Let Courtois take over and play the kids, this season is a write off. Also make Bez an offer he can’t refuse. #Crew96

Throw-in It Back — American Soccer Analysis Towards a manual for the most common restart By Ben Bellman Whether you love long attacking throw-ins or hate them, there is no denying that they’ve become both a key feature and flashpoint in m...

New research! @beninquiring.bsky.social replicated @eliotmckinley.com's work on throw ins, and added g+ in to see how teams can be smarter on the trendiest part of the game in 2026. With an interactive throw in visualizer!

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Trailcamsbutmakeitsports

There's a guy in our neighborhood who walks around with what looks like a very well trained but unleashed Doberman. As someone with small kids it is always disconcerting.

John Hodgman's definition is that a sandwich has bread can be cut in half for sharing/saving for later. So by that definition a Samosa is not a sandwich. I'd say it is in the dumpling family.

ICE caused a u-12 soccer game to be cancelled because families were justifiably afraid of the secret police

My son’s final game of a soccer tournament this morning was cancelled this morning because of increasing ICE activity in Nashville.

I cannot wait for all the people that caused this to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

It's great to see the Art Modell Law potentially going national.

FWIW when he was an Austin city council member, Casar voted to provide public land to Anthony Precourt so he could move the Columbus Crew to Austin. I'm glad he learned a lesson from that.

My wife and I were just discussing this with our soccer obsessed son a few days ago in the context of what she did as a med student . This is a perfect illustration of it for him.

Gotta pay the Trump toll if you wanna get in that Persian Gulf hole.

Schematic of MRI knee coil

Maybe they do something different in Madrid, but usually you have a coil that goes around a specific body part to get higher quality images of that part of the body. So they likely would have put the wrong knee in the coil.

It's the soda bottle after a 3 year old has had two sips with food.

It’s Courtois time

Dads out here need an EV/PHEV minivan that doesn't suck, though.

Not great, Henrik.

a man with his hand on his forehead with the words " one does not simply " above him Alt: a man with his hand on his forehead with the words " one does not simply " above him. It's Boromir from The Fellowship of the Ring

One does not simply transition to relationism overnight

Do not look up how old Juan Agudelo is now.

Bingo

Synergy

Screenshot of dashboard: "How your team scores: MLS xg data" various stat breakdowns and pitch graphic with shots shown as dots below

It took me a sec, but the xG dashboard is back for 2026!

For those who weren't here last season, the dashboard uses @jamonm.bsky.social & @carloncarpenter.bsky.social's WGCF principles to break down MLS shots.

Built using @americansocceranalysis.com data.

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ha mls over time

Looks like about 2015/16 for the peak and downhill since.

home advantage in MLS over time

Looks like down a bit in recent seasons.

So that insane home advantage didn't survive week 3 of the 2026 MLS season (46th percentile now).

Is Celantano moving in the summer? Seems to be the only way this makes sense.

And this assumes shootouts did not happen.

Adding in all MLS games, 2026 has the highest home advantage to start a season - just edging out 1997 and 2000.

I pulled some data via @americansocceranalysis.com's {itscalledsoccer} and while home advantage has never started out so high in an MLS season since 2013, it is not quite the highest ever (only 98.41 percentile).

I suspect this is an aberration and it will bounce around just like it always has.

Atlanta United could get worse

A graph showing what percent of 2025 minutes are returning in 2026 for each team in the NWSL. Seattle Reign has the most, with 90.5%, and North Carolina Courage has the least, with only 58.8% of 2025 minutes returning. The league average is around 75%.

With only two weeks left before the 2026 NWSL season kicks off, check out which teams will look most similar to and which teams will look most different from their 2025 counterparts!

Returning minutes graph for @americansocceranalysis.com.

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