America has 4 major sports.
The 5 best players in basketball are 4 Europeans and a Canadian.
The best player in baseball is Japanese.
The best hockey players are Canadian or Russian.
The only sport they have the best player is the one sport thats exclusive to America.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær on Erling Haaland:
🗣 "I called Manchester United six months before I took over and told them that I’d got this striker, this boy Haaland that we had… but they didn't listen”.
“I asked for £4m for Erling. They did not sign him”
Toni Kukoč comparte cómo Michael Jordan lo ayudó a ser grande:
"Para mí, la ayuda más significativa fue estar allí todos los días y ver lo que él (Jordan) hacia día tras día para ser quien es. En esos pocos años que tuve la oportunidad de jugar con él, nunca se perdió una práctica, nunca se perdió un juego, tantas victorias, MVP, pero aún encontró una razón todos los días para venir a esa práctica y aprender algo nuevo, para impulsar todos nosotros ahí para dar nuestro máximo día tras día. Nuestras prácticas fueron más duras que el 60,70% de los juegos que jugamos, y no puedes hacer eso sin un líder que esté ahí todos los días. Ese fue Michael para nosotros.”
Bernie Madoff is the reason the Mets still wire Bobby Bonilla $1,193,248.20 every single July 1 until 2035.
Here's the math nobody runs. In 2000 the Mets owed Bobby $5.9M and wanted him gone. Rather than cut the check, they spread it across 25 years at 8% interest, starting in 2011. Total payout $29.8M. On its face it reads as lunacy. Pay $30M to escape a $6M bill.
Except Fred Wilpon had a plan for that $5.9M. He parked it with Madoff, whose accounts were printing steady 12% returns like clockwork.
Borrow at 8%, compound at 12%, keep the spread. That was the whole trade.
One analyst reverse-engineered it and found a second punchline hiding inside the first. At 12%, the $5.9M grows to roughly $8.5M before Bobby's opening check clears in 2011. From there the Mets pocket the four-point gap, about $236K a year, $5.9M across the life of the deal. That spread lands on the buyout amount almost to the dollar. The structure was built so Madoff's returns would make Bonilla functionally free.
Then the whole thing turned out to be a Ponzi scheme. The 12% never existed. The compounding never happened. Wilpon and his circle were wired into 483 Madoff accounts and lost hundreds of millions when it caved, and the "free" contract became a real $30M liability with nothing holding it up.
The proof the math itself was sound: Steve Cohen bought the team. Cohen built one of the highest-returning hedge funds ever run. For someone who clears 8% without breaking a sweat, a $1.19M annual payment is a rounding error he can fund out of pocket until 2035. So he did the one rational thing left and turned it into a marketing holiday.
Bobby's payout was only ever as smart as the investor standing behind it. For the years that decided everything, that investor was Bernie Madoff.
A look at where the Maple Leafs roster currently stands after all the signings, trades, and the draft over the last few days 👀
More moves to come, or is this team good enough to compete as is? 🤔
Via @TSN_Sports#leafsforever
Since the #leafs hired John Chayka on May 4:
IN
Sergei Bobrovsky
Darren Raddysh
Emil Andrae
Gavin McKenna
Colton Sissons
Jack Roslovic
Teddy Blueger
OUT
Joseph Woll
Samuel Ersson
Brandon Carlo
Simon Benoit
Matias Maccelli
Nick Robertson