People in the US should be enraged every day about this.
People in other rich countries should ponder how it is that, when the US stops doing some things, they stop getting done almost entirely.

Excellent work

They're missing a trick in this halftime show by not also having Tim Robinson come out to just act awkward for 45 seconds.

Was there some sort of mass email that went out to all the "funny" Australian cricket content makers that instructed them to all do the same bit about Perth wickets by birth nation?

Cannot believe they buried this USA v Namibia news under some "India v Pakistan" nonsense.

I love the idea that any of this manic lunacy can be described as a stirring comeback.

I mean,the M's are Bazball incarnate.

If you told cricket fans from any time other than this that one Ashes side keeps getting out because they're swaggering morons and the other side keeps getting out because they're brittle wimps, and then you asked who's who ...

Finally,the news of the day makes absolutely no sense in a *good* way.

I went to bed when you were all waking up. Awoke later to ... unexpected news

They got what they had coming.

Is there a third bat and ball sport for you? Because this is not ok.

Blue Jays baseball: if only it started seven minutes earlier and ended one inning earlier.

One thing. I asked for one thing.

Ok. Obviously we've already made the pivot from "This is the year!!" to "This could still be the year." All I'm asking is that we put off "This really seemed like the year" until sometime tomorrow.

Rugby. I could have got into fucking rugby.

Not sure when he said it, I saw someone else quote it. He's basically joined the rightwing civil war on the side of the non-Trumpers so ... good for him, I guess?

I'll take it.

I mean, it amounts to "America is great because it has laws and stuff, and they should keep having laws that they're governed by" so it's not exactly something he should win major awards for.

Odds at -2.5 that the story Bob Mortimer is telling is true.

Hilariously, they played at the cricket stadium for a time.

Meanwhile in rugby, I'm now watching New Zealand play Ireland in front of a massive Saturday afternoon crowd at the Chicago NFL stadium. Lol, these idiots don't even know that this isn't the best time to televise rugby in New Zealand. Losers.

So anyway, it's another two-week tournament that "brings cricket to the US" via the can't-miss medium of made-for-Indian-TV matches during the brunch hour in an empty stadium. Yay. (I'll still go to a match or two.)

"Hello friend, would you like to watch cricket with me?"
"Why, I have never seen cricket. That would be a delight. When is it?"
"10am Tuesday."
"Ah. While I would love to attend, I have a job and a life."

Matches are all played at that favourite start time of local, in-person, not-watching-on-TV-elsewhere sport fans, 10am. Most matches are also on weekdays.

It's bringing cricket to North America; the website makes it sound like this is something nobody has ever thought of before. The teams feature a few familiar West Indies names and ... some other guys.

Here's what it's like being a cricket fan in South Florida. In a few days begins the "Mayors New World t20," a four-team, 12-day competition at Lauderhill that I heard about yesterday.

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.

I would have been deported from Britain under this.

Can we take a moment to thank France? Between cool retro crime and bringing back a major villain from a few seasons ago just to throw him in prison, they're the only purveyors of fun news right now. Plus they made one of the scary technologies sound like "Cat, I farted" in their language. Good guys.