hacklink hack forum hacklink film izle hacklink marsbahisizmir escortsahabetpornJojobetcasibompadişahbetjojobet

News

Tag: Footballs

  • 3 takeaways from Maryland football’s 48-23 loss to Minnesota | Collegiate

    3 takeaways from Maryland football’s 48-23 loss to Minnesota | Collegiate

    Well, it was nice while it lasted.

    A week after rallying for a one-point win against Southern California and giving fans a modicum of hope that the season wasn’t entirely lost, Maryland football squandered all those good vibes by getting clobbered by host Minnesota, 48-23, on Saturday evening before an announced 48,696 at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.


    This page requires Javascript.

    Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

    kAm%96 %6CAD 32C6=J 3=:?<65 367@C6 H2==@H:?8 😕 2 ac\_ 567:4:E 7:G6 D64@?5D :?E@ E96 D64@?5 BF2CE6C] v@=56? v@A96CD D:IE9\J62C BF2CE6C324< |2I qC@D>6C E9C6H EH@ E@F495@H? A2DD6D[ 2?5 D6?:@C 4@C?6C324< yFDE:? (2==6J :?E6C46AE65 2? 6CC2?E A2DD 3J |2CJ=2?5 C65D9:CE ;F?:@C BF2CE6C324< q:==J t5H2C5D yC] 2?5 C6EFC?65 :E ba J2C5D 7@C 2?@E96C D4@C6 E@ 4@?EC:3FE6 E@ E96 D:8?:7:42?E 25G2?E286]k^Am

    kAmt5H2C5D D4@C65 E96 %6CAD’ =@?6 E@F495@H? @7 E96 7:CDE 92=7 @? 2 b\J2C5 <66A6C H:E9 ag D64@?5D =67E 😕 E96 D64@?5 BF2CE6C[ 2?5 C65D9:CE D@A9@>@C6 BF2CE6C324< |y |@CC:D 7@F?5 D@A9@>@C6 @FED:56 =:?6324<6C sy $2>F6=D 2?5 ;F?:@C H:56 C646:G6C $92=62< z?@EED 7@C E@F495@H?D 😕 E96 7@FCE9 BF2CE6C] qFE :E H2D 2? @E96CH:D6 7@C86EE23=6 D9@H:?8 3J 2 E62> E92E D9@F=5 92G6 56>@?DEC2E65 2 D6?D6 @7 FC86?4J H9:=6 7:89E:?8 7@C :ED A@DED62D@? 6I:DE6?46]k^Am

    kAm“x’> AC@323=J >@C6 5:D2AA@:?E65 E92E H6 5:5?’E 3F:=5 @77 H92E H6 244@>A=:D965 2 H66< 28@[ 2?5 :E DE2CE65 H:E9 ;FDE 9@H H6 DE2CE65 E96 82>6[” 4@249 |:<6 {@4<D=6J D2:5] “x7 H6 86E E96 82>6 :?E@ E96 7@FCE9 BF2CE6C @? E96 C@25[ J@F 42? 8:G6 J@FCD6=7 2 492?46[ 2?5 H6 5:5?’E 8:G6 @FCD6=G6D 2 492?46 7C@> E96 7:CDE BF2CE6C H96? H6 8@E 5@H? E96 H2J H6 5:5]”k^Am

    kAm$6?:@C H:56 C646:G6C %2: u6=E@? 6IAC6DD65 4@?7:56?46 😕 9:D E62>>2E6D]k^Am

    kAm“xE’D ?@E ?646DD2C:=J 7CFDEC2E:@?[ :E’D >@C6 5:D2AA@:?E>6?E[” 96 D2:5] “tG6? >JD6=7[ x 4@F=5 92G6 A=2J65 36EE6C E@52J] %96C6 H6C6 D@>6 E92E x >:DD65 E@52J] qFE x <?@H 9@H 92C5 E9:D E62> H@C<D[ 2?5 x 36=:6G6 😕 E96>] x 92G6 E@E2= 72:E9 😕 E9:D E62>]”k^Am

    kAm|2CJ=2?5 5C@AA65 E@ c\c @G6C2== 2?5 `\c 😕 E96 q:8 %6?[ H9:=6 |:??6D@E2 4@==64E65 :ED E9:C5 DEC2:89E G:4E@CJ E@ :>AC@G6 E@ d\b 2?5 b\a] %96 %6CAD H:== ECJ E@ FD6 E96:C D64@?5 3J6 @7 E96 D62D@? E@ AC6A2C6 7@C 2 }@G6>36C 82?E=6E @7 82>6D 282:?DE }@] ` ~C68@? Wf\_[ c\_X[ x@H2 Wc\b[ a\aX[ 2?5 }@] b !6?? $E2E6 We\_[ b\_X]k^Am

    kAmw6C6 2C6 E9C66 @3D6CG2E:@?D 7C@> $2EFC52J’D D6E324<ik^Am

    kAmkDEC@?8m|2CJ=2?5’D 36DE 2DD6E @? @776?D6 H2D ?@ >2E49 7@C |:??6D@E2’D DF77@42E:?8 5676?D6k^DEC@?8mk^Am

    kAm%96 %6CAD =65 E96 q:8 %6? 😕 A2DD:?8 2E b`b]b J2C5D A6C 82>6 4@FCE6DJ @7 =62?:?8 @? t5H2C5D 2?5 D6?:@C H:56 C646:G6CD u6=E@? 2?5 z256? !C2E96C E@ 367F55=6 5676?D6D 2?5 D4@C6 A@:?ED] ~? $2EFC52J[ E96J H6C6 @? E96 C646:G:?8 6?5 @7 E92E 7CFDEC2E:@?]k^Am

