Seth Cross

Varsity Assistant Basketball - Track Coach at Hendrickson High School | Stephen F. Austin alum | Blues-Funk-Jazz music aficionado | Sports Nerd

[Greg Siskind @gsiskind]

A reminder that Flo Balogun would not be on the US Men's National Team if Trump's birthright citizenship order was in place when he was born in NY. The first US man to score more than one goal in a World Cup match since the very first World Cup in 1930.

[Jacob @Jacobtheclipper]

The NBA needs to adopt this.

The Paraguay player flopped and the ref reviewed it and gave him a yellow card.

Soccer has it figured out 🤝

[Jake Catanese @JCatanese43]

Allowing #Scotland, a country famous for its war of independence from Britain, to play not one but two games in greater Boston, a region famous for starting a war of independence from Britain...was a fantastic idea by all involved

[Nate @nate_in_pa]

What I miss most about ESPN's coverage of the World Cup was how respectful and duteous they were toward it being the World Cup. Fox Sports is over-the-top American centric and spends nowhere near enough time covering the other matches.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

📺 Telemundo TV commentator: "We are one of the only networks in the world to NOT show ads during the World Cup cooling breaks."

"We prefer the old school way. We should be able to see what the players do. We show fans, people enjoying, not the corporate direction of football."

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

Exactly 16 years later, Mexico's Julian Quinones hit Siphiwe Tshabalala's celebration after scoring vs. South Africa 🤭

Amazing 🇲🇽

[PJ Green @ByPJGreen]

World Cup teams have mandated “community sessions” that are mainly exclusive ticketed events.

Algeria’s community session was a real one, where the community was invited and now, children in the KC metro get to say they’ve played with international soccer stars.

[Rivers Hughey @RivsHughey]

Wait until they get to the part where we sacrifice a pop-tart

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Ahead of today’s first World Cup game, Bosnian legend Edin Džeko writes a letter to the children of Bosnia, reflecting on what it meant to survive war as a child and on the horrors still unfolding in the world today:

“In the end, we survived. Looking back, I’m amazed at how strong we were. We were just little kids. But there was no point to the war. All those innocent people killed, and for what?
For money. Power. Ego. 
For nothing. 
When there is war on the news today, I feel sick.
I don’t want to see it anywhere.
For some reason, adults never learn.” https://t.co/wPzzjylNLL

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty.

James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history.

Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired.
The wall is still empty.

[Molly @FSUmollz]

We, as a society, have moved past the need for Alexi Lalas to be on television

[k🎱 @crtfydyapper]

this world cup is the closest we’re gonna get to world peace

[LAFC Fan TV ⭐️ @lafcftv]

. @AlexiLalas has become what he hates most, a DEI hire 😭😭

[Carl Anka @Ankaman616]

Sensational drip.

[gwen howerton @kissphoria]

Texas Tech must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

The cultural exchange happening between Korea and Mexico is incredible

[Oluwajomiloju @JomiAdeniran]

Alexi Lalas commentating with Thierry Henry and Zlatan Ibrahimović

[DataFut @DataFutebol]

Torcedores da Coreia do Sul foram jantar num bar no México e o estabelecimento colocou GANGNAM STYLE na TV

e depois os mexicanos e os coreanos começaram a CANTAR e DANÇAR juntos! 🇲🇽🇰🇷

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

When Russia hosted the World Cup in 2018, it had to suspend normal visa rules for the tournament. Foreigners with tickets could enter visa-free, using a scheme called ‘Fan ID.’

Russia also had to do weird stuff to keep FIFA’s sponsors happy. For example, small shops near Fan Zones and stadiums could only sell Budweiser beer on match days.

So yes, FIFA absolutely does dictate conditions to host governments when it suits FIFA. Infantino pretending otherwise is nonsense.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Haiti had the first successful slave revolt and the Whites have never forgiven them for it