"General Reynolds- When your corps arrives in Gettysburg there will be more glizzys than you can dream of but please remember to duck if you want to live long enough to enjoy them. -J. Buford"

Stopped at a Sheetz just outside of Gettysburg and was momentarily moved by the idea that exactly 163 years ago Buford's cavalry might've stood where I was standing. Then I started thinking about how to explain this to Brig. Gen. John Buford and I snapped out of it

The soccer boys and girls are trying our humble little stick and ball game again...and they're doing pretty well!

“This case is actually about Dred Scott” is how you know you’re in for an absolutely wild majority opinion

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

Four Supreme Court justices inventing the "nuh-uh I don't like it ewww" defense to the actual text of the Constitution.

If you are trans and you want to play sports I want you to know there will always be spaces for you even if this government tries to tell you at school you are not welcome. Sports are for everyone. I promise.

The soccer boys and girls are trying our humble little stick and ball game again...and they're doing pretty well!

Yo that is a CRAZY save by Bonnou

This is the fifth Dutch Men's World Cup appearance of the 2000s. In two of the previous four, the Dutch went out in a game with a standalone Wikipedia page that starts with "Battle of..." Neither of them is the final where Nigel de Jong kicked a guy in the sternum

Is it just me or does this soccer game have more gushing head wounds than most?

And Ireland didn't even qualify

It should be said that Germany lost the shootout after starting its non-Oliver Baumann goalie. Teams that have the option to play a Baumann and don't are winless in the knockout round

After that disgraceful shootout, I am choosing to embrace my Swiss heritage from now to the end of the tournament

OK, so between now and Wednesday night, Poch needs to hire the frog killer from The Muppet Movie to put a trident through the hamstring of anyone who screws around on the penalty spot

Woltemade making Havertz’s run-up look downright sensical.

Kai Havertz of all people should know better than to wait for the goalie to move. Just pick a spot and smash it and if you miss you miss.

The best part of that sequence is by following Will with Studs Terkel and Bill Lee, you get the full spectrum of American political thought: a conservative, a progressive and a charismatic weirdo with idiosyncratic politics based in an incorrect understanding of macroeconomics

9th Inning, 1:13:10: George F. Will of all people makes the perfect enduring (and believe it or not succinct) argument for why the economic structure of baseball shouldn't favor the owners

For @fangraphs.com, I wrote a bit on the most recent MLB CBA proposal from right before the weekend. blogs.fangraphs.com/mlb-moves-to...

Deliberate disrespect for Betteridge's Law of Headlines here

MLB in one of its propaganda videos is referencing a CBS Sports roundtable in which every one of us said, no, MLB does not need a salary cap. I guess that's why they screen-capped the headline instead of, you know, quoting from the actual piece.

He's gonna be a lottery pick and sign for many millions of dollars, which is good because if Flukey went to South Carolina I would develop the power of telekinesis and destroy everything in my path

Shout out Brazil, it was gonna be a rough week for the USA on the "smoldering ruin of New World superpower" front so I appreciate them drawing some of the fire for us

I really think they shouldn't have told anyone Paul Seixas was French until he was 25 or so. They want a French Tour winner so bad they're gonna crush that poor kid

I don't think the 12-round draft with the age minimum is going anywhere, but I had some of the top prospects in this year's draft handy so I asked what they thought

Sonny Gray looks especially Red Sox ca. 1950 this evening. He should be handing the ball to Ellis Kinder

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Trenton, NJ More Dead Hessians

We are one or two Algeria wins from Tinariwen selling out Allen Fieldhouse

on top of the US government conspiring against the team, and FIFA's bad format, and the team being literally the last team out of the knockout rounds .... .... .... they were like one combined foot from winning two games and finishing on top of their group

If Algeria had won they would've gone from facing Switzerland to facing Spain. Their third goal was one of the greatest hater actions I'd ever seen, and they couldn't get it over the line

Oh god that’s is BRUTAL for Iran, again. Horrible.

Fanon:

What an exquisite finish

when my son asks if he's been good today

What a cowardly thing for us to do www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/....

Pham had a .330 OBP last year and the Phillies' right-handed hitters have been dogshit. Derek Hill is a cult hero because he's having the best two weeks of his career but he also has zero walks and 13 strikeouts in 28 PA as a Phillie. It's a minor league deal. Let's not act dumber than we are.

Look, you can't be as bereft of right-handed hitting as the Phillies are and act like you're too good for Tommy Pham

Tommy Pham has signed a minor-league deal with the Phillies, a source confirmed to The Athletic. First: ESPN’s Jorge Castillo.

The most important supporting player in cycling is out of the Tour de France. Can his team Moneyball up a new one?

Who's got no thumbs and deleted a 6,000-word article because the keyboard was getting pets and not him

TODAY! IN SPORTS! 👀 Which World Cup games to watch this weekend 🤦 Disgrace of Gijon Pt. 2 loading? ⛹️‍♀️ a surprising WNBA record 🇨🇦 A missed opportunity for Canada 🇺🇸 a guy took a soccer ball straight to the nuts, about as hard as you'll ever see

You know that Derek Hill catch was nuts because it made Zack Wheeler smile in public

CATCH OF THE YEAR?!?! 🤯

Wheelysports is late this week on account of me being in Phoenix talking to hard-throwing teenagers, but it's here now and I'm talking about how much Jonas Vingegaard is going to miss Wout van Aert in the Tour de France

(idly scrolling through cooking YouTube) ... GO BIRDS

OMG

I recently read The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, which extensively cites an 18th Century Indian scholar named Ghulam Hussain Khan. Whenever someone dies he used a phrase like "his soul was returned to its maker" If you can't be that poetic or just say "died" or "fired"

Is this why Australian soccer fans are so ferociously and inscrutably pissed at us?