Recent content by OrangeBlue98

Great, 2 more months or so of hearing how USC’s 9th man makes them a deeper team than we are. Yay?

Let’s check in on how a key participant in today’s third place World Cup game feels about playing in a consolation match.

Lots of England players not playing. Mbappe starting for France. I get Mbappe is trying to win the Golden Boot, but if i were Real Madrid I would not be happy seeing him start.

3rd place games are the most useless games in sports. But they’d draw ratings and money, so it’ll probably happen.

Thierry Henry is the best studio analyst on television right now, and it really isn’t even close. He and Rebecca Lowe clearly carry Zlatan and Lalas. Zlatan is like Barkley on NCAA tournament games. Totally unprepared and just tries to get by on vibes. Lalas is, well Lalas. Zlatan has had some...

Approximately 320 Division 1 men’s basketball coaches would give a body part to have this problem…….

I’ll answer this one succinctly: Illinois wins the national championship.

Instead of this backdoor “mistaken identity”stuff, I’d respect FIFA and IFAB (the law-making body) much more if they would have just said “simulation is subject to VAR review, period.” This “give a caution, then check for mistaken identity” is a mess, even if you get to the ultimate right...

The only issue is that the Laws and current VAR protocol tie the officials’ hands here. This was reviewed under the “mistaken identity” clause. This means if you identify one player getting a yellow and the other player should get it because of simulation, then you can’t make up something to get...

He’s going to play his way into some team giving him a long, long look to be a part of their organization if he keeps doing what he’s doing…….

I am with you. The only thing I didn’t like about the application of away goals rule was that it still counted in extra time. So if the away team scored in extra time, then then home team had to score twice. Use away goals for 180 minutes, then don’t use it for extra time.

If people think Dayton is a place with nothing going on…………..

I’m a glass half full guy, so I love having two guys like this that can crush favorable matchup issues. Scouting will be important, but I see a world where usage highly depends on which guy has the “beard”’defender as the matchup.