ralph lauren cooked so hard with the opening/closing ceremony fits for the US Olympic team

Shoutout to the camera operators for this halftime show, hot damn.

this is the best produced halftime show i’ve ever seen

bad bunny for prez

cool xG related research coming out of UPenn: arxiv.org/abs/2512.00203 github.com/WhartonSABI/...

holy moly Benfica

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Every single game this year. Make them hear you

listening to wiz khalifa "see you again" while i browse the remnants of fbref

Utterly disastrous news for public access to soccer data and statistics. www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/01...

traveling with a 2 year old

The Georgia Tech mascot was sad after they turned the ball over and needed to be comforted by the Pop-tarts

this is going to reside in my brain for a long time

who decided to call it “reasoning about code equationally” and not “understanding the assignment”

big week for the Alonsos (Pete and Xabi)

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

Powerful new tactical gambit just dropped: seizing the momentum by earning a red card so insane that your opponents are too confused and frightened to attack

each of these sentences completely unexpected+unpredictable

Arch Manning implies the existence of Ubuntu Manning, Debian Manning, etc

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