The @USMNT has now clinched its group.
You truly couldn’t have scripted a better first 9 days of the tournament (aside from Pulisic being banged up).
You now can sit everyone who is on a Yellow, give Pulisic more time to heal & get ready for the KO Rounds.
Just ideal.
How many guys going to the NBA take time out of a busy schedule to come back to their high schools youth camp? @KeatonW34 is special! Took a picture with every camper, signed every shirt, & made a bunch of kids day! Shawnee, KS hero! Your hometown will always be behind you💯 🧡🖤
"Just different ways to use my body, use my length, offensively and defensively. ... From the smallest stages to the biggest stages, I can compete with anyone."
Keaton Wagler joins SportsCenter and talks about what he learned in college and will carry to the NBA 🏀
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
83 - Chris Richards completed all 83 passes he attempted for the #USMNT against Paraguay, the most passes with a 100 percent accuracy rate by any player in a FIFA World Cup match since 1966.
Perfection.
Abdul Carter on Jaxson Dart:
"If he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it's my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on to not only show my teammates that I'm against that, but to show the world."