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Avalanche Game 13 Recap: Unacceptable
After receiving our first home loss of this young season, the Colorado Avalanche looked to truly bounce back in the third and last game of this homestand. The team heading into Ball Arena was none other than the St. Louis Blues. This was a Division Rivalry game, and the Blues were in their first full season after the teardown that happened in the middle of last year. So the Blues were a wild card. The Avs' recent history with the Blues had been a good one, but this was a new season series. Even so, it is often fun when the Blues and Avalanche get together.
By Clyde E. Dawkins2 years ago in Unbalanced
Avalanche Game 12 Recap: 32 Seconds
The Colorado Avalanche won a crazy outing against the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday, and next up for the Avs was the Seattle Kraken. This was the second meeting of the season; the Avalanche defeated Seattle, 4-1, at Climate Pledge Arena. This outing was in Ball Arena, and the last time these two teams were at that very venue was on April 30, 2023--the night that the Avalanche were eliminated in Game Seven in the opening round.
By Clyde E. Dawkins2 years ago in Unbalanced
NFL Power Rankings Week 9
10. Dolphins (6-3) The Dolphins had a really disappointing game against the Chiefs. Tyreek talked a lot of crap, and the Dolphins couldn't back any of it up. The Dolphins showed they were resilient in the second half but didn't finish the job. Right now, it looks like the Dolphins don't have that dawg in them. They have lost all their biggest games and aren't physical enough. I'm downgrading the Dolphins until they prove they can win a big game against one of the top teams in the NFL.
By Niko Banks2 years ago in Unbalanced
110th Grey Cup Playoffs: Division Semifinals Recap
This season has gone by so, so fast! It seems like yesterday that I was counting down the days until the 2023 CFL season started, especially since the Toronto Argonauts would be the defending champions. Now, here it is, November has arrived, and it's playoff time in Canada! This time, however, the games are on Saturdays now. I guess the CFL finally decided that they didn't want to clash with the NFL, at least for the first two rounds anyway.
By Clyde E. Dawkins2 years ago in Unbalanced
Same Faces, New Places 2
Hayley Manners - New Place: UCF - Old Place: Central Michigan Leaving the cold of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Hayley Manners, a native of another frigid city Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, will compete for UCF in sunny Orlando, Florida. The 2022 long jump indoor champ of the Mid-American Conference, Manners collected an amount of medals that most jumpers during her stint in the conference wish they could have. She claimed her first in a silver medal winning result at the 2021 Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships in the long jump. After winning gold in 2022, she recorded another silver medal win at the 2023 indoor conference meet. The Canadian wrapped up her career at Central Michigan with a long jump bronze medal at last season's outdoor Mid-American Conference meet, to go along with top five finishes in the triple jump and 400-meter relay. Her final meet as a Chippawa was her first regional performance as she competed in the long jump at the East First Round.
By Winners Only2 years ago in Unbalanced
After heated deliberations on the climate damage fund, the COP28 summit appears to be headed for violence. . Content Warning.
After heated deliberations on the climate damage fund, the COP28 summit appears to be headed for violence. Tense talks at the last gathering on an environment-related misfortune and harms reserve—a global asset to assist unfortunate nations with being hit hard by a warming planet—finished Saturday in Abu Dhabi, with members concurring that the World Bank would briefly have the asset for the following four years. The US and a few non-industrial nations communicated disillusionment with the draft understanding, which will be sent to worldwide pioneers to sign at the COP28 environment meeting, which starts in Dubai not long from now. The U.S. State Division, whose authorities joined the exchanges in Abu Dhabi, said in an explanation that it was "satisfied with an understanding being reached," yet lamented that the agreement reached among mediators about gifts to the asset being willful wasn't reflected in the last understanding. The understanding spreads out essential objectives for the asset, including its arranged send-off in 2024, and determines how it will be directed and who will supervise it, including a prerequisite for emerging nations to pull up a chair on the board, notwithstanding the World Bank's job. Avinash Persaud, an exceptional emissary to Barbados State Leader Mia Mottley on environment finance, said the understanding was "a difficult yet basic result. It was a unique little something where achievement can be estimated in the equity of uneasiness." Persaud haggled for Latin America and the Caribbean in the gatherings. He said that the inability to arrive at an understanding would have "cast a long shadow over COP." Mohamed Nasr, the lead mediator from Egypt, last year's environment gathering host, said, "It misses the mark on certain things, especially the scale and the wellsprings (of financing) and (an) affirmation of cost caused by emerging nations." The interest in laying out an asset to assist unfortunate nations with being hit hard by environmental change has been a focal point of U.N. environment talks since they began a long time ago and was finally acknowledged at last year's environment meeting in Egypt. From that point forward, a more modest gathering of mediators addressing both rich and non-industrial nations has met on numerous occasions to conclude the subtleties of the asset. Their last gathering in the city of Aswan in Egypt in November finished in an impasse. While recognizing that a settlement on the asset is superior to an impasse, environment strategy experts say there are as yet various holes that should be filled on the off chance that the asset is to be compelling in aiding poor and weak networks all over the planet hit by progressively successive environment-related fiascos. The gatherings followed through on that command yet were "the farthest thing possible from a triumph," said Brandon Wu of ActionAid USA, who has followed the discussions over the course of the past year. Wu said the asset "requires barely anything of the created nations. Simultaneously, it meets not very many of the needs of emerging nations—the very nations, need it be said once more, that should profit from this asset." Ruler al-Jaber, a government official with the Unified Bedouin Emirates and President of the Abu Dhabi Public Oil Organization, who will supervise COP28 one month from now, invited the result of the gatherings. "Billions of people, lives, and vocations who are exposed against the effects of ecological change depend on the gathering of this recommended approach at COP28," he said. Ruler al-Jaber, a government official with the Unified Bedouin Emirates and President of the Abu Dhabi Public Oil Organization, who will supervise COP28 one month from now, invited the result of the gatherings.
By Engr kawsar Ahmed2 years ago in Unbalanced
Power Rankings
10. Cowboys (5-2) The Cowboys are coming off two great victories, and it looks like they are going in the right direction. The big test now is whether Dallas can take this level of play to the elite teams. But despite their resurgence, they still have a really bad loss to the 49ers, so they remain under them.
By Niko Banks2 years ago in Unbalanced
‘Take it or leave it’: Acrimony flares amid tenuous agreement on climate aid. Content Warning.
On Saturday, negotiators reached a fragile agreement on the outlines of an international fund for countries that have been severely affected by climate change. The agreement was reached after intense and contentious discussions, hinting at potential disagreements that may arise during the upcoming global climate talks. Notably, the United States pushed for a provision in the agreement stating that contributions to the fund would be voluntary. This allows the Biden administration the choice of whether or not to make contributions to the fund
By Kamruzzaman Shams2 years ago in Unbalanced
Texas Rangers: From Heartbreak to Triumph
November 1, 2023: a night that faithful Rangers fans will remember forever If there's one word to describe the 2023 MLB Postseason, it would be exciting. Exciting might be an understatement to you, but to me, it was exactly that. In my personal opinion, this particular postseason was my overall favorite. When most people think of the word postseason, they most likely associate it with two teams: the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 2 years ago in Unbalanced
Golden State Warriors: The New Generation
The Golden State Warriors have won four NBA championships in the last eight years, and they show no signs of slowing down. While their core trio of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green is aging, they have a number of young players who are ready to take over the mantle.
By Warriorsfan1012 years ago in Unbalanced
