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(Ted) Cruz edges out (Jimmy) Kimmel in charity basketball game in Houston
Chron ^ | Updated 10:17 pm, Saturday, June 16, 2018 | Cary Darling

Posted on 06/17/2018 10:35:20 PM PDT by cba123

It was the Thunderdome from "Mad Max" or the coliseum from "Spartacus," if either Max or Sparty were two, middle-aged American men playing a slow-motion car-crash of half-court basketball for charity and political one upsmanship.

Conservative Texas Sen. Ted Cruz triumphed over liberal ABC late-night host/comedian Jimmy Kimmel with a hard-won 11-9 victory in the first Blobfish Basketball Classic at Texas Southern University's Health and Physical Education Arena Saturday. The event, which turned out to be a Coachella festival of air balls, missed shots and footwork that would make a sloth look like Usain Bolt, was sparked by Twitter trash-talk that started after Cruz posted a picture of himself supporting the Houston Rockets over the Golden State Warriors during Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals. Kimmel joked that Cruz resembled a blobfish, a not particularly attractive creature that dwells at the bottom of the ocean.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: basketball; blobfish; cruz; jimmykimmel; kimmel; tedcruz; texas
I did not support Ted Crus for the presidency.

But I have to say, he is more constructive these days.

This article, is pretty funny. Good job Ted Cruz.

1 posted on 06/17/2018 10:35:20 PM PDT by cba123
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https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Cruz-edges-out-Kimmel-in-charity-basketball-game-13000976.php


2 posted on 06/17/2018 10:35:39 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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Sorry.

Ted Cruz.


3 posted on 06/17/2018 10:36:05 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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One more thing our side does better.


4 posted on 06/17/2018 10:41:29 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: cba123

Ted shows off his sense of humor in image 9 at the source although not all Freepers will appreciate it.


5 posted on 06/17/2018 11:14:08 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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Afterwards, Kimmel says that this will not change anything, he will still call out Cruz on political issues.

Can you imagine what Kimmel would be saying if he had won? We all know that Cruz would have been as gracious in defeat as victory, but Kimmel would have been playing clips on his TV show constantly and using it as a way to ping on Cruz.


6 posted on 06/18/2018 1:53:50 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: cba123

Pretty funny stuff.


7 posted on 06/18/2018 3:15:51 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Afterwards, Kimmel says that this will not change anything, he will still call out Cruz on political issues.

Isn't that what Democrats always say?

8 posted on 06/18/2018 3:37:04 AM PDT by D Rider
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so kimmel got beat by a BLOBFISH... jimmy BLOBFISH from now on
9 posted on 06/18/2018 4:00:02 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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If these things are done in a good natured way with no sore losers fine. Justin Trudeau had a much ballyhooed boxing fight with a conservative member of parliament which he won some time before he became PM. Doesn’t mean his ideology is superior though.


10 posted on 06/18/2018 4:09:14 AM PDT by xp38
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What I’d give to play bammy in a one on one match. He’s about an inch taller but I’ve seen the dude shoot.


11 posted on 06/18/2018 4:21:52 AM PDT by ealgeone
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A waste of time


12 posted on 06/18/2018 6:44:19 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Agree what some people call news.


13 posted on 06/18/2018 9:08:08 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Please let us know when Ted faces Kimmel on the sands, “et gladii”...

That’s something I’d love to watch...And no “missio” permitted...


14 posted on 06/18/2018 12:25:19 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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