Sportsmongrel

Gawking at football (of the less concussive kind), basketball, and cricket; waning philosophical, sometimes

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Cabo Verde, hanging very tough. #CapeVerde #WorldCup2026 #ESPCV

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The only improvement in Ferran Torres is his hairstyle. #LaRoja #Spain #WorldCup2026 #España #FerranTorres

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Is Asia taking over the midfield? Most impressive midfielders at the #WorldCup so far:
1. #LeeKangin
2. #JunyaIto
3. #TakefusaKubo
4. #HwangInbeom

#WorldCup2026 #SouthKorea #Japan #SamuraiBlue

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Brunson is the Travolta--if not the Astaire--of the NBA. #Knicks #JalenBrunson #NewYorkKnicks #NBAFinals

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Watching the Moroccan team might be the world's quickest cure for Islamophobia. #Morocco #mundialdefútbol #mundialdefútbol2026 #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #AchrafHakimi #IsmaelSaibari

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Could #Fox get a more interested and enthusiastic show-host than #RebeccaLowe , please? #WorldCup #Fox #FS1

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What does it say that a commentator as oblivious, unoriginal, and self-absorbed as #JohnStrong gets as much praise as Strong does in the U.S.? #WorldCup #Fox #WorldCup2026PlaybyPlay

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Player of the #WorldCup so far: Lee Kang-in. #WorldCup #SouthKorea #LeeKangin

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#Jokic's calm postgame comments to Lisa Salters showed his sceptical intelligence and refusal of to pander to the many kinds of prejudice that he has surely faced in the insular culture of American sports. #NBAFinals #DenverNuggets #NuggetsvsHeat

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Here's to the #TrailBlazers' courtship of #LugenzDort next year.

[🅵🅾🆁🆃🅷🅴🅵🅰🅽🆂 🎙 @503Blazerfans]

Dame has the most efficient 60 pt and 70 pt games in NBA history😳both came in the same season too @Dame_Lillard

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True, @Dame_Lillard with most points in a game in regulation this season

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The name's Lillard. Damian Lamonte Ollie Lillard. #DamianLillard #Lillard #Blazers #Trailblazers #PDXvHOU #Dame

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The #Blazers have lopped off their defensive arms by losing #JoshHart and #GaryPaytonII . Let's hope they haven't decapitated themselves by doing so.

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Justice. This one is, at least in part, for Pepe's stomping foot. #WorldCup #WorldCupFinal #ARGFRA #Messi𓃵

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@NBCSportsSoccer Lionel Messi

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@FIFAWorldCup Krépin Diatta

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@FIFAWorldCup Krepin Diatta

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Is there a stupider commentator than #JohnStrong (who just decided that Europe is not in the "Western hemisphere")? The world needs @RayHudson and @PhilSchoen urgently for commentary on #WorldCup2022. #ArgVsMex #RayHudson #PhilSchoen

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Whether or not he knows it, #AnferneeSimons extends the #Stoic tradition. What fine ethics, what fine skills, what a fine player. #Portlnd #PortlandTrailBlazers #TrailBlazers #Ant #AnferneeSimons #Blazers