if you watched the NFL and thought something didn't feel right, you're not alone:
#1 most flags in over a decade
thru 4 weeks, refs are impacting the most CRITICAL moments of games most:
#1 most red zone penalties per game by offenses in history
#1 most penalties on 3rd/4th downs in the second half of games in history
and 17 touchdowns nullified by penalty! (vs only 5 in 2025 & 4 in 2024)
Refs are impacting the most important moments of games unlike we've ever seen before in the NFL, and even some of the coaches are speaking up
full analysis and historical data:
https://t.co/Q2JhqaNtwi
Carson Benge just became the 18th rookie in Major League history -- and the first Met -- to post a 20-20 season.
It's an impressive list, including names like names like Bobby Witt Jr., Mike Trout and Carlos Beltrán.
Toronto’s Dave Stieb had a no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th inning THREE TIMES!
Sept. 24, 1988 – Julio Franco’s grounder took a bad hop over the second baseman’s head for a single. Stieb finished with a one-hitter.
Sept. 30, 1988 – In his VERY NEXT START, Jim Traber blooped single into right field for a single. Stieb finished with a one-hitter.
Aug. 4, 1989 – One out away from a PERFECT GAME, Roberto Kelly doubled. Stieb finished with a two-hitter.
OTD in 1990 – Dave Stieb FINALLY got his no-hitter!
It remains the only no-hitter in Blue Jays franchise history 👏
(MLB x @NewYorkLife)
BBC Radio airs the show Playground Insults and it is hilarious.
It’s basically the game Try Not To Laugh without the liquids.
Remember when celebrities were just people who entertained us before most of them decided to become liberal activists? I miss that.
Folarin Balogun on his controversial red card against Bosnia, questioning the referee and VAR:
🗣️ “I cannot accept that decision. I've watched the replay over and over, and I know in my heart there was never any intention to hurt anyone. It was a football action, nothing more. To send me off for that is one of the harshest decisions I've experienced in my career.”
“What's frustrating isn't just the red card it's the inconsistency. Week after week, challenge after challenge, we've all seen similar incidents judged differently. Sometimes VAR says it's football, sometimes it becomes a straight red. How are players supposed to understand the rules when the standard changes every game?”
“The referee had one look. VAR had every angle, slow motion, every replay imaginable, and they still chose the harshest possible outcome. That's the part I cannot understand. Technology was introduced to remove obvious mistakes, not to create even bigger controversies.”
“This decision didn't just punish me. It punished my teammates, my coaches, every supporter wearing a USA shirt and everyone who travelled to support us. One whistle changed an entire World Cup night, and that's something impossible to forget.”
“If football wants players and fans to respect VAR, then VAR has to start respecting football. Consistency isn't optional it's the foundation of fairness. Right now, too many careers, tournaments and dreams are being decided by officials instead of the football itself.”
“I'll accept responsibility when I'm wrong. But I will never stay silent when I believe the game has been let down. Players deserve clarity, supporters deserve honesty, and this tournament deserves officiating that applies the same standard to everyone not different standards depending on the badge you wear.”
Give Rudy his EFFING MONEY BACK.
You can’t be liable for defamation when you’re telling the truth.
Georgia’s election was rigged to the gills snd Rudy fought against the thug criminals who stole it.
the eth core devs don’t tweet a lot about just how hard the work that they do is so let’s talk about it:
1. every line of code they merge can move more money than most banks process in a quarter. there is no staging server for that.
2. they swap consensus logic for a 400B + dollar economy without scheduling downtime. ever.
3. they coordinate hundreds of researchers, auditors, and client teams across time zones, cultures, and philosophies, yet ship like a single mind.
4. they do it all in public, with every decision dissected by the loudest peanut gallery on the internet, and still keep the vibe collaborative.
5. they design for attackers who have nine figure incentives and infinite patience. then they sleep anyway.
6. they keep six independent clients in perfect sync so the same block lives at the same height for every node in the world.
7. they turn bleeding edge research into production code while preserving backwards compatibility for machines that went online before defi even had a name.
8. they debug issues that only happen once a year on a single archive node because someone somewhere will rely on that edge case.
9. they write cryptography that must stay unbroken for decades while the math itself evolves beneath their feet.
10.when the upgrade lands smooth the outside world shrugs. inside ethereum we know it was a minor miracle. every successful fork proves that decentralized coordination can outperform the world’s best hierarchies and shows that open internet capital markets are now the default.
thank you, truly.
we owe you everything.
Andrew Schulz: "It's just funny to me that there are people that were happy Charlie Kirk got shot because they disagreed on opinions and they're fighting for due process for people who are driving fentanyl into the f*cking country."
This is an awful look for Bill Belichick.
When you occupy the space Bill does, you should recognize what these games mean to opposing coaches.
Jake Dickert even removed his hat as he approached to shake hands.
Bill Maher lays out exactly what happens when people trade capitalism for socialism.
He says New York City is in for a rude awakening after voting in Zohran Mamdani:
“In 1990, Venezuela was wealthier than Poland. But then Poland, finally free of Soviet-style economics, went all in on capitalism. Now their economy is as big as Japan.”
“Meanwhile, Venezuela traded capitalism for Hugo Chavez's socialism for the 21st century, which turned out to be like socialism capitalism in the last century, or any century, a f*cking mess.”
“It turned one of Latin America's richest countries into one of its poorest. Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, eight million people fleeing.”
If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you're in for a rude awakening. Zohran can't make your wishes come true.“
The NFL’s first-ever regular-season game in Madrid will be played tomorrow at the newly renovated Santiago Bernabeu.
The field is stored in an underground greenhouse with automated mowers, irrigation, and LED lighting.
It's easily the NFL’s best international venue ever.