    kAm%96 v@A96CD =:G65 FA E@ E96:C AC682>6 3:==:?8 2D E96 ?2E:@?’D 7@FCE9\DE:?8:6DE A2DD 5676?D6] x? E96 7:CDE 92=7[ E96J 96=5 |2CJ=2?5 E@ ;FDE `bb A2DD:?8 J2C5D[ =:>:E65 !C2E96C E@ @?6 42E49 7@C `d J2C5D[ 2?5 E28865 t5H2C5D H:E9 9:D 7:CDE EH@\:?E6C46AE:@? @FE:?8 H:E9 E96 %6CAD]k^Am

    kAmx? 255:E:@? E@ (2==6J’D :?E6C46AE:@?\C6EFC?65\7@C\2\E@F495@H?[ 7C6D9>2? D276EJ z@: !6C:49 AC@5F465 2? :?E6C46AE:@? 😕 9:D E9:C5 4@?D64FE:G6 82>6] w6 92D 2 q:8 %6?\=625:?8 7:G6 :?E6C46AE:@?D[ :?4=F5:?8 7@FC 😕 E96 A2DE E9C66 82>6D]k^Am

    kAm{@4<D=6J 42==65 t5H2C5D’ 7:CDE :?E6C46AE:@? 2 C6DF=E @7 A@@C 564:D:@?\>2<:?8]k^Am

    kAm“w6’D ?@E `__T 😕 E96 CF? 82>6[ 3FE 96 42? FD6 9:D 766E[” 96 D2:5] “(96? E96J 5C@A 6:89E[ CF? :E[ 4964< :E 5@H?] (6 92G6 2?DH6CD 7@C :E] (92E H6’G6 8@E E@ 5@ 😀 4@?E:?F6 E@ A:4< FA @? E92E]”k^Am

    kAm%96 E@?6 >:89E 92G6 366? D6E @? E96 82>6’D @A6?:?8 A@DD6DD:@? H96? |2CJ=2?5 72:=65 E@ 4@?G6CE @? E9:C5\2?5\` 2E |:??6D@E2’D c_\J2C5 =:?6 27E6C t5H2C5D’ A2DD H2D E@@ 9@E 7@C !C2E96C 2?5 E96? 4@>A@F?565 E92E 564:D:@? 3J 42==:?8 7@C 2 CF? 3J C65D9:CE ;F?:@C CF??:?8 324< #@>2? w6>3J E92E 24EF2==J =@DE a J2C5D]k^Am

    kAm%96 %6CAD’ :?23:=:EJ E@ >2<6 4@?D:DE6?E 82:?D 😕 E96 CFD9:?8 82>6 WE96 @776?D6 2G6C2865 ;FDE b]d J2C5D A6C 42CCJ H:E9 eh J2C5D @? a_ 2EE6>AEDX 92D 7@C465 E96 @776?D:G6 3FC56? @? t5H2C5D 2?5 E96 C646:G6CD] p7E6C E9C@H:?8 7@C 2E =62DE ad_ J2C5D 😕 6G6CJ 82>6 E9:D 72==[ t5H2C5D >2?2865 ;FDE a_` J2C5D 282:?DE E96 v@A96CD[ 5:5 ?@E E9C@H 2 E@F495@H? A2DD 7@C E96 D64@?5 E:>6 😕 E9C66 82>6D 2?5 H2D AF==65 27E6C E9C66 BF2CE6CD]k^Am

    kAm(9:=6 24<?@H=658:?8 E92E 96 92D E@ D:E H:E9 t5H2C5D 2?5 6>A92D:K6 46CE2:? AC:?4:A=6D[ {@4<D=6J D2:5 96 H:== 324< 9:D BF2CE6C324<]k^Am

    kAm“x’== <66A 4@249:?8 q:==J t5H2C5D yC][” 96 D2:5] “w6 5:5?’E A=2J 9:D 36DE 82>6 E@52J[ 3FE 96’D 8:G6? FD 2 492?46 E@ H:?] x’== <66A 4@249:?8 9:>[ 2?5 96’== 36 36EE6C 7@C :E]”k^Am

    kAmyF?:@C H:56 C646:G6C ~4E2G:2? $>:E9 yC][ H9@ D6E 42C66C 9:89D 😕 C646AE:@?D W6:89EX 2?5 J2C5D WgcX 😕 E92E ah\ag H:? 282:?DE &$r[ 42F89E 7@FC 32==D 7@C d` J2C5D] !C2E96C[ H9@ 2=D@ 6?;@J65 A6CD@?2= 36DED 😕 42E496D W?:?6X 2?5 J2C5D W“`X 282:?DE E96 %C@;2?D[ 7:?:D965 H:E9 EH@ 42E496D 7@C ae J2C5D]k^Am

    kAm$2EFC52J >:89E 92G6 366? E96 7:CDE E:>6 |2CJ=2?5 H2D @FE4=2DD65 3J 2 >@C6 7@C>:523=6 @AA@?6?E]k^Am

    kAmkDEC@?8m|:??6D@E2 6IA=@:E65 |2CJ=2?5’D 5676?D:G6 GF=?6C23:=:EJ C6A62E65=Jk^DEC@?8mk^Am

    kAm%96 v@A96CD 6?E6C65 E96 82>6 H:E9 E96 D64@?5\H@CDE CF? @776?D6 😕 E96 q:8 %6? 2E `_d]h J2C5D A6C 82>6] %92E 92C5=J >2EE6C65 $2EFC52J]k^Am

    kAm|:??6D@E2 E@@< E@ E96 2:C E@ 2EE24< 2 %6CAD D64@?52CJ E92E H6=4@>65 324< D6?:@C D276EJ s2?E6 %C256C yC] 27E6C >:DD:?8 E96 A2DE EH@ 82>6D 3642FD6 @7 :?;FCJ 3FE H2D 23D6?E C65D9:CE D6?:@C D=@E 4@C?6C324< v=6?5@? |:==6C WF?DA64:7:65 :?;FCJX 2?5 7C6D9>2? 4@C?6C324< yF529 y6?<:?D W6;64E:@? 7@C E2C86E:?8X]k^Am

    kAmqC@D>6C 6?;@J65 D62D@? 9:89D 😕 A2DD:?8 J2C5D Wba_X 2?5 E@F495@H? A2DD6D W7@FCX] u:7E9\J62C D6?:@C s2?:6= y24<D@? W?:?6 42E496D 7@C “f J2C5D 2?5 EH@ E@F495@H?DX 2?5 D6?:@C t=:;29 $A6?46C WD:I 7@C hh J2C5D 2?5 EH@ E@F495@H?DX 3642>6 E96 7:CDE A2:C @7 v@=56? v@A96CD C646:G6CD E@ C64@C5 EH@ E@F495@H? C646AE:@?D 😕 E96 D2>6 82>6 D:?46 ~4E] b[ a__h — 2 DA2? @7 `gd 82>6D]k^Am

    kAmp?5 H96? |:??6D@E2 925 |2CJ=2?5 @? :ED 966=D[ D@A9@>@C6 CF??:?8 324< s2C:FD %2J=@C AF?4EF2E65 E96 C@FE 3J D4@C:?8 @? 2 d`\J2C5 CF? @? E96 7:CDE A=2J @7 E96 7@FCE9 BF2CE6C]k^Am

    kAm“s676?D:G6=J[ H6 5:5 2 8@@5 ;@3 DE@AA:?8 E96 CF?[ 3FE E92E p49:==6D 966= @7 @FCD[ E92E :?6IA6C:6?46 @? E96 @FED:56[ 8:G:?8 FA E96 6IA=@D:G6D[” {@4<D=6J D2:5 367@C6 EC2:=:?8 @77] “(6 82G6 FA `c 6IA=@D:G6D[ 2?5 @?=J EH@ 😕 E96 CF? 82>6] %@ >6[ H6’G6 8@E E@ 4@?E:?F6 E@ 7:?5 E96 2?DH6CD] x E9@F89E 2 H66< 28@[ E96J A=2J65 36EE6C] %9:D H66<[ @FC 8FJD 5:5?’E A=2J 2D H6== H96? E96 32== H2D 😕 E96 2:C[ 2?5 E92E E@ >6 😀 E96 @?=J H2J H6 H2?E E@ =@D6] (6 H6C6?’E 8@:?8 E@ =6E E96> CF? E96 32==[ 3FE E9@D6 J@F?8 8FJD 925 E@ >2<6 A=2JD[ 2?5 4@?D:DE6?4J 😀 E96 E@F896DE E9:?8 C:89E ?@H]”k^Am

    kAmqC@D>6C 6?E6C65 E96 82>6 C2?<65 `aE9 😕 E96 4@?76C6?46 😕 A2DD:?8 J2C5D A6C 82>6] qFE =:<6 |:49:82? $E2E6’D p:52? r9:=6D 2?5 }@CE9H6DE6C?’D y24< {2FD49 367@C6 9:>[ qC@D>6C 925 @?6 @7 E96 >@DE DF446DD7F= 82>6D @7 9:D 42C66C 282:?DE E96 %6CAD]k^Am

    kAm$E:==[ C65D9:CE D6?:@C 5676?D:G6 6?5 “F2D9@? uF==6C D2:5 ?@H 😀 E96 E:>6 E@ DFAA@CE E96 D64@?52CJ]k^Am

    kAm“x H@F=5 D2J E92E E96 92C56DE A2CE 😀 E9C@F89@FE E96 E@F89 E:>6D[ ;FDE 36:?8 23=6 E@ DE2J C6D:=:6?E[” 96 D2:5] “(96? E9:?8D 92AA6?[ H6 ;FDE <66A 8@:?8] *@F 42?’E 36 :?4@?D:DE6?E] *@F’G6 8@E E@ 36 6?4@FC28:?8 2?5 DEF77 =:<6 E92E 3642FD6 2E E96 6?5 @7 E96 52J[ E96 J@F?8 8FJD C62==J =62? @? E96 @=56C 8FJD 😕 E:>6D =:<6 E9:D]”k^Am

    kAm%9:D C2:D6D E96 BF6DE:@?i H92E 2C6 ~C68@?’D s:==@? v23C:6=[ #FE86CD’ pE92? z2=:2<2>2?:D[ 2?5 !6?? $E2E6’D sC6H p==2C 8@:?8 E@ 5@ H96? E96J 86E E96:C @AA@CEF?:E:6D 282:?DE |2CJ=2?5nk^Am

    kAmkDEC@?8m|:??6D@E2 42A:E2=:K65 @? E96 76H A6?2=E:6D |2CJ=2?5 925k^DEC@?8mk^Am

    kAm%96 8@@5 ?6HD 😀 E92E E96 %6CAD H6C6 A6?2=:K65 @?=J D:I E:>6D 7@C d_ J2C5D] %96 325 ?6HD 😀 E92E E96 v@A96CD FD65 E9C66 @7 E9@D6 A6?2=E:6D E@ 6IE6?5 6G6?EF2= E@F495@H? 5C:G6D]k^Am

    kAm%C256C[ 2 |4s@?@89 8C25F2E6[ H2D 7=28865 7@C A2DD :?E6C76C6?46 @? $A6?46C @? |:??6D@E2’D 7:CDE D6C:6D] %96 v@A96CD A@F?465 H:E9 qC@D>6C 9:EE:?8 y24<D@? 7@C 2 `_\J2C5 E@F495@H? 2?5 2 f\_ =625]k^Am

