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Stevens White Privilege or more to the Story?


Stephen A Smith rant about Brad Stevens promotion being White privilege is completely wrong if he had taken the time to review Celtics hiring practices for the past 17 years. Yes Brad had a bad year since the Celtics team was better than their record but he has taken the Celtics to seven playoffs in a row including three Eastern Conferences. Since 2004, Celtics have had two head coaches, both of whom had “bad years” but overall had substantial winning records.

In 2004-5, Doc Rivers was hired as head coach after he was fired by the Magic. He won 45 games and took Celtics to first place in the division but a quick out in the playoffs. This was followed by 33 wins and 24 wins, numbers that get most coaches fired but Ainge stuck with Rivers. Rivers rewarded him with taking the big three of Allen, Pierce, and Garnett to a NBA title and six minutes away from a second title.

Celtics would have fired Stevens after this year since it wouldn’t have fit the character of this Celtic organization. And it appears that Ainge had been planning this move for awhile and Stevens may prove to be the right guy for the top job in the organization. He does have a great basketball mind which no one debates and if he was fired, another NBA team would have hired him quickly.

Celtics did not fire Doc Rivers after the 2007 season (and Rivers is black) but instead view 2007 as a rebuilding year and Celtics essentially tanked the year. They gave Rivers a chance to coach a championship caliber team. From 2008 season to the present, Rivers has been one of the best coaches with the Celtics, Clippers, and 76ers but it was not obvious that Rivers would have the record as a head coach that he presently have in 2007.

Smith is not just wrong in this case but Stevens showed himself to be a quality NBA coach with years that he took overachieving Celtics team to the playoffs and to say that if Stevens was black, he would have been fired. False and Doc Rivers proves that. ( I will wager that the next Boston head coach will be black. Personally I think it is time for Sam Cassell to get his chance to be a head coach.)

Donaire wins a title at 38

Nonito Donaire, Gary Antuanne Russell, Subriel Matias, Delvin Haney … All Big Winners (5-29-21)

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By Tom Donelson / Author, Member Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA)

In 2007, Nonito Donaire defeated the fearsome Vic Darchinyan, who was at the time undefeated and a killing machine.  Donaire defeated him by TKO at the age of 24 years old.  Last Saturday night, the 38-year-old Donaire fought yet another undefeated fighter for the title and just as he did 14 years ago, he defeated Nordien Qubaali.  The previous fight he lost a tough decision to Naoya Inoue, the super bantamweight and for this fight, he moved downward in weight .

Donaire fought a smart fight as he proved patient in fighting the defending champion and used his skills as he set Qubaali up for his patent left hook.  The first two rounds, he boxed and landed solid shots but in the third round, he nailed Qubaali with a solid left hook that sent the champion down.  He continued to pressure the champ and at the end of the round, he landed another left hook that sent Qubaali down .   Quabaali barely got up from the knockdown and wasn’t quite sure where his corner was, but he was allowed to continue since he had a minute between round to collect his senses. 

In the fourth round, Donaire stopped Quabaali as he landed yet another left hook that stopped Quabaali and Donaire became the oldest fighter who captured the bantamweight division .

In the preliminaries, Gary Antuanne Russell fought Jovanie Santiago and won easily, Russell is the younger brother of Gary Russell Jr., the featherweight champion.  Santiago previous fight was a close loss to Adrian Broner so this would be Russell toughest test in a career that Russell had yet to see the fifth round.  Russell did see the sixth round, but he literally dominated from the start.  Santiago’s corner saw enough and decided to stop the fight after the sixth round . He has his brother defensive skills but more power as he stopped his 14 fighters in 14 fights.

Subriel Matias fought Batyrzhan Jukembayev in an intriguing match.  Both men had power and Jukembayev was making his United States debut.  Matias had won all his victories by knock out but had one loss by decision and Jukembayev had never been defeated. 

Jukembayev showed technical skills over the first two rounds as he used angles and landed solid shots against Matias.  Matias had the bigger reach and had a slender body versus the more muscular Jukembayev but by the third round, Matias started to let his hands go more as he put pressure on his undefeated opponent and in the fourth round, his power came through as he sent his opponent down. 

