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[ESPN @espn]

🏈 Heisman winner
🏈 National champion
🏈 No. 1 overall pick

What a year for Fernando Mendoza. He takes home the ESPY for Best College Athlete - Men's Sports 🔥

[Goodwood FOS @fosgoodwood]

Mario Andretti leads the three #Ford GT MKIIs which won #LeMans 60 years ago - headlining our Americana Celebration presented by Bank of America!

He was joined by his racing sons Michael and Marco in a scene of pure Goodwood #FOS magic!

[Jeff Rabjohns @JeffRabjohns]

Former Indiana star Kyle Schwarber. Wow. What a list. And it’s July 7th.

[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.

[Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team @ArrowMcLaren]

Let the celebrations continue. Because...

IT'S THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY TO HAVE A 1-2 PODIUM FINISH. 🏆🏆

[IMSA @IMSA]

Happy 4th of July!
Have a wonderful holiday weekend IMSA Family.

[TheRhoff @TheRhoff]

@ChronicHoosier Not 4th and 5? QB runs and trucks everyone in sight to score late in the 4th quarter for the greatest story in CFB history?

[TheRhoff @TheRhoff]

@MurderHawk500 @IndyCamping COLD

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

Most home runs in first 5 seasons with a team: 

Babe Ruth, NYY: 235
Mark McGwire, STL: 220
Kyle Schwarber, PHI: 215
Ralph Kiner, PIT: 215
Alex Rodriguez, NYY: 208
David Ortiz, BOS: 208
Albert Pujols, STL: 201

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

you fools….where do you think they’re rowing to…..?

[Btown Uber Driver @UberBtown]

Aerial photos from the path of last night’s tornado through Morgan and Monroe counties. (Photos credit: Tracey Richardson)

[TheRhoff @TheRhoff]

@JoshEberley @Ankaman616 Should have been Halliburton’s Pacers.

[Lord Hanson of Flint Labour Peer & Minister @RTHondavehanson]

In a corner of parliament at the far end of the Royal gallery a box lies permantly open containing sand from all five Normandy beaches -a reminder to both houses of the sacrifice & the cause of freedom fought for by brave service people on DDay June 6 th 1944. #DDay

[Jared Kelly @Jared_Kelly7]

Curt Cignetti on the College Football 27 cover with Indiana’s Memorial Stadium as the backdrop.

What a world we live in. #iufb

[Angela Moryan @AngelaMoryanTV]

CHECK IT OUT: Felix Rosenqvist’s newborn daughter Stella got her own Borg Warner wreath to match his #Indy500 champion one!

🥹 @FRosenqvist

📸: IG/Emille Rosenqvist

[Indianapolis Motor Speedway @IMS]

On this Memorial Day, we remember all the brave men and women who served our nation and gave the ultimate sacrifice. 🇺🇸

[Indianapolis Motor Speedway @IMS]

Tell us this isn't The Greatest Spectacle in Racing. 😏

#Indy500 | #ThisIsMay

[Eric Smith @Eric_INDYCAR]

Wow wow wow wow wow listen to this crowd!

[Matt Archuleta @indy44]

Current radar view. Fitting. #Indy500 #IndyCar

[Tony Donohue 🟢🟢 @tonydindy]

only at Indy