Stadium of Dreams? If you build it, the NBA will come... back to Seattle. Of course, they could force the issue; financier Chris Hansen has had his eye on the Sacramento Kings in the past, and the Cereal State (home to flakes, fruits and nuts) capital is struggling to get a new arena built. However, it seems foolhardy to build a $300M stadium without a firm commitment to having a tenant that can take advantage of it.
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9/11 +11. Somehow, I have a feeling things are about to get worse before they get better. Somalia is a free zone for radicals and northern Mali has become jihadist territory. Pakistan continues to be dysfunctional and unfriendly to civilization. The hangover from the Arab Spring winds out as new democracies in Libya and Egypt work out the kinks and a civil war in Syria could easily destabilize Lebanon and possibly through Turkey for a loop.
al Qaeda is on the run, but it has lots of places to run to.
The US embassy in Cairo got rushed in a sacrilege protest. Thankfully, no serious damage was done; seems that a US-based ex-pat Copt had made an anti-Islam video that made the rounds and the crowd blamed the US for anything bad done by our residents.
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I'm still wondering what Ryan Rayburn is blackmailing the Tigers with; batting second in a pennant race with a .171 batting average? Something doesn't quite make sense.
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