If you checked out the second the World Cup ended, you've missed quite a epilogue.
Infantino immediately decided after the World Cup that the future of FIFA was to sell 'stakes' to private equity in all of FIFA's future major events, including the World Cup, and at the head of the line is -- of course -- the Kushner family.
Of course, seeing how private equity ruins pretty much everything, the world, and in particular UEFA is balking setting up a showdown.
Bill is going to wear Hugo for a long, long time unless he becomes an all NBA type player.
LeBron James - Klutch Client (and partial owner?)
Tyrese Maxey - Klutch Client
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope - Klutch Client
Jabari Walker - Klutch Client
Justin Edwards - Klutch Client
Nick Nurse - Klutch Client
The cauldron lighting basically comes down to LeBron or Michael Phelps.
LeBron is 100% going to drag himself if he has to, to being on that Olympic team and that will involve playing two more NBA seasons.
So the reality is, he absolutely could do a weird season with the Warriors/Sixers/Wolves and then do the Cleveland season in 27-28, then do Team USA and retire after the Olympics.
"And join Franklin? That was the conclusion you woke up with this morning?"
"That was the conclusion I woke up with this morning"
I played fantasy football every year from 1999 to 2020, and then picked it up again the last two years.
During that large swath of time, people I knew couldn't shut up about it. It was how a lot of them actually processed the sport. And increasingly so much of the weekly NFL programming was geared towards fantasy.
One thing I've noticed is since the advent of widespread legal gambling and the leagues partnering with it, almost no one I know talks about fantasy anymore and significantly less of the weekly programming is geared towards it, with way more of it just geared towards spreads and props.
Even that little daily fantasy boomlet from a few years back seems to have petered out in favor of online sportsbook and prediction markets.
Has it left popular sports culture and is it just becoming niche?
Let's just go position by position.
Would you rather have Brad Pitt or Matt Damon? It's close. They're both max movie stars.
Would you rather have Eric Bana or Tom Holland? Now, the kids who only follow the movies through TikToks and YouTube would tell you Tom Holland, no question, but when you grind the tape Eric Bana is so much more versatile. I'd take Bana.
Would you rather have Brian Cox or Brian Safdie? See, now there's just no comparison.
Would you rather have Diane Kruger or Lupita Nyong'o? Ok, now, look...you filter out all the social media noise, and look at the analytics and tape, scene by scene, Kruger just pops more. And she's a gritty, hard-working actor who acts the right way...