Jukembayev came out in the fifth with solid left against Matias and while Matias started to take control of the fight, his defense was often found wanting as Jukembayev connected on straight left out of his southpaw stance and right hooks . Going into the eighth round, I had the fight 67 to 65 but Matias let his hands go in the eighth round as he pummels his opponent.  In between rounds, Jukembayev’s corner saw enough and stopped the fight. 

In another fight, Delvin Haney won a decision over veteran Jorge Linares but had to survive a Linares surge as Linares nailed Haney with a solid shot that stunned Haney at the end of the tenth round.  While he won the decision, many fans remembered his survival at the end of the fight as opposed to his performance in the early part of the fight.

Haney connected on twice as many punches throughout the fight and showed his technical prowess.  He may be the best boxer in the lightweight division but not the most powerful puncher. 

This past weekend, a future hall of fame fighter reclaims his place in the present boxing as he turned back father time and won a title and young fighters like Russell, Matias and Haney showed that they have the talent to challenge for at title or in the case. 

Lessons From the pandemic

2017 Covers.pdf (amermaj.org)

Data-Efficacy.pdf (amermaj.org)

An-Ignored-Cost.pdf (amermaj.org)

We reviewed from different angles the failure of the lockdown. As the data shows that non-lockdown states and red states outperformed lockdown states and blues states.

  1. We found that there were no significant differences in death between non-lockdown and red states versus lockdown and blue states.
  2. That minorities were more likely to die from Corona virus in lockdown and blue states.
  3. As mention, economic growth and job growth were superior in Red and non-lockdown states.
  4. That other data referenced in our study, that more people have or will die from the lockdown than saved from the virus.
  5. We saw these trends from our data and others from the past year.
  6. Lockdowns were a failure.

Today Media failure

Much of the media for the past five years complained when they were designated the enemies of the people but would they have behaved differently if they were indeed the enemy of the people and in the pocket of foreign powers?

How Fact-Checkers ‘Deceived The Public’ About Possible Virus Outbreak From Wuhan Lab | The Daily Caller

The media reporting on the Trump administration and the Corona virus were often filled with falsehoods or totally inaccuracy. When many of us stated the possibility that the virus was a human created and escaped from the lab, we were deemed conspiracy theorist as they accepted without questions that China version.

Now they are conceding that virus may have been human created after denying this for 15 months. This was just one of many media failures. They lied, people died and America ended up with severe economic lockdown that fail to save lives.

Ruiz Jr. wins decision “unanimously” over Arreola (5-1-21)

By Tom Donelson / Author, Member Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA)

Andy Ruiz may be the fourth best heavyweight or even the third if you believe he could be Deontay Wilder.  It was not that long ago he defeated Joshua for his heavyweight title before losing it in a rematch.   When Ruiz fought Joshua in his rematch, he weighed 285 pounds but for Chris Arreola, this was his last opportunity for a big event.  Having lost three shots for the heavyweight title, Arreola last bout was a loss in 2019, pre pandemic and at 40, he was the overwhelming underdog. 

Andy Ruiz does not have the svelte body, but he has some of the heavyweight fastest hands and at 31, he was at his peak compared to Chris Arreola.  There was a time that Arreola was the guy everyone thought could be the first Mexican American heavyweight but that was never to happen as he fell short, Ruiz did become the first Mexican-American to win the title.  Arreola has been a good fighter who never seem to be able to be part of the elites of the division . Ruiz on the other hand, has been to the top and shown that he could compete with the elites as his first victory over Joshua showed when he stopped the British fighter.  Coming overweight in the rematch, Joshua out boxed Ruiz and used his reach to stay out of harm’s way of Ruiz. 

Ruiz won the first round and it looked like a long night for Arreola but in the second round, Arreola nailed Ruiz with a right hand and sent Ruiz down.  Ruiz got up quickly but discovered that there was still dynamite in Arreola’s right hand .  At the end of the second round, Arreola nailed Ruiz with another solid right at the end of the round.

