Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
When music brings people together… One lone piper from Scotland and Boston’s finest bucket-drum maestro somehow created the collaboration nobody knew they needed 🥹
A huge thank you to everyone in the US! You all helped create so many wonderful memories for me during the World Cup. I’m heading back to Japan now, but let’s definitely stay in touch on Twitter. Thank you so much—I love you, America! ❤
Blue bags up.
Japan 2, Netherlands 2 — an absolute thriller in Arlington. And then the real show started.
The Japanese end pulls out thousands of bright blue bags. First they wave them like flags, bouncing and chanting until the whole section is one giant wall of blue. Then — same bags, new mission. They fan out across the stands and scoop up every bottle, wrapper and cup till the seats look brand new.
And who's right in the middle of it, grinning with a bag in his hand? Jameis Winston. Giants QB. Heisman winner. Out there cleaning up with the Samurai Blue like it's the best gig of his summer.
No chore. No lecture. Just a party that cleans up after itself.
Best fans on the planet. 🇯🇵💙
USA. A grocery register. The cashier held up my crackers and said "oh, these are SO good," and I understood that my entire basket was being judged.
I had not known checkout was an evaluation. No one tells you. The items ride the belt one by one, and the magistrate lifts each, and some receive a verdict.
"These chips? SO good." Approval. My heart rose.
"Oh, I love this salsa." Two for two. I stood straighter.
Then she scanned my mustard in silence.
Silence. No comment. The mustard passed unjudged, which is worse than condemned. I stared at it in the bag. What did I not know? Who buys the correct mustard? Where do they learn?
"And the mustard?" I asked. I could not stop myself.
"...it's fine."
Fine. In my land, when the tea master calls your tea "fine," you train for another decade. I will train.
The man behind me saw my face. "She's just makin' conversation, man."
Conversation. Sir. She has tasted EVERYTHING. She stands at the gate of the food and watches what ten thousand households carry home, and she has formed views, and for a few seconds those views are aimed at your basket. There is no more qualified judge in this nation. The judges of my land studied twenty years. She studies forty hours a week, scanner in hand.
In Japan, the cashier would sooner faint than comment on your groceries. Here, the verdicts are free.
A man does not shop to fill a basket. He shops to hear, at the gate, that he chose well.
I confess I now select one item each week purely to earn her praise. This week: the crackers again.
"These are SO good," she said.
I know. I know.
You have to feel for Yomif Kejelcha.
One of the sport's great "nearly" men on the track.
Two World Championship silvers in the 10,000 meters.
Always pushing the pace in Diamond Leagues, chasing fast times.
He debuts in 1:59:41, well under the marathon WR.
And finishes 2nd.
OMG.
🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon!
Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT.
Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28
All under the previous WR.
🚨 JUST IN: Artemis II pilot Victor Glover just gave this BEAUTIFUL Easter message
"So far from Earth, looking at the BEAUTY of creation."
“When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us...this amazing place." ❤️🙏🏻