New Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
Biggest movers: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-ten-biggest-risers-in-the-rivals250-24
Adam Gorney's position-by-position thoughts: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-breaking-down-the-new-rivals250-for-2025

The Class of 2024 is pretty much full give or take a few stragglers out there, but for the class of 2025 I wanted to start this one stop shop for all new offers, visits, graphic tweets, etc.

At the momet Penn State has five commits and is ranked No. 7 overall in the country per Rivals.

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Spoke with a couple of sources this weekend and there's some talk that DJ McClary might end up "decommitting" as he supposedly didn't look good or test well at the recent Elite 11 / All-22 camp. This is far from a definite thing, but combine the testing along with the fact that he wants to visit other schools and Penn State set to host multiple linebacker targets over the next few weeks and this starts to make a lot of sense. Personally I'm a big fan of McClary and I think he has a high ceiling, so it will be interesting to see how this all plays out, but wanted you guys to know what we are hearing incase something does break soon.

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BIDEN IS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT!!!! lol... IMPEACH HIM!!! He did the crime; now he needs to do the TIME. No one is above the law!!! lmfao...

https://justthenews.com/government/...ta-private-email-including-briefings-security

Under the law, such communications are supposed to occur on secure government email systems and to date Biden has not offered any explanation why his private email account was used.The Archives says it has tens of thousands of such emails from three Biden personal pseudonym accounts used during his vice presidency.

Of course. Democrats are not known for well reasoned and thought out legislation. Instead they rely on emotions and feelings to make THEM feel good about it.

https://reason.com/2024/05/29/calif...dy-having-disastrous-unintended-consequences/

Frederic Bastiat, in his work "That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen," points out that there are always seen and unseen consequences when government force impacts economic decisions. "Almost always," he wrote, "the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal."

In this case, the immediate consequence is that existing workers get a raise. Great. That's the seen. That's what the media, unions, and Center for American Progress see. But the unseen effect is bigger, and worse:

No. 1: Thousands of Californians have already lost jobs because some restaurants closed. Others lost income because their employer cut worker hours. The chain El Pollo Loco cut employees' hours by 10 percent.

Pizza Hut announced that they will lay off more than a thousand delivery drivers. One, Michael Ojeda—a delivery driver who was laid off by the company—understandably asked, "What's the point of a raise if you don't have a job?"

No. 2: Workers who still have jobs will lose them because now their employers have more incentive to automate. Chipotle just created a robot that makes burrito bowls. Even CNN acknowledged, "Some restaurants are replacing [fast food workers] with kiosks."

No. 3: Prices go up.

The day Newsom signed the bill, he was asked, "Can Californians expect the prices of their McDonald's and Starbucks to go up?"

Newsom deceitfully replied, "I've heard that rhetoric before. And it didn't happen!"

Nonsense. It did happen. It always happens when government forces wage increases. In this case, Starbucks prices have increased as much as 15 percent. Customers will pay about $200 per year more for their coffee. A chicken burrito at Chipotle will cost up to 8 percent more.

No. 4: Perhaps the worst unseen harm from minimum wage laws is that young and unskilled people won't even be hired. They won't gain valuable experience from a first job at a fast food restaurant.

In 2014, when Seattle politicians raised the minimum wage to $15, I asked some teenagers what a higher minimum wage could do for them.

Nevermind the next ground breaking solar panel that has more than 25% efficiency and costs less. China can do that for us.

Gifted and talented programs are vanishing from schools. That’s a bigger problem than you think.​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/g...uld-hurt-more-kids-than-you-think/ar-BB1nfF4q

I remember watching a movie in school in 7th grade. It was on pollution, oil, gas..... It ended with a broadcaster on camera reporting on famine, high temperatures, global chaos, rioting... then faded to black. Hard to believe the left is still crying wolf after 40 years.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...-global-warming-is-the-ultimate-hoax-n2639588

Seems to me if we are ever going to take the next step... we are going to NEED to get better at filling needs !

Well, it was a good run.

LOL... That is about right for most cultists.... #MUSTGETTRUMP.

