It's That Time Of The Year Again

As the calendar winds into late July and NFL teams begin ramping up and getting into high gear in training camps, Heftyinfo will once again preview all 32 teams starting next week (late July) and throughout the month of August, beginning with the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. 

This season could be one of the most unpredictable in recent memory with all the off-season roster moves and the influx of rookie players coming into the fold for the 2025 NFL season, which kicks off on Thursday, September 4th in Philadelphia when the Eagles play the Dallas Cowboys. 

The 2025 NFL previews will include all 32 teams and, of course, the entire season will have a week by week preview of all the games and also recaps following all the action. The NFL playoffs will also be covered all the way through January, leading up to Super Bowl LX in February. 

Stay tuned.  

With Trump And Company, The Lies Never End

 

Epstein files . . . 

releasing his tax returns  . . . 

build a wall and Mexico will pay for it . . . 

COVID-19 was a hoax . . . 

he never met Stormy Daniels . . .  

The 2020 election was stolen . . . 

he ended numerous wars . . . 

And it goes on and on and on . . . 

Most people get the point. 

 

Republicans Are Evil

The bill that passed out of the United States Senate earlier today for the tax cuts for the corporations and richest people in the country is absolutely the worst ever financial legislation in the history of the United States of America. 

In order to pay for this crap, millions of people will be without health care and children will go without food assistance just so a few people (less than one percent of the entire U.S. population) get another tax cut. 

The republicans hold the majority in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives and this is on them. 

This legislation passed and now will go back to the U.S. House where it likely will be approved and the President of the United States will sign it and then the near 4 TRILLION DOLLARS will be added to the U.S. deficit. 

The evil republicans and convicted felon Donald J. Trump own this. 

Period. 

End of discussion. 

 

 

Elect A Convict, Expect Chaos

Most people that voted in last November's election had a choice to make. 

Either vote for good and positive things from Kamala Harris and the democratic party for the United States of America or vote for evil and tyranny and potential dictatorship attempts by convicted felon and traitor Donald Trump to screw everything up again, just like in his term as president from 2017-2021. 

  

Well, when the results came in and Trump was re-installed as POTUS, Heftyinfo posted it loud and clear . . . 

 

AMERICA - YOU SCREWED IT UP AGAIN! 

Trump and his minions are attempting to sow discourse and chaos in Los Angeles (and likely coming to other major cities in America) if we the people, let them. 

We saw this back in May and early June of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by cops in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN when the protests were infiltrated by right wing trouble makers and eventually Trump did his idiotic march to Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. to emulate Adolph Hitler in a photo-op by posing with a bible in his hand. 

Fast forward many months later to January 6, 2021 when Trump and his minions led a coup attempt and the capitol in D.C. was attacked by insurrectionists. We all remember that and of course Trump (ever the hypocrite) refused to deploy the national guard in that instance as the chaos continued on for over three hours. 

People had a choice to make in November 2024 and they decided it was necessary to install the oldest president ever to take office. 

When Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, he was the oldest president ever to do so. NOW TRUMP is the oldest president ever to take office. He will be 79 years old on June 14 (Flag Day by the way, it seems many people have forgotten that) and it shows. He speaks incoherently and rambles on and on with a bunch of propaganda and it is all the same crap from his original term eight years ago. 

Lather, Rinse, repeat. 

Divide and conquer  . . . it's always been the master plan for the republicans and now with the aid of domestic terrorist organizations like the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025 creators) and a corrupt U.S. Supreme Court that allows convicted felon Trump to have immunity for his actions as POTUS, it's on steroids. The corporate controlled news media also carries on the narrative of these evil doers with their sugar coated news reports that normalizes the illegality of the actions of Trump and Elon Musk and all the other fascist bozos. 

These evil people love to distract as well, so this latest attempt to be a "strong man" by Trump is to further distract from the largely unpopular policies of this president to cut everything that benefits Americans and gives away more and more money to the richest people and corporations with more unnecessary TAX CUTS FOR BILLIONAIRES.

Stay the course people and fight these terrorists and enemies of the state as they attempt to implement dictatorship and fascism in our country. The thugs and convicts working with the poser president will stop at nothing to have their way and their wet dreams of racism and fascism in the United States of America. 

It's up to WE THE PEOPLE of this country to fight back and NEVER allow that to happen.  

Once again, America - you screwed it up again. 

Electing a traitor and convicted felon to be the President of the United States of America? 

We will see what happens. 

Well . . . here we are. 

Now do something about it.  

 

 

So Long . . . For Now

 

The site Heftyinfo has been around since May of 2009 and in those sixteen years a lot has changed in the world, especially in the United States of America. 

Blogger was once a thriving site to get out the message and blog sites were all the rage back then, but since then PODCASTS have saturated the market and everyone and their dog (or cat) seems to have one. Substack is currently the hot take when it comes to getting out the message involving politics, sports, hobbies, etc. 

