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All this for a Lukaku Brace and 4-1 Belgium win Would be hilarious

JJ Redick says Michael Jordan and California are the reason NBA players and other athletes pay the jock tax “I believe Michael Jordan was essentially the reason that athletes get taxed the same way that entertainers get taxed. At the height of MJ, this guy's earning $30 million on his NBA salary, and he's going and playing in the finals in these different states” “I want to say it was California. They were like, ‘Ah, this is messed up. This guy should be paying us taxes while he's here. He's working. He's making a lot of money.’ So all these states instituted this tax” “When people sign NBA contracts and it's like, ‘Oh, this guy's worth this amount of money,’ it's like, no. Cut it in half before the guy spends a dollar. In some states like California you probably cut it a little bit more than half because then you're paying agent fees as well” “I remember you could negotiate like a 20% signing bonus on your rookie deal. I was expecting $200,000 to be deposited into my account on August 15th. I was like, ‘This is the most money I'll ever have.’ Then I saw the wire hit, and I was like, ‘Oh’”

No foul called against Argentina on this play

VAR and its variants across all sports exist out of a goal to eliminate mistakes by getting every call right. Even if I think the call in the Croatia match was correct, it's clear that no replay system can accomplish that goal or even bring us meaningfully closer to a world where that's the case. If replay only makes it marginally more likely that the right call is being made on the field, is that really worth the trade off of stopping games for minutes on end, often amidst or after their most dramatic and important moments, for replay review?