“Based on the stories that flood Reddit”
This line alone should disqualify you from journalism for the rest of your life. Permanent ban with no appeals allowed.
The World Cup duality is what makes American culture very much cowboy culture. Shirts off our back for the people who are kind and respectful, pistols at dawn for the people rage posting about how much our country sucks from theirs.
When you visit Japanese cities you begin to understand the obsession Japanese science fiction has with arcologies, space stations, underground cities etc
college football really is the most american sport at this point, there’s no better reflection of us than total capture by backwards corrupt southern elites that cry and bitch the second fundamentally superior northern society is allowed fair competition with them
As disastrous a ruling as there has ever been in modern sports. The pathway is now clear: gamble as much as you like, including on your own team and hope you are--or get--good enough that you can lawyer up down the line. A much bigger disaster than anything with NIL or portal.