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The College Football Playoff selection committee chose the LSU Tigers, Ohio State Buckeyes, Clemson Tigers, and Oklahoma Sooners to compete for a spot in this year’s national championship game.
No. 1 LSU will take on No. 4 Oklahoma in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at 4 p.m. on December 28.
Four hours later, No. 2 Ohio State will face off against No. 3 Clemson across the country at the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl.
Ahead of the College Football Playoff semifinals, the team at BetOnline.ag used geotagged Twitter data to determine which squad is getting the most support by state.
The Sooners and Buckeyes lead the charge with 20 and 19 states supporting them, respectively, while eight states support Joe Burrow’s Tigers, and three states support Trevor Lawrence’s Tigers.
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The College Football Playoff field is set.

On Sunday, the College Football Playoff selection committee chose the LSU Tigers, Ohio State Buckeyes, Clemson Tigers, and Oklahoma Sooners to compete in the semifinals for a spot in this year’s national championship game.

Joe Burrow and undefeated No. 1 LSU will take on former Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts and his one-loss No. 4 Sooners in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at 4 p.m. on December 28. Four hours later, the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl will play host to two teams with pristine records on the season: No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Clemson.

With the semifinals just a few weeks away, the team at BetOnline.ag used trends software with direct access to geotagged Twitter data to determine which College Football Playoff squad is getting the most support by state. More than 50,000 tweets containing hashtags like #GoBucks, #GeauxTigers, #ALLIN, and #boomersooner, the BetOnline.ag college football analytics group found that …read more

Source:: Business Insider

      

Deadlocked by many of the same factors as Britain’s, Israel’s electoral system may offer a glimpse of our political future.

If madness is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results, Israel’s political system could perhaps be certified insane. After months of frustrated attempts to form a governing coalition, voters will head to the polls yet again on 2 March 2020, following elections in April and September this year.

Forming a government has become a Sisphean task for Israeli lawmakers. After April’s election, lawmakers voted to dissolve Knesset and call another election in September, after Netanyahu failed to form a coalition. At that time, rather than return his mandate to the president so his main rival, former Israeli army chief Benny Gantz, could have a go, a Netanyahu ally introduced a bill to dissolve Knesset and head for elections in September. Netanyahu is nothing if not a sore loser. But this, too, failed to provide a conclusive victory. President Reuven Rivlin urged the two main parties, Gantz’s centrist Blue and White alliance and Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud, to form a unity government. But with no member of the Knesset able to drum up sufficient support to lead, Israel now faces its third election in space of a year, a first in the country’s short history.

There are a lot of historical firsts here. Israel’s political groundhog day is not in any way normal; it is indicative of a broken system.

Another historical first was reached in November, when it was revealed that Netanyahu was to face indictment on criminal charges, the first sitting prime minister to be in that position. As Yair Lapid, one of Blue and White’s leaders said on Wednesday, “there are only three reasons for this election — bribery, fraud and breach of trust.”

Israel’s stalemate is proof …read more

Source:: New Statesman

      

A Russian slapping maestro has been slapped unconscious.
Vasiliy Khamotiskiy, a full-time farmer who slaps people in his spare time, won the male slapping championship at an event in Krasnoyarsk earlier this year.
His winning slapping streak was brought to an abrupt end this month, though, as he was hit so hard he face-planted a metal barrel in front of him.
According to RT.com, Khamotiskiy was hospitalized. He said the slap sent him into a “mini coma.”

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A Russian slapping maestro was recently slapped unconscious in a slap sports shocker.

Full-time farmer Vasiliy Khamotiskiy, a 300-pound slapper in his spare time, has attracted internet fame this year for his extraordinary ability to slap people senseless.

Khamotiskiy, nicknamed “Dumpling” because he likes the food so much, was building up so many wins, he even won 30,000 rubles ($475) when he was awarded the male slapping championship at even event in Krasnoyarsk in March.

Since then he has gone on a slapping winning streak, one which was brought to an abrupt halt this month when he was slapped into a “mini coma” after he was hit so hard he face-planted a metal barrel that had been put between him and his opponent.

Watch Khamotiskiy’s stunning loss below:

Khamotiskiy was hospitalized briefly after the slap knockout, but said after that he “liked” the shot that finished him, according to RT.com. He also said he was sent into a “mini coma.”

Khamotiskiy said: “It was a good hook, I liked it. I was put to sleep for a little bit. I could have carried on but they grabbed me and wanted to get me out of there.”

RT added that the knockout did not leave Khamotiskiy disheartened, as he was seen on video happily eating dumplings after his defeat.

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