The USMNT has two problems that need to be taken care of:

Checking my calendar to ensure the date is not April 1st......

Since at every possible moment we are reminded that Donald Trump is a terrible human being, couldn’t we also be reminded at every possible moment (such as when Mexico national team games are covered) that “puto” is a gay slur and should be stopped from being used?

You don’t need to warn us about this; we get hit over the head with such gems like “Spurs rise late to eclipse Suns,” “Bulls can’t handle the Heat,” and “Tigers roar into September” all the time. It seems like contrived sportswriting happens more often that not.

It feels like a loophole because that’s exactly what it is. There’s a simple fix here, obviously, and I don’t think it will have a lot of opposition in the off-season to get it done.

The kind of loophole that shouldn’t feel right are the kinds of loopholes that are put into rules (or more likely legislation) ON…

The biggest life lesson I’ve learned post-college:
If you buy something and love it (shirts, pants, shoes for me...but I guess...a keyboard), BUY MULTIPLE WHILE YOU HAVE THE CHANCE. Throwing away your favorite whatever because it is worn out is a terrible feeling.

Fishing is the worst. In middle school you could tell if you woke up too soon on Saturday mornings by turning on ESPN, and instead of normal programming you saw...Jimmy Houston! He’s the annoying fisherman with the bleach blonde Pete Rose haircut and Oakley sunglasses. Damn, those were the worst mornings.

All this just makes me want to neverevereverever want to go at all.

Centers that actually played body-to-body defense against O’Neal: Dikembe Mutombo and Arvydas Sabonis.

That would be taking the chicken way out.

Starting with 2016 and working backwards to 1998, here is the rough percentage of non-white players in France tournament squads: 52, 43, 47, 60, 69, 69, 56, 43, 43, 39. Compared to the current ~15% non-white population in France, that’s pretty good minority representation.