Ben

I like to share things that make me happy and inspired.

[Ben @benjamindport]

@VanLathan #Arsenal

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Told you.

[No Escalators @NoEscalators]

So you’re telling me that Brazil won five titles, many long ago, last made the title game in 2002, and since has largely starred in cartoonish losses?

Is Brazil Indiana basketball?

[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

BREAKING @TheAthleticFC

Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Extraordinary development.

Story with @Dan_Sheldon_

https://t.co/oQ61J9btzT

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

6. American man teaches the world an important American lesson while in Mexico: If you don’t get a labor agreement in writing, good luck collecting on handshake agreements.

[Æ @ridhoooni]

saliba is jokes oh my, we got a generational player in our club breh

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

When you launched a couple of Wiffle homers on a 90-degree day then came inside with your friends and plowed through about a half-dozen of these bastards ... nobody tells you at the time but that’s actually about as good as life gets.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The Sandlot has the single greatest vision of American life ever put on film.

This scene is what it’s all about. 🇺🇸

[Leandro Trossard @LTrossard]

No words needed. ❤️

[Dax McCarty @DaxMcCarty11]

Feast your eyes on not just the goal of this World Cup, but one of the best goals in World Cup history. Consider the stakes, the moment, the technique. Are you kidding me?!? 🇨🇻

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

TELL US HOW YOU FEELIN' RIGHT NOW

[Ben @benjamindport]

@k_crump_ So predictable too

[Paolo Uggetti @PaoloUggetti]

this is one of the coolest golf shots I’ve ever seen

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

This gets funnier everytime I watch it. If you don’t see it the first time, watch it again. Funniest thing you’ll watch today

[Halal Wyler 🏆 @Shamsdale]

Arsenal FC The NY Knicks
🤝

Beating Spurs 4-1

[Josiah Johnson @KingJosiah54]

Donte DiVincenzo celebrating with the Nova Knicks after they won the chip

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”