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@jsin_59 @CitiusMag Literally the only effect it has on others is the rankings points. No medals, prize money, or score for the team.

@CitiusMag lmao wtf is this? America fucks up and suddenly they get additional entries?

🇺🇸 On a strictly one-time basis, World Athletics has approved an expanded seven-woman U.S. team for the women's half marathon at the 2026 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen (Sept. 19-20), up from the standard four. This comes after three American women (Jess McClain, Emma Grace Hurley and Ednah Kurgat) were robbed of a likely podium finish at the USATF Half Marathon Championships in Atlanta after a police injury caused the lead vehicle to direct the front pack off course The seven spots team will be: 3 off-course athletes: Jess McClain, Emma Grace Hurley, Ednah Kurgat 3 official top finishers: Molly Born, Carrie Ellwood, Annie Rodenfels 1 world ranking selection (as of May 5) 🗣️ CEO Max Siegel: “From the moment this happened, our focus was on doing right by the athletes. Jessica, Emma Grace, and Ednah had clearly separated themselves in the race and we are sorry they did not get to celebrate their accomplishment by breaking the tape. On behalf of everyone at USA Track & Field, I want to thank World Athletics. Their council and leadership are committed to a fair and athlete-centered solution that preserves the integrity of competition while recognizing the reality of what occurred in Atlanta.” How will it work in Copenhagen? USATF will designate four scoring athletes and three non-scoring athletes. The non-scoring trio are full Team USATF members and will earn World Athletics ranking points, but cannot contribute to team scoring, win medals, or receive official prize money and will wear a distinct kit. USATF will cover all additional expenses and will pay out any prize money non-scoring athletes earn on their own. 🔜 The full U.S. team will be named following the USATF 1 Mile Championships (April 22) and USATF 5K Championships (May 2).

@JassRonaldChisi @captaincaleb18 @JonHeyman Lmao your contract eval is crazy low. Soto got 17 mil in year 2 of arbitration! Soto is better than PCA was last year, but not a TON better. If PCA even remotely approaches his first half form for a whole season he'll be 7+WAR and getting MVP votes and this will be a bargain.

@captaincaleb18 @JonHeyman He's making about $800k this year & would have probably made up to $5 million next year, up to $9 million the year after, up to $12 million the year after & then maybe up to $16 million the year after. They are guaranteeing him a $36.5 million salary in each of 2 free agent years

PCA deal: —A Top 3 contract for guaranteed money that doesn’t have team control past age 30 – he will be FA after age-30 season —Largest contract ever with no club options for a player with 5 years control left at time of signing

@MuteHumble @JonHeyman Soto got 17 million in his 2nd year of arbitration, and well more than this 19 mil AAV in his last two years. That doesn't even account for the two free agent years! This is a bargain.

@JonHeyman Cubs overpaid big, huge risk, zero upside with 5 years control left. Bad move.

@tristan_sudbury @jacksettleman Except that erases the most likely scenario, which is Florida telling players to foul the bad shooters if at all possible and not fouling otherwise. Also, how are you calculating win % if it goes to overtime?

@MarkovWalker @jacksettleman They do. I used 75.6% team average. This is with 65 and 85. That help? And don’t forget. Iowa wants to send their best shooter to the line. Where is Florida wants to send their worst. So average is probably the best stat to use.

I NEED more attention on this. Last year Golden said he’d foul up 2 in a similar situation. If they had done it, the internet would’ve thought he was insane. Yet, tonight is exactly why you do it. Can only tie, you get the last shot and you’re 11 point pregame faves which means you’re favored in overtime.

@tristan_sudbury @jacksettleman These numbers are completely disingenuous because they don't seem to account for WHO is fouled. It's hard to tell exactly who was on the floor, but at least Stirtz and Sage were on with their 15% difference in FT%. Odds of making both differ by 23.5 percentage points!

@jacksettleman Foul up two is the inferior strategy overall.

@RazDazBraz11 We weren't the ones doing stupid shit like this only to have the game be over before the first quarter even finished

@MarkovWalker You mfs are still the only ones talking or bragging about beating Tennessee without Dylan Sampson lmao stay mad ur school is only relevant in 1 sport while playing in the shit 10

Ohio State I swear if you screw over my bracket in the first fucking game I’ll troll you mfs all baseball season long about how awful y’all are at everything under the sun other than football. Shit ass football only school. Fuck the Buckeyes.

@whydowebuy @YazzLFC Keeper is not jumping straight up, by any means.

@YazzLFC keeper jumping straight up. vvd jumping into the keeper. gonna clatter through him. not black and white, but you see the other angle and it's a lot more obvious. this angle makes it seem like they're both jumping straight up for it.