The depth of their desperation should be alarming to normal people.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3020045/whatever-they-can-get-him-for-is-fine-with-me/

“Not all that long ago, I thought that the trial currently being held … seemed the least serious of the cases against him,” wrote George Conway, the conservative lawyer-turned-Biden megadonor, in the Atlantic earlier this month. “But I feel the need to admit error. The truth is, I’ve come around to the view that People v. Trump is, in at least some ways, the perfect case to put Trump in the dock for the first time, and — I hope, but we’ll see — perhaps prison.”

Why is that? Conway, one of the more aggressive members of the anti-Trump resistance, wrote that he now believes the Manhattan case perfectly exposed what he says are Trump’s myriad lies. But for the resistance, the most salient fact about the Manhattan trial is this: It is happening. It is getting done before the election, which is the most important consideration for Democrats who pray that a Trump conviction could change the dynamics of a presidential race in which Trump leads President Joe Biden.

The other cases against Trump seem lost in legal never-never land. The resistance’s favorite case, special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, is awaiting two critical Supreme Court rulings and seems unlikely to go to trial before the election. The second-favorite case, Smith’s indictment over classified documents, is lost in procedural complexities. And the final indictment, the one that, like the current case, was brought by a local prosecutor, Fulton County Democratic District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia, seems to be a total mess.

But the current case, brought by Bragg, who, incidentally, won office in deep-blue Manhattan on a promise to pursue Trump, is a reality. If you really want to bring down Trump, some anti-Trumpers believe, who cares if it is weak? Who cares if it is politically motivated? Trump is “a criminal” who “basically tried to destroy American democracy,” Conway said in an interview last week. “And whatever they can get him for is fine with me.”

Whatever they can get him for is fine with me. That is perhaps the most succinct and direct explanation for the wave of Democratic lawfare we have seen in the run-up to the 2024 vote. The cases are all over the place, with four prosecutions in all, at the county level, the federal level, in New York, Washington, D.C., and Georgia. For more than a year, it has been obvious that they represent a redundant effort against Trump. If one case falters, another might succeed. And if one or two or three cases falter, the fourth might still break through.

Legal fees are eating into the cash of Trump big time. It's just a small private jet but when you need cash somethings just aren't needed. The amount of legal fees being incurred by the candidate Trump are exceeding $50 million per month, The campaign piggy bank is under stress with fewer suckers paying the bills for their billionaire hero.
Why does a billionaire need poor folks to pay his bills?

Maybe another indictment will increase his lead.... Democrats are stupid people. Especially @LafayetteBear . A true cultist.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...-prices-election-voter-pandering/73802186007/

President Joe Biden likes to spin tales about how he’s going to sail to reelection and how the polls are simply getting it all wrong.

Earlier this month, he told donors, “While the press doesn’t write about it, the momentum is clearly in our favor, with the polls moving towards us and away from Trump.”

Unfortunately for Biden, “the press” isn’t writing that because it’s not true – and it’s not what the polls are showing. Former President Donald Trump bests Biden in most surveys, including in swing states that will decide this election.

Despite Biden’s sunny disposition about his betting odds, his actions betray what he’s really feeling: panic.

Seeing @Just another PSU Fan's post this morning finally got me off my ass to do something I wanted to do a long time ago, and that's start an OT thread about tobacco, coffee, and libations and see who likes what here.

My thing for 25+ years has been cigars. It started in 1998 at my brother's HS graduation party when a guy brought a box of Holt's Classics from Philly for everyone to try, and that opened the flood gates for me. I got into Acid's very early on, and then went down the rabbit hole from there, including buying up Cubans online before the COVID price hike. I've currently got 7 humidors, 6 of which are resting Cubans, the other light-medium non-Cubans.

My favorite cigars are Oliva Connecticut Reserve (lighter) and Serie V Melanio (fuller), Cubans Partagas, H Upmann, San Cristobal and HdM.

I thoroughly enjoy pairing a light roast coffee with cream and splenda with my cigar, and have no qualms about enjoying both in the morning hours. I'm not much of an alcohol guy anymore, even though I know I'm missing out on the bourbon pairings.

