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2007 Rich Brooks coaches Kentucky to an OT upset of #1 LSU and young Will Stein rushes the field.
2026 Rich Brooks walks into the stadium with Will Stein as coach and Kentucky beats LSU. Fans rush the field again.
Do the Cubs have a single pitcher that would even be rostered by another playoff team? – at Vestavia Hills, AL
Dan Wavering retweeted
It's a spectator sport in that this administration is only good at producing spectacles. You are a natural fit because you're not a real athlete, just an influencer who's also good at producing theatre. The administration is using you to distract from a foreign war that has made life more expensive in the United States. You are happy to participate because you have no real beliefs outside of self-promotion and making money.
Anyone who trusted a report by ESPN, who has fired almost all of their actual journalists, over Pablo Torre is probably not someone capable of critical thinking. – at East Highland Park, VA
So does Pablo Torre get any fine , backlash, sued or fired for Trying to ruin people’s reputation/ life or Pablo can just say oops my bad and sweep it under the rug 🧐🤔🧐🤔 smh
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on FIFA "It treats this as a failure of communication, when what football witnessed was a failure of judgement."
There is no other option: Infantino must be out and guidelines in place to limit future power. Otherwise confederations need to break away from FIFA immediately.
Infantino out
Every single FIFA leader who is still backing Infantino needs to be out too. – at Pearl, MS
UEFA has doubled down on its threat of European member associations boycotting future men’s and women’s World Cups.
This comes after Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, received “full support” from the senior leadership in attendance at a crisis meeting in Morocco on Wednesday.
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Dan Wavering retweeted
Committed to our future. ✔️
Mauricio Pochettino and @ussoccer have agreed on a new contract to continue as the #USMNT head coach through 2030! 🇺🇸
📝: ussoc.cr/MP2030
Infantino out – at East Highland Park, VA
FIFA has scrapped $20B World Cup sell-off plan following European boycott, global outrage: sources trib.al/nmrzXmR
Corruption on Downing Street! England PM interferes in World Cup scheduling!
Keir Starmer helped stop earlier England vs. Mexico kickoff dlvr.it/TTNNHH
Another major issue here: FIFA has clearly signaled if you are a player that makes them money (I.e. Messi) you can stomp ankles and if you're not (Balogun) you get a different, harsher set of rules.
On the basis of the images made available to referee Raphael Claus, the decision to send off USA forward Folarin Balogun is understandable. From the vantage point presented, via slow motion and still images, the threshold of serious foul play is met.
This challenge did appear to endanger the safety of an opponent. Those ensconced in FIFA’s refereeing hub may see that as an open and shut case. Yet to most observers and many of those who have played the game, at any level at all, this was a miscarriage of justice.
To show the challenge to the referee at a different speed to the incident he originally adjudicated upon is to warp and distort the judgment, removing context from the call. Slowed down, an accidental collision can resemble a premeditated challenge. A bad challenge can become a horror challenge.
In the case of Balogun, the freeze frame and slow-motion images eliminated the essential context. This was a simple ball played forward by Antonee Robinson, where two players jostled for position, and as Bosnia and Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic got in front of Balogun, the forward, off balance, landed in an unfortunate — but clearly unintentional manner — on the ankle of his opponent.
In football’s history, it has sometimes required major incidents at big international tournaments to accelerate change.
FIFA must use Balogun’s injustice as a line in the sand, ending once and for all the unfair and disfiguring use of slow-motion and freeze frames.
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