Rumors

ICE’s actions have been defended repeatedly by Bovino, Vance, Trump and DHS as necessary due to crime and danger caused by immigrants in the Twin Cities. It’s a familiar scenario to Chicagoans, who saw their city branded as a “hellhole” and “haven for criminals” during similar ICE campaigns over the last four months. Jones doesn’t believe this depiction of his hometown. He sees a different truth that doesn’t reflect federal officials’ rhetoric focused on violence. “People here know that it’s an amazing city built by amazing people,” Jones said. “It’s a great community here. People look out and stick up for one another. That’s what we see and feel. After some of the horrific things that happened here in the past five or six years, the community continues to come together and stick up for one another. That’s just how this city is.”

Chicago Tribune

Cuban joined the latest episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart and during the interview, he was asked about potentially taking on a larger political role. According to Cuban, he doesn’t consider himself a viable political player, which prompted Stewart to ask whether being around the Kamala Harris campaign further cemented his desire to avoid running for office. “I loved it,” Cuban insisted of campaigning for Harris. “It wasn’t that, it’s my family. I mean, look at all the sh*t that they did to JD Vance. I don’t want my kids hearing about me f***ing a couch!” To be clear, that wasn’t an admission from Cuban that he did f*** a couch. It was a reference to the false rumor that spread over the summer, which claimed Vance’s 2016 memoir included a passage about the time he had sex with a couch.

Awful Announcing

For the Wednesday Oklahoman, I wrote about David Vance and the birth of the blocked shot as an official statistic. You can read that column here. But the occasion gave Vance and I reason to look at all kinds of great memories about the ABA. The American Basketball Association spent nine years as an upstart league before finally merging with the NBA in 1976. Merge is not really accurate. The NBA absorbed four ABA franchises; 10 started that 1975-76 season. Three folded before the year was over, and three didn’t make the cut.

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