What a perfect metaphor for the current state of everything.

The audience wants to watch charismatic people solving moderately difficult problems, delivered in weekly doses with occasional short breaks. That was what the market *told us* over seven decades. It created international cultural dominance and enormous wealth. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Turns out a lot of people really like soccer. Who knew?

The headline here is inflammatory BUT this gets at a lot of my thinking. We had a flawed team with a weak defense (GK+ CBs) and were able to cover that weakness in 4 matches by keeping play almost exclusively in the attacking third, Belgium could play through our press and hit our weaknesses.

i believe that the the entire "binge watch" model of releasing television series is based on a faulty premise, and that faulty premise has significantly devaluated television as an art form. stick with me on this one...

The match is in less than 12 hours - how does this work?

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Man that dude tweeting about how fifa did the right thing while his admin pulls every insane level it can find to turn Balogun into a non-citizen can really fuck the fuck right off.

FOX this morning at FIFA HQ #FreedBalo #USMNT

USMNT's win over Bosnia made history: The most-watched English-language soccer telecast in the United States. - 24.3m on FOX (English) - 9.1m on Telemundo (Spanish) A combined average of 30m+ U.S. viewers makes it one of the most-watched U.S. TV events this year www.nytimes.com/athletic/741...

The annoying thing is that I’m utterly convinced that if the ref had initially given Balogun a yellow then it never gets overturned to a red.

I believe the charming nature of this USMNT x Sesame Street crossover promo influenced the match result tonight

I am very happy that the teams we will face in the next round if we go through are playing extra time. Please, run around a lot!

At the human level, the World Cup is beautiful snackstack.net/2026/06/29/t...

Going to enjoy going back and reading all of the “Paraguay are just not very good” takes.

Brazil and Japan should each get to bring on 100 elementary school kids for the final 30 minutes of this

Preliminary Fox TV data on USA v Turkiye World Cup match: 15.9 million viewers, peaked at 18.1 million (10 pm ET kickoff)

You’ve Oingoed your last Boingo

The Group D Finale! 👀

So far, this World Cup has seen: - 22 games with combined Fox and Telemundo audiences of over 10 million viewers - 7 games with combined audiences over 15 million - 3 games with combined audiences over 20 million: #USMNT vs. Paraguay and Australia, and Mexico vs. South Korea

And I wrote about Rinus Michels telling U.S. Soccer that its chaotic soccer landscape was a problem. I'd argue it's become an asset. @theguardian.com

GO KIWIS!

I think I’ve nearly succeeded in making 6-7 cringe for my 11 year old. Every time she does it I echo back “6-7” in a weird voice and then start waving my arms like

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

This administration would strip citizenship from half these players given the chance. Keep your filthy tweets off my team.

Tillman is just so good with the ball at his feet. So calm.

“And the building shakes in Seattle!” PNSN’s seismic stations captured the crowd response to both Alex Freeman’s goal and the VAR decision overturning the offside call. It’s #USMNT 2 to Australia 0 at half-time. #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup #SportsSeismology

UP BY TWO AT THE HALF!

Villarreal got so lucky by bringing Freeman in before this World Cup. Never buy a guy off a tournament, but he’s simply doing exactly what’s made him a rapid riser at the club level. Star-making goal there.

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

L.F.G.

A showdown with the Socceroos in Seattle.

Elijah Just reclaims the advantage for New Zealand

7' Goal Football Ferns! Despite the crowd being vast majority rooting for Iran and a good start, New Zealand scores on their first chance! It's Elijah Just from Chris Wood! 0-1

UP THE KIWIS!!!!

FIFA World Cup needs a Haka.

C’mon Kiwis!

I hope that halfway through the season Whittaker replaces Tennant with no explanation.

When will Europe finally catch up to the world’s game?

A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance

You know what time it is

Love to see it - I hope we get more next week!

Most times a team has entered the opponents penalty box in a game between FIFA World Cup 18, 22 & 26 (so far) 71 - 🇩🇪 (4-2 vs 🇨🇷) 53 - 🇺🇸 (4-1 vs 🇵🇾) 52 - 🇩🇪 (0-2 vs 🇰🇷) 52 - 🇧🇷 (1-2 vs 🇧🇪) 50 - 🇧🇷 (2-0 vs 🇨🇷) 49 - 🇩🇪 (1-2 vs 🇯🇵) 49 - 🇦🇷 (1-1 vs 🇮🇸) 46 - 🇦🇷 (2-0 vs 🇵🇱) 47 - 🇧🇪 (3-2 vs 🇯🇵) 44 - 🇫🇷 (4-1 vs 🇦🇺)

It’s WORLD CUP MATCH DAY!!!

RIP IT AND FLIP IT! A WORLDY FROM JEDI! #USMNT x VW

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...