Ben Rossetter
@benrossetter.bsky.social
Educator, mandolin player, enjoyer of soccer. Hearts of Pine and RCTID Portland, ME
US president Donald Trump has done the whole of American soccer a disservice by involving himself in the Balogun red card saga. It's an unsusprising overreach that confirms the negative perceptions many already have about the USA. Me, on @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Unwelcome and undue: Trump’s red-card intervention hurts the US’s World Cup more than it helps | Pablo Iglesias Maurer
In pushing Fifa to reverse Folarin Balogun’s suspension, the president did the most American thing possible: assert unasked-for power to get his way
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Genuinely embarrassing from Paraguay. Only outdone by the ref, who was utterly shambolic.
I’ll take 1-0 after what I’ll describe as “hmmm” refereeing #USMNT
As we head towards our first penalty shootout of the World Cup, I am once again here to remind you that the 35-yard, run-up shootout is statistically much more balanced & is unquestionably more entertaining. It should be used to settle matches, full stop. www.nytimes.com/athletic/180...
(Published 2020)
nytimes.com
Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo
All it took was literally the second hydration break for FOX to run too many commercials and miss some live action. Absolutely ridiculous conceit.
There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
I don’t want to make an account just to buy something. I don’t want to download an app either. I just want to pay for the thing and leave. I don’t want to join the rewards program. I don’t want to get the inevitable email that my information has been compromised.
Exclusive: FIFA make last-gasp change to World Cup stadium rules: BANNING fans from bringing refillable plastic bottles, so fans must buy water in stadia As of May, empty bottles permitted so fans could refill amid heat concerns. Not now www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
FIFA will no longer allow fans to bring water bottles into World Cup stadiums (Gift Article)
The code of conduct has been altered so fans will no longer be able to take in, or refill, water bottles.
nytimes.com
They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.
Special report: the great World Cup rip-off - Fifa's central role beyond tickets - Fifa REJECTED similar plans in 1994 - all decisions from president's office - Fifa, the "safeguards", usher in a model club owners crave - Fifa going against own statutes www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
How the 2026 World Cup became the great rip-off
While the Fifa president Gianni Infantino boasts about how the US commercialisation of sport is ‘reaching different levels’, fans are left to pay the exorbitant cost of this World Cup. ‘It’s a lesson ...
independent.co.uk
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
Out of the tens of thousands of Olympians since the turn of the century, there have been two (2) who are transgender women - one finished dead last, the other at the bottom of the field. This is not about fairness, or "protecting women" - it is about witch-hunting trans women out of existence.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoBREAKING: Trans women athletes are banned from the Olympics by a new IOC policy on female eligibility.
Trump wins the FIFA gold medal for downhill skiing
Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice: State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
Don Lemon@donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 7mo agoDon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
