Folarin Balogun on his controversial red card against Bosnia, questioning the referee and VAR:
🗣️ “I cannot accept that decision. I've watched the replay over and over, and I know in my heart there was never any intention to hurt anyone. It was a football action, nothing more. To send me off for that is one of the harshest decisions I've experienced in my career.”
“What's frustrating isn't just the red card it's the inconsistency. Week after week, challenge after challenge, we've all seen similar incidents judged differently. Sometimes VAR says it's football, sometimes it becomes a straight red. How are players supposed to understand the rules when the standard changes every game?”
“The referee had one look. VAR had every angle, slow motion, every replay imaginable, and they still chose the harshest possible outcome. That's the part I cannot understand. Technology was introduced to remove obvious mistakes, not to create even bigger controversies.”
“This decision didn't just punish me. It punished my teammates, my coaches, every supporter wearing a USA shirt and everyone who travelled to support us. One whistle changed an entire World Cup night, and that's something impossible to forget.”
“If football wants players and fans to respect VAR, then VAR has to start respecting football. Consistency isn't optional it's the foundation of fairness. Right now, too many careers, tournaments and dreams are being decided by officials instead of the football itself.”
“I'll accept responsibility when I'm wrong. But I will never stay silent when I believe the game has been let down. Players deserve clarity, supporters deserve honesty, and this tournament deserves officiating that applies the same standard to everyone not different standards depending on the badge you wear.”
2nd vid today from The Bernie Miklasz Show: Mighty Mizzou (basketball) is making history in an incredible comeback season. #MizzouTigers#MissouriTigers
https://t.co/a7BX3Nz6kz via @YouTube
Very emotional #Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz after today's game ⤵️ QB Brady Cook got injured, went to the hospital, came back and won the football game...
"For all the criticism that young man takes, 12 sure would die on the field for everybody."
I asked Coach Drink more about it: "He told the team that in the hospital he realized I only got two and a half games left at Faurot Field. There's no way I'm spending it here in this hospital."
Brady Cook appreciation tweet
He committed to Mizzou as a soph in HS. Never wavered. Never went on any other visits. Never wanted to be anything but a Missouri Tiger.
Now here he is, battled through adversity. Plays through injury. A captain and top QB in CFB. Truest of sons.
Can I interest you in a two minute highlight reel of Luther Burden III being one of the most dominant receivers in the country through the first three weeks of the season? Is that something you would enjoy? #Mizzou
At least as far back as the 18th century, the left has struggled to avoid facing the plain fact of evil — that some people simply choose to do things that they know to be wrong when they do them. Every kind of excuse, from poverty to an unhappy childhood, is used by the left to explain and excuse evil.
All the people who have come out of poverty or unhappy childhoods, or both, and become decent and productive human beings, are ignored. So are the evils committed by people raised in wealth and privilege, including kings, conquerors and slave owners.
Why has evil been such a hard concept for many on the left to accept? The basic agenda of the left is to change external conditions. But what if the problem is internal? What if the real problem is the cussedness of human beings?
There are roughly 65 million golfers in the world.
Less than 1% of them are scratch or better.
People assume they must have magical powers on the golf course.
But here are some stats that should blow your mind and, more importantly, give you perspective: