The switch to a July-May season for the #MLS seems sensible for many reasons, and I think this is an important one: MLS matches are played in significantly higher temperatures compared to the top 🇪🇺 leagues. Also, judging by those recent CPL highlights, snow football looks awesome, bring it on

The TLDR is that the Japanese summer acts as a brick wall for players who have already been playing for 4 months: easier to get fatigued, get injured, slow down. Whereas if you’re starting in August, you’re hopefully doing so fresh and able to play better, then you ride that into the fall/winter.

I’ve definitely posted about it - they have some really interesting data on high-intensity plays and how they really nosedive in Japan over the summer vs. steadily rise in Europe over the course of the season.

MLS owners are *expected* to vote on flipping to fall-spring calendar at Thursday's BOG meeting. Changes to competition format also expected. Let's see if it actually comes to a vote, but implications are enormous. Exclusive details with @tombogert.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

my daughter requests the Can Can song on the speakers to the point where it feels like Bayern have gone and scored 10 on my household

i’m so glad i’m not a fan of either team in this World Series because i’d have pooped myself by now

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

Baseball games are allowed to end in 9 innings? is that legal?

Blue Jays

i am healed

still love u george springer

this was prob my biggest issue with Austin’s approach in the 2nd half. there’s no losing or drawing gracefully in a cup final, bring out some dark arts

HD meme templates are an aberration. they must be low quality and highly compressed

allow one handed throw-ins with a wind up. let em hurl it in the mixer like uncle rico bsky.app/profile/them...

A comparison of transfer fees spent/received in the summer transfer window each of the last five seasons in the United States. 2025 saw a significant raise in fees spent, nearly doubling last summer. - Data per FIFA

This summer transfer window saw more than $9.7bn (!!) in transfer fees spent across the globe Data per FIFA

Mourinho is universal

“pajamas” should rhyme with Bahamas

an `airflow clear` command should clean up that mess

on a separate note, i am predicting 0-0 draws in regulation and winning on penalties all the way to the USOC title. it is written #AustinFC

Sometimes you think sports can’t surprise/astound/shock/delight you anymore. And then a soccer team decides to send a 700-pound pigeon floating down a river in New York City

back in my day, US presidents used to pilot fighter jets against aliens

First Andor now his first international goal, has anyone had a better year

i hereby proclaim that DAZN is canonically pronounced “da Asian”

nobody cares but I am in full agreement with this. sports are culture. culture is mediated via sport! sports are one of the last remaining "common grounds" we seem to have anymore.

thinking of this today (rip nipsey) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIR...

assert expected == actual

My take is mostly expansionary: the league should keep individual/team salary caps, but increase them *dramatically* along with more roster slots

Ahhh that's the stuff, @losverdesatx.bsky.social @austinfc.com

Took an elevator in Hungary with Drogba, Hazard, Torres, and maybe a 4th player I can’t seem to remember (maybe Diego Costa?). Chelsea were doing a preseason game while I was there for work. Completely silent ride as it should be

Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.

perhaps the most egregious thing about this isn’t that the templated message didn’t render correctly, it’s that it uses positional and not named args

Desler x Bukari right side combination has been the difference for this match #AustinFC

if i had a nickel for every 5-0 whooping in the final of a continental club competition this weekend, i’d have two nickels

It was all building to this massive, hopefully entertaining (and helpful?) piece: The 92 things I learned from visiting every Football League club in a season inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

we need a new season of STID pls

Goodison

Andor. what a show, one of the all time greats

Andor S2E8+9 may be some of the best TV I’ve ever seen and I don’t feel like it’s crazy to say so

what are the new Pope’s views on Malört?

withholding reaction on the new pope until it’s @tombogert.bsky.social official

Davide Frattesi asked why he dummied and then shot the ball on his goal: "... I was thinking that, uh, if I don't score I'm fucked"

this Inter-Barca matchup is already one of the best CL semis i've ever seen. absolute cinema

sickos alert!!

who woulda thought the final push for me to pay for youtube premium was getting a freakin kristi noem ad in the middle of my basketball highlights

good to hear Diego Luna’s red was rescinded in time for the Andor S2 drop

Conclave about to do numbers on streaming

i have to publish this somewhere to get it out of my head: “the blurst of us”