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  1. Are you guys talking about Platner? Looks like he suspended his campaign.
  2. Is she pregnant with his kid?
  3. That depends. Some places a friend, family member, associate of the defendant can put up the 10% cash and if they fail to appear their bail is revoked and a warrant is issued. The 10% they had put up is lost and the other 90% is due. I don't know how it works in NE or where Ferrari was arrested. I know some places work as I described.
  4. There is a good chance the US will host again in 2038. FIFA has a rule that countries in the same confederations as the countries that hosted the last two World Cups are not allowed to bid for the next World Cup and the 2030 World Cup has a really complicated hosting arrangement which eliminates most of the world. There were two bids to host in 2030 and both were multi country. One was a combined bid from Morocco, Portugal, and Spain and the other was a combined bid bid from Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay. Morocco is in the African confederation (CAF), Spain and Portugal in UEFA (Europe) and the other three in South America (CONMEBOL). FIFA picked the Morocco/Spain/Portugal but also gave each of the South American bidders one match to celebrate 100 years from the first World Cup which was played in South America. So the 2030 World Cup eliminated 3 confederations (CAF, UEFA, CONMEBOL) from bidding for the 2034 and 2038 world cups. Since CONCACAF is the host this year that left only Asia and Oceania as eligible to host the 2034 World Cup. Only 1 stadium that meets the FIFA minimum capacity of 40,000 exists in all of Oceania so it was pretty clear that 2034 eould be hosted in Asia or at minimum a joint bid with an Oceania nation(s). It went to Saudi Arabia. Looking to 2038 countries from AFC, CAF, UEFA, and CONMEBOL will be prohibited from hosting due to the rule. This leaves the only options as CONCACAF or Oceania. Oceania is unlikely to make a winning bid because the stadium requirements mentioned earlier and outside of the three countries hosting the 2024 World Cup there are 2 stadiums with capacity over 40,000 in CONCACAF. So it must be the US, Mexico, and/or Canada in 2038. FIFA has additional stadium requirements like all semifinals venues must have a capacity of at least 60,000 and at least 80,000 for the opening match and final. Canada currently doesn’t have any that meet the semifinal/final requirements and Mexico has one above 80k and another that meets the semifinal but not final requirement. Still either country could successfully bid, but it would require more new construction and $$ than a bid involving the USA. If none of the US, Mexico, and Canada want to host in 2038 FIFA probably opens up the process to other confederations.
  5. I never said otherwise. There is more to being the best site than setting an attendance record. The attendance record for a World Cup final is 199,854 which was at Maracanã Stadium in the 1950 World Cup. Does this make Brazil the best place to host the final?
  6. Interesting. That doesn't sound like new charges. Maybe he was arrested in Douglas County on the warrant from the assault on the pregnant woman in Lincoln. Instagram post probably had the details wrong.
  7. If NCAAs break an attendance record in 2028 at US Bank Arena will that mean Minneapolis is the best place to host?
  8. Was he talking about attendance at the World Cup or the 250th Birthday celebration on the National Mall?
  9. Allegedly he's been arrested again. https://www.instagram.com/p/DagBU45CURb/
  10. Of course he was highly rated, but highly rated wrestlers coming out of high school routinely fail to AA or win a title in college. In his class only one other top 10 recruit ended up winning a title (O'Toole) and 5 have not yet AAed. The class of 2021 was similar with two top ten recruits winning titles (Hamiti and Figueroa) and 5 AAing so far. 2019 was a little better with 3 winning NCAA titles (Kerkvliet, Allirez, and Starocci) and 6 AAing. None of those guys won as true freshman. Even top tier #1 recruits fail to win as true freshman. Ferrari was highly ranked out of high school, but he was not expected to win that year as evidenced by his #4 seed at NCAAs. Winning over Miles Amine who would go in to place 3rd at the Olympics later that year was definitely a surprise. OSU did a good job with him and Smith was more effective than a string of highly regarded coaches Ferrar would wrestle under later in his career. Below is a list of all true freshman NCAA champs. Dick Hutton OSU 1947 Dick Hauser Cornell 1947 Lowell Lange Cornell 1947 Bill Nelson UNI 1947 Pat Milkovich MSU 1972 Don Rohn Clarion 1973 Darryl Burley Lehigh 1979 Matt Reiss NC State 1980 Pat Smith OSU 1990 Lincoln McIlravy Iowa 1993 Teyon Ware OU 2003 Dustin Schlatter MN 2006 Kyle Dake Cornell 2010 J'den Cox Mizzou 2014 Myles Martin Ohio State 2016 Mark Hall PSU 2017 Spencer Lee Iowa 2018 Yianni Diakomihalis Cornell 2018 AJ Ferrari OSU 2021 Jax Forrest OSU 2026 Sergio Vega OSU 2026 Landon Robideau OSU 2026
  11. Yes and that's true of every world cup. The World Cup record for both cumulative and average attendance was previously the 1994 World Cup hosted in the US. The main thing driving the US success here is stadium size. The US has more large stadiums than any other country. When the US hosted the World Cup in 1994 all the stadiums that were used had a capacity over 50,000. The only other time all the host stadiums had a capacity of at least 50,000 was 1974 in Germany. This World Cup all US host venues have a capacity over 60,000. Only two stadiums have capacities below 50,000. One is in Mexico and the other in Canada. Perhaps due to the smaller venues and the expanded field this year is behind 1994 in average attendance. Compare this to the hosts of the last two World Cups. Qatar had 0 stadiums with a seating capacity over 30,000 before winning the bid to host over the USA. They had to build 8 stadiums with seating capacity over 44,000 all within a 20 mile radius as part of their bid. Russia hosted the World Cup before that in 2018. There are only two football stadiums with a capacity over 50,000 in the entire country. Two host sites had capacities under 40k.