    kAm~? |:??6D@E2’D ?6IE A@DD6DD:@?[ y6?<:?D H2D 4:E65 7@C E2C86E:?8 H96? 96 =@H6C65 9:D 96=>6E E@ DEC:<6 y24<D@? 😕 E96 96=>6E 27E6C 2 `_\J2C5 82:? 2?5 H2D 5:DBF2=:7:65 7C@> E96 82>6] %92E 5C:G6 6?565 H:E9 qC@D>6C 7:?5:?8 $A6?46C 7@C 2 f\J2C5 E@F495@H? 2?5 2 `c\_ 25G2?E286]k^Am

    kAmp?5 @? |:??6D@E2’D @A6?:?8 D6C:6D @7 E96 D64@?5 92=7[ D6?:@C 5676?D:G6 E24<=6 %@>>J p<:?836D@E6 H2D 2DD6DD65 7@C C@F89:?8 E96 A2DD6C] qC@D>6C >256 E96 42== 4@F?E H96? 96 4@??64E65 H:E9 $A6?46C 7@C 2 ad\J2C5 E@F495@H? 2?5 2 c`\`_ =625]k^Am

    kAm|2CJ=2?5 >:89E E2<6 D@>6 D@=246 😕 ?@E 4@>>:EE:?8 2D >2?J :?7C24E:@?D 2D :E 92D 😕 E96 A2DE] qFE E96 7C6BF6?4J H@?’E >2EE6C >F49 :7 @AA@?6?ED 42? EFC? E9@D6 EC2?D8C6DD:@?D :?E@ A@:?ED E92E EC2?D=2E6 :?E@ =@DD6D 7@C E96 %6CAD]k^Am

    Source link

  • African football’s governing body found to have $16m in expenses missing from accounts | Soccer

    The Confederation of African Football’s audit and compliance committee has claimed that more than $16m of “unrecognised expenses” were not included in official accounts, meaning it should have posted losses of more than $25m.

    A letter sent to members of Caf’s executive committee last Saturday and seen by the Guardian alleges that its review of a report compiled by the external auditors EY had revealed the apparent discrepancy in the accounts for the year ending 30 June 2023.

    That includes almost $12m for “technical costs not allocated to clubs, federations and host countries”, with the remainder corresponding to “unrecorded expenses that should be accrued and recorded” and “unrecognised provision for debt balances” and “other debit balances”.

    Quick Guide

    How do I sign up for sport breaking news alerts?

    Show
    • Download the Guardian app from the iOS App Store on iPhone or the Google Play store on Android by searching for ‘The Guardian’.
    • If you already have the Guardian app, make sure you’re on the most recent version.
    • In the Guardian app, tap the Menu button at the bottom right, then go to Settings (the gear icon), then Notifications.
    • Turn on sport notifications.

    Thank you for your feedback.

    The audit and compliance committee has calculated that the $16.18m unaccounted for would take Caf’s deficit for the year to $25.43m after losses of $9.25m were revealed earlier this year. In July, Caf’s general secretary, Véron Mosengo-Omba, had cited the lower figure as evidence that it was reducing its debt. Mosengo-Omba inherited a deficit of about £30m in March 2021. “For the next fiscal year, it will be zero,” he said.

    Neither Caf nor Mosengo-Omba responded to requests from the Guardian for comment.

    Separately, an investigation into Mosengo-Omba and his office is ongoing after Caf’s head of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) accused them of “impeding” members of her department from performing their duties and, among other claims, of breaching internal governance and auditing regulations.

    Last month, the audit and compliance committee claimed there had been “unauthorised interference” from Mosengo-Omba because the external auditor had been appointed by him.

    He responded to those claims in a letter last week and said Caf’s statutes had not required him to seek their consent “before engaging a consultant”. Mosengo-Omba also dismissed concerns that the external auditor’s report “was prepared in such a way as to contradict all the allegations contained in the confidential report” by the GRC because he said the investigation remained ongoing. “To this end, it was deemed inappropriate to comment or discuss with her the matters under investigation, as this could have been taken as interference in the official proceedings,” he wrote.

    In response, the audit and compliance committee said it would have been “even more inappropriate for the secretariat to present the documents under investigation to the external consultant for inclusion in her report submitted to our committee for validation. The Committee maintains its position expressed in the report of 11 September 2024 and remains of the opinion that this is an attempt to use it to pass documents and procedures that are the subject of the ongoing investigation.”

    skip past newsletter promotion

    A letter from Mosengo-Omba – who has also denied allegations of dishonest management, fraud and forgery of documents in Switzerland – that was sent to national associations last week confirmed that Caf will extend the 70-year age limit by five years for prospective executive committee members at its general assembly next week.

    It also gave prospective candidates until 12 November to register their intention to stand in next year’s presidential elections. The incumbent, Patrice Motsepe, is expected to face competition from the 71-year-old Egyptian and Fifa council member Hany Abo Rida, among others. The vote is likely to take place in March.

    Source link

  • Attack changes Sheffield football’s Javarius Triplett

    What should’ve been a normal walk home from football practice for Sheffield senior running back Javarius Triplett, on Aug. 22, was anything but.

    “Trip, you need a ride home?” coach Edward Kuykendoll remembers an assistant asking.

    “No, sir, I’m gonna walk,” Triplett responded.

    It was the Thursday before Sheffield’s season opener against Cordova. As Triplett was walking home in his Parkway Village neighborhood, he was attacked by a group of guys with weapons including a hammer and brass knuckles.

    He was threatened with a gun, but escaped to call the police, family members and Kuykendoll, but not before sustaining two fractures on the right side of his jaw that sidelined him for three weeks. Recovery included applying pressure to his face and relearning how to move his jaw, though eating was still possible.

