Kyle Turk

Former sports editor @ghtribsports. Wrong today, tomorrow it’s someone else’s turn.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Exclusive @TheAthleticFC

FIFA make last-gasp change to World Cup stadium rules: BANNING fans from bringing refillable plastic bottles, so fans must buy water in stadia

As of May, empty bottles permitted so fans could refill amid heat concerns. Not now

https://t.co/OuyjvgPoxN

[Kyle Turk @KyleTurk5]

Bari

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

[Kyle Turk @KyleTurk5]

@PhysiogenixPT @11Yanks @USMNT How can you say they knew full well? It’s by and large pochettino’s decision who’s on the roster and they don’t ask him who to put on the marketing materials

[Jon “Stugotz” Weiner @stugotz790]

Did the Thunder waste the Alex Caruso game?

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests.

All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy

[Kyle Turk @KyleTurk5]

@NicolasLop1970 @Iancroll1 Been injured for weeks and only plays a few minutes at a time. Hard to make a judgment one way or another

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

I assume at least some of those women are mothers. And their kids are watching them giggle at the president making juvenile insults they would likely get scolded for. How did one utter fool manage to convince so many people to pitch their integrity right out the door?

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

American men are more likely to have gambling debt than to have read a book in the last year.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Exclusive @TheAthleticFC :

Current NJ Transit plans for return train from NY Penn Station to MetLife Stadium during World Cup are for tickets to be priced at over $100.

Usual price is $12.90, making it more than a 7-fold increase for World Cup fans.

https://t.co/iYESwgfuwY

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

It’s very weird to me that MLS and MLS teams aren’t making a fuss about this. The World Cup was meant to grow the sport, be accessible, and expand their future audience. Instead it’s proving highly exclusionary.

[Ella Brockway @ellabrockway]

The first official World Cup Song of 2026 (featuring Jelly Roll and Carín León) is out! Its lyrics sure do scream “celebration of the power of sport and the global beauty of soccer”

[Sid Lowe @sidlowe]

The usual thing here would be for for FIFA and the host nation to reassure the participants that they will be safe. Instead, the Iran *football team* is told their life would be at threat if they come.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The point of calling a bombing campaign “not politically correct” is to make empathy itself illegitimate. Once mourning dead children is reframed as softness, there’s no floor. Anything can be justified as long as objecting to it can be painted as weakness.

[Ben Koo @bkoo]

Last week, the great @paulsen_smw made a very astute observation:

None of the photo wire services were at #1 UM vs. #3 Duke. How could that be?

What I uncovered was that they have been boycotting many high-profile neutral-site games all season.

https://t.co/nbJKUuXqJ0

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The US spent 70 years building a country optimized for cars instead of people. This is what that looks like at full resolution.

MetLife Stadium sits on 2.1 million square feet of parking. 28,000 spaces. The parking lots are larger than the stadium itself. The entire Meadowlands complex was purpose-built so that the only way a human being can reach it is inside a 4,000-pound metal box. The New Jersey State Police printed that sign because pedestrians were never part of the design.

And here’s where it gets interesting: the 2026 World Cup Final is being played at this stadium in five months. FIFA’s biggest event on Earth, hosted at a venue where walking is literally illegal. International fans from countries where you stroll to the stadium from a pub three blocks away are about to encounter a place where the nearest hotel requires a car to travel a distance you can see with your eyes.

The US has 700 million to 2 billion parking spaces. Eight parking spots for every car in the country. Parking lots cover more than 5% of all developed land, an area larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Minimum parking requirements forced every building, every stadium, every shopping center to dedicate more square footage to storing empty vehicles than to serving the humans inside. American cities didn’t accidentally become unwalkable. They were zoned that way.

During the recent Club World Cup at MetLife, only 12.5% of fans used public transit to reach the stadium. The other 87.5% drove. Now imagine that ratio flipping for the World Cup, when the majority of attendees will be international visitors without cars. NJ Transit is spending $100 million to try to move 20,000 people per hour through a single transfer point at Secaucus Junction, a system that already had door malfunctions and 13-minute delays during games with 29,000 fans. Scale that to 82,500.

The sign in this hotel lobby is American car culture in a single frame: we built the richest country on Earth, then made it illegal to walk across it.

[brandon* @brndxix]

Zohran Mamdani proved that Gen-Z wants to be talked to like actual adults and not just won over with shitty memes, the dnc’s response to that is an account with 67 in the @

[Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz @LeBatardShow]

#poll Do you only do good things so that people will acknowledge the good things that you’re doing?

[Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch]

The owner of The Washington Post has a superyacht worth an estimated $500+ million.

[Kyle Turk @KyleTurk5]

That second paragraph…well, it’s certainly *a* paragraph.

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Love seeing these sports “journalists” getting ABSOLUTELY BURIED for being curmudgeon bums..

OBVIOUSLY NOT ALL OF THEM but a LARGE % of these things hate sports.. they hate what sports are for people (happiness).. They hate what sports are for society (unifier).. they’re political journalists by nature who’ve preyed on sports because they saw it as an easier path to “make it”

Their days are numbered.. my show being broadcasted on ESPN 10 hours a week with ZERO creative say from any “journalism school” puppets is living proof of that.. that’s why they attack me as much as possible.. I’m happy the world is starting to see what they truly are.

Now… We as a society have to stop taking these particular humans seriously. Their opinions and thoughts are coming from a place of wanting to destroy sports.

Sports are the greatest thing on Earth, these motherfuckers have no idea… and will never get it.

Also.. Thank you Lynn Jones for setting up a situation for me and all of us on how Liam Coen, a man who might be a 🐐 when he’s done, handles compliments during one of his most miserable moments. He handled it with class and humility.. feels like some journalism was actually done there.