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Porky said:
I didn't know such as thing as pink cocaine existed. I thought it was called snow for a reason. I don't do any of that stuff so I wouldn't know. A few sugar babies trying to get their freak on and get close to the real reason they are there. $$$$$$$$$
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I cant believe anybody is doing cocaine these days since chances are that it's cut with fentanyl.
 
Porky said:
I didn't know such as thing as pink cocaine existed. I thought it was called snow for a reason. I don't do any of that stuff so I wouldn't know. A few sugar babies trying to get their freak on and get close to the real reason they are there. $$$$$$$$$
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Just to clarify pink cocaine nowadays rarely has any actual cocaine in it. Main ingredient is ketamine and the pink coloring frequently is from a coloring dye.

www.webmd.com

Pink Cocaine: Risks, Effects, and Treatment

Learn about pink cocaine, including what’s in it, side effects, and how to practice harm reduction.
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badboy said:
Just to clarify pink cocaine nowadays rarely has any actual cocaine in it. Main ingredient is ketamine and the pink coloring frequently is from a coloring dye.

www.webmd.com

Pink Cocaine: Risks, Effects, and Treatment

Learn about pink cocaine, including what’s in it, side effects, and how to practice harm reduction.
www.webmd.com www.webmd.com
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Per my FDA files, these are the most common combinations found today:

Ketamine and MDMA
Fentanyl and xylazine
Methamphetamine, ketamine, and MDMA
(and yes also) Cocaine and fentanyl

The great danger, besides the constituent drugs, is that these are haphazardly mixed with no standardization. Even if you know the ingredients, you don't know the individual levels. The only consistent element in pink cocaine is the color.
 
The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis faces uncertain future
Published May 29, 2025 04:22 PM

The dome has been a-rockin’. Reality may come a-knockin.

The Dome at America’s Center, the St. Louis landmark that hosted the Rams for two decades and regularly attracts upwards of 30,000 fans for games played by the UFL’s Battlehawks, faces an uncertain future.

Via Kelsey Landis of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the stadium needs $155 million in repairs over the next decade. However, it is struggling to generate revenue.

St. Louis County, which previously funneled cash to the dome from a hotel tax, has stopped making the payments. Missouri also has ceased giving funding to the venue.

The dome authority has been trying to find a new cash stream, while also attempting to reopen the valve from the county and the state.

A draft of an audit of the St. Louis Regional Convention & Sports Complex Authority concludes that “the long-term viability of the Dome may be at risk.”

The Dome at America’s Center is still being used, despite the relocation of the Rams a decade ago. Beyond the UFL regular-season games, the building will host two UFL postseason games, including the league’s championship game. A Kendrick Lamar show will happen next week.

That said, no events are on the docket for July and August, and only three things are scheduled between the UFL title game and December.

Despite lingering hard feelings between the NFL and local officials from a $790 million settlement to litigation filed after the Rams left, St. Louis should be regarded as a viable future NFL market. Before it was the home of the Rams from 1995 through 2015, St. Louis had the Cardinals from 1960 through 1987.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Per my FDA files, these are the most common combinations found today:

Ketamine and MDMA
Fentanyl and xylazine
Methamphetamine, ketamine, and MDMA
(and yes also) Cocaine and fentanyl

The great danger, besides the constituent drugs, is that these are haphazardly mixed with no standardization. Even if you know the ingredients, you don't know the individual levels. The only consistent element in pink cocaine is the color.
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Football standpoint.. never wanted him here (especially for the draft price), felt like he lost a step before he got here, thought he was a shell of his former self

Human standpoint... Never ever wanted him, (we dodged another bullet by not bringing him back.) the only thing that could make this story more crazy is if that was Jimmy Haslem's boat. Texans have to be feeling like NEO now on how they've been able to dodge bullets..

 
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CloakNNNdagger said:
Per my FDA files, these are the most common combinations found today:

Ketamine and MDMA
Fentanyl and xylazine
Methamphetamine, ketamine, and MDMA
(and yes also) Cocaine and fentanyl

The great danger, besides the constituent drugs, is that these are haphazardly mixed with no standardization. Even if you know the ingredients, you don't know the individual levels. The only consistent element in pink cocaine is the color.
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Carr Bombed said:

Football standpoint.. never wanted him here (especially for the draft price), felt like he lost a step before he got here, thought he was a shell of his former self

Human standpoint... Never ever wanted him, (we dodged another bullet by not bringing him back.) the only thing that could make this story more crazy is if that was Jimmy Haslem's boat. Texans have to be feeling like NEO now on how they've been able to dodge bullets..

