Pochettino doesn’t come cheap. Crocker had said money wouldn’t prevent them from hiring right coach and, sure enough, hedge fund gazillionaire Ken Griffin splashed out to help get it done.

Behind the scenes on how USSF landed Pochettino. 🏋️ Crocker getting a text while in home gym 🥩 Hotel meetings & steak in Barcelona ✍️ Batson middleman for deal with Chelsea ✈️ Flights around Europe 🇺🇸 Lobbying from Emma Hayes Story with Adam Crafton nytimes.com/athletic/57558…

Let’s try this again… FT: #usmnt 1-1 New Zealand. U.S. goes 1-4-2 in the last three months, failing to beat yet another team that it should have handled easily. Let the Poch era begin.

“I have concepts of a plan.” ^^me, every time my editor asks what I’m going to write

She signed the endorsement Childless Cat Lady ………. 🎤 fell all the way down

Good to see Terri Jackson come out this strongly.

That’s it?

ICYMI The USMNT got their guy — and they have to hope Mauricio Pochettino does as well as the last coach US Soccer got from Chelsea. usatoday.com/story/sports/s…

89-58, Mystics #FINAL Sky's worst loss of the season comes in a game with serious playoff implications.

One of one ✨ A’ja Wilson continues to dominate night in and night out, and now her name is etched in history for the most points EVER recorded in a single season

Flavor Flav made good on his promise to gift U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles a bronze clock after she was stripped of an Olympic bronze medal. usatoday.com/story/sports/o…

Truly A'One. @alysha_clark on A'ja Wilson as a teammate.

New. Gianni Infantino has flown more than 600,000 kilometres on a private jet owned by Qatar the past three years. He defied the pandemic and principles of good governance to become an elite polluter. By Sam Kunti josimarfootball.com/2024/09/12/fly…

Now… every black man who said black womenfolk were jealous, bitter, or hating… let’s have a frank conversation about what you were really doing

This will go well for him

Congrats to everybody who went all-in on The New Fan Base that was going to Grow The Game and who kept telling all the WNBA players how grateful they should be for all this attention

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Again, the Republican Party’s candidate for president of the United States did this. It’s monstrous.

Racism, misogyny and homophobia should not be the price WNBA players have to pay for increased interest in the league — and commissioner Cathy Engelbert shouldn't have to be shamed into saying that usatoday.com/story/sports/c…

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