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imanamerican63

(16,405 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:31 PM Sep 2025

In the sports world?

Bruce Pearl, Auburn University Men’s Basketball Coach, is stepping down immediately from his position.

Speculation is that he will be running for the open Senate seat in Alabama.

You know the other Senator from Alabama is? Tuberville!

Breaking story on Facebook Sports.

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In the sports world? (Original Post) imanamerican63 Sep 2025 OP

Fucking sports is overweighted in populace's brainspace mostly bc of ancient "bread & circuses" theme Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #1

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Fucking sports is overweighted in populace's brainspace mostly bc of ancient "bread & circuses" theme

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Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:46 PM

Sep 2025

(broad generalizations follow: )

Obese from extended sense of "bread" and easily amused by circuses, which is a word from the root "circ" and was the round or oval shaped arena where gladiators in helmets battled each other.

History doesn't repeat, but its rhymes can't be beat.

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