Didn't even read this. Just went straight ahead and got a paid subscription. You should, too.

Acting ICE director Todd Lyons refused to commit to pausing the agency's operations around 2026 World Cup locations. ICE is a "key part of the overall security apparatus" for the event, he told a congressional committee. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Am I the only one who finds Snoop Dogg desperately boring?

post a banger that's not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHoT...

Why don't they call it a hat-trick when kickers get three field goals? Feels rude imo.

Setting aside, for the moment, the difficulty of having to eat around a brontosaurus shinbone, absolutely nothing has ever been improved by the presence of melted blue cheese.

Is any sport as closely tied to a single musician as figure skating to Lady Gaga?

19-year-old Houston-area native Allen Rojas is making his first-team debut for Rayados tonight in #CCC. If that's not enough, his full name is Allen Iverson Rojas. The Answer to Monterrey's depth issues...

Mauricio Pochettino and his USMNT ended 2025 on a soaring high. Last week, he kicked off a World Cup year with a faceplant. Pochettino's public criticism of a senior player was unnecessary, ill informed and out of touch. Column @theguardian.com

Thanks, Pablo! This reminds me to boost his superb piece on the ongoing weirdness with the Whitecaps.

You know who covered sports at the Post as a "cultural and societal phenomenon"? Thomas Boswell, Sally Jenkins, Michael Wilbon, Tony Kornheiser, Jane Leavy, Shirley Povich, Christine Brennan, Mike Wise, Dave Kindred, John Feinstein, David Remnick, David Aldridge, Jerry Brewer, Dan Steinberg...

Mauricio Pochettino and his USMNT ended 2025 on a soaring high. Last week, he kicked off a World Cup year with a faceplant. Pochettino's public criticism of a senior player was unnecessary, ill informed and out of touch. Column @theguardian.com

A half dozen of our Marist sports communication students are covering the Super Bowl

Round 3. €35 million. PSV saying they no longer want to sell as it's too late to sign a replacement and they're thin up front as it is.

A non-negligible percentage of the final viewership for the Melania film/monstrosity will wind up being journalists sent, kicking and screaming, to document this nadir of American culture and graft.

Reports of empty seats at the premiere of the Melania documentary at the Kennedy Center. But one man just had to be there. Simply could not miss such a momentous evening.

Hey, Social Work BlueSky! (Assuming that's a thing?) My wife, Dr. Stephanie Carnes, has written a super useful (and timely!) manual for working with teenaged Central American immigrants, particularly in school settings. It's the best book written in this household by a mile. Consider getting it!

On boycotts. And World Cups. And who would be punished by a World Cup boycott. (Hint: It isn't the people you want it to punish.) Column @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

On boycotts. And World Cups. And who would be punished by a World Cup boycott. (Hint: It isn't the people you want it to punish.) Column @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Some shot: Aryna Sabalenka in full flow at the Australian Open. 📸 Xinhua/Shutterstock

Did the 900(ish) word version of this: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"Unlimited poweeeeeeeer"

Poignant piece by Jeff here

Fulham has made another (third, I think?) offer for PSV's #USMNT striker Ricardo Pepi. Some 32 million euros this time, per Voetbal International.

The 2026 World Cup will be inaccessible to many, whether financially or geographically. But the tournament's unprecedented vastness will also give it an enormous footprint, a chance to fashion a kind of shadow World Cup out of the tournament's orbit. To still leave a legacy. Column @theguardian.com

I am absolutely over the moon to welcome @mlsist.bsky.social, @jeffrueter.bsky.social, and @ellabrockway.bsky.social to the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/guardian-us-...

The 2026 World Cup will be inaccessible to many, whether financially or geographically. But the tournament's unprecedented vastness will also give it an enormous footprint, a chance to fashion a kind of shadow World Cup out of the tournament's orbit. To still leave a legacy. Column @theguardian.com

The heads of European FAs are talking about what the hell to do if Trump actually does go after Greenland. A World Cup boycott is a last resort - but it's possible. Via @nickames82.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Weird how none of these MLK Day salutes during sports games today have mentioned how hard he advocated for reparations or universal basic income or universal access to good healthcare.

This is such a fun piece. The Soccer Mayor soccers again!

Players you had totally forgotten about: coming to an Ajax match near you in 2026!

"Why is there a sign of a puking man?" -- the boy

I've been thinking a lot about what the Premier League trending towards more competitiveness says about American sports and their parity paradigm (which has always felt to me lime a flimsy excuse to shortchange players). So here's a column @theguardian.com! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

It's important to argue with your editor sometimes. Keeps the relationship honest. We'll work through it in therapy.

I've been thinking a lot about what the Premier League trending towards more competitiveness says about American sports and their parity paradigm (which has always felt to me lime a flimsy excuse to shortchange players). So here's a column @theguardian.com! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Most recent World Cups have been controversial in their own way. But in 2026, the United States will take its place alongside the most problematic hosts in the tournament's checkered history. Column @theguardian.com

US actions in Venezuela put the 2026 World Cup in disgraceful company | Leander Schaerlaeckens

Most recent World Cups have been controversial in their own way. But in 2026, the United States will take its place alongside the most problematic hosts in the tournament's checkered history. Column @theguardian.com

"Will exit with their dignity intact" is an extraordinary way to sign off a press release announcing that you've fully and finally destroyed an American journalism institution with your avarice and bad faith.

Ewwww

This is Black Monday for football/football coaches

Why is Sports Illustrated a sideline sponsor at Tottenham-Sunderland?

What a relief that Trump was handed -- nay, totally earned -- that Fifa Peace Prize in order to check his worst impulses.

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The really remarkable thing is this has never happened before

It’s a World Cup year. IT’S A WORLD CUP YEAR! Surely, you’ve already pre-ordered The Long Game, my book on the United States men's national team. But just in case, I’m leaving the “PREORDER25” code here to save 25%. Nobody has to know you left it this late.

Final day for this @barnesandnoble.com sale today, friends!

Final day for this @barnesandnoble.com sale today, friends!

If your new year's resolutions were to get 25% off on things and be more like Jeremy, you know what to do