Tyler G. Page

Former RSL blogger, current Jazz fan and public relations professor. Building a healthier society. Opinions are my own.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

If your politics lead you to mock someone with special needs, get new politics and rethink your life.

[Rep. Brian Lorenz @lorenzforohio]

Had an amazing day with my son. He’s everything that’s good in this world. The cheap shots online just reveal more about those making them than about him, and I don’t mind them one bit.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

Spotrac has it as 2 year league minimum deal. Jazz now with 15 on roster plus listed with 3 two-way. In other words, roster is full.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

I’m betting year 2 is a team option. This seems to be Austin Ainge’s MO for filling out the roster, and it makes a ton of sense.

If the player is good, you get them on a cheap deal for year 2. If not, you can let them go. You also get easy salary to send in trades.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The Jazz struck a deal with Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports and Greer Love on Wednesday to bring back the 7-footer who spent part of last season in Utah.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

If you told me the actual USMNT WC result...
- At end of 2022 - disappointment.
- 6 weeks ago - unbelievable success.

US Soccer failed the last four years, and the team still won hearts and minds. Yes, it was a missed opportunity, but it avoided the catastrophe many feared.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

It was a good run. The bottom line is USA is a top 16 soccer country but not a top 8 one.

We will keep finding ourselves here until we can fix that. More players, more depth, tougher competition, and less drama.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

It was a good run. The bottom line is USA is a top 16 soccer country but not a top 8 one.

We will keep finding ourselves here until we can fix that. More players, more depth, tougher competition, and less drama.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

Why not U.S.?

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

Let’s go USA!

[John Asghar MD @JahangirAsgha10]

The best article on the events and how US Soccer applied pressure appropriately by arguing FIFA’s own VAR protocol was misapplied. It argued slow-motion is only supposed to check the exact point of contact, not decide intent or how “serious” it looked in replay.

They filed a formal legal appeal and made it clear they were ready to take the whole thing to CAS (the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland).

FIFA feared going to CAS because of the validity of the claim and that they can lose control of appeals when under CAS.

https://t.co/LGMmiDWMYz

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

Let’s be honest. FIFA was never going to do the right thing on its own to reform. The US situation has now given them an excuse. They should take it.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

FIFA should use this correction of an obvious injustice to set a new precedent of actually reviewing red cards after matches.

I’m laughing at the Pandora’s box complaints. If FIFA joins every other sports body in the 21st century, where will it end?

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Zlatan speaks on Flo Balogun's suspension being lifted

@Ibra_official

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

If the US beats Belgium I will not even remotely care in the slightest that Balogun was able to play after getting a ridiculous red card that should never have been given

[Sean Navarro @seanavarro]

I think the precedent is that officials need to follow FIFA regulations or else their illegal decisions will be rightfully overturned. The ref and VAR official didn't follow the rules with the red card decision.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

@dilanesper Ahem. FIFA is openly corrupt, which is the biggest reason the card was suspect to begin with.

This is using one bad process to undo another one.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

@Nicocantor1 @ZachIsHere Removing penalties after the fact has improved NBA officiating, not made it worse.

The goal is to get it right for the fans and players, not make a referee feel better.

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

Wow! FIFA is reaching the correct decision on something? Pinch me, I think I’m dreaming.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

BREAKING @TheAthleticFC

Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Extraordinary development.

Story with @Dan_Sheldon_

https://t.co/oQ61J9btzT

[Stu Holden @stuholden]

Sitting back and reveling in the European meltdown over standard CONCACAF conditions. Muahaha

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

“It’s a masterpiece I say. They will cheer every word, every letter.”
-1776 the musical, sung by John Adams

250 years of one of the greatest documents in human history. Happy Birthday America! 🇺🇸

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

I would add that our robust First Amendment protects freedom to think, believe, and express oneself with far more protection than even our allies offer their minority voices.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I’ve always found people who bristle at “American exceptionalism” kind of… weird. Not because I lack self-awareness — I’ve spent my career cataloging every way this country fails to live up to its own rules. But that’s exactly why I love it so damn much. We built a system designed to be shamed by its own founding documents, and it still delivered one of the most spectacular, world-altering runs in human history. A genuine force for human flourishing.

I also found the argument against American exceptionalism to be historically illiterate. Here’s a sample of what we were first at:

• The first large-scale democratic republic in human history — not a city-state, not a monarchy with a parliament bolted on, but a bold continental experiment in self-rule, popular sovereignty, and ordered liberty.

• A written Constitution (1789) with separation of powers and checks & balances — still the oldest national constitution in force anywhere.

• The Bill of Rights (1791): the first time a nation wrote “the government cannot touch these” into supreme law and actually meant it. A dare the world copied — from later rights charters to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Public land-grant universities and mass higher education (Morrill Act), opening college to ordinary people no aristocracy would have let near the gates. (but don’t get me started about what happened after we started. Massively federally funding it.)

• Kitty Hawk, 1903 — first controlled powered flight.

• The Moon, 1969 — still the only ones who’ve been there.

• The world’s largest economy since ~1890, powering unprecedented prosperity through grit and genius.

• The assembly line, skyscraper, transistor, personal computer, ARPANET — the backbone of the modern world.

• Telephone, phonograph, GPS — connecting and powering daily life.

• Surgical anesthesia, polio vaccine — saving and transforming millions of lives.

• Jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll — brand new American art forms that conquered the globe.

• Hollywood’s dreams, blue jeans, bourbon, and a culture so open a kid like me could devour sushi, burritos, stuffed cabbage, and tabouli in the same week and rightfully think of it all as American.

That’s the part that fills me with genuine love and pride: not just the power or the wins, but the appetite for freedom, creativity, and reinvention. The audacity to say “We the People” and keep trying to live up to it.

What do you love most about this truly exceptional country? 🇺🇸

[Tyler G. Page @tpageMLS]

Key continues to establish himself as a leader of this team.

[Sarah Todd @NBASarah]

Likely the first time this has happened with an active player. Had to be cleared with the league office. George can't be compensated, this has to be a volunteer thing and just for a single game. But it's real and it is happening.

[Sanjay Sujanthakumar @tha_Real_Kumar]

#USMNT striker Folarin Balogun on his immediate reaction to red card:

“I think it was just important to stay calm. I never want to react out of anger and out of emotion. There’s still lots of people we’re inspiring, little kids, boys and girls who are watching, and we have to show them the correct way to handle things, even when you think it's unjust.”

On shaking ref’s hand postgame:

“As said, you can feel like something, injustice can happen to you. It’s not an excuse to be disrespectful… I'm aware that the World Cup might be the first time a lot of American viewers are tuning in. So it's important just to show people, whether things happen to you, good or bad, just to continue to be yourself.”