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To kick off World Cup Draw week @theathletic.com...
I talked to various stars & masterminds of the 1994 draw — from a supermodel to Sepp Blatter — to tell the story of a "bizarre," "surreal" Vegas spectacle that, as Blatter told me, "will never be matched":
I trust Calafiori to stay disciplined more than the CBs. Timber to CB, Ben White to RB (or to CB). I think this game needs Gyokeres up top (maybe for Zubimendi and drop Merino in) and this game needs Ødegaard if he’s healthy and good to go. We need our Captain, that leadership.
30.11.2025 17:28 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy Birthday Sir!!
30.11.2025 17:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Chelsea wanted THIS game — clear from the very first minute — and deprived us from what could have been an excellent and proper football match. They don’t think they can play with the Arsenal. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
30.11.2025 17:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We can’t become numb to these atrocities. Read the 🧵
30.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0DOGSO. San Diego down 2 goals and down a man. Great inaugural season but it’s on life support now in the 80th minute. Vancouver already booking flights to FTL.
30.11.2025 03:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02025 Women’s College Cup in KC is set.
Friday, 12/5:
Florida State vs. TCU
Duke vs. Stanford
It was a senior who commits the foul. Hard to imagine a more painful way to end your college career.
30.11.2025 02:49 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TCU with a penalty to book their place in the College Cup. Correct call. Pain for the Commodores.
30.11.2025 02:47 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0OT in Nashville with a spot in the College Cup on the line! Get to ESPN+ now
30.11.2025 02:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Surprised Balcer didn’t go to look at that one (reminder that in college, reviews are at the referee’s discretion—there’s no dedicated VAR official to recommend reviews)
30.11.2025 02:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ref is Nick Balcer, Bethany’s brother.
30.11.2025 02:20 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TCU just responds with an opportunity that goes over the post and follow up off the post and one of the TCU player gets a kick in the face. Should be a penalty! I’m not sure they’re going to look at it, but if they don’t, Vandy gets away with one there.
30.11.2025 02:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sydney Watts goal to put Vandy up 1-0 over TCU is so classy. A deft touch on an excellent ball but the work she does to get across her defender to set up the opportunity. 13 to play.
30.11.2025 02:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0NYCFC’s turn to defend with nothing but vibes. 3-1 after this.
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Hahah, that’s terrible defending but perhaps better for the game. Rodriguez so impetuous in that challenge. Team gets punished for it. 1-2.
29.11.2025 23:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The WWE moment is the best highlight from the first 30 minutes. The two goals were fine but NYCFC are cooked.
29.11.2025 23:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0THE USA'S OWN TYLER ADAMS SCORES AN ABSOLUTE WORLDIE! 🇺🇸
29.11.2025 09:24 — 👍 293 🔁 70 💬 1 📌 19Big week for Texas. First they get Margueritte Bates to leave Westwood for Austin. Then, and much less important, they beat an undefeated Texas A&M team in the other football.
29.11.2025 04:08 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Was that Thori Staples Bryan?
29.11.2025 01:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 02023 is never going to make sense. It’s an exercise in surrender. Fortunately for us older USWNT supporters, we had 2001-2007 to practice that skill. Can’t make sense of it. Can’t even try.
29.11.2025 01:48 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2Cat’s so composed (to the point it almost feels casual) on this finish! Love it.
29.11.2025 01:46 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Someone plugged back in the BCS system?! It’s like finding an Atari in your parents basement while home for the holidays.
@sickoscommittee.org behavior
Okay, she did do that but it was just to let Emma know that she WAS coming. Full quote transcribed by @jtannenwald.bsky.social:
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On this play, Captain Naomi Girma, wearing the legendary USWNT CB number, 4 “made sure she called and texted me several times to say, 'I'm fit, I'm coming.'"
29.11.2025 01:12 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 067 seconds. Olivia Moultrie!! 1-0, USA.
29.11.2025 00:12 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 05-0 in the National Quarterfinal is wild…and with 20 minutes still to play.
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Ohio State down 0-2 pulled one back 4 minutes into the 2nd half to give themselves a chance. Then FSU immediately gets their third. Hard to see them coming back now.
In the other game, Stanford just got their 3rd. This young Michigan State team has been impressive but they’ve run into a juggernaut.
Washington’s season is done. Their run is over. But it’s also absolutely incredible what they have done this year & particularly over the last month.
It is a season I will remember in perpetuity, with awe & respect.
They should be so proud.
It was all anchored in Love (and shared grief). For Mia 🧡💜
Stanford. Very good at soccer.
28.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