    Source link

  • Polling Place | Ducks rise to the occasion, take their place among college football’s elites | Newsletter

    Polling Place | Ducks rise to the occasion, take their place among college football’s elites | Newsletter

    The Associated Press Top 25

    The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 21, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:

    Rk., Team Record Pts. Prv

    1. Texas (56) 6-0 1544 1

    2. Oregon (6) 6-0 1493 3

    3. Penn State 6-0 1380 4

    4. Ohio State 5-1 1357 2

    5. Georgia 5-1 1300 5

    6. Miami 6-0 1232 6

    7. Alabama 5-1 1127 7

    8. LSU 5-1 994 13

    9. Iowa State 6-0 982 11

    10. Clemson 5-1 980 10

    11. Tennessee 5-1 959 8

    12. Notre Dame 5-1 914 11

    13. BYU 6-0 889 14

    14. Texas A&M 5-1 744 15

    15. Boise State 5-1 597 17

    16. Indiana 6-0 580 18

    17. Kansas State 5-1 567 18

    18. Mississippi 5-2 511 9

    19. Missouri 5-1 409 21

    20. Pittsburgh 6-0 397 22

    21. SMU 5-1 260 25

    22. Illinois 5-1 249 23

    23. Army 6-0 137 NR

    24. Michigan 4-2 133 24

    25. Navy 5-0 84 NR

    Others receiving votes: Vanderbilt 68, Nebraska 62, Arizona State 39, Oklahoma 36, Washington State 32, Iowa 29, Texas Tech 18, Syracuse 13, Arkansas 13, Utah 7, Louisville 6, Southern Cal 5, Liberty 2, UNLV 1.

    THE NEWS-GAZETTE’S TOP 25

    Rankings from The News-Gazette’s college football and Illini beat writer Bob Asmussen, with his previous rankings listed:

    Rk., TEAM PREV.

    1. Texas 2

    2. Oregon 3

    3. Ohio State 1

    4. Penn State 4

    5. Miami 5

    6. Alabama 6

    7. Georgia 7

    8. Iowa State 8

    9. Notre Dame 9

    10. LSU 10

    11. Clemson 11

    12. Texas A&M 14

    13. Tennessee 13

    14. Missouri 15

    15. Boise State 17

    16. Illinois 16

    17. BYU 18

    18. Kansas State 20

    19. Indiana 21

    20. Pittsburgh 23

    21. SMU 24

    22. Vanderbilt 25

    23. Michigan NR

    24. Mississippi 12

    25. Army NR

    WHO’S UP

    Oregon. Dan Lanning’s team put itself in control of the Big Ten with a gutsy home win Saturday night against Ohio State. The Buckeyes had a chance to win late, but the clock ran out. Give them 10 more seconds and Ohio State would have scored the huge victory. The Ducks don’t play Penn State this season, so their toughest games remaining are at home against Illinois on Oct. 26 and at Michigan on Nov. 2. Then, the Big Ten title game, likely a rematch against Ohio State or a first-timer with Penn State. Dillon Gabriel has been everything Oregon hoped he would be when he transferred in. It is difficult to imagine the Ducks not earning one of the four College Football Playoff byes.

    WHO’S DOWN

    Utah. The Utes, considered a strong playoff contender going into the season, lost Friday night at Arizona State. That followed an earlier loss to Arizona at home. Utah also was tested at Oklahoma State, where Kyle Whittingham’s team won by three. Injuries have been a problem for the Utes. Quarterback Cam Rising, who came back for another season, is dealing with a hand injury that made it difficult for him to throw accurately in the 27-19 road loss to Arizona State. The fans and media figured it out, so you can bet opposing defenses will tee off on him and the Utes’ ground game. Utah might need to win out to have a shot at the Big 12 title and has challenging games remaining against BYU and Iowa State. Both teams come to Salt Lake City.

    WHO I’M WATCHING

    No. 5 Georgia at No. 1 Texas (6:30 p.m., Saturday, ABC). It’s the first real monster game for the Longhorns as members of the SEC. The Oklahoma game doesn’t count because the Sooners were clearly overmatched and, like Texas, are new to the league. Coach Steve Sarkisian has his team rolling both offensively and defensively. It scored an impressive win earlier against Michigan, though that outcome might be more the product of the Wolverines’ weaknesses. Georgia coach Kirby Smart has plenty of talent on hand, but the parts don’t seem to be working quite as well as usual.

    Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen@news-gazette.com.



    Source link

  • Recalibrating Michigan Football’s 2024 floor and ceiling

    Recalibrating Michigan Football’s 2024 floor and ceiling

    The 4-2 Michigan Wolverines are barely hanging on in the AP Top 25 after their 27-17 loss to the Washington Huskies last Saturday, dropping from No. 10 in the nation to No. 24.

    Michigan currently has a bye week and a chance to reset and hone in on all the areas they’ve struggled through six games.

    Michigan ranks low in most metrics offensive and defensively with the exceptions being their running game and pass rush, which are still both formidable. They’ve struggled about everywhere else including quarterback, receiver, offensive line, and secondary.

    For these reasons, Michigan continues to sink in projections and betting odds alike.

    Michigan has won the Big Ten Championship three years in a row but that streak is presently in jeopardy. Per FanDuel Sportsbook, Michigan has the fifth-best odds of winning the Big Ten at +5500. The four teams ahead of Michigan are Indiana (+2000), Penn State (+450), Oregon (+230), and Ohio State (-115).

    Per ESPN’s FPI (Football Power Index), Michigan has just a 0.6 percent chance of winning the Big Ten this year. To make matters more difficult for the Wolverines rank No. 14 in the nation in remaining strength of schedule, including four ranked teams and three teams that are currently undefeated. Here’s a look at Michigan’s remaining schedule and the FPI projections for each matchup.

    Oct. 19 | at No. 23 Illinois (4-1): 55.6% chance Michigan wins

    Oct. 26 | vs. Michigan State (3-3): 75.2% chance Michigan wins

    Nov. 2 | vs. No. 2 Oregon (5-0): 67.1% chance Oregon wins

    Nov. 9 | at No. 18 Indiana (6-0): 72.9% chance Indiana wins

    Nov. 23 | vs. Northwestern (2-3): 86.3% chance Michigan wins

    Nov. 30 | at No. 2 Ohio State (5-0): 92.4% chance Ohio State wins

    If these FPI percentages prove to be correct, Michigan would finish the regular season at 7-5. The 55.6 percent chance of Illinois beating Michigan is in the danger zone as well, and the floor of the season looks to be in the six to seven-win range. However, games aren’t played on computers and Michigan could get better and make these projections look foolish.

    Beating Illinois after the bye is beyond imperative. Michigan may have two losses this year but they only have one conference loss. If Jack Tuttle, who was inserted against Washington and will start against the Fighting Illini, becomes a difference-maker at quarterback it could drastically change the above percentages and the ceiling of Michigan’s season. They haven’t been eliminated from playoff contention yet, nor have they been eliminated from a potential birth in the Big Ten Championship Game, and they’re going to have to play like their livelihoods are on the line.

    What happens here forth for the Wolverines will either be an immense and immediate turnaround that becomes one of the biggest stories of the college football season, or it’ll be a 2024 season that ends with loads of negative outside noise about the program. Michigan’s destiny is still in their hands until other teams take it away from them. While the team cannot be collectively counted on through six games, they shouldn’t be counted out in their remaining six games, either. This is college football and anything can happen — Vanderbilt beating Alabama is a great example of what our friend John U. Bacon often says, “nobody knows anything.”

    Source link

  • Amidst Historic Season, Franklin Football’s Defensive Coordinator is a Fan Favorite

    Amidst Historic Season, Franklin Football’s Defensive Coordinator is a Fan Favorite

    PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – The Franklin County Seahawks, a football team that hasn’t seen much success in it’s short history. But now, the players, coaches, fans, and community are living through history. The team’s defensive coordinator Brock Johnson is one of the many reasons for Franklin’s success. But his other title other than ‘coach’, is Officer Johnson, the school’s student resource officer.

    “They see a different side of me once I take off my normal uniform but I think the respect and everything is still there. They know that I care about them and it’s not just sports. I’ve helped them outside of school and everything and I see them away from school and it’s always Coach. You know I don’t want them calling me officer or mister. It’s a great relationship I have with these kids and I’m really appreciative of it.” Coach Johnson said.

    After Coach John Cooper was made the head coach last year, he brought Coach Johnson along with him. Not only did Coach Cooper know that Coach Johnson had the football knowledge to do the job, he knew he’d be able to make relationships with the kids as an SRO.

    “Sometimes an SRO has a little bit more break time than what a teacher does just different schedules and stuff you know if a student not just an athlete but maybe a student needs somebody to talk, he’s there right there so not only do they get that during the school day but they also get on the football field the baseball diamond so you know it’s just great mentorship 24/7 almost.”

    Being an offensive player in high school, the defense was something Coach Johnson was a little unfamiliar with. Except the fact that his dad was a longtime defensive coordinator at Appalachia High School, so Coach Johnson was always in the film room with him.

    “It kind of just wore on me you know I kind of grew to love it cause you know like I used to all my friends when they would be out riding the streets so to speak, you know, I would be having to watch game field with my dad and I didn’t like it at the time growing up, cause I wanna be with my guys but it kind of gave me a better understanding of the game.”

    All Coach Johnson wants during his time as coach at Franklin, is to see his players and the community succeed.

    “You know he wanted me out here and trust me, I told him I’m on my way man cause it’s like there’s nothing more that I want than to see this school and this community get what they deserve out here on this football field.”

    Copyright 2024 WJHG. All rights reserved.

    Source link

  • Jürgen Klopp shakes English football’s god delusion with embrace of Red Bull | Jürgen Klopp

    Jürgen Klopp could not be more excited. Jürgen Klopp’s passion for football is as strong as it ever was. Jürgen Klopp wants to work with incredible football talent. Jürgen Klopp is joining Red Bull as their head of global soccer. One of these sentences, clearly, is not like the others.

    Which is not to impugn the sincerity of the official statement issued jointly by Klopp and the world’s stickiest energy drink on Wednesday morning, announcing his new role with the corporate giant. On the contrary: this is a job that positively exudes passion, excitement, connection. Klopp tearing through the boardroom after delivering a successful seminar. Getting mobbed by delirious data scientists. Firing up the Microsoft Teams call with his famous fist pumps.

    The reality is probably going to be a little more prosaic. A lot of the snap analysis of Klopp’s decision seemed to regard this move as an inevitable pirouette towards a return to management: perhaps at one of the Red Bull clubs, perhaps as the German national team manager, a job that Klopp will reportedly be allowed to take if it ever comes up. But if a return to coaching is the overarching goal here, then this feels like a pretty strange way of going about it.

    The national team position is occupied by Julian Nagelsmann, who seems happy enough to continue at least to the 2026 World Cup, if not even further. Equally, for all the struggles of Pepijn Lijnders at RB Salzburg, it’s hard to envisage a scenario in which Klopp willingly replaces his former assistant. Perhaps the Leipzig job comes up at some point. But when you have the pick of the world’s clubs, why restrict yourself?

    Instead, this feels like the kind of thing you do when you’re still not sure what you want to do. Grandiose job title aside, the brief itself feels reassuringly vague. “I want to see, feel and figure out what is useful for football,” he said. “Developing football a little bit as well.” As a sacred mission statement, “turning doubters into believers” this is not.

