Jerrad A. Peters

Italy beats the USA 8-6

FIFA COO: World Cup 'too big' to be postponed by Middle East conflict FIFA Chief Operating Officer Heimo Schirgi said the World Cup is "too big" and that the 2026 tournament will go on as planned despite ​ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Wrong. Nothing is "too big." I'm not saying it should or should not be postponed/relocated/cancelled. The point here is FIFA's hubris. No, FIFA, you are not bigger than actual, real-life events that impact people's actual, real lives. www.reuters.com/sports/socce...

"competitive wages"

There is no way the US should be hosting the World Cup this summer. To say that this incident telegraphs disaster is to make an understatement: "10 players from Jamaican side Mount Pleasant have been denied a visa to enter the US for Concacaf Champions Cup tie against LA Galaxy."

Galaxy's Jamaican opponent in Champions Cup may be short 10 players because of visa woes Up to 10 players from Jamaican team Mount Pleasant were denied visas for its CONCACAF Champions Cup match against the Galaxy in L.A., raising concerns about World Cup travel.

"Visa woes" = Haitian players on the team being denied visas and additional paperwork held up by U.S. It's the latter that will have the biggest impact at the 2026 World Cup. Postponements, postponements, postponements. Worst World Cup ever. www.latimes.com/sports/socce...

That the first NFL content to appear on my timeline in almost a month is coming from you is...unexpected.

"bUt tHE wOrLd CuP iS 3 MOnTHs aWAy." Indeed. And what indication do we have that June will be different.

Just to be a jerk, you could also tax recreational pick-up trucks inside the Perimeter.

Here we go. The first request for postponement. It will not be the last.

World Baseball Classic > FIFA World Cup

Opinion: War in Iran further exacerbates logistics of 2026 World Cup

From me, on a FIFA World Cup that could be a logistical nightmare, and already is a moral one: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

Phenomenal match.

Opinion: War in Iran further exacerbates logistics of 2026 World Cup

If the World Cup was supposed to start tomorrow, would it? My column: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

you guys I think The New York Times is onto something...

Trump and His Soulless Cronies Have Managed to Suck the Joy Out of the World Cup Not even soccer is immune from Trump’s reverse Midas touch.

I wrote something @thenation.com about the 2026 Joyless World Cup. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The World Baseball Classic is a welcome distraction. Baseball is a balm.

So we're just not going to talk about Trump's slurring and clownfish complexion? While he presides over a shooting war? Ok then!

Opinion: Trump offers Iran militarism, authoritarianism and corruption instead of a coherent plan U.S. administration’s overt corruption raises question of whether its armed forces are available for hire

Timothy Snyder: "...the U.S. government is using military force against a common enemy of the countries that have enriched Mr. Trump....This administration’s stupefyingly overt corruption raises the question of whether the U.S. armed forces are now for hire." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Big congrats, Daniel!

Opinion: Relaxed Real Betis ready for Sevilla challenge

From me, on today's Gran Derbi: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu... #Betis #Sevilla

GET 'EM

Israeli spokesman to the BBC: The Iranian regime has been telling lies "for centuries." Ah yes, those many centuries since 1979.

Starmer could have just put out a communique. A lengthy speech in which he says absolutely nothing just looks ridiculous.

Enjoy some lesser-known Boticellis. They're neat because they're circles, you see.

Good luck getting this back, France.

If Connor Hellebuyck accepts the Medal of Freedom from the current president, that should spell his end - immediately - as a Winnipeg Jet. (It won't, of course.)

Yes indeed.

(6/6, P.S.) Geoffrey of Monmouth's genius was intentionally composing his Arthurian version on this approach to the Old Testament model - he as all-knowing narrator for an audience that would instinctively read his work as they read sacred texts.

(5/6) This assumes a single narrator at an elevated perspective where none exists, and it again reveals the literary paucity with which we approach these - and sacred - texts.

(4/6) Inevitably, different elements of the Arthurian legends have been more useful, or less, to those searching for meaning in them at various periods. And yet, in each period we have assumed to know *the* linear version.