I also recently tried my first bag of bulk pipe tobacco (Kramer's Father Dempsey). I bought a pipe starter set on Amazon, and for me it's a different flavor I get to experience in a quicker format. Picking up a pipe is definitely a learning process and one I want to continue to explore in the very near future.

Does anyone else here enjoy any specific cigars, pipe tobaccos, coffee, liquors, etc?

Posted this on GIA, but @backdrft76 said I had to here as well. Be warned, the first three are Iowa centric:


U20 Nationals gives us a very recent example on what we could see this weekend. WTT are basically a condensed version with the best guys competing again(plus a few additions)for a spot on the team. 57kgs was a gauntlet then, and will be again.

Lilledahl came out on top at Nats, so he sits in the best of 3 finals. He earned himself a huge advantage here as the mini tourny is going to be a war, with highly ranked matches from 1st whistle.

Top competition -

Forrest - not best performance at Nats, but everyone knows he's one of the best there is
Knox - 3rd at Nats, top pfp
Mendoza - 4th at Nats, took out Forrest and Desmond in convincing fashion
Kilkeary - looked really, really good at Nats. Took 2nd with wins over Mendoza and Knox
Castillo - world medalist
Seidel, Desmond, and Cortez are all highly ranked and in the mix as well

Not sure how DeLuca will fare here. He's good enough to go with anyone on that list. Talent level is so high at this weight that I can't pick any one person to make the finals. I guess I will say 4th for Leo, and hope that I am very wrong. I lean Forrest to make finals, if only because when he is at his peak performance, very few can compete.

I have Lilledahl ultimately winning the spot. Partially because he's damn good, and partially because he doesn't have to string together 3-4 high quality wins to do it.

Cancer. 71. Damn

Need two for USC game on 12 October.

He died this morning, suddenly, cause has yet to be released. he won the PGA Sony Open in Hawaii earlier this year. Apparely had a drinking problem but recently got sober. Was ranked #58 in the world when he passed. he apparently plaid 16 holes at this week's event before pulling out after 16 holes citing illness.

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It’s usually after 8 or 9pm, but the site just drags after that point and takes forever to load. I’ve noticed this over the last several weeks. I’ve never known it to be a problem before.

LOL.... These cultists think they own the American justice system. Pathetic.

https://justthenews.com/government/...s-jack-smiths-request-gag-order-against-trump

Cannon says that Smith's request was “wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.”

Steve Wiltfong at on3 predicted JaDon Blair to ND today. If that happens, makes Kainoa Winston all the more important.

No surprise here.

What democrats need to be afraid of is not Trump winning in 2024, but them helping him win in 2024.

https://reason.com/2024/05/24/prose...tly-what-crime-trump-tried-to-aid-or-conceal/

Bradley A. Smith, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), was prepared to testify for the defense that viewing the Daniels payment as a campaign contribution is contentious because the distinction between personal and campaign expenditures is fuzzy. To illustrate the difficulty of drawing that distinction, Smith also planned to tell the jury about the unsuccessful 2012 prosecution of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, which featured similar but seemingly stronger facts.

"Defendant seeks to elicit from Smith, among other things, that at the time Cohen paid Daniels, there had never been a case in which anyone had been convicted of a federal campaign finance law violation for the making of 'hush money payments,'" Merchan noted in a pretrial ruling. The defense wanted Smith to discuss "the facts surrounding" Edwards' trial and "his subsequent acquittal," explaining why "the case was heavily criticized." Smith's testimony also would have covered "the absence of culpable mens rea" for falsification of business records and "the willfulness element of a FECA violation."

Merchan ruled that Smith could not testify as an expert witness on matters of law, saying he could only offer "general background" on the FEC and "general definitions" of terms such as campaign contribution. Because of those constraints, Smith never testified, so the jury never heard why describing the Daniels NDA as "an illegal scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election" was problematic. Yet that claim is crucial to the argument that Cohen and Trump conspired to promote his election through "unlawful means."

Christopher Quaglin, a certified RWNJ, just received a 12 year prison sentence for his part in the Trump Insurrection. Enjoy your stay in the hoosegow, Christoper, and don't bend over for any reason. Just ask Hermy McFluffins.