James Pearce

Lover of beers, actually anything alcoholic, and longform journalism, particularly sports. Love cricket, NBA, Aussie Rules.

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

A lot of speculation on whether Michigan suspected the Sherrone Moore-Paige Shiver affair.

Yes, of course it did.

In the fall of 2025, U of M conducted a full HR investigation into the situation, including interviewing both participants, who denied it. There wasn’t enough evidence to prove an inappropriate relationship.

In November, the school commissioned a second investigation using an outside firm (the relationship broke up soon after, Shiver then told what happened and Moore was fired that day).

All of this was reported by ESPN and others last December.

Michigan has certainly not cloaked itself in glory with its many scandals, but not sure what more it could have reasonably done on this particular issue.

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

Aided in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of American citizens. Slaveowner.

[Garfield Robinson @garfieldrob01]

Batting Was Everything: A look at @windiescricket batter Shivnarine Chanderpaul https://t.co/7Vd8p3kg89
#cricket

[Tristan Lavalette @trislavalette]

Some tidbits in the aftermath of the 2027 World Cup change of format.

It was in the making for some time, but was shoehorned into the ICC board meeting in Edinburgh.

Namibia likely to host the 'Super Series' + global qualifier

https://t.co/B3qv0epaXk

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sam Neill (2025): “It’s not a happy place, America, and I wasn’t happy there. I’m interested in the condition of America now. It beggars belief what’s happening there now. When you hear a slogan like Make America Great Again, it makes a sort of weird sense because America could be great again, but at community level. Not with sort of strange billionaires making weird decisions”

[Don Van Natta Jr. @DVNJr]

Love this from Mick.

My wife and I saw the Stones play the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, a theater with only 7,000 seats, in November 2021.

Mick avoided politics to a crowd half-full of MAGA fans but he did list all the activities happening in south Florida that weekend. With a little bounce to his voice, Mick ended his list by name-checking “That Bill O’Reilly Fanfest Spectacular.”

My wife and I laughed out loud but many others— too many others— did not. 😂

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

An ICE agent shot and killed a 26-year-old man in Maine today.

This comes just days after ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas.

Trump’s domestic army must be stopped.

[Tristan Lavalette @trislavalette]

There are discussions to cut back the 2027 ODI World Cup to 12 teams.

The ICC announced in 2021 that the 2027 event would have 14 teams.

There were discussions at the time of a 16-team World Cup after the 2019 and 2023 editions only had 10.

https://t.co/j78Ea85Ek5

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

A parade of Senate Dems have posted genuinely gracious messages about the death of @LindseyGrahamSC, whose overheated public comments to please @POTUS belied the deep relationships he had built among senators of both parties over three decades.
They knew him as a friend and colleague and not a caricature.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

It’s not complicated. Trump doesn’t believe in democracy.

He hates democratic Europe and loves the oligarchic dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar.

He wants to stifle dissent in the media and arrest his opponents.

ALL Americans must unify against authoritarianism.

[Garfield Robinson @garfieldrob01]

West Indies' Big Gamble: Vitel Lawes VS New Zealand https://t.co/addOR3IUqy

[Garfield Robinson @garfieldrob01]

Did The Series Win Over Sri Lanka Signal Improvement By West Indies? https://t.co/QfLrEIm5uD
#CricketUpdates #cricket

[Tristan Lavalette @trislavalette]

As is often the case, the ICC's AGM was an anti-climax.

There will be a meeting in September to sort out the FTP, while a decision on whether the WTC expands to 12 is set for November.

Plus an update on Afghan women's team & Imran Khwaja fallout

https://t.co/bmrQpjmSTq

[Garfield Robinson @garfieldrob01]

West Indies bowling attackk will miss Kemar Roach's skill and control when he leaves. He is one of the best against left-handers: https://t.co/catyCtMQBL
#WIvSL #cricket

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

5) Got to spend some time with Stephen Root, the actor who stole the movie "Office Space" with his "I believe that's my stapler" Milton character. I asked him where he got it. "There was a kid in my 6th grade class who talked like that," Root said. "I just did an impression!"

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

I'm just glad the Supreme Court (narrowly) said he could still play for this country.

[Tristan Lavalette @trislavalette]

The ICC board will need to find a new deputy chair after Imran Khwaja was ousted at the Associate Member Director election

Mahinda Vallipuram also lost his seat. Incumbent Mubashshir Usmani, Gurumurthy Palani (France) & Rudie van Vuuren (Namibia) won

https://t.co/vDSIdoCNfk

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

Pay to play. Travel over training. An incentive to coddle not coach.

Youth soccer is broken in America, the USMNT keeps proving it true.

Column for @espn

https://t.co/CMvJrLKnHY

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Belgian players mocked Trump with his own dumb dance and chanted, “Overturn this.”

They didn’t just celebrate a win. They turned Trump’s clown-show politics into the post-match story, overshadowing a U.S. men’s team that deserved better than being dragged into another ego stunt.

The humiliation says it all: when you drag politics, pressure, and ego into sport, don’t be shocked when the world laughs back.

And right now, the world is laughing at the USA again because of Trump.

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

Because if world leaders start throwing their weight around to turn over rulings, God help us. Trump doesn't know Thing One about soccer and now the sports world looks at us like big bullies -- just as the world itself looks at us. This will end up biting us in the ass.