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For those who are not familiar with MDMA which I listed............the street name is Ecstasy.
 
I wonder if we will ever have revealed the NFL coverup of concussion data/conclusions..............much like the tobacco litigations.

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Trial over insurance coverage for concussion settlement starts in October 2026
By Mike Florio
Published May 30, 2025 01:42 PM

By settling the concussion class action in 2013, the NFL avoided public disclosure of what it knew and when it knew it about the long-term health risks of head trauma. Thirteen years later, it may still happen.

Via Daniel Kaplan, the longstanding fight between the NFL and its insurance companies has a trial date, for the first time. The trial will commence on October 13, 2026.

That doesn’t mean it actually will. Trial get delayed all the time. But they can’t be delayed until they’re on the docket. Finally, the NFL’s litigation against its insurance carriers is.

At stake is more than $1.5 billion in payouts under the concussion settlement. Ultimately, the question becomes whether the league’s insurance policies apply to the situation.

Regardless of the legal niceties, the case will involve plenty of evidence that may shed light on the league’s overall awareness of the risks of head trauma — and regarding any efforts to conceal or downplay such information.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
I wonder if we will ever have revealed the NFL coverup of concussion data/conclusions..............much like the tobacco litigations.

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Trial over insurance coverage for concussion settlement starts in October 2026
By Mike Florio
Published May 30, 2025 01:42 PM

By settling the concussion class action in 2013, the NFL avoided public disclosure of what it knew and when it knew it about the long-term health risks of head trauma. Thirteen years later, it may still happen.

Via Daniel Kaplan, the longstanding fight between the NFL and its insurance companies has a trial date, for the first time. The trial will commence on October 13, 2026.

That doesn’t mean it actually will. Trial get delayed all the time. But they can’t be delayed until they’re on the docket. Finally, the NFL’s litigation against its insurance carriers is.

At stake is more than $1.5 billion in payouts under the concussion settlement. Ultimately, the question becomes whether the league’s insurance policies apply to the situation.

Regardless of the legal niceties, the case will involve plenty of evidence that may shed light on the league’s overall awareness of the risks of head trauma — and regarding any efforts to conceal or downplay such information.
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That have, yet not officially. Meaning you can ask any doctor about concussion information in teens and without breaking any rules give you along run down of symptoms, approximately how many and so on. Ask if it will have an effect on the individual in the future and they likely will give you the information on that. However, if you ask about the NFL, they nobody says anything. So, you can indeed get information on high school and college players and the potential for future issues and get a pretty clear picture from that. However the NFL probably won't ever do anything like that to admit a huge issue of individuals with concussions who played.
 
SnakeEyes said:
That have, yet not officially. Meaning you can ask any doctor about concussion information in teens and without breaking any rules give you along run down of symptoms, approximately how many and so on. Ask if it will have an effect on the individual in the future and they likely will give you the information on that. However, if you ask about the NFL, they nobody says anything. So, you can indeed get information on high school and college players and the potential for future issues and get a pretty clear picture from that. However the NFL probably won't ever do anything like that to admit a huge issue of individuals with concussions who played.
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I don't have to ask a doctor. In my years of taking care of trauma, concussions at all ages have had many significant effects acutely and most of all long-term. Furthermore in following my patients, it is quite evident to me that many subtle long-term effects go unrecognized by many physicians. The effects of concussions on youngsters and teens are too many times life-long.

NFL players were once youngster who have carried the burden of cumulative head traumas and cumulative progressive effects. The NFL has historically tried to deny and coverup scientific evidence involving any complicity/responsibility in their players' maladies.
 
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Scott Zolak: Patriots may cut Stefon Diggs
Published May 31, 2025 10:44 AM

The Patriots apparently aren’t digging Stefon.

Scott Zolak, who calls Patriots games on the radio and thus has a much greater connection to the team than the garden-variety talking chowderhead, believes the Patriots may cut receiver Stefon Diggs.

“I came to this show yesterday with the opinion -- not opinion, but the knowledge that it is on the table,” Zolak recently said during his weekday radio program on 98.5 The Sports Hub, via NBCSportsBoston.com. “That it is being thought of.”

Zolak pointed out the possibility arises from something more than the pink powder club video that emerged this week of Diggs on a yacht.

"t’s not just the boat,” Zolak said. “It’s not just the boat. There are some other things that I’ve heard that put some things in question. Are you all-in here?”

Still, Zolak believes Diggs should be retained.

