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[Sam Block @theblockspot]

Half the world is sleeping.

The other half is watching the greatest Tennis match of all-time.

Ben Shelton & Carlos Alcaraz.
Incredible.

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

Just two friends sharing a moment 🤝 congratulations on your first pole @PierreGASLY!

[Jonathan 🐬 @JCizzurp]

LeBron you idiot

[AeroNiners 🇺🇸 @BowTiedNiners]

Leonardo da Vinci with the Mona Lisa

[Rhèêēêé @Rhee_for_3]

@OhhDeoxys Not a real car fan 🫪

[Blake Harris @BlakeHHarris]

Dodgers to the rest of baseball

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

That was not the definition of a red card.

[Terrance 🦅 @spiketeejoint]

LeBron fans just sitting around waiting to see who their new team is gonna be 😂

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: FAA moves to legalize civilian supersonic flights over U.S. land for the first time in 53 years.

[American Footballin' @AmFootballin]

"England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts"

Hearing that live was surreal.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“Because you never know when the last one is”

- Kyle Busch, this past Saturday.

So sad. RIP Kyle Busch

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: NASCAR icon Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion, has died at the age of 41, the racing series announced Thursday.

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport's greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old.

We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.

[Dont say my name @stillnez216]

One day some young kid is gonna go down a LeBron highlight rabbit hole and they’re going to wonder wtf was wrong with this generation of hoop fans and media.

[Los Angeles Chargers @chargers]

how did we make our halo schedule release video?

[GoldenKnight @GoldenKnightGFX]

Me: Lakers are eliminated. Time to put my full focus into the Dodgers.

The Dodgers: