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The Dolphins are releasing quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, resulting in a $99 million dead cap hit​

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The Dolphins are releasing quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, resulting in a $99 million dead cap hit

The Miami Dolphins are moving on from Tua Tagovailoa and starting over at quarterback. Tagovailoa has been the team’s primary starter for the last 5 1/2 seasons but the Dolphins said Monday he will be released.
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Miami is paying this QB $99 $M to go away?
 
NHL: The Stanley Cup Finals
is the NHL's counterpart to MLB's World Series,
except baseball is mind-numbingly boring, and ice hockey is a quick-paced close-quarter competition.

This evening's game #2 in this season's best of 7 series was won in OT, leaving the series tied.

These teams are about the best there is.

Game #3 Saturday.
- go Sabres -
 
After two periods Game #3 seemed like a snoozer, the score 4:0. BUT !
By the end of the third period the score was tied at 4, driving game #3 into double O.T.

BUT !

The total number of goals scored in this game was nine.
Vegas scored 3 of them. Carolina scored 6. AND

Carolina lost, 4 : 5 :oops:

yeah, odd game

Game #4 Tues. 8PM/ET.
 
Spectator sport "fans" ("fan" an abbreviation for "fanatic") are an economic $dynamo.

Until recently the business model of – often-rural – neighborhood pubs relied on NFL fans to keep their doors open in the fall.

The recent digital / flat panel standard: in a typical smaller bar may have 30 or 40 TVs with a DIRECTV box mounted behind every television ... . BUT !!

As "streaming" is displacing DIRECTTV, I now have to get an EverPass streaming box. But you can't put an EverPass streaming box behind every TV. It doesn't work like that," Hallers said on Capitol Hill. "Just imagine at home, if you tried to stream, you know, 30 Netflix's at once, your internet's just going to die. Well, it's the same way for most bars and restaurants today."

"One commercial video switch with enough inputs and outputs can cost in excess of $15,000. A full upgrade including equipment, wiring and the labor, will cost $30,000 to $40,000 per restaurant," he also testified. "So instead of simplifying the business, the transition is adding another layer of cost and complexity."

Wednesday’s congressional hearing stemmed from the Iowa Restaurant Association and the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, which each represent thousands of independent restaurant and bar owners, sending letters to high-powered GOP lawmakers in their states urging them to act on "a significant shift in the commercial distribution of NFL Sunday Ticket that threatens to impose immediate and substantial burdens on small businesses" across their states.
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'Still very immature': Texas sports bar owner sounds alarm on NFL's streaming pivot

Texas restaurateur Jim Hallers warns Congress that NFL streaming fragmentation threatens sports bars, citing $30,000 to $40,000 upgrade costs per venue.
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So what's really going on here?
Fans that can't afford the time and or the money to attend a game a thousand miles away can both enjoy the game, and camaraderie at a local sports bar.

Have sports bars been freeloading all this time? And now with streaming sport content, they're finally paying the piper?
"Follow the money." Mark Felt aka deep throat
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'[Commercial] Television in America does not exist to deliver programs to viewers.
It exists to deliver audiences to advertisers.' a top CBS-TV executive
 
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