“The videos look great of him working out,” Zolak said. “I’ve touted the videos. I know you need diva receivers. I say he shouldn’t be cut, because I think he would help Drake Maye and this offense and Josh McDaniels, because you would have a true viable guy that would set coverage. Right now, you still don’t have a guy who sets coverage.”

Diggs signed a contract that fully guarantees $16.6 million at signing. But the contract includes broad language regarding his pre-existing knee injury, resulting from a torn ACL suffered during the 2024 season.

Here’s the real question, which we’re currently trying to answer. Can the Patriots walk away from the Diggs deal at any point before he passes a physical and owe him nothing?

Regardless of the financial niceties, Zolak said the possibility of cutting Diggs is on the table. Is it a message to Diggs from the organization to become “all-in”? Or is it a prediction that could come to fruition?

Either way, it makes sense to watch the situation closely.
 
FBI probe of OneTeam Partners extends from MLBPA to NFLPA
Published May 31, 2025 08:40 AM

It’s never good to land on the radar of the FBI. The NFL Players Association has.

Daniel Kaplan, in an item for AwfulAnnouncing.com, explains that an FBI probe of OneTeam Partners has extended from the MLB Players Association to the NFLPA.

Jeff Passan and Don Van Natta Jr. of ESPN.com first reported on the probe, with primary focus on the MLBPA. (The story currently appears on the ESPN.com MLB page, not its NFL page.) Per the ESPN.com article, law-enforcement agents have inquired about money used to strike deals and to monetize the name, image, and likeness rights of players.

OneTeam is a group licensing venture formed by the MLBPA, the NFLPA, and RedBird Capital Partners in 2019. Other sports unions have since joined the group

OneTeam said in a statement to ESPN.com that the company is “aware of an ongoing investigation of allegations concerning our partners. We want to emphasize that OneTeam is not the subject of the investigation and has not been accused of any wrongdoing in any way. OneTeam is fully committed to cooperating with the investigation.”

The NFLPA issued the following statement to Kaplan: “We are aware of the investigation and fully prepared to cooperate if the NFLPA is contacted.” However, Kaplan reports that contact has been made.

Specifically, Kaplan writes that NFLPA in-house counsel Heather McPhee sent a memo to the NFLPA’s board of player representatives on Friday, in which she said that the FBI had contacted her and individual players.

The investigation possibly traces to equity options. An MLBPA whistleblower group had accused executive director Tony Clark of awarding equity options to himself. Separately, the NFLPA conducted an investigation regarding equity options issued to executive director Lloyd Howell.

However it plays out, OneTeam has been one very significant source of revenue for the NFLPA. As noted by ESPN.com, OneTeam has paid the NFLPA $422.8 million over the past five years.
 
I find it very curious why Rice has not been suspended since he has been charged with a felony. The NFL kept stating that they could not suspend Deshaun Watson because he was never charged.

From the NFL Personal Conduct Policy:

Felony Charges and Suspension:
  • If an NFL player is charged with a felony, the NFL can initiate its own investigation into the matter, even if law enforcement is also investigating.
  • The NFL's investigation can lead to disciplinary action, including suspension, even if the player is not ultimately convicted of the felony.
  • This is because the NFL holds its personnel to a higher standard than simply avoiding criminal conviction

Rashee Rice faces another lawsuit arising from March 2024 street-racing crash

Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice continues to face criminal and civil proceedings in the aftermath of a March 2024 street-racing crash in Dallas. A third lawsuit has now been filed against him.

Via Fox 4, Kayla Quinn alleges that she and her son sustained physical and mental injuries when their car was struck during the race involving Rice. They sued both Rice and former SMU football player Theodore Knox.

Quinn and her son seek between $250,000 and $1 million in damages.

Two other lawsuits were filed against Rice and Knox in April 2024. They separately have been charged with multiple crimes.

The prosecution is pending. The league does not plan to take action against Rice until the criminal case has ended.

Originally, Rice had hoped to have a strong second season, to resolve the prosecution during the 2025 offseason, and to accept a suspension this season. His knee injury, coupled with the slow pace of the prosecution, has altered that strategy.

Rice has no real defense, to either the criminal allegations or the civil lawsuits. The incident is on video. He and Knox were racing. They struck other cars while doing so.
 
NFLPA ponders eventual NFL push for European division
Published June 1, 2025 09:47 AM

The NFL has been printing dollars for years. In time, it may be printing Euros.

The NFL Players Association, we’re told, is preparing for the NFL to eventually make a push for a four-team European division.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell has been actively discussing the pros and cons of putting multiple teams — and more than 200 union jobs — on another continent. And there are more than a few cons.

