it is kinda funny given that everyone's gonna be talking about mentality and bottling, that the one team you could see the nerves on today was City
the final ~15 minutes their decision-making was so so bad
but they won so that's not a story anyone will care about
Huge day for all 3 Manchester City fans.
A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.
At least the prior City teams had fun players. This one is just a collection of the least likeable guys in the game plus some other dudes who are just kinda there.
The national discourse after this is going to feature a lot of Brazil Needs Neymar takes when the truth is that Brazil mostly just needs Gabriel Magalhães.
The bright side for Brazil is that these center backs aren’t going to see the field at the World Cup unless something goes badly wrong.
Lula hasn't been implicated in the scandal around Banco Master, a failed bank facing fraud allegations. But it's affecting views of Brazilian institutions and feeding anti-establishment sentiment. Perceptions, meanwhile, are that it's closer to him than Bolsonaro.
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Brazil’s Lula has seen a double-digit lead vanish in mere months. And he’s struggling to blunt Flavio Bolsonaro’s rise as fallout from war in Iran and a major corruption scandal weigh on voter sentiment ahead of October elections. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Incredible story that is worth your time to read. It exposes the ways in which the Trump admin is turning the legal immigration system into yet another arm of the mass deportation machine, transforming a benefits agency into a trap for those seeking legal status.
Candidates are avoiding the campaign trail. Parts of the countryside are no-go zones for politicians.
Violence fueled by powerful criminal groups is gripping Colombia as elections approach. A manhunt for warlords wanted by Trump may unleash more chaos.
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There’s never been a college basketball program as fraudulent as Tennessee.
A good rundown here of the key players in Venezuela now that Maduro is gone — particularly VP Delcy Rodriguez, a close ally who sounded defiant even after Trump said they’d work together. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump put tariffs on Brazil and sanctions on a Brazilian judge to try to stop ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s trial on coup charges.
Five months later, the most threatening of the tariffs are gone, the sanctions have been lifted, and Bolsonaro is behind bars.
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Worst OC in history
God that was almost 20 years ago now. Andre Woodson and Stevie Johnson are responsible for several of the greatest moments of my live sports-watching life.
I’m not a CFB historian but the OC’s gotta be in the convo for worst coordinators in recent SEC history.
I could be fine with them being boring, or fine with them being bad. But not both!
Sigh.
Shoulda let Malachi Toney throw more.
(And I say this so, so endearingly about both.)
There was a popular meme a few years back that "Brazil is more than soccer and samba" and yes, 100% it definitely is but also sometimes...nope.
Covering Brazil is a battle not to turn everything into a football metaphor only for the president to often turn things into a football metaphor.
"In conversations with close aides, Lula has begun referring to the son of Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo, as 'my #10,'" an ironic nod to his lobbying for Trump tariffs and sanctions that have given the Brazilian leader a boost in popularity.
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Trump's lifeline, meanwhile, appears set to do little to boost Milei in midterm elections that will serve as a key referendum on the libertarian leader's austerity drive. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
For Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right.
The problem is that in Argentina -- a nation with a track record of squandering other people’s money and defaulting on its own debts -- those things have tended to go wrong.
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Relevant here: Brazil’s exports rose 7% in September even as shipments to the US plummeted again.
Exports to Argentina, China and other markets are blunting the impact of Trump’s tariffs, while the levies drive higher coffee prices for American consumers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump and Brazil’s Lula spoke by phone Monday. The man who inspired their months-long battle — Jair Bolsonaro — didn’t merit a mention.
It’s too early for Lula to declare victory. But the leader known for an ability to charm sure seems to have momentum behind him.
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Amanda Shires spent an afternoon introducing me to Lubbock and a small portion of those very fun hours is now chronicled in Texas Monthly ahead of her new album :) gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
Loved this, great piece