 

When this site launched in May 2009, a lot went into the content yours truly put out there. But these days, for whatever reasons, Blogger changed and they are like a distant planet when it comes to communicating with this site. 

Therefore, Heftyinfo will be on hiatus until later this year when football season gets going and football coverage will be the exclusive content for this site. 

Farewell fellow bloggers and subscribers/followers of this site. 

See you again in August. 

Sports Musings

 

Time for a post on some random thoughts and musings in the world of sports. 

While the NFL Draft for the upcoming 2025 season is now complete, many people are still pondering why it took so long for Shedeur Sanders (quarterback from Colorado and son of pro football Hall of Fame player Deion Sanders) to be drafted. The Cleveland Browns selected Sanders with the 144th overall pick in the fifth round on Saturday. 

The fact is we will never quite know what the reasoning was for so many teams (including Pittsburgh, New Orleans, New York Giants and the Browns) that have quarterback situations right now. Remember that the great Tom Brady wasn't selected by the New England Patriots from Michigan until the sixth round back in the 2000 NFL Draft. Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas, once the greatest QB of all time, wasn't even drafted. He was a free agent who was cut by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1950's and wound up with the Baltimore Colts and went on to establish so many NFL passing records (long since broken by other quarterbacks) and won multiple championships, including being a member of the Colts Super Bowl V championship team in 1970. 

So don't fret over Sanders huge slide down the draft order this year, because that young man will have the opportunity to make the team and perhaps even win the starting job before the end of the 2025 NFL season. Stranger things have happened throughout the history of the NFL. 

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As for the playoffs in the NBA and NHL . . . 

The Los Angeles Lakers have their backs to the wall now that Minnesota holds a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series while the Oklahoma City Thunder, the top seed in the Western Conference, swept their opening round series in four games over the Memphis Grizzlies. Meanwhile, the Golden State Warriors continue to wheeze their way along as they have a 2-1 series edge over the Houston Rockets. The best series so far has been the dead even (2-2) pairing between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Denver Nuggets. This one has game seven written all over it. 

in the East, the Boston Celtics have had their hands full with the Orlando Magic, holding a 2-1 series lead with game four continuing on Sunday evening. The Cleveland Cavaliers (top seed in the Eastern Conference) have a commanding 3-0 series edge against the Miami Heat . The New York Knicks went up 3-1 in their series against the upstart Detroit Pistons, although their game four win ended in controversy as the referees admitted they blew it by not calling a foul in the closing seconds that could have made the difference for the home team Pistons. And like the Boston Celtics, the Indiana Pacers are trying to go up 3-1 in their series against the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday night. 

The NHL playoffs have been what one might expect . . . unpredictability. 

The top team in the Eastern Conference is the Washington Capitals and they have a 2-1 series lead going into Sunday evening against the Montreal Canadiens, perhaps the most storied franchise in NHL history. The Carolina Hurricanes are up 3-1 against the New jersey Devils while the Toronto Maple Leafs are likewise up 3-1 against the Ottawa Senators. The Florida Panthers lead 2-1 against the Tampa Bay Lightning with each team earning road victories. 

The Western Conference has the Winnipeg Jets (the top team in the NHL this season) struggling with the St. Louis Blues as that one is tied 2-2 so far. Also deadlocked at 2-2 in the series are the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche and the Vegas Golden Knights and Minnesota Wild. The only series not tied is between the Edmonton Oilers and the Los Angeles Kings, with L.A. holding a 2-1 series edge. 

Play on . . . 

The young Major League Baseball season has seen BOTH New York teams (Yankees and Mets) in first place in their division races while the San Francisco Giants lead the rugged National League West with a slim margin over the L.A. Dodgers and San Diego Padres. The Chicago Cubs have the league's best offense so far and have a decent lead over the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers. 

The biggest disappointment so far is the Baltimore Orioles (10-17 record) being in last place in the A.L. East with Boston, Toronto and Tampa Bay hanging around the Yankees. The Detroit Tigers are looking solid and lead the A.L. Central with the Cleveland Guardians in second. The A.L. West has the Seattle Mariners getting out of the gate fast and they lead the Texas Rangers along with Houston, the Athletics and L.A. Angels all within shouting distance. 

Play Ball ! 

And next Saturday at Churchill Downs, the Kentucky Derby takes place with Journalism listed as the early odds favorite. But this race will likely go down to the wire yet again, so get ready and place your bets. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Florida Gators Win Basketball National Championship

 The Florida Gators capped a huge second half comeback for a 65-63 thrilling victory against the Houston Cougars to win the Men's NCAA Basketball Championship Game in San Antonio, Texas on Monday night. 

The Cougars had a 12-point lead in the second half, but the resilient Gators (36-4 record) stormed back and took a late lead and then the defense took over as they suffocated Houston, which didn't get a shot off in three possessions in the final minute of play. 

 

       Congratulations to the Florida Gators . . .  2024-25 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions !