It’s the anniversary of The Greatest Goal Of The 90s.
Forget Bergkamp, Yeboah or Ronaldo.
We’re talking about Gary Crosby at the City Ground, 1990.
You splendid little shithouse.
Megan Rapinoe made it her life's mission to get U.S. Soccer to pay her team the exact same amount as the men's team even though the women's game brought in much less revenue.
The USA men's hockey team, on the other hand, spent years fighting with the NHL for a collective bargaining agreement that allowed them to represent the United States at the Olympics for no pay at all.
The difference between narcissism and patriotism.
Bodo/Glimt has only gotten to play THREE competitive matches in 2026 since their league season ended in November in order to avoid Norway's peak winter. The three games have come against Europe's GIANTS, Man City, Atletico Madrid AND Inter Milan. This team from of a town of just 54,000 people is currently doing the unthinkable. A story that anything is possible in this sport 💛
I wrote about the forthcoming Bill Callahan album (it is of course v. good) and the taxonomy of a genre I know very well: Middle-Aged Indie Singer-Songwriter Music (MAISSM).
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🚨 NEW: Fmr. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield Now Says the COVID Jab Should Not Have Been Called a Vaccine
“It was never meant to prevent transmission … It probably was a misnomer to call it a vaccine. It's really more like a medicine. It doesn't stop infection.”
It’s 36 years since a Swansea fan invaded the pitch (and scored) at Anfield in the FA Cup.
So much to enjoy here:
- The shoes
- The denim
- The melodic slow-mo
- And then the steward’s slide tackle that finally sends him sprawling
This is CINEMA.
Yan Diomande was playing high-school soccer in Florida little more than a year ago. Now he's scoring at the Africa Cup of Nations 🤯
The 19-year-old is also the Bundesliga's reigning rookie of the month. His rise is remarkable 🇨🇮
I'm glad Luigi Mangione is back in the news so that the people who tell me it's an outrage to kill narcoterrorists can tell me why it's awesome to murder American health care executives.
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh Riverhounds have won the 2025 USL Championship, the second tier in the United States, thanks to a final victory over Tulsa.
After 772 matches and 26 years, it was the first final or trophy that the Pittsburgh Riverhounds have reached and won in their entire history!