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[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

Lebron Jerseys already sold out on Fanatics 😂

[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

@_realrong 👑👑👑

[Saquon Barkley @saquon]

Welcome to the city! Let me know when you tryna tee it up 🏌🏽⛳️ @KingJames

[Crossing Broad @CrossingBroad]

"the Knicks are the defending champions"

[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

NO BIGGER SPORTS CITY THAN PHILLY!!!

[SPORTSRADIO 94WIP @SportsRadioWIP]

Is this real life?

[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

Last night in my dreams I had a life lesson I’ve never experienced. That’s pretty cool.

[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

Not a sports city says Josh Hart

[TicketData Keith @kapkap42]

Game-day get-in prices for the last 4 MLB All-Star Games:

2026 Philadelphia: $1,199 and rising
2025 Atlanta: $223
2024 Texas: $268
2023 Seattle: $367

ASG ticket prices were already surging. After that Home Run Derby, they may have another leg up.

[SPORTSRADIO 94WIP @SportsRadioWIP]

So cool: Jordan Walker’s dad screams, “I love Philly” after his son wins the Home Run Derby and Philly fans respond by chanting, “Jordan’s dad.” 🤝

[Megan @MeganMakinMoney]

So I get real estate but if every city could… they should set it up just like Philly

[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

Cmon Levron you don’t want to go to that dysfunctional team 🤔

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro got into a physical altercation in Las Vegas on Friday in which Adebayo struck Herro, sources tell ESPN.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Tetragrammaton @tetranow]

“An opinion is not an observation. An observation is an opening–an opening of the eyes–while an opinion is a closing. It's blinding. In this world, because nobody ever forgets anything anybody says, an opinion ends up being something you have to defend, when actually you should be interrogating it all the time.” -Louis C.K.

[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

The US Soccer team is the Sixers. Might tease a semi-finals at best but never will get there.

Also. This ref was born to Belgian roots. Fun cup run while it lasted.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Christian Pulisic lost possession 11 times in just 45 minutes.

The MOST of any player on the field 😳

[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

9 more Sundays!!

[Levs @DoseOfDilla]

What a last 5 minutes. Sheessshh

[Zac Hill @zdch]

The whole 82-0 phenomenon reinforces that whole bit about how the only thing a bunch of dudes need in order to have a good time is to sit around announcing the names of a bunch of old athletes.

[CogginToboggan @CogginToboggan]

Big Dom on his way to Georgia.

[NBA Slime @TerryFranconia]

SMOKING THAT PENGUINS PACK