Joe Pompliano

A professional sports gambler used analytics to turn a $700,000 loan into more than $300 million. This is the wild story 👇👇👇

@NickWinters006 Yup and when the provision almost change last year a bunch of current owners lobbied against it because the change would have crushed valuations

@JoePompliano Read the same take years ago when the Chicago Cubs changed hands. It's a small club....

With the Seattle Seahawks selling for a record $9.6 billion, I wrote about the real reason valuations continue to climb so fast: NFL teams are one of the world’s best tax shelters for billionaires. Read: huddleup.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…

Erling Haaland has returned to Norway, and it looks like he brought home a $750 Whiskey Raccoon from Wild Bill's Western Store in Dallas, Texas. What an authentic piece of American culture.

@JayPosnerSD @frankmikesmith Hahaha you’re welcome. Maybe I’ll have to run it back. I initially had different international questions but @frankmikesmith told me they would be too difficult!!

@JoePompliano @frankmikesmith Play it every day against my brother and nephew. Guess I should thank you because dropped a career-high 996 today. Come back anytime!

I’ve been playing GeoSports everyday over the last few months and today I got to host it. Amazing game you’ve built @frankmikesmith. Check out my questions today geosports.app and drop your score below.

@danorlovsky7 @frankmikesmith It's awesome. You're lucky I took it easy on everyone today

@JoePompliano @frankmikesmith Play it every day with my sons Great app

Nike’s ad for Jannik Sinner’s second consecutive Wimbledon title 👏

Once again, Joe brings the goods. If you’re not receiving his newsletter, you’re doing it wrong.

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BREAKING: A group led by billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has agreed to purchase the Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 billion, according to @Sportico. That’s the most expensive NFL sale ever.

You submitted a bogus community note, which won’t get approved because none of the articles contradict anything I am saying, and then took a screenshot with the top cropped out to make it look like it was an approved community note. Super dishonest. Here’s the government doc that backs up everything I’m saying: aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/upl…

Norway's youth sports model is super unique: • No scorekeeping until age 13 • Participation trophies for everyone • No travel teams or national championships • No online publishing of scores or athlete rankings • Parents typically spend less than $1,000 per child per year The result? A 93% participation rate — 40 points higher than the U.S. — and more Winter Olympic medals than any other country in history, despite Norway having a population comparable to the Philadelphia metro area (5.6 million). And it's not just winter sports... Norway now produces some of the world’s best summer sport athletes, including Erling Haaland (soccer), Casper Ruud (tennis), Viktor Hovland (golf), and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (track and field). So if you want to learn more about how Norway's youth sports system actually works (and what other countries can learn from it), here's an essay I recently wrote during the Winter Olympics that breaks it all down. READ: huddleup.substack.com/p/how-norways-…

Yeah but what about shareholder value?!?!?!?!?!?

Today's newsletter dives deep into the state of youth soccer in America, including why the USMNT continues to underperform (relative to its population) and what the US can do to close the competitive gap to Europe. READ: huddleup.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…

With the USA, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, and Portugal all getting eliminated in the Round of 16, ticket prices for the World Cup Quarterfinals are plummeting. Get-in Price Before Round of 16: France - Morocco: $1,485 Spain - Belgium: $3,261 Norway - England: $3,866 Argentina - Switzerland: $2,381 Get-in Price Today: France - Morocco: $1,097 (down 26%) Spain - Belgium: $1,223 (down 62%) Norway - England: $1,805 (down 53%) Argentina - Switzerland: $1,400 (down 41%) (Ticket Prices via @TickPick)

@schwoerk81 @TickPick Get-in is the cheapest ticket available on the secondary market

@JoePompliano @TickPick What is a ‘get-in’ price? Is that the going market value for a ticket, or face value of the same?

With the US losing last night (and Portugal/Ronaldo also getting eliminated), the get-in price for Friday's Quarterfinal match in Los Angeles has dropped from $3,000 to $1,200 overnight. (Data via @TickPick)

Seattle is such a great place for tonight's match against Belgium. Not only do they love soccer, but the stadium itself is incredibly loud. Since it was built on a small piece of land, the seats are super vertical, and the overhang redirects all crowd noise back to the field.

@jcorrigangolf Seems like political intervention might be more common than people realize! x.com/JackElsom/stat…

Don’t you see anything wrong about the President of the biggest country in the world, which is co host of the WC, phoning the guy in charge?

So to recap what happened with the USMNT: • Balogun received a bogus red card • VAR protocol isn't followed (no slow-mo) • Trump calls Infantino to ask about the process • US Soccer lawyers preapre & submit an appeal FIFA's independent 18-person disciplinary committee then met, approved the appeal, and told Balogun he could play in Monday's match against Belgium. That's what everyone is complaining about? All rules were followed, and that same process is open to every other country. The only difference is everyone knows the red card was a mistake to begin with.