Credit to Juventus's kit designers for creatively evoking their heritage as Club That Does Crimes

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

Been a long time since I’ve worked on some #dataviz for the site. A small scrolly for a piece by @alitweedale.bsky.social 🛩️

23 of the 43 players originally entered into Dubai have now withdrawn or retired mid-match. 53% Never seen anything like it.

Really nice way to simplify the idea

Fun fact: Rotterdam has been getting slower since the late 90s and is now relatively slow for an indoor hard court, with some recent exceptions (2020 and 2024). Wonder if that will be a factor in today's final between De Minaur and FAA

A long time coming. Muchova finally gets a title that matches her talent. An incredible shot maker and tennis player. Finally healthy and playing like she always could.

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Inter and Juventus come into their big clash tomorrow much more evenly matched than the 12 points difference would suggest, if we look at coach-level underlying data rather than season aggregates, both with and without the ball. Spalletti's impact has been huge for Juventus.

Awesome concert from Alter Bridge in Madrid 🤘🎸

Four managers in one season? Sounds like Marinakis can't see the larger problem with his organization because he's too focused on individuals. As if each manager were a tree blocking his view of the club as a whole. Still trying to think of a better way to phrase this

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social sums up why Starmer is responsible for voters hating him after such a short time:

One of my favorite things is when badly run clubs hire managers from well run clubs and are shocked when it changes nothing for either team

If we compare Rodri's 25/26 stats with 23/24, he still ranks highly across almost all role-specific metrics, with slight dips mainly in passing accuracy and ball retention. He’s actually more involved (higher share of touches) and more active defensively when normalizing by opponent touches.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

This is the WTA, folks

When your men are aging you

Post a banger that isn't in English. Some Argentinian metal because why the hell not www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0q...

Looks like I should start shitposting about Arsenal's % of goals from set pieces

VAR

Interesting lineup for a random Thursday in the first week of February

The Big Five era had a good run

guys, you're arsenal fans. you spent years eating shit when your team of nice boys playing football the right way couldn't win anything. rival fans now think of this team the way you thought of mourinho's chelsea. you should be loving every minute of it.

There's this thing that happens with online discourse around Arsenal where non-Arsenal fans say they're boring and horrible to watch, and Arsenal fans respond by saying they're actually enjoyable. No they're not. They are boring. The correct response is "mad cuz bad, skill issue, scoreboard."

Como just recorded the highest single-match xG without scoring in the top 5 🇪🇺 leagues since 2017/18. Nico Paz's missed penalty was enough to surpass the previous record holder, none other than... Atalanta, who had 5.64 non-penalty xG in a goalless draw vs Empoli in 2018/19

Double Pivot literally quoted in the Times for coining “meat wall.” What a time to be alive.

The most frustrating thing for Sinner is that I got the impression the main reason he lost was a lack of aggression and bravery, something that’s hurt him before against Alcaraz. I don’t think he would have beaten Alcaraz in a final with that mindset, even if he had made it there

Although I would have liked Sinner to win, last night was a fucking classic. On top of the spot serving to protect his serve, especially facing BP so many times as the match wore on, an absolute tactical masterclass from Đoković. He is the greatest manager of five-set matches this sport has seen.

Swapping Frattesi for Jones?! Where do I sign? Can I chip in?

If I may say so myself

7 - Aryna Sabalenka is just the third player in the Open Era to reach 7+ consecutive Women's Singles Fs at GS events on hard court, after Steffi Graf and Martina Hingis. Pantheon. #AusOpen | @wtatour.bsky.social

imagine walking into a coaches meeting in, like, 2022 and being like, I have two revolutionary ideas: "man marking and hoof it in the box" well, it happened and it's disgusting

in the latest Expecting Goals newsletter (free to read!) I broke down the numbers on the Premier League set piece revolution and why I think it marks a major new tactical trend in the Premier League that will be unusually difficult to dislodge www.expectinggoals.com/p/the-set-pi...

This is the first time all the top 4 seeds have made the semis of a men's slam since RG 2019, and the 17th time in the open era (data from @tennisabstract.bsky.social)

Insane shot

Aston Villa recruitment strategy, January 2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I have been saying. Aryna smashing her racquet, Coco smashing her racket, zooming in on Iga crying during her cooling down routine…players need an area where they can decompress privately. not everything needs to be filmed and we are not entitled to seeing everything either. this isn’t big brother.

A piece worth your time, from @jeffrueter.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Nowhere near the finished article on a hard court - and Collignon gave him legitimate problems in R1 - but from where he was a couple of seasons ago, Musetti's improvement on the surface has been huge. More discerning shot selection, sturdier serve, better conditioning and footwork. Kudos.

Arsenal - Manchester United match analysis

Not that Fifa will do it, but Federal agents repeatedly killing innocent people in the streets in broad daylight with multiple witnesses and without accountability seems like a justifiable a reason to have World Cup hosting duties taken away.

Every single game this year. Make them hear you