From that point, Ruiz settled in and dominated the bout.  In the middle of fight, Arreola appeared to have injured his shoulder, but he gamely continued.  After the third round, this fight was all Ruiz as he landed combinations and Arreola could not compete with Ruiz .

The stats told the story as Ruiz connected on 161 punches vs only 109 for Arreola.  Ruiz threw more punches and hit at a slightly higher rate.  I had the fight 118-109 with Ruiz taking 11 rounds and two of the judges agreed with and the third gave Arreola an extra round for a 117 to 110 .  Ruiz did what he was supposed to do, beat Arreola but maybe fans viewed this as fight that would not go the distance.

Ruiz is now back in the hunt for the heavyweight title and just waiting for Fury-Joshua fight to happen or who knows, maybe a third Wilder-Fury fight before we get to Joshua.  In the world of boxing, who knows what will happens until contracts are signed and fighters show up at the weigh in.    Ruiz will keep fighting to stay in contention.

Canelo over Saunders – 8th Round – Super Middleweight “Unification” Title Fight

By Tom Donelson / Author, Member Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA)

Saul Canelo Alvarez prepared for a unification bout with undefeated Billy Joe Saunders, a slick southpaw boxer.  Alvarez has been fighting professionally for 16 years, since he was a teenager . He has had two draws, one of those with Gennady Golovkin, and his only defeat was against Floyd Mayweather whose slick boxing and defensive skills for the Super Welterweight title befuddled the younger Alvarez.  Alvarez is one of the best pound-for-pound with 55 wins, only one loss, and two draws and if you want to measure Mayweather’s greatness, his victory over Alvarez was that lone loss. 

The first round saw Alvarez go for the body while Saunders jabbed but didn’t connect as Alvarez slipped many of those jabs. 

The second round began with Saunders jabbing and missing.  Canelo landed body shots with both hooks and uppercuts, then followed up with a big right snapping Saunders’ head back.  Throughout the third round Saunders’ jab missed and while he feinted a lot of times, Canelo proved hard to hit.  Canelo landed a right hand to the body and then a series of right hands to the head.  Hooks nailed Saunders’ side as Canelo’s goal was to weaken his opponent .

The fifth-round saw Saunders connecting more as he landed his jab and even a few body shots.  Saunders landed two straight jabs and landed two body shots . And in the sixth round, Saunders flicked his jabs, connecting to Canelo’s head, but this was a close round as Saunders’ jab connected repeatedly while Canelo landed body shots.  Halfway through the fight, I had it even 57-57 .

Throughout the seventh round, Canelo pressed the action, but Saunders absorbed the attack and landed his own shots.  In the second half of the fight, Canelo landed a right hook to the body along with an uppercut to the body. 

Canelo landed straight rights to the body in the opening moments of the eighth round and Saunders tied up Canelo after getting nailed with body shots . Canelo continued the attack as he landed clean lefts to the body.  Saunders start to wilt and at the end of the round, Canelo landed an upper cut to the face of Saunders that shut Saunders’ eye. Saunders went back to his corner hurt by that shot and simply could not continue in the ninth.

Saunders went to the hospital to have his orbital bone fracture treated.  I had it 77-75 and the judges had it 78-74, 78-75 and 78-74. So while I had Canelo winning 5 rounds, they had Canelo winning 6 rounds.

Canelo landed 73 of his 206 punches for 35% compared to 60 punches connected out of 284 punches for Saunders.  Alvarez now holds the WBA, WBC and WBO Super Middleweight titles and now he wants Caleb Plant, and the IBF belt.

The key to the fight was power punches as Canelo landed more than half of his power punches while Saunders only landed 26% of his power punches. 

Canelo showed why he could be the best boxer today pound-for-pound as with one punch, he stopped the fight and shut Saunders’ eye. 

