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Do you want to see Alvarez go 455 feet for his 200th career homer? Yeah, you do.

JUST IN: Trump says Belgium is 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear bomb.

All former FIFA-certified referees raise your hands. 🙋 That's right I used to both play & ref soccer. Now I mostly just mock it. Until they mess w/ Team USA. This picture of the collision between Balogun & the B&H player looks awful, but it's complete garbage. Wrong angle to see what really happened. Balogun was closer to the ball and the B&H player came from his right AND behind initiating the contact. He caused his own suffering. The ref got it right initially as a no call. They were both playing the ball. Even in a sport known for pitifully lame flopping sometimes two dudes just crash into each other and do some actual damage. Doesn't mean there was a foul. The replay guy then saw an opportunity to take the Americans down a notch and the ref bought in and made an egregious red card ejection. If any call was made it should have been against the B&H player who came from behind and out of the sight line of Balogun. The outrage now is "How dare the Americans get this absurd attempt to weaken them overturned". Taking a player out of a once in a lifetime game and tournament should be an exceedingly high bar. This was not. The people pretending to care about the rules are really mad the Americans aren't getting screwed over. It's a common sentiment and all around the world hating Americans for being the Biggest, Baddest and Best is as much a national sport as Soccer Ball. I've lived overseas for six years and traveled to several dozen countries. Furriners love to hate on us. I'm not saying it's all underserved, I'm just saying it's not new and it's everywhere. I can't blame them, we're barely 250 years old and we have accomplished more than any country in history. We have invented more amazing things, freed more people from tyranny and lifted more people from poverty and that stings, especially for the Euros who think they own our history. They do, the part that we left and left behind. The part we are making now they can only watch and be chafed about. Because they can't even come close. So they were salivating at knocking a US star out of play on a BS call. Sorry Jacques Belgique, you're going to have to take on a full US squad. Good luck, I hope we make you cry some more in the game tonight.

That was not the definition of a red card.

Shout out once again to the airline employees who refused to let Folarin Balogun's mother board a flight out of New York in 2001. America salutes you.

Yordan Alvarez's seventh grand slam of his career

THEY TOLD US 'IT'S JUST PARAGUAY' 😭😭😭 BEATING PARAGUAY AIN'T FOR EVERYONE 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@EricBalchunas “I’ve never played soccer before but let me suggest a rule change that would fundamentally change the game…” 😂

Colombia v Portugal is the World Cup's only group-stage match where a country named after Columbus meets a country that turned him down. Colombia is named after Christopher Columbus. Portugal rejected his plan to sail west across the Atlantic before Spain backed the voyage. Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography(ish)-based World Cup analysis.

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Me watching the Astros moving up the standings

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@ChadWilbanks @USMNT @landondonovan I wanted to name our daughter, born July 2010, “Donovan”

South Africa v South Korea is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both teams face water to the west, south and east, with the land shutting them off to the north. Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

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@asyouwereS6 The hydration breaks are dumb for sure but don’t blame America. They are imposed by FIFA. Qatar had them too (although not for every game).

Good morning! It’s a great to support Team USA! Good luck to @USMNT against the Aussies.

@NWSLCentel Wisconsin girl! Way to go!

@JasonVaughn @DrindaRandall @MattShaheen @BriscoeCain @dtwilson117 I’m not at all surprised that any event lucky enough to have your involvement is a huge success. Congratulations on another job well done!

Messi against Algeria: ▪️ Became the World Cup top scorer ▪️ Surpassed R9, Gerd Müller, Pelé and Mbappé in World Cup goals ▪️ Became Argentina's oldest World Cup scorer ▪️ Became the oldest player to score a brace at the World Cup ▪️ Became the oldest player to score a hat-trick at the World Cup ▪️ Became the player with the most goal contributions at the World Cup (24) ▪️ Equalled the record for most goals scored from outside the box at the World Cup (5) ▪️ Became the player with goals in the most different World Cup games (12) ▪️ Equalled Cristiano Ronaldo's record of scoring at 5 different World Cups ▪️ Became the first Argentine to score in 5 different World Cups ▪️ Became the 4th Argentine with a World Cup hat-trick ▪️ Scored his 10th World Cup goal since turning 35 ▪️ Has now scored against the most different countries at the World Cup (11) ▪️ Became the third player ever to reach 200 appearances for his country ▪️ Became the first player ever to play in six World Cups A few records more in the history books 😅

In case you didn’t watch the World Cup today (matchday 6) >This was the first day that really felt like PEAK World Cup >Mbappé started the day scoring 2 for France in 3-1 win vs Senegal >Haaland followed that up but scoring 2 goals of his won in 4-1 wjn vs Iraq >Messi then put THREE past Algeria in 3-0 win & reminded us who’s still the best player on earth >Messi tied Klose’s record of most career World Cup goals (16) >Kylian Mbappé surpassed Giroud with the most goals for France in their history. >Portugal’s coach said he won’t return to coach Portugal after the World Cup no matter how the team performs >The appeal to overturn Thomas Partey’s ban from Canada with dismissed meaning he won’t play in Ghana’s first game. >First ever player with Pakistani heritage to play in the World Cup >The goalie who let Messi score 3 goals on him was Zinedine Zidane’s son >The State Department is trying to help the Cape Verde goalkeeper’s mother get to US for the World Cup >UEFA announced they won’t add cooling breaks in European competitions like during the World Cup >Norway fans went viral for lining up and sitting on an escalator to do their rowing chat up the stairs >Bars and liquor stores in Boston have said the current World Cup demand is “triple St. Patrick’s Day” >German national team players saw a venomous snake at their training camp. They were told they would have to go to the hospital this they got bit by one >Mbappe and Messi both score absolute glazos (Mbappe’s was goal of the tournament so far) >Olise has a poor 1st half for France but looked absolutely incredible in the 2nd. Just so fun to watch… France need to play in in the middle of the park more >Also the Austria vs Jordan game just ended. Austria won 3-1. >Let me know what I missed I’ll be posting daily recaps all World Cup long, follow me pookie :)