"When the rapper Snoop Dogg was softball pitched how he had prepared for his new role as a primetime Olympics correspondent for the US TV network NBC during the Paris Games,
he responded with characteristic swagger. “My preparation for primetime is being me,” he said.
“Google me. Look me up, dog.”
Online gambling
Underage gambling
Dark money gambling
Rigging games gambling
Betting on money trumping ethics
Sports capitalism Olympics
Buy a torch installment plan
Sofa life democracy voting
Mr Healthy the House always Wins
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"The Snoop Dogg AZ Bowl is partnering with brands that will help us be the first bowl — you hear me, the first bowl — to offer NIL money to student-athletes,” Snoop Dogg said "
'This was 100% Snoop Dogg’s idea,” Arizona Bowl executive director Kym Adair said.
"Earlier this month, the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop became
the first college bowl game to partner with an alcohol brand
as a presenting sponsor"
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"Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.
Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon). He also played football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and professional basketball. "
He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball
before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the contemporary amateurism rules.
In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals with replicas,
He suffered from alcoholism, and lived his last years in failing health and poverty. He was married three times and had eight children, including Grace Thorpe, an environmentalist and Native rights activist, before suffering from heart failure and dying in 1953.
Thorpe has received numerous accolades for his athletic accomplishments.
The Associated Press ranked him as the "greatest athlete" from the first 50 years of the 20th century
In 1917, Iva and Thorpe bought a house now known as the
Jim Thorpe House in Yale, Oklahoma,
and lived there until 1923.
They had four children: James F., Gale, Charlotte, and Grace Frances, an environmentalist and Native rights activist"
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The IOC voted to reinstate Thorpe as the sole winner of both events on July 14, 2022, after
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Stillwater to Yale on hw 51, 20 miles.
Yale to Tulsa, hw 51, 42 miles.
I grew up on 3 acres on hw 51, 15 miles from Yale, 60 years after he lived there.
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"Their Giuochi Olimpici (“Olympic games” in Italian)
was based not on speed or strength, but on one’s ability to string together a poem or win a debate.
The first of these new games was held in 1693 and they ran semi-regularly into the mid-18th century. The group met outdoors in places including the Farnese Gardens, a lofty site on the Palatine Hill in Rome overlooking the ruins of the Ancient Forum.
They was a mix of (mostly male) poets, writers, lawyers, clergymen, nobles, artists and musicians. All were members of the Arcadian Academy, a group named for the region of ancient Greece – Arcadia – that was regarded as the “home of poetry” in Early Modern Europe.
In 1504, the writer Jacopo Sannazaro had published a poem called Arcadia that presented an ideal vision of a world in which shepherds lived in harmony with nature.
Later on, poetry also became an official part of the first of the modern Olympic games – and remained so until 1948.
The foot race became a game called “the oracle”, in which a debate was held on a topic set by the custodian of the games.
The javelin became a game of dispute, in which the “shepherds” took part in friendly poetic disagreements.
They were encouraged “to sting and prick each other with verses”
to dispel any “bitterness that may have occupied their minds”.
The third game, the discus, became a game of wits in which the poets bested each other in composing witty songs.
Wrestling changed to a “game of transformation”, drawing from the myth of the metamorphosis of the ancient Arcadian King Lycaon, who was transformed into a wolf by Zeus after he sacrificed his son (one origin of the werewolf myth)
In the fifth game, called “the garland”, the winner was the person who could weave together the most beautiful poem in praise of nature. This was the only game in which women could compete.
Structured play, with its clear rules of engagement, is often regarded as a way of mimicking more serious types of social confrontation.
The “play” of games at the Olympics – whether poetic or physical – allows all of us (spectators included)
a chance to move through the emotions of combat, disagreement, disappointment and elation in a friendly way. "
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"The Panathenaic Stadium
(Greek: Παναθηναϊκό Στάδιο, romanized: Panathinaïkó Stádio
is a multi-purpose stadium in Athens, Greece. One of the main historic attractions of Athens, it is the only stadium in the world built entirely of marble.
The stadium was built on the site of a simple racecourse by the Athenian statesman Lykourgos (Lycurgus) c. 400 BC, primarily for the Panathenaic Games. "
'It was rebuilt in marble by Herodes Atticus, an Athenian Roman senator, by 144 AD it had a capacity of 50,000 seats. After the rise of Christianity in the 4th century it was largely abandoned. "
'It was used for various purposes in the 20th century and was once again used as an Olympic venue in 2004. It is the finishing point for the annual Athens Classic Marathon. It is also the last venue in Greece from where the Olympic flame handover ceremony to the host nation takes place."
Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, and is generally rectangular (cuboid). It was described by Vitruvius as opus isodomum or trapezoidal.
Precisely cut "on all faces adjacent to those of other stones", ashlar is capable of requiring only very thin joints between blocks, and the visible face of the stone may be quarry-faced or feature a variety of treatments: tooled, smoothly polished or rendered with another material for decorative effect.
"Ashlar masonry was also heavily used in the construction of palace facades on Crete, including Knossos and Phaistos. These constructions date to the MM III-LM Ib period, c. 1700–1450 BC.
In some Masonic groupings, which such societies term jurisdictions, ashlars are used as a symbolic metaphor for how one's personal development relates to the tenets of their lodge. "
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