Mike Leach would have loved that line split

the content I’m here for

I fucking love the World Cup

*Tracy Morgan voice*

ROCK CHALK ALGERIA

We didn't produce Sorsby content because it didn't seem within our specialty, and that seems pretty smart atm

If one can cross the Alps with elephants, they can cross a ball in the mixer

Tunisia is here, Italy is not. Dido is smiling in the afterlife.

Did Temple Football make a graphic for this? You bet your ass they did. Go Owls.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL SOCCEROOS!!!!!!! IT’S 2-0!!!!!

File under very accurate "national teams as CFB teams" Brasil is great with The Meats

This is really good info! Thank you

Want to impress your friends while watching USMNT vs. Paraguay tonight? I've got you covered for @Backheeled. From a Harvard research project to set piece excellence to Pochettino recasting players, here's a nugget on each and every U.S. player. Read ⤵️

🇺🇸 USMNT WORLD CUP MATCH DAY 🇺🇸 if you've been checked out on the squad (or have never checked in), I've got a primer on the guys to know: sports.yahoo.com/soccer/artic...

The Kansas Band learned the Algerian National Anthem and played it during practice in Lawrence. Everyone wearing the soccer scarves and the sousas having them wrapped around the bells is sending me.

This is college fight song coded (also, don't do colonialism, its bad)

And then it got moreso

Yup, just a normal match to start the World Cup

Not gonna surprise anyone.

It's 2010. Shakira does the opening Ceremony of the world cup. The first Match is South Africa against a Mexico team coached by Javier Aguirre It's 2026. Shakira does the opening Ceremony of the world cup. The first Match is a Mexico team coached by Javier Aguirre against South Africa It's 2042...

Just in time, what will pass for our World Cup preview: open.spotify.com/episode/6yFs...

Where does the 2026 USMNT come from? And how did they ascend from soccer-loving kids to the World Cup? Story + data viz on the many paths to the U.S. World Cup team, w/ @emilygiam.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...

Yes please more mascot on planes centralasiaplus.aero/2026/05/24/u...

In March, I went to watch France and Brazil play a pre-World Cup game—half the game from an on-field VIP club, half from the cheap seats. Today I’ve got an essay out about what live sports are for, which seems like something a lot of us are thinking about right now. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The World Cup is the ultimate sport for watching with a community to experience a collective emotion. If you thought last night's scenes of community in New York were nuts, wait until you see what happens if the debutantes get a result, or even a goal.

From FreddyLA7, a German fan who has been crossing the US doing all the things. War Damn Eagle.

@sickosfc.bsky.social it's Paraguay 2 - Colombia 1, 9 mins in, in the COMNEBOL Women's Nations League

soccer list for world cup

Friend of the show @akeaswaran.me getting a big newspaper shout-out www.ajc.com/sports/2026/...

Gosh I was thinking about how he collapsed in the Euros a couple of hours again I hope he’s going to be okay

One interesting note with a city of people who moved from elsewhere. You might already have your NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL team from where you grew up, or your parent's fandom. Upon moving to new place, you often are some level of soccer free agent, and can more easily support the local team

Be gay score goals

Remember kids — it’s always better to do a shitty photoshop, even on your phone while you’re at a doctor’s office, than use AI.

We did it. open.spotify.com/episode/54o2...

I think every industry has the same percentage of complete assholes and the same percentage of nice people so if you’re trans you should do whatever the fuck you want

We love cribbing architecture from the ancient Greeks

@mikewattsonair.bsky.social is a national treasure

good morning Wisconsin needs an AD. These are unconventional times. They call for an unconventional leader. Me. www.extrapointsmb.com/p/wisconsin-...

I am looking to speak with women (hell yea, brother) who played a DI sport in the past five years in the following states: Indiana, Texas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, WV, Oklahoma, Tennessee. If that’s you, or you know someone, please hit me up

I mean....duh?

The rights are cheap but the demo you're selling ads against is affluent young women, which is the most valuable demo to advertisers. It's such a no-brainer from a business perspective.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

NEW EXTRA POINTS: There are some good ideas in the Protect College Sports Act. Also, some dumb ones. Here's why this bill, unlike most of the other efforts over the last few years, is really worth monitoring: www.extrapointsmb.com/p/four-quick...

Thanks again to @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for joining us to discuss the way people have always been people, loving cheering for their favorite teams and not thinking about how the sports sausage actually gets made. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/UKexJ6fzv3b