The announcing is just embarrassing. Maybe part of growing up and being taken seriously is looking at a horseshit game and saying “What the hell is this?”

Just bad all around. Can't let in a weak early goal, or an immediate answer when you equalize. Can't get outworked all over the pitch. Can't have your one game-breaking player give you a 3/10 performance. Can't have your goalie lose his mind.

It is maybe unsurprising that our 38-year-old CB would end up being the achilles heel.

Wow!

Even as an Arsenal fan, Haaland is deeply challenging to dislike.

Strong/Holden remain thirsty for VAR any time anything happens.

How many players in US history could hit one like that? Awesome goal.

That’s an absolutely terrible call.

I love Balogun. Such a level-raiser for this team.

That's a soft penalty. C'mon.

The VAR in this NZ-BEL game is named... Juan Soto? Did he retire after tonight's loss to the Phils?

John Strong calling the crowd booing the hydration break "pantomime" is obsequious even by the usual standards of Fox Sports.

Really happy for Auston Trusty. What a goal.

An amazing day.

Awesome from Cape Verde. The shot of sad Luis Suarez is just icing on the cake!

Vamos Sweden

I wonder why the carefully choreographed walkout song suddenly switched today from "Sirius" to Shakira.

He's taken good to very good talent and is making it look great with tactical plans that maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses, and he's restored self-belief. Shouldn't feel revolutionary, but kinda does

Poch is such an enormous upgrade over the last guy, for his aura as much or even more than the tactics.

Go Paraguay 🇵🇾

It might not even matter, but let's put five goals on Turkey anyway.

John Strong is a rough listen as a commentator. Talks incessantly and inanely, goes right to 10 over every little thing, constantly hyping up the possibility of VAR intervention. If the lead commentator has to be American, surely we can do better.

What, really, is more American than a goal given after a long video replay?

Congrats to Australia defender Jacob Italiano for being the only Italian to make it to the World Cup.

Congratulations to Knicks fans, who apparently invented both basketball and the concept of liking your team.

Balogun is awesome. Great service, even better finish.

About as good a half hour as you could have asked for!

Not a new observation, I know, but: moving the World Cup TV rights from ESPN to Fox has done real damage to soccer in this country.

“Tanner McKee” has been a three-year experiment to determine whether the Eagles media corps can be remotely normal about a backup quarterback. The experiment has now concluded.

AJ Brown, great player, we’ll always have 2024, not exactly sad to be leaving behind the drama every time he doesn’t get enough targets.

After he won the Super Bowl, AJ came out and announced he didn't care about winning Super Bowls and boy did he come out and prove it last year.

Seemed like the obvious move.

First real red flag on Mannion. Get some sleep, dude. It’s May.

The Union want to play in transition, but they can neither attack nor defend in transition. Not optimal.

One of ZBerm's worst takes. I love the Eagles. I don't want to spend 30 hours a week watching football. The NFL's greatest power is its scarcity. Diluting the product for short-term gains will cause long-term damage.

It is unlikely they will find someone better than Morey, and unless they fire the owner, it doesn’t matter.

To the people who chanted "We want Boston," you were braver than me and you were right.

More time for those clowns to rewatch The Town.

Enjoyed the Topper era. My only complaint is that he didn’t get ejected enough.

Do not understand the same people who expected the Sixers to get slaughtered in this series and who’ve been whining about them all year now posting like it’s some shocking embarrassment that they got slaughtered tonight. They’re not good enough! Everyone knows this!

After a ton of noise over how wild this first round would be, we ended up with... two trades in the first twenty.

Eagles preferences tonight, ranked: 1. Trade up for Proctor, Freeling, or Faulk. 2. Stay put for OT or WR. 3. All other scenarios. 4. Trade up for Sadiq.

Couldn’t be a bigger contrast between @richhofmann.bsky.social’s his excellent, comprehensive morning newsletter, which restarted this week, and the AI-generated garbage that PHLY “replaced” him with (below).

Penguins resorting to cheap shots as the building empties out...

Martone showing up right out of college as a borderline superstar is a very un-Flyers thing to have occurred.

Analysis: the Philadelphia Union don’t appear to be good at, uh, anything.

Kevin Patullo was actually doing a great job but the fake news media was very mean! That is why the players lost faith, not because he was a bumbling idiot