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1) enjoy the shot, a lefty forehand winner by right-handed JJ Wolf, and 2) enjoy Wolf in a sleeveless T showing off his rippled physique

I love dogs. Any friendly, affectionate dog wll win my heart. I'm sure I'd love both dogs if I were lucky enough to meet them, but I'd ooh and ah over the Frenchy a lot more. Don't ask me to explain it. I imagine French and English bulldogs have that effect on most people, which is why so many people pay such hefty sums for them.

While I hadn't predicted this, I can't say I'm all that surprised. Ash Barty quit tennis once before (16yo, I think) saying she was burned out and just wasn't enjoying it. It seems like she still enjoys tennis but is physically done, "I just know I am absolutely spent. I know physically I have nothing more to give and that for me is success." Barty is just 25. The sport's superstars are winning Slams in their mid-30s. I won't be hugely shocked if she unretires and comes back to win a Slam or two, a la Kim Clijsters.

I think you can do both at the same time, feel pain, sadness, horror because of the atrocities of war while discussing how attractive (or not) Zelensky is. I am in the "not attractive" camp, although I admire him enormously and pray for him and his people every day. PS: While I didn't find him attractive, I have to admit he looks hella good in the video @Unicorn posted. But he isn't looking quite as buff nowadays. I doubt there are weight sets in those bunkers. Unfortunately, the only exercise he's getting lately is trying to stay one step ahead of Putin's hit squads 🥺

Actually, straight piano bars do indeed exist. I don't know if all these spots survived the pandemic, but there used to be four dueling piano bars on the Las Vegas Strip. I've never actually been to one but have walked by many times. The crowd looks pretty mixed, not particularly gay. The singing piano players who worked in them made some serious $$$. For their sake, I hope the lounges managed to survive.

Only if I'm allowed to giggle.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. A scant 2 weeks after taking the #1 ranking, Daniil Medvedev surrenders the top spot back to Novak by losing to Monfils in the 3rd round. Even in unfavorable conditions (the slow IW courts don't suit Medvedev's game), Medvedev should not lose to Monfils. Not a particularly convincing showing from the world #1. Medvedev can regain the top spot in a couple of weeks if he gets to the semis of Miami.

Grand Canyon National Park charges nominal entry fees, $20 for an individual, $35 per vehicle. Grand Canyon West is privately owned (Hualapei tribe) and charges more (least expensive option is $64). GCW's big advantage if you're coming from Las Vegas is that it's only ~2.5 hours from the Strip whereas GCNP is ~4.5. Factor in scary-high gas, and GCW's prices aren't so bad. I've heard that the views at GCNP are better than GCW's, but I can't say for sure since I've only been to GCNP.

Perhaps I'm lacking in imagination, but I'm still trying to figure out how a guy with a shaved crotch & no body hair is "fluffy." His rates for dinner+1 hour are, uh, eye-popping, but his overnight fee is market rate, at least for pricey NYC.

I don't think the buyer gets a refund ... Tom Brady’s “final” touchdown pass ball sells for more than $518,000

Why do traffickers lace cocaine with fentanyl? I'm guessing the effects of fentanyl allow traffickers to dilute the cocaine more, but not sure.

Well, the obvious difference is that in Manhattan & Chicago, while hardly crime-free utopias, tourists don't have to worry about corrupt cops "arresting" them and shaking them down for money, as was @jeepo1's experience.

After an entire year sidelined with a shoulder injury, Borna Coric returned to the tour at the Indian Wells Masters1000. Unfortunately, he lost, but I'm sure he looked good while going down.

Holy sh*t! A $5K 1-bed in the Bronx?! I never thought I'd see the day.

There are a lot of hot gymnasts, but my favorite is Max Whitlock. In this video, he shows off some of his most difficult moves on the pommel horse, along with his furry legs and bushy pits.

"Culinary legend," to me, connotes a prominent figure in gourmet food or fine dining, like Julia Child or Joel Robuchon. I would describe Charles Entenmann as a food industry giant, like Ray Kroc. That said, I haven't had an Entenmann's cheese danish in forever. Maybe I'll go out & buy one in his honor.

