You mention Beiber and Carter but not Common!

Well if we want to include streaming wouldn't we have to include that as well for the NBA Finals? Pretty sure it would yield a similar result. Also, we're talking about a team that represents the entire country vs. two teams that represent their own respective cities.

I could care less about how USA does, just seems like a weird tie-breaker system between two teams when you've already seen that one team has beaten the other.

So to answer my question; yes, according to FIFA, how a third party team (Portugal) plays the two involved teams is more important to determining which team is better than how those two teams played against each other.

Still seems ridiculous.

So yeah the comment you're responding to may deserve criticism but how many US viewers were there for this game today? Wasn't the US v. Ghana match at 11mil viewers? The NBA Finals averaged around 15mil and peaked at 22mil or so. What numbers are you basing it off of?

I remember watching Whitlock go on HBO's Inside the NFL and ESPN's Sports Reporters and make a fool of himself. John Saunders would literally facepalm while Whitlock was talking pretty consistently when the subject was about a black athlete. Whitlock fit his bill and almost always seemed to pander towards the…

His rant on ESPN about how allowing fresh horses to compete is like him playing a kid in a wheelchair in basketball was unbelievable.

Because this:

"Awful" and "short-sighted?" More like moronic, insultingly not even close.

Change-up, swing and a miss.

I get it!

baseball stars.

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exactly. Cole might have said something not as clean as what he admitted to afterwards, but I got the impression he was giving Gomez hell for looking like a goofball.

What's hilarious is that he knows he's horrible but he plays it up so well.

goal.

wasn't that Gary Anderson?

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