Chris Bingham

father, husband, founder @shipsimply. The best is yet to come.

[Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC]

All former FIFA-certified referees raise your hands.
🙋
That's right I used to both play & ref soccer. Now I mostly just mock it. Until they mess w/ Team USA.

This picture of the collision between Balogun & the B&H player looks awful, but it's complete garbage.
Wrong angle to see what really happened.

Balogun was closer to the ball and the B&H player came from his right AND behind initiating the contact. He caused his own suffering.

The ref got it right initially as a no call. They were both playing the ball. Even in a sport known for pitifully lame flopping sometimes two dudes just crash into each other and do some actual damage. Doesn't mean there was a foul.

The replay guy then saw an opportunity to take the Americans down a notch and the ref bought in and made an egregious red card ejection.

If any call was made it should have been against the B&H player who came from behind and out of the sight line of Balogun.

The outrage now is "How dare the Americans get this absurd attempt to weaken them overturned".

Taking a player out of a once in a lifetime game and tournament should be an exceedingly high bar. This was not.

The people pretending to care about the rules are really mad the Americans aren't getting screwed over. It's a common sentiment and all around the world hating Americans for being the Biggest, Baddest and Best is as much a national sport as Soccer Ball.

I've lived overseas for six years and traveled to several dozen countries. Furriners love to hate on us. I'm not saying it's all underserved, I'm just saying it's not new and it's everywhere.

I can't blame them, we're barely 250 years old and we have accomplished more than any country in history. We have invented more amazing things, freed more people from tyranny and lifted more people from poverty and that stings, especially for the Euros who think they own our history.

They do, the part that we left and left behind. The part we are making now they can only watch and be chafed about. Because they can't even come close.

So they were salivating at knocking a US star out of play on a BS call. Sorry Jacques Belgique, you're going to have to take on a full US squad. Good luck, I hope we make you cry some more in the game tonight.

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

EXCL: Keir Starmer personally stepped in to stop FIFA bringing forward England’s kick-off last night as he feared Mexico were trying to gain an advantage.

The PM told the FA they were not to accept moving the match.

https://t.co/kaBAJZpUAt

[Will Cain @willcain]

Such a spectacle to see all these euro soccer journalists and federations climb atop a moral high horse to say the integrity of the game demands that an incorrect call, enforced by an incorrect application of VAR, deprive the U.S. of a full squad.

[USMNT Otaku 🇺🇸 @USMNTOtaku]

All this outage about Folarin Balogun’s red card being lifted. Didn’t see any outrage when this also happened to Cristiano Ronaldo.

[Chris Bingham @chris_bingham]

@jeffborzello Seth Trimble?

[Isaac Schade @isaacschade]

Coming into today, No. 1 seeds were 134-0 all-time in the NCAA Tournament when leading by 15 or more at the half, per CBS.

They are now 134-1.

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

A Carolina legend 🫡

Thank you, Seth Trimble 👏 #MarchMadness

[Chris Bingham @chris_bingham]

@michaelkohwchl Leg kick

[Chris Bingham @chris_bingham]

@isaacschade Jeremy Fears is the only problem…

[Daily Ref @refereeinsider]

The NFL does NOT want the Panthers in the postseason🔒

Brad Allen has been chosen as the head official for this Panthers vs Buccaneers Saturday matchup, and he has a huge bias for favorites...

Under Allen last 3 years:

🔴 Favorites are 31-14 (69%)
🔴 Divisional favorites are 18-5 (78%)
🔴 Home divisional favorites are 10-1 (91%)

Sorry Panthers fans...

[Chris Bingham @chris_bingham]

@espn Maxey

[UNC Barstool @UNCBarstool]

Are u kidding me refs

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

HOLY SHIT. Okay. This is the Brian Stelter @BrianStelter we always need.

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

One thing we need to clarify better is when a ref does and doesn’t go to the monitor.

Craig Pawson had a great view of the Badiashile foul and was asked to look again.

Michael Olivier didn’t see any contact from Grealish at Wembley and yet wasn’t even sent there to check.

[UNC Sports Talk @UNCSportsTalk]

The Duke model is interesting.

They still want the 5 star recruits. But the best recruits leave for the NBA, others are pushed out by next year’s class, & the best transfers won’t come because of the recruiting class coming in.

Hard to break that cycle.

[Al Hood @albhood]

My post on the hypocrisy at Duke-advocating for player safety two weeks ago while there’s silence at death threats and debris are thrown at another team

https://t.co/FBIqpGlyGy

[R.L. Bynum @RL_Bynum]

If Duke wanted to investigate, it's one of these guys dressed up as "revolutionaries."

[Ross Martin @RossMartinNC]

Disgusting and classless acts by Duke students. Utterly embarrassing and downright dangerous.

Athletic Director Nina King, Duke President Vincent Price, head coach Jon Scheyer must issue an apology to the University of North Carolina.

[Adam Lucas @jadamlucas]

Sadly, most of this stuff is things fans yell at lots of games (although we are repeatedly told last night's crowd is unique).

But "I'm going to kill you" is too far even by those standards. Gives a little context to the postgame scene, yes?

https://t.co/AbcFHOKog4

[Grant Hughes @GrantHughesNC]

Absolutely wild video of taunts thrown at #UNC's RJ Davis before last night's game. Pretty disgusting stuff made corny, because Duke...

“Caleb’s d*ck was bigger.”
“I f*ckin hate you... I will kill you.”
“My girlfriend would never get with you.”

https://t.co/bPrN413C00