If you are shocked by the NW GA district special election result, you're telling me that you have very little understanding about that region of the state and I invite you to no longer speak on it
spent the day warning the few sports-watching coworkers I have that if it really does end up Hawks/Knicks in the playoffs that I will be the most insufferable coworker they've ever had
like, bring your own bottled water to avoid the cooler bad
I know the online gambling vs. canceling Magic City night has been done to death already for Hawks/Magic, but Peacock's injection of sports betting is pretty egregious in a sports TV already dripping in it...
1) people really love to regionalize an issue because it makes it seem like a tumor that can be removed rather than an issue that is also their responsibility, and
2) folks really assume EVERYONE has the media literacy of a very online person, when %-wise, almost NO Americans do!
i honestly don't think it hit me until now, a month and change after the game, that the miami hurricanes were one game away from being the national champions in football
a clumsy sentiment of mine perhaps. It's disappointing to see potential idols for young people align with far-right politics, I guess I've just never considered the opposite? What did we expect, I guess?
I don't think it's ever made sense to look for community-based, progressive viewpoints from high-earning athletes who have never been a part of collective communities outside of the teams they play on
like, where would they get introduced to a more collective, working class experience?