    Perhaps the most telling part of Klopp’s own justification for taking the job is when he expresses his desire to “learn again”, to enjoy the luxury of football as a purely intellectual pursuit, without the tyranny of league tables or the obligation of having to explain himself on camera several times a week. This could be the prelude to a rebooted coaching career, Klopp 4.0 with a pocketful of new tricks. Or it could be the start of an extended dotage in the unloved netherworld of football administration, churning out crackpot ideas on a twice-annual basis, a move known these days as the “pivot to Wenger”.

    So that deals with the footballing rationale. But of course there are other dimensions to this decision, as became abundantly apparent when the announcement dropped. Among Borussia Dortmund fans there is fury at the prospect of their legendary coach forging an alliance with their ideological enemy, barely a month after he made an emotional return to the Signal Iduna Park dugout in a testimonial for Lukasz Piszczek and Jakub Blaszczykowski.

    Among Liverpool fans – reassured by reports that Klopp was planning to take at least a year’s break from the game – there is a strong sense of confusion at the speed with which daddy seems to have moved on. Among fans of Liverpool’s rivals, meanwhile, a kind of grubby glee reigns: the idea that taking the evil energy drink dollar is some kind of humongous self-own, an act of rank hypocrisy, the long-overdue unmasking of one of English football’s most fraudulent messiahs.

    ‘See you in January’: Klopp announces new position as Red Bull’s head of global soccer – video

    Not all of this analysis merits serious discussion. There are genuine evils in football and the Red Bull model – while a little tacky and naff – scarcely registers on the scale. Above all, much of the disappointment – and schadenfreude – is guilty of engaging not so much with the reality of Klopp but with the caricature created around him: the time-honoured conflation of sporting virtue with the actual thing.

    skip past newsletter promotion

    Five minutes spent watching German television – where Klopp can be seen flogging everything from beer to Peloton bikes to investment schemes – will give you a pretty good idea of where he stands on capitalism. The idea that this millionaire in a tracksuit who spent nine years working for American financiers might be some kind of anti-corporate revolutionary was always based more in fantasy than truth. And to be fair to Klopp, the role of saviour or moral compass was never one he sought or demanded for himself. Indeed he expressed as much in his first ever press conference as Liverpool manager. “If you want to portray me like Jesus but then the next day say ‘no, he can’t walk on water’, then we have a problem,” he said.

    Perhaps the real issue here is the tendency of English football – and this does predominantly appear to be an Anglocentric phenomenon – to place its coaches on ridiculous moral pedestals, even accord them quasi-deific status, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Arsène Wenger and early Pep Guardiola certainly fall into this category. Marcelo Bielsa, despite his many protestations to the contrary, continues to be feted as a kind of gnomic public intellectual by people who have never actually met one. Even the moderately talented Ange Postecoglou seems to have attracted a significant cult following, lured in by his outsider status, his fortune-cookie wisdom, his immaculate good-bloke vibes.

    Klopp, for his part, has spent too much time worshipping an actual god to entertain any notions of his own divinity. Perhaps he is guilty of underestimating a little the devotion he inspires, the extent to which people need him – for whatever reason – to represent something more. But he’s not that guy. Nobody is; nobody ever was. Klopp is not joining Red Bull to do the lord’s work. But he may, on some piecemeal level, have helped shake English football of its god delusion.

    Source link

  • Explainer: Lassana Diarra and the legal case which could rock football’s transfer market

    Explainer: Lassana Diarra and the legal case which could rock football’s transfer market

    Here, we take a closer look.

    How did we get here?

    This case stems from a contract dispute between Diarra and Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow. The Frenchman and his legal team sued FIFA for damages, arguing its rules which hold clubs jointly liable for compensation and open to sanction if they sign a player who breaches contract prevented him moving to Belgian side Charleroi

    The challenge, which was upheld in a Belgian court in 2017, said the rules were contrary to EU law because they restricted Diarra’s freedom of movement and were anti-competitive. FIFA appealed against the 2017 judgement and the case was referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a ruling.

    Why could this be significant?

    Any ruling that finds the contested rules disproportionate or restrictive will likely mean the regulations need to be rewritten.

    It could ultimately mean greater, if not total, freedom for players to terminate a contract without just cause. Union sources say the current rules treat players as assets rather than employees and want a player’s rights brought closer to, if not completely in line with, those of a regular person looking to change jobs.

    What was the last big change in the transfer market?

    The most significant shift occurred after the 1995 Bosman ruling, which effectively gave out-of-contract players total freedom over their next move and removed their former club’s entitlement to any fee once the contract had expired.

    Is this as significant?

    Any change here is likely to be more subtle, certainly at first. The question is whether the challenge to this specific aspect of the rules – the joint liability of an engaging club – leads to the whole system toppling.

    Dr Borja Garcia, an EU sports law expert at Loughborough University, believes this case is probably “as close as we have come” to Bosman but believes any changes will be less dramatic, with Bosman having already shifted the power to players.

    What is the likely outcome?

    ECJ rulings often, but not always, go in line with the non-binding opinion of the Advocate General (AG) in the case. The AG in this case said in April that the rules “may be contrary” to EU law. He described the current consequences for a player of breaching contract without just cause as “draconian” and said the rules were designed to “send a chill down each player’s spine”.

    What has FIFA said?

    FIFA has declined to comment while the case is ongoing but in its earlier court submissions it argued the rules were a necessary part of ensuring contractual stability.

    Sources close to the governing body also point out a player would still be liable for compensation where a contract is breached without just cause, only the joint liability of an engaging club is being contested.

    What could the other impacts be?

    If there are fewer obstacles and deterrents to a player breaking contract, it follows that transfer fees could trend downwards if clubs feel they have less security in the event of an in-contract player walking away.

    Contracts might also shorten if they become less stable, but Dr Garcia points out clubs are “between a rock and a hard place” on this one. On one hand they might be more reluctant to commit to a long-term deal, but equally such contracts are preferable to comply with financial rules around profit and loss.

