recent fine, the second of her career, Maggie Flaherty's fine, the second disciplinary action of her career, and Britta Curl-Salemme's fine, the fourth supplemental disciplinary action she's faced.
But none of these players were repeat offenders in the PWHL's eyes.
oppa mar-a-lago style
Seems a good pickup:
Mattivi joins the Victoire after wrapping up her season in the Swedish Women’s Hockey League (SDHL) with Luleå HF, who exited the playoffs last week. In 22 games played this year, Mattivi tallied five goals and 23 points. In 2025, Mattivi was named SDHL Defender of the Year in her rookie season with Luleå HF.
You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone:
Ken Campbell of The Hockey News says the Kraken never took full advantage of the tax free status while they had it. Since their inception the Kraken have taking the traditional “build through the draft” approach to building a team. Those tax benefits would have been helpful in signing free agents and when those drafted young players need new big contracts, but not anymore.
You can guess from the scoreline maybe why she felt comfortable making the sporting choice, but good sportsmanship is good sportsmanship just the same:
Parma went on to win the match 9-1 and clinch their respective league title with an unbeaten season
It’s a tough look:
Wagner Xavier is an anthropologist at the University of Campinas who studies gender and sport and explains why Brazil took 47 years to form a women’s blind national team. While the men’s national championships started in 1978, the women’s national team was only officially established in 2025. He says the delay happened because for decades football was treated as an exclusively male space and women with disabilities faced a double barrier of gender and disability prejudice, resulting in a total lack of investment and organised competitions.
Football, he argues, was built as a male space from its foundations – structured that way since the 19th century, when Baron de Coubertin founded the Olympic Games. “Women were considered assistants – in the sense of giving support and watching from the sidelines,” he says. “They were the first fans, but they were there as supporting characters in the process.” The division of domestic labour by gender, he says, “goes into public life too, reaching the most diverse institutions” – including sport.
I didn’t really know how much fines were:
Last week the PWHL also fined Britta Curl-Salemme and Loren Gabel $250 each.
Fixed! Thanks for catching it.