SIDNEY LOPES CABRAL OH MY YAY GOODNESS

Harry Kane is one of the few athletes that I would put in the #ThingsFakerDoes category

Quiñones is FEASTING on his Wheaties this tournament

Amad, you absolute FREAK-PERSON, you

Yo check on your Germans, y'all

GalarzaaaaENCISOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

oh god, the music therapy exchange in France Norway was so embarrassing...

And even with that, Morocco remains exciting and eminently (possibly not you, though, Hakimi) supportable. Give us the African World Cup champs we deserve, you cowards!

Even though Haiti got eliminated, I love that they played their way, dedicated to winning in open play, and they scored two lovely goals vs. the 2022 semifinalists.

In my search for silver linings post-ROK loss to RSA at the World Cup, I'm lucky to have stumbled across JP Dellacamera's "attempts" at pronouncing names on both teams. Almost as embarrassing as the Horseshoe of Sadness

I'm not sure what the intent was, but the gameplans from South Korea just looked really cowardly this whole tournament. It looked like it was just "pass the ball around and then Lee Kang-in and Sonny will do something." Pure horseshoe of sadness.

Son Heung-min's ajussi face says it all

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

Imagine the uproar if part 2 of the Morgan Gibbs-White fail is losing Bergvall to Forest LOL [Bitter sports fan noises ensue]

Amid rumors Spurs are throwing their entire checkbook at midfielders, Bervall now wants out. Great. Great, cohesive plan.

The world is learning so much about us. “In France we have revolutions. In the U.S. you bow down to a squirrel on steroids.”

So hyped up for tomorrow. The Daehan Minguk chants shall continue until morale improves.

BAAAA-TOOOOOO-RIIII-NER (Pls join Spurs)

Saudi gameplan:

Teams I HOPE make it outta groups: 1) Japan - pretty chalk, but they probs lost Kubo to a serious knee, so they're not as dark horse-y anymore. 2) South Korea - My team since I was 6. 3) Haiti - they're in deep doodoo in that group, but they're so fun. 4) Cabo Verde - I mean, cmon

FOOTBALL FOOTBALLING!

I'm getting Boobie Miles energy from this looming Lamal sub...

Announcers: "Idk what the Japanese are doing crossing the ball in the air...so stupid they're too short" Japan:

I know you're all following me for my media theory brain (lol) but we saw some baby rabbits today

yesterday, trump goons raided the offices of the ohio organizing collaborative, a group that’s been doing voter registration for over 20 years. they even showed up at people’s homes. we have to watch out for this shit. it is an outright attack on Black voters, and on all of our freedom to vote

15 for me, which seems about right given I was a transplant who stayed there for over a third of my life

The WUSTL/Vandy thing brings me back to Kandice Chuh: "scholars of minoritized discourses cannot and do not easily inhabit the academy — a situation that Lisa Lowe cogently formulated two decades ago as an 'inevitable paradox' resulting from the institutionalization of fields like ethnic studies...

Bosnia has some absolute beefcakes playing defense, my god. And they can do a beefcake Van De Ven Europa League clearance too

Someone said Hong Myeong-bo (South Korea national team head coach) looks like Korean Thomas Frank, and I am not well

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

I will, however, have more nightmares about set pieces, because North London Derbies weren't bad enough

DAAEEEEEEHAN MINGUK 👏👏 👏👏👏 (also they scored each time my fiancee said "DO SOMETHING SPICY" so we're going to make sure she's here for all future group stage matches)

My "Sports Teams Other Than The Philly Giggles Support Curse" continues

Just gonna screenshot my post from the other site that summed up that game while it was still a game.

Wew lad. This feels like the opening game this World Cup deserved. Not that fun to watch. Two of red cards for stupid, stupid things people have no business doing. Play basically dissolving into a rainy night in Stoke in the worst way. Mexico deciding to mostly sit on a 1-0 lead...Yikes.

It’s not a coincidence we’re getting all these statements the same week racists are ecstatic about what’s happening in Belfast, the Karmelo Anthony conviction, along with a cross burning in Chicago following so shortly after Rick Chow was acquitted.

Also, I really miss the anarchy of the Dutch during the aughts/2010s when Sneijder, Robben, and Van Persie made every game a riot but all hated each other so publicly. Like, where is that in the age of social media??

South Africa's defensive right side looks as cooked as the Western far right *should* be.

Wearing my Spurs Son jersey, ready to be hurt again (both by results and by English-language announcers butchering the Korean names)

This is the best nickname at the World Cup, and it's not close.

South Korea may be a team that seems to be on the downturn, but we still might see Son Heung-min pass Cha Bum-keun's record for national team goals. Cha (p. 1972-1986) logged 58; Sonny (p. 2010-present) sits at 56 after the Trinidad-Tobago friendly.

5:30pm is an excellent time for starting a really unhinged FM26 Editor-based save, right?

75% of my feed on a certain other platform I'm only on to maintain chats is ads, and 75% of those ads now really want me to get invested in right wing conspiracy theories and foolishness...what a time to be alive

I realized I lagged behind here compared to other platforms, but our marvelous wonderpug (and my comps & dissertation co-author) Morty passed away two weeks ago. We have been heartbroken, but we are also so incredibly grateful for the times we had with him. I'd hoped he'd be here for tenure <3

Spurs Women are going HARD picking up players who are very much in their windows. Really want to see how the new additions integrate, and I'm hopeful for a Danso-esque floor for Dijkstra

Guess I'm gonna begin my offseason hope journey for Spurs Men with a gigantic spreadsheet lol. Transfer projections/ideas/dreams. I know nothing of their budgets really, so bear with. Highlights: Pay whatever for Baleba and/or Wharton/Alex Scott. Go all in on Kinsky. Lee Kang-in. Raid Relegateds.

Oh Kittler, you dog, you

Well, I guess Spurs Men stay in the Prem, which is a relief. I'm frankly really invested in max transfer market insanity (not chaos) this offseason. Still yucky about De Zerbi hire and Greenwood stuff. Still much happier with job Martin Ho is doing for Spurs Women. Still want GrayVall to blossom.

Nobody except Joao Palhinha scored that goal in this script, let's be so real!!

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."