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Top Comments: Open Thread/World Cup edition
A quick look at the World Cup, then opening-up-the-floor for your thoughts, after the jump ….But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you...
View ArticleBlack Kos, Tuesday's Chile
A Philadelphia NegroReview by Chitown KevThe New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 932 pp., $39.95In 2014, the Washington Post reported that the...
View ArticleFIFA fines Mexico $10K, reveal themselves to be shameless hypocrites
(Yes I'm sure there are lots of more important things to talk about right now. But the rest of the community seems to have it covered pretty well.)Yesterday Mexico’s soccer federation was fined $10,000...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: World Cup Weekend
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Besame, Doctor RJ, Magnifico and...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: The Game That Never Was
The Ghanaians apparently mourned their departed comrade all the way to the cemetery, while the Indians left the pitch the very way they entered it: through a bottle placed in the centre-circleI was in...
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Trump Tweets Support Of World Cup
To anyone who may not have guessed, the above tweet is fake.I don’t know how you feel about fake tweets, and perhaps Daily Kos is not the place for them, but I believe Trump and his supporters need to...
View ArticleWorld Cup - some thoughts on rosters/players
I got curious about all the club teammates facing one another at the World Cup, So I looked up which Clubs had the most players on the rosters of the 32 nations participating. Here are the...
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Dosvedanya! Croatia DEFEATS RUSSIA in Soccer World Cup Quarterfinals.
From BBC Sport:Russia's remarkable World Cup run ended in a heart-breaking quarter-final defeat on penalties as Croatia bounced back from a late extra-time equaliser to set up a last-four meeting with...
View ArticleWorld Cup: France is in the Finals. Allez Les Bleus!
As someone from America observed recently, the French love soccer and they detest Donald Trump. Tonight, from the streets of the capital city to the smallest provincial towns, the whole country is...
View ArticleSoccer Or Football If You Will
I just finished reading an altogether interesting article about the United States’ failure in soccer. Why we can’t seem to be better at the international game. Ultimately, the writer from Yahoo...
View ArticleEngland. Croatia. Whirled cup live blog
The first half was tough, fast, exciting. England scored on a penalty, just outside of the box. A fantastic goal, in a cup that has seen a slew of fantastic goals. England had several ops to make it...
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PWBPeeps Evening Open Thread: Chomps-Élysées?
Vive la France.What a weekend this will be in France. Today is Bastille Day, or officially la Fête nationale. In Paris, the celebration of French independence and unity began this morning with the...
View ArticleThe white supremacy of the white moderate — Disrespectability Politics Season...
xEmbedded ContentOr click here to listen on iTunes.Whether it's erasing our identities into so-called colorblindness (eye roll) or demanding that we endure state violence peacefully and resist through...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Game Night Edition
Pictures of the week come from The Guardian (wildlife), Buzzfeed News, Roll Call, The Atlantic, and the BBC.And 209 photos of female MPs by 209 female photographers, also from The Guardian.But the...
View ArticleUSA beats South Africa 3-0 on the way to World Cup 2019
I just happened to tune in to Channel 2, WJBK, the local FOX affiliate here in Detroit, to watch a bit of a soccer game: USA vs. South Africa, which took place earlier today in Santa Clara,...
View ArticleU.S. soccer star: 'I'm not going to the f*cking White House'
Here’s yet another reason to love our women’s soccer team.When asked if she was excited about visiting the White House should the U.S. win the World Cup, team co-captain Megan Rapinoe didn’t mince...
View ArticleU.S. Women's National Team wins World Cup and Hearts and Minds
As expected, the US Women’s Nation Team (USWNT) won the World Cup today. The skills, the spirit and the mental strength of this team were unmatched by any other team in this tournament.There are a few...
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Top Comments: USWNT wins again - World Cup #4
I don’t know how many of you got to catch the World Cup final match this morning from Lyon, France but it was spectacular. The game itself was wonderful but the spectacular part is the effect that this...
View ArticleMen’s Global Superstars are born at the club level, not the World Cup....
How and where are global soccer superstars made? The answer to this question is very different for men and women. That difference is one of many contributing factors to the revenue differences between...
View ArticlePutin’s 2018 World Cup stadiums are in trouble, with one sinking into the...
In “Field Of Nightmares? Russian World Cup Stadium Plagued By Problems” RFE/RL’s Aleksandr Gmyrin and Tony Wesolowsky reported on Friday that one of the stadiums Russia built and opened just months...
View ArticleRussia Banned from Olympics and World Cup
From CNN: “Russia banned from 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup over doping scandal.”The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has unanimously agreed to ban Russia from major international sporting...
View ArticleMegan Rapinoe — who famously dissed Trump — is SI's Sportsperson of the Year
You may have fell in love with her as she led the U.S. National Soccer Team to the World Cup and, ultimately, a tournament victory.I fell in love with her when she said this:xâÂÂIâÂÂm not going...
View ArticleSports world says 'nyet' to Putin: Russia booted from World Cup, Paralympics,...
Ukraine’s athletes proudly took part in the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympics waving their blue-and-yellow flag and holding their fists in the air, receiving a huge ovation from their fellow...
View ArticleThis World Cup has been mired in controversy since well before its first game
Doha, Qatar, has been building up to host the 2022 World Cup for years. In that time, the country has come under fire for its labor practices, ballooning costs, and much worse. Construction on the main...
