Man City and their owner are going to get punished into oblivion for graft, corruption, and violating the rules. Which leads to believe that the EPL should be granted oversight of the US government executive branch, since the US Congress and Supreme Court clearly can’t handle it.

It is wild to have Minoungou, Phillip, Abu Farkhi, and Yapi and wonder ‘are any of these guys good?’

Part this was Bruce Ball. Wells is like WE ARE GONNA DOMINATE POSSESSION and Bruce is like cool have 2/3rds of the pitch. We're just gonna make sure you take lame shots. Bruce might be a curmudgeon and grump, but dude knows ball.

Judge a striker after 15 starts. OTOH, a keeper or central defender gets maybe 3 games, and a d-mid maybe less.

There might be no more bizarre game of football this week than Liverpool v Man City. They have to play this game. Except - it is utterly meaningless. Manchester are getting fined to buts, relegated, & dismantled. The players are simply auditioning for new jobs. It’s weird that this game exists.

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Frustration: Rapids Draw San Jose Despite Donavan Phillip Header Commerce City, Colo. - It was another frustrating ending for Colorado Rapids after scoring first. On Saturday night, they hosted San Jose Earthquakes....

And here's some Sam Bassett pics for the Colorado fam...

Maybe for a home playoff match?

Death. Taxes. NBC putting the Arsenal match on cable only.

Apple Music popped up and played a Pearl Jam track from the Bridge School Benefit, and I remarked to my co-founder 'Hey Frances, we should see if Neil Young would take an interest in Shoresh and do a benefit concert with 5,000 attendees every year.' Frances replied 'Yeah I'll get right on that.'

Pittsburgh’s own Steel City FC move on in the USOC. Yinz are makin’ us proud.

Finishing Tom Morello’s ‘Power to the People’ concert with walkout lights up music of ‘Bella Ciao’ is perfectly on the nose. I dunno that the rest of the show had that level of revolutionary fervor. But I enjoyed a lot of it.