Great work by editor Nick Som and our ace design/data-viz team (cc: @lukeknox.me) on this piece breaking down how much it could cost you to follow a team through the 2026 World Cup: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

great interview/feature by @tomhamiltonespn.bsky.social: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

hello what did i miss tell me every thing

did not realize Purdue offered degrees in Porkchop Sideburns and Woodworker Beard

Follow the extra time chaos with World Cup qualifying here if you wish. Superb games today! And more to come tonight/Tuesday! www.espn.com/soccer/story...

sorry, no

the original looksmaxxing: Marcelo Balboa, 1994

would be amazing to see New Caledonia reach the World Cup, especially after re-reading this Mark Ogden piece from October, 2025: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

stop looking at my butt, experts

NEIGHBORS (hbo) is some of the wildest TV I've seen in a while

You think all the news is bad, and then you find out "fumblerooski" made the OED

"I asked ChatGPT" Yeah well I asked

Chelsea players are going to be assigned additional podcasts to listen to if they lose this

flying my Total Gym at half-mast today in honor of the departed Chuck Entertainment Norris

me after three beers

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

Do I feel safe at 4-1? Half an hour left? Unclear

Watching Liverpool, I don’t feel safe with a 3-1 lead

Barcelona are our last hope for a fun Champions League winner

Wow. A CAF appeals board have stripped Senegal of its Africa Cup of Nations final victory over Morocco and awarded Morocco a 3-0 win. This is incredible. Comes after Morocco, hugely influential in African football circles, appealed an original decision. www.cafonline.com/news/caf-app...

I'm disappointed in you right now, Bodo/Glimt. But there's still time

Kinda telling that he thinks "looking back" or "introspection" is assumed to result in him feeling guilty about something

People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups

There is a renewed buzz around Old Trafford that I find both familiar and ominous

you ever just eat a piece of bread

Wwwaylll so far tonight we’ve run up the score on abortion fund donations in Alabama and helped give a girl in Minnesota a birthday to remember might have to fuck around and announce Charitibundi Bowl dates tomorrow 🌝

simply nobody better at this

It’s worrying to see a coherent Real Madrid team all of a sudden

Ole Miss signed a Carmelo(w), an Iverson AND an Anthony Davis in this football recruiting class. (They also signed a safety named Nascar McCoy and, in a nicely Oxford touch, an O-lineman named Emanuel Faulkner. Perfect class.)

you’re either smart or lucky

“If the whole point is, ‘We need a lexicon that people can trust, you’re going to get in trouble when you start including words that aren’t explicitly listed in a dictionary.” My new piece on Scrabble's dictionary chaos and who gets to decide what's a word.

a great quiz for people who love computer

today, in That's Not It

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

the music that sustained me in February twohalvesgame.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/c...

freakin get their asses, daryl hannah www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Hey! Tottenham found a new, previously undiscovered rake to step on

Why does Jeopardy torture me with so many fave celebs having to go head to head in @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social !!! www.jeopardy.com/track/celebr...

calling Big Beer Friday to customer service Big Beer Friday, please come to customer service, your assistance is required once again Big Beer Friday, please come to customer service

Elite new MLS name just dropped

why does this feel like an interrogation sir is this your meatloaf did you make this meatloaf sir did you make this whose meatloaf is this if it's not your meatloaf that you made, who made it

nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of victory quite like Borussia Dortmund

a sobering read for the hirsute Mancunian trapped in a hairdo of his own design www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Superb story by @tomhamiltonespn.bsky.social: players, coaches (Klopp!) and rock stars talk about the quiet legend that is James Milner, who broke the all-time PL appearances record today www.espn.com/soccer/story...

... did a rich write this

all hail Nazgul www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...

before the fun begins today, @espnbillc.bsky.social runs through the pros/cons of all 24 teams still left in the UEFA Champions League: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Hey, you can now pre-order signed copies of my upcoming book, The Long Game, on the history and rise of the United States men's national soccer team, from my local bookstore! It comes out 3 months from today. Please support a small business and help build all-important momentum for my first book.

The popcorn machine fire caused a bit of a delay