Out & about around noon, I drove past the gas station (cheapest gas in the area) but didn't stop to fill up because I was pressed for time. Regular was $4.37. ~10 hours later, I had time to fill up, but the price had jumped to $4.49!

College scholarships are a zero sum game. Even if, say, 100,000 athletic scholarships are available to high school girls, plenty of girls do not get a scholarship. If even 1 trans girl gets a college athletic scholarship, that means 1 cis girl loses out. You say that you don't think it will happen, but given the height/strength/speed advantages of biological males, how can it not happen? And when, not if, it does happen, even if just 1 cis girl loses out on a scholarship, that matters. I am not saying Lia Thomas is a cheater, and of course she didn't choose her body. When competing against men as Will Thomas, Will's physique was no different from other male swimmers. But look at Lia's height, her armspan, and her musculature and compare them to the cis women she competes against. There is no comparison. One of the advantages Michael Phelps had was his unusually long armspan, but at least he was competing against other men. Lia Thomas was born with a man's armspan but is competing against cis women. When Will Thomas competed against other men, he was ranked #462. Now that Lia Thomas is competing against cis women, she is ranked #1 and wins every race she enters. The advantages of someone born a biological male who competes against cis women are undeniable. Yet you continue to deny them. And you continue to deny the rights of the women who place 2nd in every race Lia Thomas enters.

So the benefit of allowing trans women to compete against cis women is to help trans people because trans people have difficult lives? Well, one person's rights end where another's begin. Every cis woman who competes against Lia Thomas is being denied the chance of winning. Why bother training and sacrificing if you have no chance to win?? Every cis woman in a race with Lia Thomas is supposed to sacrifice her chance of winning just to make the trans community feel better about themselves? That's the second time you've made the argument of "large number of cis women being denied college scholarships." I answered you before, so please either address my counter, or stop repeating yourself. While no cis woman has yet been denied a college scholarship because she was beaten out by a trans woman, given the undeniable physical superiority of trans women, it's a matter of when, not if. If you think one case doesn't matter, then one case of a gay man being fired for being gay doesn't matter, one case of a gay woman being denied custody of her children just for being gay doesn't matter. One case matters because all individual rights matter. The rights of the woman who placed 2nd in every race that Lia Thomas won matter. The rights of even one cis high school girl denied a scholarship because she was beaten out by a trans girl against whom she had no chance matters. If you want to improve the quality of life for trans people, I'm all for it. But you cannot rob others of their rights in your pursuit.

Why do we need an "explosion"? If even one cis female athlete loses out on a college scholarship, that is already one too many. It hasn't happened yet, but it will. I wonder about other swimmers in every race Lia Thomas enters. I guess there is some honor in placing 2nd or 3rd, but I have to think it's terribly demotivating to know you have zero chance of winning. Lia Thomas might be the first trans woman to demolish the competition, but she won't be the last. What exactly is the benefit of allowing trans women to obliterate cis women in amateur and college sports?

Not an issue in amateur or college sports? What about the cisgendered female athletes who know that no matter how hard they train and compete, they don't have a snowball's chance once a MTF trans woman enters the competition? Do cis women not matter? Why not? Trans women's participation in women's sports is just starting. The numbers will grow. How many cis girls will lose out on scholarships because they were beaten by trans girls? What do we tell the high school girls who missed out?

I'm calling bullshit. People make their own decisions about something as important as Covid vaccination. Yes, someone who has decided against vaccination might cite Novak's anti-vaxx belief to buttress their own decision to avoid vaccination, but to claim that people decided against vaccination solely or even in large part because of Novak is a bridge way too far. Novak was for a while in the grips of a nutjob guru Pepe Imaz, who believed in insanity like telekinesis. I don't recall a telekinesis movement springing up because Novak embraced such nuttiness. People make up their own minds.

Hold the phone! Yes, Novak stated incorrectly that he had not traveled to other countries during the 14 days prior to filling out the form, but to say he lied is too harsh. Novak didn't fill out the form, his agent did. Everyone on the planet knew that Novak had been training in Marbella because he posted pix on social media. Don't ask me why his agent made such an obvious error, but she was anguished over it. Is there any other lie you're referring to?