San Jose giving up a stoppage time goal, followed by a celebration that features a shotgunning of a $20 beer thrown onto the field by a petulant Quake 'ultra?' The Relegate the Quakes Movement has never been more back.

It's been a really rough few months for the #RelegateTheQuakes movement, but San Jose allowing a dude to casually dribble the ball 80 yards completely uncontested in an eventual loss is delightful.

All power to anybody in world soccer willing to legislate this bullshit out of the game

Half my timeline posting MET gala pictures for entertainment while the other half (correctly) reminds everybody that the MET gala is a gross monument to elite excess in an age of inequality is a pretty good encapsulation of the problem

Apparently the ~60 minutes of in-person soccer me and another 5,000 or so Sacramento Republic fans saw in the open Cup might represent the majority of minutes James Rodriguez ever plays for Minnesota.

My team might actually make the tournament

Following through: 50 dollars each in honor of the 7 players who elected to transfer away from Stanford WBB this season, because it's never a bad time to flee Palo Alto, and because Tara is gone and she isn't coming to save you. @hollyanderson.bsky.social @terencelau.bsky.social

I’m gonna say this is probably the first time that James Rodríguez has played a match with a waterslide in view of the pitch #MNUFC

James Rodriguez has had a storied career but his journey is finally complete now that he’s played in the US open cup on a Tuesday night in Sacramento in front of yours truly

Deeply, deeply depressing video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ4T...

If I was Tottenham Hotspur I would simply have not made an unbroken chain of eight thousand appalling decisions leading inexorably to my current cataclysmic situation

We're gonna get a lite version of this after the midterms, then again when we get a new president, and again when he dies. Can't wait.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Arsenal are in 1st, Tottenham are gonna get relegated, and yet Arsenal’s fan culture is somehow maybe more toxic?

So it appears my Serious Democrat primary choices for our next governor is a sex pest, a billionaire, a silicon valley mayoral cipher, and a progressive mostly known for abusing her staff. Is Xavier Becerra cool? Can a not-gross choice please step up?

So Stanford, a school that badly struggles to add transfer, has now lost their three of their four best players, plus three reserves. If/how Stanford is able to replenish the roster will tell us a lot about if/how Stanford is adapting to modern college athletics.

My bitterness towards and UCLA success aside, it's clear that Cori Close has improved as an Xs-and-Os strategic coach over the years. Her ability to recruit talent (aided by her university's decapitation of the Pac-12) has never been in question.

UCLA (the university) blowing up the Pac-12 and then UCLA (the WBB team) winning a title with a voltron of talent they picked off from the rest of the conference the university destroyed is . . . distressing for me.

For the first time in living memory, Stanford WBB might be Actually Bad next year

lol somebody told Dawn what Geno said on TV

UConn so rarely loses, which means it’s a precious miracle when the world’s worst loser gets to spread his wings and take flight

I went whale watching today and saw a bunch of humpbacks and if you’re wondering if the Pacific Life whale song was playing in my head the entire time, let me assure you that the answer is YES

I’ll be thrilled when Gavin terms out here in CA, and even more thrilled when his shitty, prejudiced attempt to triangulate gets him trounced in the primary

Auto-qualifiers (i.e. 12 seeds and up) went 1-19 in the first round, with an average margin of defeat of 22 points. The only win was by 1 point, and the closest loss was by 6. This blows.

Time to come to terms with the fact that the first round of the NCAA tournament sucks now. Exactly one auto qualifier with a win so far, and that’s what everyone saw coming.

Things El Farolito did today: 1. goalie intentionally kicked ball at Sac striker 2. Feigned an injury sliding out of bounds, then rolled back onto the pitch to delay the game. 3. Horror red card tackle 4. Dirty play that left a Sac academy player in an ambulance. 5. Started a massive brawl

My earlier anti-El Farolito position has been massively vindicated by subsequent events

It’s me, the only anti-burrito-boys account on Blue Sky (because I have to watch them flop, whine, and foul each year against Sacramento)

the United States needs to become even more morose about baseball if they want to win on the biggest stages

we turn to Kalshi's spokesperson for the company's response

It’s kinda nice that NCAA tournament selection has become such a science that I knew as a Cal fan that I could skip out because there was no drama about the Bears getting left out.

Go Bears!!!

Finish the regular season undefeated and your first thought is to go taunt the road student section, brilliant

Ahahahahahaha I love college basketball

This dude is gonna think about how he didn't close out a shooter with 2 seconds left for the rest of his life:

Slowly, slowly, slowly, but inexorably we’re making the Democratic Party less shitty. Now if only we could dump Gavin

Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them

By attending Cal gymnastics at Sac St, my wife and I have helped the Hornets by paying down .0000016% of their MAC entry fee.

Now that Cal has competent people in charge and the basketball program is on stable footing, I'll try to move on from complaining about what the prior regime did. But I will not forget what Mike Williams, Jim Knowlton, and their enablers did to Cal athletics.

The idea that there will someday be a magical internet place where nobody is a dick to anybody else strikes me as deeply, deeply naive

I generally get cranky between November and February when it’s below 50 in Sacramento in the mornings and evenings, so it’s nice to get a reminder that I don’t live in a place with weather that would murder me

Arsenal have built their entire set piece strategy on the idea that those kinds of pushes aren’t ever called

Dare to be Stupid, an opinion that I hold fiercely and could expound on at mind numbing length

MAC in Sacramento means: Replacing "raccoon" with "river otter." Replacing "blizzard" with "balmy fall evening." Replacing "triple-reverse flea flicker" with "insane, money-laundering athletics funding plan."

I’m confident in saying, as a Sacramento resident, that Sac State athletics is being run by the stupidest people in college athletics

Really enchanted with this Cal WBB team. I had really low expectations this year, but it’s a team full of players who have taken huge strides both individually and as a group, and they’re peaking in a fun way

Saw two Clemson fans having a conversation with a dude wearing a shirt that said “white man for racial equality,” gotta love a little ACC cross country cultural exchange

Hanging at Headlands before Cal/Clemson if you’re in the area

1. For the first time in eight friggin' years, I've watched a non-Cal regular season college basketball game because the Bears are actually relevant in March and other games can impact them. 2. A particularly hateable Stanford team just lost to Clemson Boy is it good to be back.