2023 Current Events Study Guide

[teapot37]

Markéta Vondroušová wins women's singles as the first unseeded player to ever do so

Unseeded woman; Boris Becker was unseeded when he won in 1985 (although he probably would have been had 32 players been seeded then, as is the case today, instead of 16).

[Volante]

Something about 'x.com'? I skimmed the details but it seems trivially important.

[DBear]

University of Colorado announces returns to the Big 12 for the 2024-5 season after 12 years in the Pac-12

[Ironhorse]

University of Colorado announces returns to the Big 12 for the 2024-5 season after 12 years in the Pac-12

So the Big 8 will be back to 5/8 intact. Progress...

[Bamaman]

Donald Trump indicted for his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-indict ... ce01feccdc

[Volante]

University of Colorado announces returns to the Big 12 for the 2024-5 season after 12 years in the Pac-12

So the Big 8 will be back to 5/8 intact. Progress...

Buh-bye Oregon and Washington

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footb ... e-in-2024/

(Oregon's already voted on it, Washington should happen soon enough)

[DBear]

And the Pac thought they were too good for the Mountain West

[Bamaman]

Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah are headed to the Big XII. The PAC 12 is down to four members.

[Golf]

It should be noted that none of this happens until roughly a year from now.

[Volante]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66440836

Joe Biden has announced a new national monument, preserving a vast swathe of land around the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

The nearly 1m acre (404,700 hectare) Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument includes thousands of indigenous cultural sites.

The area, also known as the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, is culturally significant to many tribal nations of the US Southwest, including the Hopi, Navajo and Yavapai-Apache peoples.

Being spotted Ancestral Footprints and having to come up with Grand Canyon feels safely J!
The reverse feels very LL possible
Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni will eventually show up in an LL one-day

[Bamaman]

Donald Trump has now been indicted more times than he has been married, and twice as many times as he has been impeached.

[MinnesotaMyron]

Debuting at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week is "Rich Men North of Richmond", an anti-government protest song by Oliver Anthony, making him the first artist to debut at Number 1 with no prior chart history whatsoever.

Following him at Number 2 is Luke Combs's cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car", which hasn't been able to make the jump to Number 1, thanks to 16 non-consecutive weeks of the Number 3 song, Morgan Wallen's "Last Night", hogging the top spot. And then we have Taylor Swift at Number 4 with "Cruel Summer", a song which peaked at Number 3.

Next week's chart should be a doozey.

[alietr]

Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group who led a short-lived mutiny against Putin, apparently killed in plane crash that absolutely no one could see coming.

[MinnesotaMyron]

After seeing it 3 times now, I finally clicked on the Trending Twitter Topic "Our Flag Means Death". Turns out, it's an HBO Max romantic comedy tv series set in the Age of Piracy, with its second season starting in October.

The series follows the misadventures of gentleman-turned-pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) and his crew aboard the Revenge as they try to make a name for themselves as pirates and cross paths with famed pirate captain Blackbeard (Taika Waititi).

[Bamaman]

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[MinnesotaMyron]

Actress Fran Drescher is the president of SAG-AFTRA.

[Bamaman]

Stanford and Cal will be leaving the PAC-12 and SMU leaving the American Athletic Conference to join the ACC for the 2024-25 season.

This leaves Oregon St and Washington St as the only remaining members of the PAC-12.

[MinnesotaMyron]

"Zippy the Pinhead" creator Bill Griffith wins the Reuben Award as 2022's NCS Cartoonist of the Year. (Zippy is J-Canon, Bill is not.)

From 2006:

[MinnesotaMyron]

A week after landing briefly in jail following a traffic stop in Oklahoma, Zach Bryan debuts at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with his single "I Remember Everything", featuring Kacey Musgraves. It is the first #1 for both.

Luke Combs's "Fast Car" is still hanging on at #2, without ever having made that bump to #1.

(What is up with country music dominating the top of the Hot 100 for the last couple of months?)

[Bamaman]

If they need someone to fill in for Mayim during the strike, Aaron Rodgers is available following a season ending injury in last night’s game.