Iraq played a draw against Spain.
Lol.
Football has totally turned around. Systems are so close now. That gap is increasingly shrinking.
It's not a question of who started for Spain. They had good players on the pitch. Times have changed. Even if it's a friendly match, you don't go into these games now thinking you own the day. Football has never been this close.
Like we saw Morocco make it to the semis at the last World Cup, there’ll be shockers this time too.
🤯🇪🇸🇮🇶 IRAQ STUNNED SPAIN WITH THIS BANGER AHEAD OF THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP.
The Spanish national team is now coming to PUEBLA, MEXICO, to play their final friendly before the tournament kicks off! 🏆🍿
Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth
And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working
This scene is now canon 😭
I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.
This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.
Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.
I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.
Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.
2Chainz tells the story of when he got OUTCLASSED & CUSSED OUT by Carmelo Anthony while playing with him & other NBA players in an open run 💀🤣🤣
“I’m like ‘man i’m ready.’ I’m supposed to be in the league anyway… He got so mad at me”
Couple takeaways here
1. Hurley has the biggest balls on earth
2. I’m glad this wasn’t a tech, the ref understood the moment. Props.
3. This has to be a tech😭😭
A riddle from 1688 goes: "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes,if given the ability, could he distinguish those objects by sight alone?" In 2003, the riddle was solved when five people had their sight restored through surgery. They could not.
Last night, a woman behind me came over pre kick off and said 'I've just captured a video of you and your son. Can I send it to you?'
I gave her my email and I think it might just be my favourite video ever.
@wembleystadium
Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival.
The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals.
Gout left him in the dust.
His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster."
A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week.
Here is where the story gets strange.
At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me."
The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18.
And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone.
His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name.
The kid kept running.
Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year.
The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.
I love overhearing dog owners talking to their dogs
eg, I was petting this dog who seemed happy but then suddenly growled at me, so I left
As I turned the corner I could hear his owner saying to him reproachfully, "You always do this, Oscar, you drive away all your friends"