This goal was ruled out for a foul on the goalkeeper by Van Dijk 👀 What the actual F**k

@israel_ajoje Dortmund -Atalanta was a 2 goal comeback, not 3.

Six days ago, in front of 7,971 people inside a stadium north of the Arctic Circle, Bodo Glimt dismantled Sporting CP 3-0 and sent one of Portuguese football's proudest clubs home with their heads down. It was the same ground that had already swallowed Manchester City and Inter Milan whole earlier in this season's Europa League. Sporting were just the latest name on a list that was starting to look embarrassing for European football's establishment. Tonight, Sporting CP wrote their own chapter. Goals from Gonçalo Inácio, Pedro Gonçalves and a Luis Suárez penalty levelled the tie at 3-3 on aggregate after ninety minutes, sending it to extra time. Maximiliano Araújo made it 4-0 on the night in the 92nd minute and Rafael Nel finished the job in the 120th, sealing a 5-0 win on the night and a 5-3 victory on aggregate. Sporting CP are through. Now here is the context that makes tonight feel genuinely historic. Overturning a three-goal deficit in European football is not something that happens often. It is not something that happens regularly. In the entire history of the Champions League, it has been done only five times, and each occasion is remembered decades later. Deportivo La Coruña did it first in 2003/04, coming back from a 4-1 first leg loss against AC Milan to win 4-0 at home and eliminate the defending champions. Barcelona did it against PSG in 2017, overturning a 4-0 deficit with a 6-1 win at the Camp Nou in what remains arguably the greatest single comeback in the competition's history. Roma did it against Barcelona in 2018, winning 3-0 at the Stadio Olimpico to progress on away goals after losing 4-1 in the first leg. Liverpool did it against Barcelona in 2019, winning 4-0 at Anfield after losing 3-0 at the Camp Nou, with Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum scoring twice each. And Atalanta did it against Borussia Dortmund in the 2025/26 knockout phase playoffs, completing the most recent comeback before tonight. Sporting CP just joined that list. Not against PSG. Not against Barcelona. Against Bodo Glimt, a club from a Norwegian city of 50,000 people that had beaten Manchester City, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid in the same campaign. The fairy tale was real. The achievement was genuine. And Sporting ended it anyway. Three goals down. Five goals scored. The Alvalade did not just host a football match tonight. It hosted a reminder that in this competition, no deficit is safe and no story is finished until the final whistle sounds. My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

@timstillman_ Liverpool fan here; I do have small quibbles with their style, but this is 90% right. It's fun to mock their supporters for their bottling.

It's not complicated and it's got nothing to do with style of football, nobody wants to see big teams who haven't won anything in a while break their duck. It's standard fan stuff. Almost no champions or challengers are ever actually loved by the 'neutral' because there is no such thing as a 'neutral.' People don't mind City winning the league because it's very easy to compartmentalise and they don't have a big fanbase so people just don't encounter many City fans online and in day to day life. All this stuff about 'style' is utter nonsense.

@BobStaMan @FullCountTommy 10 year veteran is actively a DOWNSIDE when it comes to CF defense, given the aging curve of centerfielders in particular and baseball players in general.

@FullCountTommy 10 year veteran vs 2 year player. Or rock paper scissors.

Mark DeRosa keeps moving PCA OUT of CF for his late game defensive alignment and it’s one of those things that is so incredibly stupid that he HAS to be doing a bit

@keepmoremoney @LiverpoolZNE Fuck off. Yamal was playing in the Champions League two months past his 16th birthday and debuted in La Liga 5 months before that. If Rio is the best player for that position, play him.

@LiverpoolZNE He's 17. He just cannot carry the position no matter how good he is

I personally don’t want to see Cody Gakpo at left wing anymore. Everytime Rio Ngumoha gets the ball, he’s either beating his man, bringing Liverpool closer to the box, or allowing Liverpool to sustain pressure in the final third. LW belongs to Rio.

@Pypeline_ @kmedved Yes, but teams actively avoiding the playoffs is orders of magnitude worse for the perception of the league than bottom feeders losing 90% of games instead of 80%.

@MarkovWalker @kmedved Yes, but they would be trying to win up until that point. Losing game after game after game would guarantee you not to get the #1 pick. That would get you the bottom of the lottery. So there might be some tanking, but it wouldn’t happen until very late in the season.