Will players want to move to London or Germany or Spain or wherever? Living in a different country introduces a host of new issues, starting with the governmental structure and continuing with the taxation system, cost of living, the potential language barrier, and more.

Then there’s the draft. It’s one thing to tell a 21-year-old who’d prefer to live in his hometown of Pittsburgh that he’s moving to Seattle. It’s another to tell a kid from Phoenix that he’s packing for Frankfurt.

From the league’s perspective, there’s no evidence that a plan is in place to put one or more teams in Europe in the foreseeable future. The goal for now is to expand the number of permissible international games under the Collective Bargaining Agreement from 10 to 16.

That said, this year’s decision to give the Vikings consecutive “road” games in Dublin and London is, we’ve previously explained, the first effort to evaluate the impact of a multi-week foreign trip on a U.S.-based team.

If/when team(s) are in Europe, that’s how it will go. In lieu of traveling across the Atlantic Ocean twice in a given season, teams will get their European games played during the same trip.

One basic question, if the league were to put four teams in Europe, is where the teams will come from. Expansion, as to all four teams, is a possibility.

Making that option more attractive is the price that a new owner would pay the other owners for a team. Right now, an expansion fee of $10 billion per team wouldn’t be crazy. Four teams means $40 billion, which also means $1.25 billion for each existing owner.

Another question becomes where a four-team European division would be placed. Currently, the league has four eight-team divisions. Adding four teams would result in four five-team divisions and four four-team divisions. One obvious goal, in order to minimize travel, would be to put the four European teams (and their two games per year against each other) in the same four-team division.

But that division would have to be placed in either the AFC or the NFC. That would create a potentially significant burden on the other teams in the European division’s conference — especially if the European division’s champion wins the No. 1 seed in the conference.

Then there’s the reality that the three California-based teams, along with the Seahawks, Cardinals, Raiders, and Broncos, could be facing ridiculously long trips for playoff games. Likewise, the European teams could be facing the same kind of postseason travel realities. One fairly obvious solution would be to restructure the league to put the Rams, 49ers, Seahawks, Cardinals, Raiders, Broncos, Chargers, and one other midwestern team (Cowboys, Texans, Chiefs, Saints, or Vikings) in two divisions of the same conference — with the European division in the other conference.

Regardless, it’s not just another effort to generate short-term interest and media coverage during the annual European games.
Yes, the league has a habit of dangling carrots (e.g., London Super Bowl!) when it’s time to move the needle in England. But it’s possible that some of the more outlandish possibilities aren’t simply aimed at creating headlines.

In 2022, Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned the possibility of a four-team division during a pre-London game hype
session. Although he has since pivoted his focus to 16 international regular-season games, it’s not an either-or alternative.

It’s quite possibly a stepping stone.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Scott Zolak: Patriots may cut Stefon Diggs
Published May 31, 2025 10:44 AM

The Patriots apparently aren’t digging Stefon.

Scott Zolak, who calls Patriots games on the radio and thus has a much greater connection to the team than the garden-variety talking chowderhead, believes the Patriots may cut receiver Stefon Diggs.

“I came to this show yesterday with the opinion -- not opinion, but the knowledge that it is on the table,” Zolak recently said during his weekday radio program on 98.5 The Sports Hub, via NBCSportsBoston.com. “That it is being thought of.”

Zolak pointed out the possibility arises from something more than the pink powder club video that emerged this week of Diggs on a yacht.

"t’s not just the boat,” Zolak said. “It’s not just the boat. There are some other things that I’ve heard that put some things in question. Are you all-in here?”

Still, Zolak believes Diggs should be retained.

“The videos look great of him working out,” Zolak said. “I’ve touted the videos. I know you need diva receivers. I say he shouldn’t be cut, because I think he would help Drake Maye and this offense and Josh McDaniels, because you would have a true viable guy that would set coverage. Right now, you still don’t have a guy who sets coverage.”

Diggs signed a contract that fully guarantees $16.6 million at signing. But the contract includes broad language regarding his pre-existing knee injury, resulting from a torn ACL suffered during the 2024 season.

Here’s the real question, which we’re currently trying to answer. Can the Patriots walk away from the Diggs deal at any point before he passes a physical and owe him nothing?

Regardless of the financial niceties, Zolak said the possibility of cutting Diggs is on the table. Is it a message to Diggs from the organization to become “all-in”? Or is it a prediction that could come to fruition?

Either way, it makes sense to watch the situation closely.
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May the Steelers and the Patriots get into a bidding war for Metchie!

Metchie to the Steelers and Hutchinson to the Patriots in exchange for round fours in 2026.
 
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