🚨 Breel Embolo should never have been sent off against Argentina. 🟥❌🇨🇭
IFAB has acknowledged that the VAR was used incorrectly during the incident.
The governing body clarified that video review can only be used to correct the identity of a cautioned player — not to overturn or upgrade a disciplinary sanction.
The ruling specifically applies to incidents involving simulation.
As a result, Embolo should never have been shown a red card in that World Cup quarter-final.
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Assuming I ran the Baseball Savant query correctly, this would be quite wild...
Brandon Sproat in the first inning tonight became the first pitcher to ever get Luis Arraez to swing and miss on three straight pitches in an at-bat. Arraez has nearly 4,000 big league PA.
The Red Sox have optioned Tsung-Che Cheng to make room for Curtis Mead, per @ChrisCotillo.
Can’t say enough good things about Cheng. Such a steady presence at shortstop when the Red Sox needed it 👏
CJ Abrams is the hottest hitter on the planet. Post-All-Star break, Abrams leads MLB in OPS (1.632), HR (7) and RBIs (15). He has more homers by himself in the second half than the Blue Jays, Orioles, Mariners, Twins, White Sox, Cardinals and Angels.
I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.
You can't even set most gym treadmills to the speed this guy just broke the MILE world record at. They max out around 12 to 14 mph. Josh Kerr held 16.2 mph for the entire mile today: 3:42.66, breaking a record that had survived 27 years.
The pace on this new mile record is just wild.
It works out to 13.8 seconds per 100 meters. Go sprint 100m all-out right now. If you're slower than 13.8, Kerr was moving faster than your sprint, and he did it 16 times in a row without stopping.
In 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first four-minute mile, a barrier people once argued was the limit of human physiology. Put Bannister's race on the track next to Kerr's today, and Kerr finishes while Bannister is still 110 meters back, coming off the final bend.
The man who lost the record, Hicham El Guerrouj, set it in 1999 with no pace lights and no super spikes. Beating him took 27 years of shoe technology plus a four-month engineering project Kerr named after the goal time itself. The margin: 0.47 seconds.
And El Guerrouj isn't finished. His 1500m record, set the year before on the same track, turned 28 this week. Only three men since have even broken 3:27. One record fell today. The harder one is still standing.
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Pablo Sanchez received 93% of the Channel vote and will officially become the fourth honorary inductee in Hall of Pretty Good history.
Sanchez joins Ondrej Satoria, Dan Gutman, and the 1994 Montreal Expos as the only honorary inductees in HoPG history. His induction will become official tomorrow at 3 p.m.