Repeat China National Socialism

In the 1990’s, a good friend told me a few years after the collapse of Soviet Empire that he was surprised how communism ended up as National socialism.  National Socialism will not run by small little dudes with funny looking mustaches yelling “Sieg Heil” but leaders in finely tailored suits and look more like a Wall Street banker than a nasty dictator.  This is the face of the new Hitler, President Xi.

China has concentration camps that holds millions, they use social media to control the population and President Xi is the George Orwellian 1984 Big Brother.  No freedom, and while China Communist Party allows profits to be made but the state controls all and companies may make money, but they serve the state. It is state corporatism and China view itself as the new center of the universe, with all nations bow to Beijing.  While I don’t view China’s National socialism means conquest of nations, it does mean that their ideology reign supreme but there is one exception to conquest: Hong Kong and Taiwan which would bring “All of China” under Beijing. 

I have asked the question, what will a world be like if China was the most powerful country in the world?  It would be a poorer world, less free and we will see other nations or group of nations copy Chinese National socialist movement.  We see many of own elites who for years admire China, just listen to Mike Bloomberg own view of China in the primary. Mike Bloomberg has stated that “Well, it’s a question of what is a dictator. They don’t have a democracy in the sense that they have general elections. That is true. They do have a system where a small group of people appoint the head. And they churn over periodically. If you go back and look at the last two or three decades, there have been a number of people that have had the same position that Xi Jinping has.”

China is the modern version of National Socialism, and now this is that moment to ask will we allow China to become the number one power?  If China is number one power, only means the United States will decline in both economic power and freedom we take for granted will slowly disappear.

Notes Today

What if we are overestimating Covid death, counting deaths of patients with Covid as oppose to because? Colorado has two sets of numbers which ranges from 10 to 20 percent difference in cases they view as because of Covid vs those with Covid (example, a person dies in car accident while having covid is counted as Covid death.)

Florida and Minnesota are saying this number is 40%, others have told me could be half the number.  This means we are overestimating Covid death by nearly 50,000 to 240,000 deaths. (Note we are still talking between 270,000 to 410,000 deaths.)

Cases are underestimated.  We may be underestimating actual cases by a factor of 6 to 13 which means at least 160,000,000 Americans may have been exposed.  The good news is that most people are not sick enough to see a doctor and at least 1/3rds of cases are asymptomatic and at least 90 percent may be mild if not more. Not as lethal as assumed.

IFR is close .2 and this data is based on 80 plus studies worldwide including data provided by WHO and CDC.  That means 2/1000 have died. Compared to an average of 1/1000 with the flu but we have had Flu pandemic as lethal or close to as lethal as in 1957, 1968 and 2018. 

Lockdowns by government have destroyed more communities and will end up killing more than saving.  At least 1,000,000 people will die prematurely due to lockdowns.  More than double of what the virus would have killed.

Red States have outperformed Blue States economically, this is no debate as any data  from BLS would show.  Red State 5% unemployment vs  Blue States 6.8% unemployment and bigger red states outperformed bigger blue states.

Nine of Top ten states with lowest unemployment were Red States and the top ten states with least loss of unemployment were Red States. 

Overall, Red States had less deaths from the virus vs. Blue States, whether you measure in totality, on a per state basis and per capita basis.  So less deaths and better economic performance.  Red States win.

All data listed here come from real Science research, government data, economic data and my own research aided by a top research team. I do not do conspiracy theories or manipulated data like my opponents.  My data is solid and superior to what you read in mainstream media.

The Great Blue Opening?

California Governor Newsome is now reopening his economy and relaxing his draconian restrictions as California saw big spikes in unemployment as 50,000 jobs disappeared including 117,000 in the bar, restaurant and hospitality business. Since December 2019, a million jobs disappeared and over 1.4 million have signed to recall the governor.

So obviously the governor has decided that maybe living with the virus is better than continuing to trash the economy. While the overall US economy has seen a dropped from 14.4% in April to 6.7% in December, the economy is waning due to the blue state economic restrictions.

Most of the job losses in December came in blue states in bar, restaurant and hospitality industry due to the lockdowns and we will see more tomorrow when state data comes in.