He was burning alive, yet he kept re-entering the burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle until all six soldiers and the Iraqi interpreter were safe. Burns covered 72% of his body. His first words were, ‘How are my boys?’ He died three weeks later. It took 16 years for him to receive the Medal of Honor. HIS NAME IS SERGEANT FIRST CLASS ALWYN C. CASHE, NEVER FORGET!!!
This post fight speech is what made me a die hard Paddy Pimblett fan
"I know i would rather me mate crying on me shoulder, than go to his funeral next week"
Ok. I can’t believe this just happened. My kid is sitting in a beach chair with his hand casually in the sand, & suddenly goes “oh my god look.” He pulls up a girls wedding band. It says “April 16, 2016 I love you.” This was gone FOREVER until now. Seagrove, Fla…Find this lady!
This map shows the 338,000+ unique IP addresses downloading and sharing child sexual abuse material within the last six months in the United States.
The blue ones that you probably didn't even notice... are the ones being actively investigated.
The Renewed Hope Act just became law, which will hire 200+ additional analysts to identify these boys and girls.
Good is fighting back.
But this isn't finished.
There's still a lot more work to do — and we won't stop until every boy and girl is identified and protected.
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.
@TheREALMetricK@Piano_Trumpet@TKRC88@McConaughey@FIFAWorldCup So the independent committee of a non American organization, with no Americans on it, being corrupt is somehow the Americans fault? Jesus you Canadians have such an inferiority complex since we kicked your ass in “your sport”.
@JohnnyScabss@ChowDownDetroit Maraschinos didn’t go under, they sold the business because a couple of the owners didn’t want to deal with owning a bar anymore, they profited from the sale as well… but surely it’s much easier to pretend you know what you’re talking about when you don’t. Moron.