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Gianni Infantino scanning the situation, realizing his presidency of FIFA is in trouble because the world football community sees him as corruption personified, and then deciding on a strategy to wriggle out of this begins with...calling on the Trump administration. He might not be a super genius.

One of my favorite little details in the movie Almost Famous is that when little Willilam Miller puts The Who's Tommy on his record player, it has the iconic 1960s Decca rainbow logo on it. 1/

And that's that.

Reading about the 1st months of WW I, when the French army suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties charging into the teeth of entrenched artillery and machine gun fire, fueled by a reckless belief in elan and esprit de corps. And then you hear La Marseillaise, and it's like "Oh. I get it."

There was a pretty funny hot few weeks on this very website when the USMNT had blundered into that red card stupidity when I saw new soccer fans praising the lack of corruption in the Mexican footie organization, FMF... LULZ.

And now per Adam Crafton at the Athletic, CONCACAF in an emergency Zoom meeting. Let's see if they follow UEFA's lead.

Can't help but feel like Gianni is thinking he's Trump...and just discovered that UEFA are not the GOP-controlled Congress...

Aw yeah. If Ben is right (and he's a well-source and respected reporter), see ya Gianni.

This feels like an improv "Write the weirdest headline you can imagine" prompt.

Woke up to the news that my fave local bbq place is shutting down. Not sure if it's the location, or the over-aggressive expansion to other locations, or both. But...bummer.

C'est fantastique. Also, the chorus is such an anthemic shout along, but only in French does it work -- "Fini pour toi". It's a perfect four syllables to a metric foot in French, but in English "It's over for you" is an awkward five syllable jumble.

Dynamite Shakers - CINÉMA (Clip Officiel)YouTube video by DYNAMITE SHAKERSwww.youtube.com

“Before Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy became a beloved grown-up literary family, they were THE MARCH SISTERS.” And then it's just another remake of Little Women

I saw the rain-dirty valley, you saw Brigadoon

They're just real good. (There's also no one named "Pamela" in the group.)

Pamela. - Pandemonium (Official Video)YouTube video by WorldOfPamelaVEVOwww.youtube.com

Absolutely loving this new music from these two Australian folks. The kids? They're gonna be all right.

Pamela. - Better Than Before (Live From Rolling Stone's In My Room)YouTube video by WorldOfPamelaVEVOwww.youtube.com

Thinking Yes on 1, big ol' No's on 2-5.

I do think Aston Villa will go ahead and keep Emi Martinez now. I don't think Juve can afford to pay what AVFC will ask after this competition.

Ferran Torres with the 80/80 hair out there. Like a race car driver in a 1972 Grand Prix movie.

So BOTH of Argentina's starting CBs are off with Romero unable to continue.

There was a world cup final halftime show. In defiance of what Very Soccer Guys on social media have led me to believe, it appears as if the world continues to rotate, and the sun remains in the sky.