Patrick
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SOMEBODY SEND ME A LINK TO AN ENGLAND MESSAGE BOARD RIGHT NOW!
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@GusSaltonstall Just rode my bike down 72nd, in the block between Columbus and Amsterdam I spent more time looking over my shoulder at cars than looking where I was going (ie looking out for pedestrians)
These geniuses are suing to prevent something that would make crossing the street safer
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Six disabled residents of West 72nd St. have filed a lawsuit against the city in an effort to stop the 72nd St. 2-way bike lane proposal, arguing that it unlawfully discriminates against them as disabled individuals because it would impair their access to West 72nd Street
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@theiaincameron Me when the England-Argentina fun fact is that it’s the only World Cup matchup between 2 countries actively engaged in a territorial dispute
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France v Spain is the World Cup's only match between two European teams who have ancient non-Indo-European languages spoken in their countries.
The Basque language is at least 4,000 years old, and is still spoken in parts of southern France and northern Spain.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
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USMNT-Belgium again. Just like in 2014.
A great reason to revisit @DanWetzel’s classic… sports.yahoo.com/a-matter-of-na…
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@EricBoehm87 Just bought a ticket at midfield, upper deck for Norway Senegal, 10$ less than face value and feel like I’ve won the lottery
FIFA took an arm and leg for fees but what’re you gonna do
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I was deeply skeptical of FIFA's pricing structure and I'm not too proud to admit that I was wrong. America is astonishingly wealthy.
John Arnold@johnarnold
So many articles about World Cup tickets criticized high prices, unsold tickets, and dynamic pricing. The reality is every game in the US is sold out, tickets are trading at material premiums in secondary market, and more $ is flowing to national federations than ticket brokers.
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How many more crashes, injuries and horse deaths need to occur before @NYCMayor #Mamdani fulfills his campaign promise to ban horse-drawn carriages? Today, a passenger jumped (or fell) out of a moving carriage, a child was dumped onto the asphalt when the carriage flipped over and at least one person had injuries serious enough to go to the hospital. Mayor Mamdani: please do the right thing.
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@ethan_sears Order of events is a bit backwards and it’s not the WC but:
Ukraine (Euro 2020 quarterfinalist) bombed Gazprom (Euro 2020 sponsor) literally last night
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Surely a World Cup first that a match is sponsored by a company whose facility was bombed by one of the countries playing in the match
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Under the BCS/4team every single week was a high wire act where you had to continue winning while also hoping others would lose, producing tons of week to week variation and implications
Now a coach just has to win 8 games every year to appease boosters and get keep their job
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The reason that World Cup expansion doesn’t water down the product in the same way that CFP expansion does for football is that you still get countless permutations like this such that group stage matches are still relatively high stakes
Michael Caley@MC_of_A
just wanted to make sure everyone's clocked this it only takes one group stage wobble to get Argentina vs Spain in the round of 32
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Refs aren’t blameless ofc, they were losing control of games up until this one, but when each teams best player (wemby/brunson) are bad defenders/certified hacks, you’re inevitably walking a razor thin wire to keep the game under control without throwing sand in the gears
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