I’m really concerned about all of my former friends’ opinions on how the world works even though they’ve never sacrificed anything in their entire lives. Thank god for their opinions. Idk how we’d operate as a country without their expertise.
Socialist Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, just gave a speech on what he thinks it means to be an American on America’s 250th Birthday.
He attacked our nation as “an arena of supremacy” that “persecutes” and claimed ICE is “invading our streets”.
🚨🗣️ José Mourinho on the VAR double standard between Lionel Messi and Folarin Balogun:
"When I speak about the system, people call me crazy. They say Mourinho is always complaining. But today, the whole world saw the script with their own eyes.
Folarin Balogun makes an accidental step, a completely natural movement of a striker fighting for the ball, and VAR calls the referee like a crime has been committed. A straight red card. He misses the biggest game of his life.
But when the poster boy of FIFA, Lionel Messi, puts his studs into the calf of an opponent, the VAR room suddenly loses their internet connection. The referee goes blind. It is a completely different rulebook. If Balogun's name was Folarin Messi, he would not have even received a warning. It is not about the severity of the foul anymore; it is entirely about the name printed on the back of the shirt. It is a disgrace."
This is your reminder that if it was up to Donald Trump and his proposed executive order to end birthright citizenship, Folarin Balogun would be playing for England or Nigeria, not the United States.
Former referee Andy Davies believes VAR made the wrong decision on USMNT’s Folarin Balogun’s red card vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina.
There is no mechanism to appeal a World Cup red card, and Balogun will now miss the team’s Round of 16 match vs. Belgium.
Took less than four hours for someone to make this a race issue. Before free agency has even had a chance to play out. The horse is dead, it’s been dead…can you please stop beating it. This narrative is beyond stupid.
@Underwood_szn@JoemarNapoleon2 You don’t “know” Messi is the goat because the goat conversation is an opinion conversation, not a factual one. I agree Messi is the goat, and I disagree LeBron is. See how this works?
$45 million here. $47 million there. $51 million over here. $130 million over there.
I love seeing NBA players, my de facto frat brothers, get paid like this. It's a beautiful thing.
I know some of the older cats feel a way about it, wishing they'd made that kind of money in their day. I get the feeling (and I did more than OK). But we've gotta let go of the comparison game. Times have changed. What a player is worth has changed. Shoot, what a dollar is even worth has changed since I was playing. Comparing eras just steals your own joy.
What the guys and the league have built together is something to be proud of, not bitter about.
Now, all that money is exactly why I keep banging the drum about vets. You hand a young guy generational money before he knows who he is, you better have somebody in that locker room who's been there. The stakes are higher than they've ever been.
Congrats, fellas. Go eat. And hey, invest some and save some too.
BREAKING: The Los Angeles Lakers are acquiring Walker Kessler from the Utah Jazz for unprotected first-round picks in 2031 and 2033 and first-round swaps in 2028 and 2030, sources tell ESPN. Kessler will sign a massive four-year, $130 million deal with the Lakers.
ESPN has spent the majority of four straight hours this morning talking about LeBron James being a free agent at 42 years old.
This network is so boring and tiresome.
“The league believes Sandro Mamukelashvilli is headed to the Lakers. That’s what people in the league believe. And he would basically replace Rui Hachimura.”
- Brian Windhorst
(h/t @TheLakersReview )