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Infantino plans to court crucial support from Caribbean islands in visit to Dominican Republic this weekend - aiming to fracture Uefa/Concacaf coalition. Story with Matt Hughes: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Gianni Infantino eyes junior tournament in Dominican Republic as potential route out of crisis
Fifa’s president Gianni Infantino may target meetings around the tournament as a chance to lobby for votes
theguardian.com
Russ at his peak was must-watch League Pass. What he could do on a basketball court was almost otherworldly, few humans could move, explode and play with that kind of force. He was a walking highlight reel. One of the reasons my then-girlfriend, now wife, fell in love with basketball.
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last wk.Looks like Russ Westbrook just retired via video www.instagram.com/p/Db8yUjRB5X...
Bluff? Ultimatum? It is tempting to translate this statement as "Gianni, resign - or else". In this context, AFC aligning themselves with UEFA and Concacaf in this manner could be a game-changer. The only question is whether the three confederations are as united as they claim to be or not.
Open letter to the football family
Joint letter of AFC, CONCACAF and UEFA
uefa.com
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!
European countries prepare to formally withdraw support for Infantino’s re-election with announcements likely soon. Pressure tightening. Story: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Pressure on Gianni Infantino increases as Uefa members prepare to oppose re-election
European nations are to withdraw letters of support for Gianni Infantino, with an appetite to ensure the Fifa president is quickly removed from his post
theguardian.com
Fromager d'Affinois with Garlic and Hetbs Soft French 🐄 🧀 with added garlic, parsley, chives, and chervil. Double cream in Brie style. Runny at room temperature. Garlic noted in aroma and flavor, but subdued; herbs unidentifiable but in aroma and gives a second texture. Lingering aftertaste.
Fromager d'Affinois Florette by Guilloteau Soft French 🐐🧀 with white mold rind in Brie style. Very young, though at sell-by date. Typical Brie aroma and flavor, no hint of goat. Rind was a bit thick and chewy. A very nice basic Brie with a pleasant finish.
Rich people need to hear that what they're saying is fucking stupid.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · last yr.Every time I think about Swizz Beatz
Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · 4w agoA lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
At 41-years-old, LeBron James will be the oldest player to play for Philly in Sixers franchise history, passing 40-year-old Rick Mahorn (1999).
Hey Americans, don't bother writing that e-mail midway through your cancer surgery, we won't reply.
The Odyssey is such a hit that apparently the author has already churned out a prequel called “The Iliad”? Typical Hollywood.
A really thoughtful read on why so much of the discourse around the WNBA misses the point. The league's biggest challenge isn't just managing growth, it's taking control of its own narrative before it's defined by the right-wing culture war.
Seerat Sohi@seeratsohi.bsky.social · last mo.I wrote about the WNBA culture wars and everything that will be misunderstood about this league until it learns to take control of its narrative: www.theringer.com/2026/07/10/w...
Indigenous people make up 5% of the population but 75% of the people living on the street in Winnipeg. Poverty is the byproduct of colonial systems of oppression and genocide but is treated like a personal failure when many are born into it
Deleted my previous post. It was unnecessarily mean, and I'd rather criticize the take than the person.
Canadian consumers didn't start this trade dispute. Provincial governments chose to remove American alcohol from their shelves in response to U.S. tariffs. If California wineries are hurting, the solution is to change the policies that triggered the backlash.
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · last mo.Canada's boycott of California wine is causing devastating harm to winegrowers. I'm urging the Canadian government to recognize that California doesn’t agree with these tariff wars, to lift these restrictions, and increase consumer options to strengthen both our economies.
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
Absolutely maddening, bizarre asymmetry where somehow Trump's repeated, real, said-in-public-on-camera threats to commit the supreme international crime against friendly nations is waved away by Americans while Ontario taking US liquor off the shelves is A STEP TOO FAR, SIR
That’s why I’m so glad that Belgium didn’t just beat them but embarrassed them. They think they’re above the rules and regulations that everyone else has to follow. It wasn’t even a great transgression but a simple red card. But they’re so arrogant that open corruption to change it is cheered on.
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2mo agoSpectacular self-delusion. “But no matter how the Balogun story ends, it wasn’t at its core about politics or favoritism...It was about righting a wrong and minimizing the damage done to a team’s chances of winning the World Cup. What nation in the same situation wouldn’t have done the same thing?”
It’s the same attitude that exists for them in global affairs as it does now in soccer, that the US should never be subject to the same rules as everyone else. He says that it’s hard to believe other countries wouldn’t have done the same. But no one else has. This is their legacy and they’re proud.
Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 2mo agoImagine writing about sport without having any sense of what makes sport precious. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
The level of shithousery Paraguay unleashed on this World Cup was absolutely legendary. They chose chaos every single match.
Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · 2mo agoElite penalty kick shithousery from Paraguay.
Saying there is a reason for apartheid reveals something about a person because there was always a stated reason for slavery, Jim Crow, and colonization. Believing there is a 'because' for apartheid implies that under certain conditions, apartheid is appropriate- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Doug Aoki@nantanreikan.bsky.social · 2mo ago
