Michael Flora

Since doping is all over the news, we may as well stay on topic. This shoe is 50mm, well above the legal limit of 40mm.

@James_Athletics I like it. Encourage athletes to go race big meets for points rather than time trials whenever and wherever is convenient for them. There’s too many races that dilute competition.

Some of these are WILD

If Ken Paxton ever accomplishes anything more than when Cornyn whipped the senate into the 2017 tax cuts or confirming conservative justices, I’ll remove my criticism. But he will not be effective at all at legislating. He’ll be most effective at corruption and sound bites.

Ken Paxton is corrupt. Ken Paxton is the swamp. Ken Paxton is a disaster. Vote Cornyn.

They’re making AOC SEC edits on TikTok lmfao

@Christo09383128 @Kashcov1_ @JacobHorsfall_ If you don’t think teams are heavily relying on analytics for player acquisition, you live under a rock

@Kashcov1_ @JacobHorsfall_ So your saying a club buys a player based on their expected xg and not the actual goals they score? Let's be serious now.

This. Isn’t. How. You. Use. XG.

You just announced to the entire world that you’re poor

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

That's an unfortunate hot mic incident for ESPN.

It’s strange how many progressives talk as though the US has implemented some sort of radical austerity program since FDR

Only elites remember these games

Less than two months apart. Two different women btw.

“Nothing but respect”? Obama said Romney was a felon who gave his employees cancer and would push the elderly off of cliffs. Biden said he would put black people back in chains.

As a mostly non-reactionary USMNT fan, I've been wrapping my mind around this for the past 2 hours. Here are my qualms: – Aidan Morris was MOTM (imo) in the playoff final. No one else on this team can control the tempo of games like he can. There will inevitably chaotic game states where the US is desperate for some control and no one capable of providing it. Tough weekend for him. – The midfield is bizarre. Good luck Tyler Adams. By the way, 2 yellows in 2 games means a suspension. A McKennie-Adams double pivot will require Adams to cover a ton of ground as McKennie roams, which means a ton of situations that could easily lead to bookings. I predict a few scenarios where Adams has to defend improperly to avoid getting booked, or he gets booked and we go into a third group game desperate for a result relying on Berhalter as our deepest midfielder. – 10 defenders for 5 slots (3 CBs + 2 WBs). 11 if Weah plays WB. This is overkill and means 1-2 less spots for difference makers further up the pitch. Scally/Freeman/Dest/Weah are essentially competing for the same role? – Zendejas makes sense as the only left-footed midfielder/attacker. Personally, I'd have taken Luna over Reyna (or even McGlynn). Usually I'm pretty ambivalent to tournament selections because I think international managers optimize for team balance rather than for the best individuals, but I think this is an unbalanced team that doubles-down on a specific style for specific players. The lesson I took from the 2022 WC was that the USMNT needed to be more adaptable to what each game requires, not playing the same way regardless of the opponent. We went into the knockout against the Netherlands with players at 60% fitness because there was little rotation and each group game was played at 100 MPH. I worry that will be the same again but let's see.

Romney’s loss was probably more significant than you’d think. Not because Romney was special, no one liked him, but he was a completely milquetoast candidate and he still had the dirtiest accusations hurled at him of sexism, Nazism etc Voters finally noticed

“If you reach the quarter-finals, that’s already a big success. But if you want to see soccer transform into a mainstream sport in the U.S., you need to reach the semi-final.” Pellegrino Matarazzo on what success would look like for the USMNT at the World Cup 🇺🇸🎙️ @MenInBlazers

Amazing how quickly a position of depth can be whipped out with injuries of Johnny and Tessmann. Aidan Morris, Yunus Musah, Gianluca Busio or Jack McGlynn not good enough to find a #USMNT roster spot.

A positive note is the versatility of some players listed: Scally - CB, RB, WB Tillman - 6, 8, 10 Weah - Play on left or right Dest - Play on left or Right Freeman - CB, RB BA - 8, 10, Wing Gio - 8, 10, Wing Puli - Wing, 10, False 9 There's more cover than at first glance

If you guys think there’s an MLS quota but Luna isn’t on the roster, I’ve got some snake oil to sell you. #USMNT