I am. I'm excited. Let's go Netherlands! First time in 24 years that we're participating

Spoiler-free Wikipedia for the card etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UFC_306&oldid=1245610721

For the super-middleweight championship of the world.

The fighters are expected to ringwalk at around 11:30 PM EST / 8:30 PM PST in Las Vegas, which is around 4:30 AM BST in the UK.

Should be good. I think Canelo will outbox him, but Berlanga has never been beaten and is still an up-and-comer, whereas Canelo is getting long in the tooth.

Rumoured undercard

Middleweight: Erislandy Lara (30-3-3) vs. Danny Garcia (37-3)
Super middleweight: Caleb Plant (22-2) vs. Trevor McCumby (28-0)
Super lightweight: Rolando Romero (15-2)  vs. Manuel Jaimes (16-1-1)
Featherweight: Stephen “Cool Boy” Fulton (21-1) Carlos Castro (30-2)
Welterweight: Roiman Villa (26-2) takes on Ricardo Salas (19-2-2) 
Super featherweight: Jonathan Lopez (16-0) and Richard Medina (15-2)

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_Hvd4gTKc
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKHktIbWrqE

They just beat Austria in the first knockout stage (well they're 5-2 up now with three minutes left), which puts them in a quarter-final against Brazil on Sunday – should be a great game.

They won the tournament in 2006 and 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_FIFA_U-20_Women%27s_World_Cup

Incredible things are happening in the "riding a board on water" segment of the action sports populace. Of course the concept of a hydrofoil board really took off after the infamous sunscreen photo:

Zuckerberg is riding a very expensive electric-powered one that has a tiny propeller on the foil, but it's also possible to go windpowered like in the top photo. Stand-up paddleboarding (aka SUP) is very popular and hydrofoil boarding is the next level. I have heard it is unbelievably difficult to ride these for longer than a single second without having your board tip dive into the water & eating shit spectacularly.

It is interesting to see what tinkering people are getting up to now that lightweight and relatively cheap/energy-dense batteries + motors are readily available. Quadcopters and e-bikes are only the beginning. Peter Sripol is a pretty cool youtuber who builds lots of things in this genre, mostly model planes.

Lame ass cheating ass team with a racist ass name anyway. Fuck the Chiefs, fuck Butker and fuck Cris Collinsworth annoying ass

I'm excited. I'm supporting SKA Saint Petersburg since a couple of years. Do you have a favorite KHL team and what is it?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_FIFA_U-20_Women%27s_World_Cup

It's not the debunked claims. As someone that did compete in sports in high school (albeit poorly), the story does check out. Sports organisations are underfunded and end up becoming circular/annulation like organisations in which athletes parents, loved ones, family, etc get involved and take up senior positions. I've seen it happen before.

Even outside of my personal experiences, the stories about athletes having one of their parents as a head coach are pretty infamous, or just famous, depending on how good the athlete is. I don't think anyone cares that Armand Duplantis' coach is his dad for example, he's the world record holder. However, you could argue that when this happens in more "subjective" sports, that there is a high potential for cheating, especially in organisational positions outside of coaching. There's a strong argument there.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/29/high-school-football-deaths-public-health-crisis

Every single one of these tackles would have literally ended my life and Lynch broke nine of them. Called the Beast Quake because the crowd reaction was picked up on seismic sensors around Seattle. It was followed up a few years later in 2014 by beastquake 2.0 which didn't get as large of a crowd reaction because it was an away game. This one is mostly notable for how ridiculously he accelerated laterally across the field.

I'm surprised how many meters I did in two hours

Also my cats won't stop licking my hair unless I take another shower when I get home

Just mind blowing

Dudes rock