  12. This is unsurprising. The field was expanded this year from 32 to 48 teams. This added 4 groups of 4 teams to the group stage and an extra round to the knockout stage. An additional 6x4=24 group games and 16 knockout games. Adding 40 games to the competition would have set a cumulative attendance record regardless of where it was hosted.
  13. The Flo article appears differently in their mobile app. Looking at it in a desktop web browser I see the source of the confusion. On the top it says "Last Updated on Apr 27, 2020 by Brock Hite" but that is most likely referencing the last update to the class of 2020 class ranking article series. The rankings being displayed are from April 9th 2019. If you scroll to the bottom there is a little drop down box showing the date of the ranking. You can click it and select earlier or later dates. Ferrari was number 1 as late as August 6, 2019 before dropping in the last two rankings. Another give away that these are not the latest rankings you are looking at is at the bottom it says "or feedback, email me at [email protected]." Willie left Flo in November 2019. He did the 2020 recruiting class rankings in April and August of 2019. Brock Hite took over after that and did the rankings in January and March of 2020. It looks like he last updated them in April 2020 maybe with college commitment additions? I don't know. The OSU article backs up this timeline. They refer to Ferrari as "the nation's former No. 1 overall recruit AJ Ferrari Jr." and "the No. 1 ranked pound-for-pound wrestler in the class of 2020 at the time of his commitment." The OSU article was written in the Fall of 2020 and would have been published after the final recruiting class rankings.
  14. The AI you used quoted the Flo article from April 2019 and put April 2020 as the date. He fell from number 1 after he didn’t wrestle his entire senior season.
  15. Exactly right that speech is protected. If she had encouraged people to start the fires to administer karma or something like that she could be charged, but just commenting that way on a natural disaster is not illegal. Hashemi was not a US citizen. He was a permanent resident, green card holder. Rubio revoked his green card. It would have been more challenging to deport him if he was a citizen. If he was a US citizen by birthright then it’s not possible. If he was a naturalized citizen it is theoretically possible if he had lied during the process and not too much time had passed. Disloyalty might be enough there too because one part of the naturalization process is taking an oath of allegiance to the United States. Hashemi may share some of mother’s ideas but he was not involved in the hostage crisis. He had not even been born when that took place.
  16. Did I say that? Whoops. I meant Keegan O’Toole. The only NCAA champs from the class of 2020 are Keegan O’Toole (2), Ferrari (1), and Trumble (1). Ferrari and Amos might be the only top ten recruits in the class with remaining eligibility.
  17. That can't be right. Pat Smith, McIlravy, Ware?, Dake, Schlatter, Spencer Lee, Diakomihalis... Mark Hall.
  18. As in you quoted it from the flo article or an AI produced that for you? The flo article that is from is 4/8/2019. Ferrari was #1 again 8/6/2019. After that he started falling. On 1/8/2020 he was down to 5 and on 1/8/2020 and finished the year #10 in the last class ranking for the class of 2020. You don't need AI to figure a guy who missed his entire senior season is going to fall in the rankings. And whilst being 1 shows the potential to win NCAAs. Somewhat rarely is that potential realized as a true freshman or ever in challenging cases such as Ferrari.
  19. It's not strictly true. It's hyperbole. There also is some truth to it. Smith succeeded where other top coaches such as Brands, Manning, and Koll could not. Not sure where your AI is getting those rankings. Below are Flo's rankings. The latest one they published was in March 2020. Earlier Ferrari was number 1 but he didn't wrestle his senior year and fell down the rankings.
  20. Flo had him number 10 behind a bunch of guys many of which didn't AA much less win a national title. The only one ranked ahead of him by flo that won NCAAs was Braxton Amos. Some still have eligibility left (Ferrari and Amos). Isaac Trumble also won NCAAs. He was ranked 43. Braxton Amos Keegan O'Toole Patrick Kennedy Beau Bartlett Lachlan McNeil Hunter Catka Robbie Howard Josh Saunders Chase Saldate AJ Ferrari
  21. What do you think free speech is about? Distasteful, critical, and controversial speech is subject to strict protection. This is the kind of speech most likely to be restricted by the government. Opening a PayPal account isn’t free speech. Iran is an OFAC sanctioned country. You will not be able to open an account with an address in Iran. If you are an ordinary citizen in the US opening an account should not be a problem
  22. Are these not the kind of laws that allow the Islamic Republic to punish those that oppose their regime? Pass such laws and one day someone you disagree with may end up power, decide you are the enemy, and use them against you.
  23. You have described nothing illegal. In the US she is free to say those things. She is free to think those things. Maybe in Iran citizenship could be stripped and someone deported over this but not here.
  24. That is not true. In 1962 red cards didn't carry an automatic ban for the next match. There was no ban to be lifted or suspended for 1-4 years. FIFA decided to not levy an additional penalty. There was no penalty reduction.
  25. This really isn't unique to Iran and FIFA. The Olympics do the same thing with flags. Only official flags of participating countries are allowed. I recall seeing an occasional pre-revolution flag in Paris, but the majority were the official one. There were also some protest messages in support of Iran allowing women to wrestle. But protest and non-official flags are banned. The iconic black power salute at the 1968 games was also against the rules. How could a US citizen be deported for being loyal to Iran or any country? I guess that's paying in some sense, but this doesn't sound like the kind of thing was done on a large scale. I am sure the Islamic Republic of Iran had tickets allocated and people who wanted to go, but couldn't get visas. Visas were tough enough for the players and support staff to obtain. I am sure no spectators travelling from Iran got them. Might have been considered the best alternative to actually attending. Sell the ticket and an opposition fan is likely to buy it. Give it to a neutral and get them to carry your flag.
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