larryirving

Was once called "the Jackie Robinson of the Internet." Not sure that's right, but I'll take it. NYC Native. Proudly Purple. Love The Farm. Passionate about PBS!

[larryirving @larry_irving]

“What would happen if we rallied our best minds and our most advanced…” — https://t.co/H1ZMSxh8ZW #2030Now

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

The Boston Globe has dedicated a full page in today's edition to the Tartan Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇸

The letter in Boston's largest newspaper reads: "Dear Tartan Army,

"You came for the World Cup, but gave us something more.

"For a week, you turned train stations into singalongs, Fenway into a football ground, and an ordinary June into something we'll be talking about for years.

"Boston has hosted championships, parades, and celebrations of every kind. But we've never hosted guests quite like you all.

"Thank you for the laughter, the bagpipes and the memories. The World Cup will move on. So will the songs, but we'll never forget the joy you brought to our city."

𝘐𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 @SPARScotland

𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵

[Maximiliano Bretos @MaxBretosSports]

I posted a video 4 months of the Dutch doing this at last Euros saying “This is coming to Houston”.
Was told nah, maybe 1/10th of the numbers.
Here we are and it looks like there is more Orange in Texas than there was in Germany in 2024 👀

[Ali Walker @AliWalker24]

Extraordinary night in downtown Boston.

Brazil, Morocco and Haiti fans + the Tartan Army moshing to NO SCOTLAND NO PARTY.

Only the World Cup.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Think South Korea fans are already over the World Cup loss to Mexico

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[Marco Fattorini @MarcoFattorini]

La risposta di Giorgia Meloni: «Le dichiarazioni di Donald Trump sono totalmente inventate, sono francamente allibita. Non so perché il Presidente degli Stati Uniti si comporti così con i propri alleati, non è del resto la prima volta che accade. Posso solo dire che dispiace che non abbia la stessa determinazione con i nemici dell'Occidente, con i nemici degli Stati Uniti, con leadership con le quali invece si dimostra molto più accondiscendente, però una cosa se la deve ricordare: io e l'Italia non imploriamo mai».

[Northwestern Basketball @NUMensBball]

Thank you, BJ 💜

Special Assistant to the Head Coach Brian James has announced his retirement, completing a career spanning 50 years in basketball across multiple levels including the NBA, college and high school ranks. A member of Head Coach Chris Collins' original staff 13 seasons ago, James played a pivotal role in the most successful era in program history.

[Northwestern @NorthwesternU]

At #NU2026 Commencement, graduates got to hear two of their own—Tram Nguyen and Sydney-Reese Harris—reflect on their time at Northwestern. 🎓

Learn more about what inspired their speeches: https://t.co/vXPIaRfFy5

@KelloggSchool | @NorthwesternLaw | @WeinbergCollege

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Almost 25% of players at the World Cup are representing a country they weren't born in.

This is how World Cup teams are stacking their rosters with more foreign-born players than ever before.

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

2026, folks.

This is amazing, tbh.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Thanks for this list….people
Don’t imagine how hard is to be in business over 25 years….specially with COVID in the middle..but we are there because the people, so thanks to you all!!

[NBC News @NBCNews]

With women’s soccer on track to become one of the world’s top five sports, U.S. Soccer is committing a $30 million donation from billionaire Michele Kang to researching some of the major issues facing female athletes. https://t.co/LlzbRefydB

[Jessica Sidman @jsidman]

Albi just became the first restaurant outside NYC to earn a 4-star review from the @nytimes

https://t.co/cQX9Fle8NU

[Northwestern @NorthwesternU]

You know Willie, now it's time to meet Lizzie 🐾💜🎓

#NU2026 grad Lizzie Ferrazza played Willie the Wildcat for the last four years across athletics and campus appearances.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Posted by former US Congressman @AdamKinzinger on Facebook. Beautifully written, in both form and substance:

Hey everyone, happy Sunday. Are you ready for some good news? I know I am.

We are told, over and over, that America has gone cold on the rest of the world. That we have decided the people on the other side of the ocean are a threat to be kept out. That the welcome mat got rolled up and put away for good.

