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Final: #Crew96 3, #AtlasFC 1.

#AtlasFCnow dominating, but Crew managing to keep their underwear clean despite balls crossing into their box like a CNN Scud tracker and numerous corners. #Crew96

#AtlasFC now playing with spirit, and something of a clue. They've got a lot of the ball and when they don't, their press is hemming in the #Crew96.

#AtlasFC scores. It was an own goal off Zawadzki, who was sliding in desperation to prevent a deep cross/thwart a goal by No. 16, the guy with the dark hair. It's #Crew96 3, Atlas 1 in the 69th minute. Remember, goal diff is one of the tiebreakers comeing out of "Phase One." Or, forget it.

Mike Cornell @mcornell.dev · 20h ago

59' Taha out, Farsi in Ruvalcaba out, Giaccone in #Crew96

More people should be saying this. Look at where Taha should be at in 2 years for Copa America and tell me he shouldn’t be in the mix. Granted he should be gone from #Crew96 after the sprint season….but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be getting looks now.

John Parker@johnkickback.bsky.social · 20h ago

Taha Habroune needs to be on Poch's roster for the September/October qualifiers.

Mendez just took a bullet of a free kick off his forehead and bounced right back up. He's got a head as hard as Rudy ... nah, that wouldn't be nice to say. #Crew96

Bailly introduced to the crowd and shown on the big RCA Victrola screens. #Crew96

Wow. Taha Habroune and Brais Mendez on the fast break. Taha with a light touch to Mendez as he's coming into the top of the box. Mendez with an even lighter touch to beat the goalie inside the right post with a shot that traveled as fast as Rudy Camacho. #Crew96 3, #AtlasFC 0.

Start of second half for #Crew96: Adams out, Moreira in. Lennon out, Mendez in.

I know Apple isn’t showing you the huge, boisterous, bellowing, jet-fueled, standing-room-only crowd going crazy for a Tuesday night Leagues Cup game. So, here’s a photo. #Crew96

Crowd at Crew stadium Tuesday night. Not big.

Corner kick: Zawadzki gets behind his check and scores cleanly on a Superman header, assist Taha with the inswinger from the left corner. Last action of 1st half. #Crew 2, #AtlasFC 0 Here’s the goalie afterwards. Lot of anger in that kick.

From #Crew96: Eric Bailly visa paperwork is complete and traveled today. He arrived in Columbus tonight and will attend the second half of the match

Michael Arace @michaelarace1.bsky.social · 21h ago

After a corner, a reset: Chambost lovely service into the middle of the box and a clean header by Cesar Ruvalcaba gives #Crew96 a 1-0 lead over #AtlasFC in the 28th minute. He had a goal in MLS play last season. This vs. Atlas is his first of 2026. Excellent goal celebration. Very excited.

Chase Adams began the game with a tucked-in shirt. That’s adorable. #Crew96

Michael Arace @michaelarace1.bsky.social · 21h ago

#Crew96 lineup vs. #Atlas

Michael Arace @michaelarace1.bsky.social · 24h ago

Long-rumored loan agreement to send F Gonzalo Tapia from São Paulo to the Columbus Crew is finally done, per source. Tapia will fill an international slot but he will not be a DP. #Crew96 GM Issa Tall has a temporary DP slot to replace Wessam Abou Ali (knee) and is looking to fill it in this window.

Michael Arace @michaelarace1.bsky.social · yesterday

It's official from #Crew96:

Max Arfsten press release: Crew flanker sold to Middlesbrough of the English Championship.

If you're interested in warming up for the #Crew96 v. #AtlasFC game or you'd like to slow your metabolism, here's the #VamosColumbus coach today. Remember to subscribe, like, share, rate and review! youtu.be/EsCfOQnOTW4

Columbus Crew coach Laurent Courtois, post-MIA and pre-Atlas

YouTube video by The Disrespected

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 2d ago

To Portland and fans of the #trailblazers who are being held hostage by a craven, mythomaniac owner: Let your mantra be "show me your tax return." @morganhughes.bsky.social can help with the rest of the toolbox, but start with this classic, which never gets old: www.propublica.org/article/the-...

The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes

Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower t...

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Letting SvoNotes go is nasty from the CBJ! What’s even the point at this point?

Michael Arace@michaelarace1.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Enshittification," the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year in 2023, was included in the Oxford English Dictionary last year. The #CBJ, noted etymologists, have embraced the word with gusto by 1) letting go of radio voice @bobbymacsports.bsky.social and 2) now this: x.com/JacketsInsid...

Official from #Crew96: COLUMBUS – Columbus Crew have loaned forward Nariman Akhundzada to Turkish Süper Lig side Erzurumspor Futbol Kulübü through the 2027 MLS Sprint Season. Erzurumspor has the option to acquire Akhundzada permanently at the end of the loan.