Anti-tanking idea I’ve been kicking around for a while, and came up at Sloan this year: teams aren’t allowed to use their own draft picks. That’s it. If you still own your pick when the season starts, it moves to the end of the first round. Nothing else needed. Bad teams still have a valuable asset. They just have to trade it before the season begins. So hopeless teams (say Kings and Pacers) pair off and swap picks before the season. Both get value back. Neither has any reason to tank in-season. Or your can just trade your pick for players, future assets, etc. Anything you want. You just can’t use your own pick. Eliminates the incentive to lose without eliminating the mechanism that helps bad teams improve. Clean, elegant, easy to explain. Note it doesn’t prevent Hinkie-style tanking. Teams can still build terrible rosters on purpose. But it does prevent the Utah Jazz from this year, where you bench your starters in the 4th Q to chase ping pong balls. The latter is more pernicious and more detrimental imo, but I appreciate there is some disagreement on this.

@Pypeline_ @kmedved It's unworkable because the #1 pick is way more valuable than a first round ass kicking, so teams would definitely try to tank OUT of the playoffs to get it, which is the worst look possible.

@kmedved What if the #1 pick went to the non-playoff team with the best record? The worst team got the worst lottery pick. At worst, teams wouldn’t tank until the very last week. And then it would only be a handful of teams.

@GeneralRipper22 @YazzLFC There is no chance this team gets to 67 points. Might not even reach 60, and that's after winning the league and breaking the EPL transfer record twice in the same off-season. Abysmal performance.

@YazzLFC Were you crying this much when Klopp got 60 pts in 2016, 69 in 2021 incl. 6 losses in 7/8 on 12 (even worse than Slot), a 7-2 defeat to Villa and 4-1 home defeat to City, and 67 pts/5th place in 2023?

What we took from today : • The frustrating part is none of it is surprising - we all saw it coming. • Watching us right now is painful. • Liverpool end up handing Tudor his first point… typical. • Spurs had half their squad missing and we still couldn’t make it count. At this stage something has to give. Slot has to leave. We can still make a change and secure top 5.

@billbrasier @CourtneyRCronin Yeah but the argument, seemingly backed up by comments by Matt Ryan, is his position is more or less a sinecure with perhaps some broad agenda setting. Personnel decisions will be Cunningham, which is what everyone means when they say "top exec".

@CourtneyRCronin The rule is clear and the Cunningham deal clearly doesn't comply. "Top football executive" language because it is common for there to be a football exec above the GM. Bears FANatic here, however this was bad scoop wishful thinking @CourtneyRCronin.

The Bears were loud in the right places (public media settings with maximum visibility at the combine) regarding how they felt wronged by the NFL’s decision to not award comp picks for Ian Cunningham’s departure. It goes against the spirit of what the Rooney Rule is supposed to be about (promoting minority advancement in coaching and front office positions). The NFL was adamant in January that it wasn’t something that could be appealed but the Bears tried anyways. Can’t fault them for their attempt, but fall out from this should lead to a real conversation about the rule in the first place and how poorly this reflects back on the league.

@rightfieldsucks You can't compare Bush to Edmunds new deal, you gotta look at the deal he had WITH THE BEARS. The Bears basically traded Edmunds for Bush, DJack, and some spare change.

@MarkovWalker Edmunds is a 2m more a year now so the money is negligible. Very different players. Bush was very good last year, I don't know what's making up that 80 grade but last year was the only above average year I've seen him play and he's been in the league since 2020. I hope it works!

Not a fan of this signing for the Bears. After an underwhelming career he finally had a plus season in a walk year behind Myles Garrett, next to DROY Schwesinger and under Jim Schwartz. Feels like we just signed a player at the tippy top of whatever market he'll ever have.

@GeorgeUTD__ @MyDinnerWAndrei @Wheddsta You think a player intentionally leaving the pitch in order to shove an opponent IN THE ACT of a throw-in is a soft yellow? IFAB rules state opponents have be 2 meters from the throw in spot, and definitely can't SHOVE the opponent.

@MyDinnerWAndrei @Wheddsta I feel like they are both yellows but both soft. It just doesn’t sit right with me. I think something similar happened to dalot at anfield and i didn’t like it then.

One of the best refereeing decisions we’ve ever seen in the PL.

@JohnItalianRT @dantepurify @ggabefootball Manning's Denver cap number was the cap equivalent of $37 mil today. Brees in 09 would be $35 mil, Mahomes' in '22 would be 52 million today, Mahomes in '23 would be 50 mil today.

@JohnItalianRT @dantepurify @ggabefootball Yes, those are among the 7 I mentioned. Brady once, Mahomes once, Big Ben once, Russell Wilson, Eli Manning once. Rodgers was a once in a lifetime contract anomaly, but not on his rookie deal.

Bears were looking to add speed to the interior DLine. Gallinore ran 4.79 coming out of college