The force ghost was a work around for Alec Guinness wanting to die in the first movie so he wouldn’t need to be in the sequels if any.

The women’s leaderboard in the 1950's would of been completely blank. The first woman to compete, Katherine Switzer, didn’t do so until 1967 (entering in the men’s category) and women weren’t allowed to officially run in the race until 1972.

As does losing to League One side Wigan in the FA Cup.

The Champions League knockout rounds are played as a home and away series known in European English as a two-legged tie. In American English the term is probably better described as a series winning goal.

Honestly, I thought the loss to League One Wigan in the FA Cup sunk them as the all time great team. They’re a very good team yes, but seriously, it’s one thing to lose to say Liverpool or another EPL team, but great teams don’t lose games that are that mismatched.

It’ll probably remain banned until FISA removes it from it’s banned list and the drug is removed from the Federal Schedule (or downgraded from its current position).

The 5,000 to 1 wasn’t reasonably calculated, it’s just something thrown out there to encouraging betting on a “sure loser” to average out the loses on the sure winner. The fact that they won caused other problems for the house, but it wasn’t a 5,000 to 1 longshot when they entered the season.

Yea. The process started years ago in all likehood. Also, I believe that the Women NT will wear them in Women’s World Cup in France next year.

It gives the advantage on average to the home team, not the best offensive team.

Because when they get around to trying to implement this in the MLB they can say they did it in the MiLB and therefore you shouldn’t complain. It’s the same nonsense they tried with the 20-second pitch clock before they were laughed out of the room by the Players Association.

There have been a string where the labor conditions have been getting worse as the IOC and FIFA have awarded the events to countries with worse and worse labor standards as high standard countries skip on even bidding for hosting due to the losses involved in winning a bid. This is self inflicted though since the IOC…

What’s wrong with the 3-year MLB rule? If you decided to start college you need to commit to it and stay there until your 21 years old, if not go to rookie A ball. The choice is up to the player though and not like the one and done rule forced on them by the league.

For the record, ski jumping isn’t appropriate for anyone, not just women, from a medical point of view. But if your going to allow one vendor to do it at two different heights, you might as well allow the other gender to be just as insane.

No. Hockey and mass start cross-country skiing are contact sports as well.

It depends on the nationality/citizenship rules for the country. Under Hungarian Citizenship by Descent you can gain citizenship via a grandparent and proof you speak Hungarian.

I believe it’s still officially called “The Untitled Deadpool Sequel”, but people refer to it as Deadpool 2. I would be money they just leave the current title in place.

The computer ping is named for the sonar ping.

Technically it’s a consolidated city-county, where the city government acts as the county government as well because the city takes up enough of the county that a county government is a bit pointless.

Meh, I’d rather see Bortles-Foles. Mainly because it would make a lot of professional sports writers heads explode as they attempt to write about it for both the two weeks leading up and the then the rest of the year where they talk about the eventual winner.

It’s hard to do in California since due to Prop 13 destroying cities finances and leaving the, unable to raise money another way, HOAs are one of the few ways a developer can actually get streets, sidewalks and sewers put in on someone else’s dime. (They have the HOA borrow the funds to do so then pay the loan back…