View ArticleWant to help Twitter shuffle off this mortal coil? Tweet during the World Cup...
According to this article from the Guardian, Twitter has a 50% chance of a major crash during the World Cup. Twitter previously crashed during the 2010 World Cup as a major play will prompt fans from...
View ArticleIranian World Cup players and fans bravely send a message, while European...
The 2022 FIFA World Cup kicked off this weekend with a new round of controversies relating to its host country. Qatar got the right to host this World Cup in 2010 amid allegations of corruption and...
View ArticleCrowds of protesters gather in West Iran amid World Cup Game
The death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who died under mysterious circumstances after being arrested by the country’s morality police, continues to spark protests across Iran. As BBC...
View ArticleQatar World Cup: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
I am not sure if I am allowed to post a video here. If not the moderators will remove it. But thought I’d share John Oliver’s talk about the World Cup in Qatar. It’s well worth watching. xxYouTube Video
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Who Knew? All it Took was a World Cup in Qatar.
For 33 years, on and off, I have tried to interest my fellow Israelis in human rights - to no avail.During my undergrad in Jerusalem in the early 1990s I volunteered in the human-rights organization,...
View ArticleSupporters of Iran's government harass and threaten protesters at World Cup...
Days after members of the Iranian soccer team refused to sing along with the national anthem at their first World Cup match, they sang along, but with little enthusiasm, at their second match. While...
View ArticleHow Poland booted the USSR from the World Cup in 1982 and Russia in 2022
As Laura Clawson has described in two diaries, here and here, Iranian fans at the 1982 World Cup have been protesting against the Islamic regime’s brutal crackdown against women’s rights protesters in...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and now moi,...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing 11/30/22: Nooooo Gooooooal
Since the World Cup is happening now, it only seems appropriate to note the first international soccer game happened 150 years ago today.The 1872 association football match between the national teams...
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Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile: A Worldwide "Problem"
A Worldwide “Problem”Commentary by Chitown KevMuch of the subject matter here at Black Kos is “problematic” news. That is, the very existence of Black people is defined and treated as “a problem” to be...
View ArticleUSA advances in the World Cup
USA advanced to the next round in the World cup by beating Iran 1-0.(USA vs Iran watch party)xYouTube Videoa little good news in sports for team USAOne important detail from the game from NY...
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And now for something completely different - a World Cup recap for people who...
IntroductionThe (Football) World Cup group stage has just concluded in Qatar. The knockout stage starts today. If you are wondering how the teams got there, here is a summary of the process. I have...
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This Week in the War on Women, 11/27-12/3/2022: Professional Negligence Edition
This week, I’ve been trying to get a few things accomplished and mostly getting nowhere. I’m the paying customer and it’s past time I was treated like a valuable one. I am sick and tired of how they...
View ArticleClimate change is driving up food prices
Tip to journalists: COP27 and food price inflation are part of the same story.By Mark Schapiro for Capital & MainFood: The real inflation storySo goes the news scroll, rapidly pivoting from the...
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"Reflections" on the Fun Costumes at the World Cup Matches
There is no doubt FIFA World Cup fever engulfs its fans and inspires them to dress up in support of their nation’s team. The efforts they put in to making their costumes to support their countries at...
View ArticleGood, Bad, and Ugly this Holiday Season
I confess one of my favorite movies is the 1966 Italian spaghetti WesternThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. As the holiday season approaches, we need a list of recent good, bad and uglies.Let’s start...
View ArticleElon Musk vows to step down as head of Twitter after taking a poll and losing...
While the rest of the globe was basking in the glow of an incredible final World Cup game between Argentina and France, Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk was running a poll to ask if he should remain as...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest December 20 2022
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom....
View ArticleSoccer’s most beloved player, known simply as Pelé, has died at the age of 82
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, born in 1940 and globally known as Pelé, has died at a hospital in Sao Paulo at the age of 82. The soccer megastar was hospitalized on Nov. 29 for a respiratory infection,...
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Brazilian Soccer Legend Pele has died.
This is a breaking story, as Pele, the Brazilian soccer legend who won three World Cup titles, has died at the age of 82 after suffering from colon cancer.www.cbsnews.com/…
View ArticleFrom athletes to politicians, even NASA weighed in on the legacy of soccer...
Thursday, the soccer world lost its greatest and most beloved player: Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pelé. The three-time World Cup champion died at a hospital in Sao Paulo at the age of 82.The loss...
View ArticleMikaela Shiffrin stands alone in Women's Alpine Skiing, updated x 2.
Good morning.This only just happened, so it is not surprising that no one has diaried it. I know this is a political site, but we members have broad interests, and this is one of mine.The Alpine skiing...
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Top Comments: World Cup qualifying Split Screen edition
A look at a bizarre World Cup moment, after-the-jump ...But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are...
View ArticleLGBTQ+ community proud and visible at Women's World Cup
By MAX RALPHAUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson has helped create two milestones at the Women's World Cup.With her 48th-minute goal in the tournament opener against...
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Trump leads vicious attack against US women's soccer team after World Cup loss
The United States women’s national soccer team exited the World Cup over the weekend, losing to Sweden in the round of 16. It was the earliest World Cup loss ever for the U.S. team, and came after wins...
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