Then a soccer team from the North African nation of Algeria showed up in Lawrence, Kansas, and within a week the whole town was wearing green.

For today's Good News Sunday, I want to tell you about one of the best things happening in this country right now. It is happening at a soccer tournament, and it has almost nothing to do with soccer.

The World Cup is here, 48 teams playing across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Each team in the tournament picks a base camp, one town to live and train in between matches. Germany set up shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Spain is training in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And Algeria, playing two of its games up the road at Arrowhead, picked Lawrence and made it home for the summer.

What the people of Lawrence did with that is the part I can't stop thinking about.

It started small, with a whole town of people who had never given Algeria much thought deciding, more or less overnight, that this was their team now. Flags went up in shop windows. Folks pulled on the green jerseys. People drove over just to catch a glimpse of the players. And then a local news crew stopped an older gentleman on a Lawrence sidewalk, standing in front of a storefront draped in a whole row of Algerian flags he had clearly just gone out of his way to find.

They asked him what he actually knew about the country whose colors he was flying. He grinned, paused for a beat, and said something along the lines of: not much yet — but we want to welcome you here. There is no agenda in that man. Nothing performative. Just a neighbor, thrilled to his bones that these strangers chose his town, and perfectly at ease with the fact that he has a lot left to learn about them.

The welcome only got bigger from there.

The University of Kansas, the state's flagship school that calls Lawrence home, sent its marching band out to the training ground. They had spent the previous days learning Algeria's national anthem, note for note, and they played it as the players walked out for practice. Think about what that means for a moment.

These men are thousands of miles from their families, living out of a hotel in the American Midwest, preparing for the biggest sporting event of their professional lives. And the first thing they hear when they step onto the grass is the sound of their own country's song, played by a hundred American college kids in red and blue who learned it just for them. Several of the players stopped walking. A few of them looked like they weren't sure what to do with themselves.

Algeria did its part, too. The team opened a training session to the public and spent the afternoon out on the grass with neighborhood kids, walking them through drills, signing autographs, posing for pictures. There are children from small-town America who are going to be telling the story of the day they trained with a World Cup team for the rest of their lives. And the Algerians have spent the last week calling themselves honorary Kansans, falling hard for a corner of a state most of them could not have found on a map two months ago.

But it's not just Lawrence.

This is happening all over the country, in towns you would never expect.

The city of Alexandria, Virginia threw a street festival with an evening of Croatian food and music, and wrapped a city bus in the team's red and white. After crowds in Spokane, Washington flocked to watch Egyptian superstar Mohamed Salah, a brand-new Egyptian restaurant in town suddenly had locals lining up for food most of them had never tasted. All told, 19 American communities that are not hosting a single match still raised their hand to take in a national team and call them neighbors for a month.

There is a story we get told constantly about who we have become. That Americans have soured on outsiders. That we have decided the rest of the world is a threat. That we look at people who do not talk like us or pray like us or come from where we come from and see a problem instead of a person.

And then a college town in Kansas goes and learns every note of a North African country's national anthem, just so a group of strangers feel at home for a few weeks. An old local stands in front of a row of its flags and tells them, in so many words: we don't know much about you yet, but we are awfully glad you came.

That is who we actually are when nobody is telling us to be afraid. The band on the field, playing somebody else's song as if it were their own. The neighbor who knows next to nothing about you and waves you in anyway. We forget it sometimes. The good news is that it takes about one afternoon to remember.

That, my friends, is good news for your Sunday.
— Adam

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Dutch are fully invading Dallas as we speak

[Northwestern @NorthwesternU]

The purple was purpling today 💜

Huge congrats to you, #NU2026—you are now officially @NUAlumni! We're so proud 🥹🫶

[Kara @UTDKarra]

The Korean girl who was mocked for her facial features by a Mexican man turned out to be a Korean influencer.

The incident went so viral that the man, identified as Ulises Bernal, was forced to resign from his job and later posted a public video apologizing.

The influencer, Ino Cat, responded with a beautiful message

🗣️ “There are strange people in the world, but I realized once again that there are many more good people at the World Cup”

Say NO to RACISM!