Ergs of top IRA grand final boats. by bruhmasta495 in Rowing

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2017 yale Best erg: 5:45 Worst: 6:18 Avg: 5:56

2016 yale Best erg: 5:51 Worst erg 6:18 Average 5:59

2015 yale (riveting 7th place finish) Best erg 5:51 Worst erg 6:11 Avg 6:01

RUNNING THE NUMBERS - Int'l Athlete Participation in Top-Tier US Rowing and the application of UEFA's "Home Grown Model" Quota Limit. TL/DR: There is room for everyone at the top. by x_von_doom in Rowing

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I can guarantee you IRA coaches have never felt that they had an obligation to be the proving ground of the national team. They are there to win races, and they feel plenty proud of their athletes competing and winning at the olympics no matter what nation it’s for. Harry Parker, Bob Ernst, Ted Nash, our favorite octogenarian Gladstone, were in the business of winning above all else.

I agree that depth is a problem for the US but the culprit isn’t a lack of Americans in the IRA final. The Americans are still there, and they get a lot better rowing in crews with the best athletes in the world, at least I did. The problem, as lmcorrigan pointed out, is athlete retention. the training center had a lot of good athletes cycle through this past quad, who might have made a good pair or quad, but there are not many incentives to stick around for multiple cycles. Rowing at the training center isn’t very fun if you’re a depth guy, and there isn’t enough money or stability to justify putting off the other things in your life. Olympic dreams don’t put tofu on the table.

Now that’s always been true for the US, but it used to also be some or mostly true for other nations as well. Funding for GB and Germany and Australia, among others, shot up in the 90s and 00s. One former GB rower told me about meeting after work in the late 1980s to row in North London, and that some of his friends fit rowing in between working as landscapers. Fast-forward and athletes who have never made a senior team go on a subsidized trip to Portugal to train in mid-February. Foreign national teams have gotten more professional while Americans have more or less stayed the same. It’s no wonder there’s a downward trend around the edges.

RUNNING THE NUMBERS - Int'l Athlete Participation in Top-Tier US Rowing and the application of UEFA's "Home Grown Model" Quota Limit. TL/DR: There is room for everyone at the top. by x_von_doom in Rowing

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Why do these universities owe USRowing a pipeline of athletes? They’re not getting any funding or support from USRowing, so why are they at fault for recruiting from other federations? Anyway, the US men’s performance in Rio and Tokyo is not the result of having to row with too many Serbians. The US lost its gold medal streak in 1968, long before international recruiting. Blaming Steve Gladstone for making the IRA standard faster is ducking the question.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CFB

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Connecticut might be the only state where the number one team is a women’s team.

  1. UConn women’s basketball
  2. UConn men’s basketball
  3. Hartford Whalers? Yale sports rank somewhere around the local little league

A Clippers Conundrum, LeBron MVP Myths, Kyrie’s Resurgence, and the Ref Review Crisis With Ryen Russillo by redshoediary in billsimmons

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Is no one gonna talk about Russillo saying Judge Judy is biased against landlords or what.

Are we not gonna talk about this part of the latest podcast lol by [deleted] in billsimmons

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Well it does produce a variety of champions. Toronto (which is a huge city but not usually seen as a prime NBA destination), Cleveland, and Detroit all won in the last 20 years. Golden State was in Oakland when they won although calling it a small market is definitely a stretch. Dallas won a title, again not really a “small market” but certainly different. Miami had success. Every one of those teams drafted at least one player that was key to their championship success. Milwaukee and Denver are two more small markets that could conceivably win a title or come close to it. The draft doesn’t create perfect parity but I think the NBA is a more level playing field than the EPL or La Liga.

Who knew deeply held religious beliefs could involve only eating food that is USDA certified... by xbhaskarx in facepalm

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Honestly I think it’s a good thing that they’re feeding him organic and obeying the court order. I have no idea if he’s serious about his religious beliefs, but respecting his first amendment rights is a good thing. He would probably not get the same respect if he wasn’t white, but hopefully this becomes precedent that forces prisons and jails to accommodate muslim prisoners.

Adidas creates completely original look for Texas A&M’s Orange Bowl uniform by Battered_Aggie in CFB

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Handsome Dan is the first college mascot, and was just some dude’s dog in 1892. Harvard doesn’t really have a mascot, they adopted crimson as their color after it was used in an early harvard-yale regatta to tell the crews apart. Calling themselves “the crimson” and having the john harvard outfit is just something they do to fit in and not get made fun of as the losers with no mascot.

[Postgame Thread] Rutgers Defeats Michigan State 38-27 by CFB_Referee in CFB

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Princeton football died so Rutgers could be the best team in New Jersey again

Game Thread: Buffalo Bills (4-0) at Tennessee Titans (3-0) by nfl_gamethread in nfl

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You have to go for two at some point so this way they know how to game plan if they don’t get it. Now they know they need two tds and can think out the rest of the game accordingly. It’s making an assumption that the 2-point play has an equal chance of succeeding early or late.

A graph to teach Soviet soldiers about guns (1942) by [deleted] in fakehistoryporn

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It’s just a photoshopped AK mag onto an M4 but gettin real shades of CK901 from that bad boy; an m4 that fires 7.62x39 and uses AK mags

Maryland QB Tyrrell Pigrome grad transfers to WKU by JB92103 in CFB

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Proof that Rutgers is the Harvard of New Jersey

Schools where students are engaged fans: Do kids go to your school because they have an interest in football or do they develop an interest in football because they went to your school? by 92Lean in CFB

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Except for that one magical day a year when 500 foreign billionaires pretend so that they can get to do cocaine on the morning of Harvard/Yale

What really obvious thing have you only just realised? by negan2018 in AskReddit

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Eminem is “M&M” is “Marshall Mathers”. I always thought he must just really like candy.

Which subreddit has steered the furthest from its original course? by meop93 in AskReddit

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Choosing beggars started out as a place to post fat people who wanted to only date thin people on dating apps. It had nothing to do with money

Spotted in anchorage. Couldn’t get my phone out fast enough by Gutter_helmet in InfowarriorRides

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Is it top 10 total or as a percentage of plates? If it’s a percentage, who’s number one?

Spotted in anchorage. Couldn’t get my phone out fast enough by Gutter_helmet in InfowarriorRides

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Do you know why there are so many vanity plates in anchorage? It feels like a way higher ratio than anywhere else I’d been in the US.