Took a dinner recommendation from @sszy.bsky.social. Far from the first to say it’s great. Compliments to the chef, and the recommender.
Stefan Szymanski
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Harbors radical views...objectionable for several other reasons beyond the fact that they are fringe unreliable beliefs
UEFA says it will boycott the next World Cup if FIFA's new investment plan for the tournament goes through. Ashish and @sszy.bsky.social got into all the ins and outs of the deal in this morning's episode of the pod.
Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Grieg, Roald Amundsen, Thor Heyerdahl, Edvard Munch... your boys were unlucky and deserved a draw at least. #ENGNOR
is the transfer system a form of human trafficking? Of course it is podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Is soccer a form of human trafficking? (and more World Cup questions)
Podcast Episode · NO SUCH THING · July 1 · 45m
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After their surprise draws against Spain and Uruguay, Cape Verde have a real chance of qualifying for the knockout stages of The World Cup tonight. So how far can they go? Ashish Malhotra and @sszy.bsky.social discussed on in one of our episodes earlier this week
Can a successful Socceroos team - which showcases multiculturalism and has three players who were born in refugee camps - change attitudes on immigration in Australia? That's what we discussed in our first episode since the World Cup kicked off @sszy.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5rlq...
The Socceroos and USMNT: Can Diverse National Teams Drive Social Change?
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@sszy.bsky.social has simulated the entire World Cup 20,000 times through two different models. We've distilled it into an episode you can just about listen to before the tournament kicks off in 20 mins. And if not, you can always listen later:
To go with the soccernomics podcasts I've started a substack. Here's a link to my first post - with my World Cup forecasts stefanszymanski.substack.com/p/world-cup-...
World Cup Forecasts
Last week I officially retired from my job as a Professor at the University of Michigan, but since I intend to carry on my research, I thought I would start a substack to share opinions that I can no ...
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Here we go...it won't really be the World Cup if it's only for part of the world newrepublic.com/post/211508/...
Top African Referee Barred From Entering the U.S. for World Cup
Omar Artan was set to become the first Somalian to officiate a World Cup match. He was denied entry to the United States on Monday at Miami International Airport.
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The World Cup starts this week. But could it be the last time we ever say that? @sszy.bsky.social and Ashish Malhotra are in @economist.com's By Invitation section today, laying out how Trump and FIFA could break football as we know it over the next month www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
This may just be the last World Cup
America’s bellicosity combined with FIFA’s dysfunctionality spells trouble, reckon the Soccernomics podcasters
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Excited to announce The Soccernomics Podcast (@soccernomicspod), alongside @simonkuper.bsky.social and @amalhotra2. We'll be coming to you Tuesdays and Thursdays as we gear up towards, and through The World Cup. First episode out now. open.spotify.com/show/033eUgQ...
What is Soccernomics?
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Sixth edition published today! Thoroughly updated and a new chapter on MLS
Dedicated to any teacher who has ever been badgered by helicopter parents (St Paul’s in the 1890s from Leonard Woolf’s autobiography)
I am once again asking when we will get Union band of brothers
Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 4mo agoWishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.
Instructive text for our times from the Roman section of the metropolitan museum
Today I had a meeting about funding I received for a November 2025 (!) presentation. Part of the agreement requires me to present the talk at a university-wide event in March 2026. I was told today I could either censor/change my talk’s title and receive the funding, or withdraw. I withdrew.
J.C. Bradbury@jcbradbury.com · last yr.Our comprehensive survey of research on the economic impact of teams and stadiums in Journal of Economic Surveys. Long story short: teams and stadiums are not drivers of economic development. @dcoatesecon.bsky.social and @bradhumphreys.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rubio erased Jews from European culture and history, and nobody noticed. Possibly people weren’t as concerned about antisemitism as we were led to believe? www.state.gov/releases/off...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
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FOOTBALL & RACE 🧵 1/ Four years ago, Brian Flores sued the NFL alleging that the "Rooney Rule" requiring teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching vacancies is a sham. Today, the judge ruled that ALL claims must be litigated, not arbitrated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota
ICE killed a mother and legal observer during a raid in Minneapolis. Community organizers are rising up to demand justice and shut ICE down. Join us in our fight!
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I've been posting updates for the last couple of years- the uncanny correlation (+.92) continues
