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2025 Club World Cup
BBC says that FIFA may have eh-splainin’ to do. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c8rpxjgr8mjo
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2025 Gold Cup / Copa de Oro
Saudi Arabians are going to love the winter temperatures this Thursday.
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2025 Club World Cup
The Facebook page of Argentina’s sports channel TyC Sports (Torneos & Campeones) is pointing out that the stadium isn’t quite full for the Chelsea vs LAFC match… midday in Atlanta. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12LuRCUEVY3/ Not everyone understands that it’s a dome, so the temperature during the day in the summer is really not that important. They do understand that it is a pitiful turnout though
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2025 Club World Cup
I had to look up what “DAZN” stood for/meant. I guess that I will not be watching this tournament. 🤷♂️ EDIT: The match is also on TBS, so why not.
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Texas wins the 2024-2025 Director’s Cup- Fourth Win in Five Years
The split title is the best. A&M splitting the men’s title with USC meant that USC only got 95 point for a national championship. So Aggie does get a national championship, but in doing so, they gave Texas the Director’s Cup. I do enjoy that. 😁
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2025 Club World Cup
But besides the obvious. Are there any other reasons?
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2025 ATP/WTA thread
On T2 (Tennis Channel 2), the round table was talking to a guy named JIM LOEHR about sports psychology and overcoming normal brain activity to excel in sports. While he was talking about the importance of journaling and writing out your goals, not once, but repeatedly… Mirra Andreeva was going down in flames in the 3rd set against Frech. He mentioned that Jannick Sinner has one of the most abnormal brains that he’s ever seen. Andreeva may have slipped on the grass and fallen on her ass (though she won the point) around this time. She was so over this match and this court and was apparently ready to lose her serve to go down 0-5 and head to her bench for the changeover Loehr then starts talking about simple things like standing up straight with your shoulders back can induce secretion of “testosterone, which cuts through cortisol like a knife”. Soon after, Frech wraps up the match on her serve after sandwiching a break point between her two match points. The contrast of his words about a positive mindset vs Andreeva acting out all of the “Don’t do this!” list of things on screen was quite something. I didn’t see/hear the entire segment, but it was an interesting topic. It seems to be mainly for parents raising children for tennis and then later in life. “Helping them become a better, stronger human being.” -Jim Loehr He has written many books. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jim+loehr+books&crid=1F3GLZOYXZ6SW&sprefix=jim+loehr%2Caps%2C89&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-pd-dpltr-ranker_2_9
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
“Bryson” should have been named “Trysom”.
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Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: It's Miller Time
I am PRO St. Mark’s! Not so interested in Dynamic Prep hydraulics & gasoline hose specialists.
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2025 Gold Cup / Copa de Oro
The shit tournament needs its own thread, even if it’s just for estimates of how many dozens of fans are at each match. USMNT 🇺🇸 beat the crap out of Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 5-0 and T&T was such trash that even Max Arfsten looked like a solid player who was dangerous in the final third. And we know that Arfsten is pure trash against solid opponents. Also, the stadium was about half full at most. México 🇲🇽 started off the tournament beating the baseball loving half of the island of Hispanola (a.k.a. “La República Dominicana”) 🇩🇴 3-2, I believe, in a half empty SoFi stadium. The last game to mention (because I forgot the other one) was Costa Rica’s 🇨🇷 death knell escape of Suriname 🇸🇷 (which is the Dutch answer to Jamaica 🇯🇲 in CONCACAF) with a PK before the final whistle. This match was played in San Diego in front of dozens, if not hundreds of people. The numbers for the match will not be reported honestly, but I would estimate fewer that 2,000 people were in the stands. They could have used on person to sell concessions in the aisles for the entire stadium. This event should be a U-20 event played in 2-3 stadiums in one town. It wouldn’t matter if they were high school stadiums. Either that, or it is time to take this tournament out of the USA. Seth Meyers would have this to say about the Gold Cup, if he knew that it existed. So now we have a thread to discuss the most worthless international tournament in world ⚽️. And don’t forget to estimate attendance for the matches you choose to mock. Keylor Navas wins award for worst hairdo in CONCACAF.
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2025 ATP/WTA thread
Explain what you mean by “ride”, because I think that I would prefer Kostyuk, depending on your definition.
- 2025 Club World Cup
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USMNT 2025 - Easy English, hard ones Spanish
Saudi Arabia scored 2 goals on a 0.15xG. 3 total shots and none should have had any prayer of going in. 2 goals on miracle shots. That said, Scaloni made changes after that loss that helped propel them to the 🏆.
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USMNT 2025 - Easy English, hard ones Spanish
Was it COVID seating rules? Or was ICE set up all around the stadium? Puliaic was right to skip this shit. T&T thought that they were playing rugby. No reason for any play of any level of talent to play in this shit tournament.
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2025 ATP/WTA thread
Raducanu was up a break in the second set at 4-2, but the nerves got to her when she was serving at 4-3. She completely lost her first serve and then double faulted on game point to send it to 4-4. Then the China woman held serve easily and Raducanu started her serve going down 0-40. She then said “fuck it!” and played well again to bring it to deuce… then she got in her head again and lost two straight points and the match. She had the game to beat the China woman, but she needs to find a way to get out of her head. There wasn’t an ailment, nothing pulled or twisted. She just started thinking about it too much. If she can channel some zen shit, she could be a seeded player at the U.S. Open. 🇺🇸 Emma just can’t handle Anisimova’s game. She’s never beaten the American-born Russian. Emma didn’t play poorly, she just played someone who she can’t handle, especially not on grass. The Romanian Canadian fatty just isn’t very good at tennis.
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USMNT 2025 - Easy English, hard ones Spanish
I can watch this, because I don’t care what they say… But the Scuffed Podcast mentioned that Pulisic said that he wanted to come in for the friendlies, but take a break during the Gold Cup, but Pochettino said “No.” Either all summer of nada. Much better that the good players get some rest… in my opinion.
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Track & Field
- 2025 US Open @ Oakmont
👆 Just like the Olympics. NBC showed the Olympics on NBC, USA Network, The Golf Channel, CNBC… maybe one or two more. I don’t have a Paramount Plus subscription, but I inhaled more Olympics last year from Paris than any doctor would ever recommend. And at no additional charge.- 2025 ATP/WTA thread
I’m pulling for Raducanu in the next round. One, I find 🇬🇧 Emma attractive, butt… Two, she is developing into a solid tennis player. She’s ranked 37th in the world now and has a very good grass game.- Texas Softball 2025 - Second to no one.
Yet another post… …with the sophomoric responses hidden from polluting this constructive thread. Just a bit from the peanut gallery. 🥜🥜🥜- Professional Softball: What’s with the black pants?
Peanut gallery wants white pants, I think. I am just thinking of the rating & sustainability of the sport.- USMNT 2025 - Easy English, hard ones Spanish
Report back with the number of guys sporting Tolkin’s hairdo.- USMNT 2025 - Easy English, hard ones Spanish
Ecuador is #2, behind Argentina, in CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying right now, but no one without Latin American ties could name a single person on that team. Normally Ecuadorean fans would fill the stadium, but with Herr Stephen Miller in charge of ethnic cleansing, I don’t see those fans attending fútbol matches anytime soon.- Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
- 2025 US Open @ Oakmont
What is the actual definition of “par”? And how is it actually calculated? I ask, because if the best players in the world cannot achieve “par” scores, then perhaps “par” is not being calculated correctly. - 2025 US Open @ Oakmont
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