    What do clubs think?

    A senior source within the European club game told PA the Diarra ruling had the potential to be a “dangerous one”, adding: “The transfer market is the glue that holds the pyramid together.

    “(The Diarra ruling) could have seismic implications, because if that glue starts to deteriorate, then that polarisation (between the big leagues and the rest) will get worse.”

    Source link

  • Stanford football’s upset bid against Clemson falls flat due to turnovers

    Stanford football’s upset bid against Clemson falls flat due to turnovers

    There was little, if any, belief that Stanford football (2-2, 1-1 ACC) would be able to keep Saturday’s game against Clemson close. The Tigers, one of college football’s premier programs, had come off back-to-back blowout wins, even scoring 59 points in last week’s victory against NC State.

    But despite the 40-14 loss, Stanford’s ability to keep the game within striking distance for three quarters should warrant approval by fans.

    The rushing attack was potent, with the Cardinal tallying 236 yards on the ground. Micah Ford was the leading rusher, with 122 yards on 15 attempts. Junior quarterback Ashton Daniels also excelled on the ground, to the tune of 87 yards on 10 attempts, and only taking one sack. 

    Stanford’s first ever trip to Clemson was marred by mistakes, and although there were glimpses of hope, the final score of 40-14 showed that Stanford still has a ways to go to compete at the level they want to. 

    The Cardinal’s defense excelled for their second straight game in a hostile environment, showing signs of being a unit that the team can lean on. Junior cornerback Collin Wright displayed why he should be on NFL draft boards, getting his first pick of the season while also tackling well in space. The defense forced Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnik into a rare inaccurate performance, as Klubnik completed less than 50% of his passes.

    But self-inflicted wounds eventually came back to bite Stanford.

    Early in the game, two turnovers and a failed fourth down conversion killed promising drives for the Stanford offense. A couple of ill-advised throws from Daniels in the first quarter began a disappointing day for the passing offense. Daniels passed for 71 yards and nine completions on 19 attempts, to go along with a touchdown and three interceptions, before exiting the game in the fourth quarter with an apparent ankle injury. 

    “We just did a poor job of taking care of the football,” Taylor said in a post-game press conference. “We should have had two field goals at the beginning. Then I really think it’s a different game.”

    “If you’re gonna come into a place like this against a great team, you can’t have that many mistakes.”

    Taylor lauded Daniels for his performance in the run game.

    But, “quarterback is one of those [positions] where you can have 70 good plays and you have three bad plays, and it’s a rough game,” he said. “That’s just the nature of the position.”

    Redshirt junior quarterback Justin Lamson came in for the remainder of the fourth quarter, and threw four completions and a touchdown in eight attempts. But Lamson also had the fumble on the first drive of the game that wiped away a first down, setting up a short field for Clemson’s first score.

    Unfortunately, too many quick drives and turnovers by the offense kept the defense on the field for a long part of the night, and they were unable to keep Klubnik from connecting on deep passes late in the game. Stanford also missed some opportunities for scores due to Taylor’s aggressiveness on fourth down, but the former Sacramento State head coach does not regret his strategy.

    “We’re not here to play to keep it close,” he said. “So we play the game and we make calls to go for it on certain downs to win the football game.”

    Up next, Stanford will head back home to face the Virginia Tech Hokies (2-3, 0-1 ACC) on Oct. 5. While the Hokies possess a losing record, their controversial loss to Miami on Friday should keep Stanford fans on their toes for the rest of game week.

    Injury Report

    • Daniels was knocked out of the game in the fourth quarter with an apparent ankle injury. Taylor said there were no updates on Daniels’ status during the post-game press conference.
    • Junior safety Jaivion Green also left the game during the first quarter after being injured on Klubnik’s 34-yard touchdown run. Similar to Daniels, Taylor noted there was no update on Green’s status.
    • According to Stanford play-by-play announcer Troy Clardy, junior wide receiver Mudia Reuben is out for the rest of the season. Reuben was injured in Stanford’s game against Syracuse last week. 
    • Fifth-year defensive lineman Tobin Phillips had his first start since his injury against Cal Poly earlier this month.
    • Freshman wide receiver Emmett Mosley V made his collegiate debut after battling injuries during the first three games of the season. Mosley also had the first touchdown reception of his career in garbage time and tallied seven receptions for 48 yards for the game.
    • Inside linebacker Jahsiah Galvan made his Stanford debut in Saturday’s game. Galvan tallied his first sack in a Stanford uniform during the third quarter.

    Source link

  • Hidden from the world, North Korea have nurtured football’s latest golden generation | Women’s football

    They’re coming for you. They’re coming for you. North Korea’s women’s football age-group pathway teams, they’re coming for. Well, pretty much anyone in their way, it seems, after the weekend.

    As elite club football pored in microscopic detail over the fallout from events at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday evening, something remarkable, if a little less advertised, was happening in Bogotá. Three days on from the final of the Fifa women’s under‑20 World Cup final, it is worth scrolling back over the full sweep of North Korea’s run to that point, which reached its glorious end note on Sunday night, and in the process opened a new angle on any reasonable assessment of the team performance of the season.

    The Chollima (nickname explanation: indestructible mythic winged horse) arrived in Colombia in August with a 21-women squad drawn from six domestic teams. The league is hugely popular back home, but these are essentially players unknown to the rest of the world.

    They kicked off on 2 September with a 6-2 thrashing of Argentina in Cali. Three days later they beat Costa Rica 9-0 in a game that featured eight goalscorers. Three days after that North Korea put away the Netherlands 2-0 to seal top spot in the group.

    The knockout phase began with a 5-2 cuffing aside of Austria. And from there North Korea’s endgame was pretty much perfect, with victories against Brazil (senior world ranking: No 8), the USA (No 1) and Japan (No 7), all without conceding a goal. End result: played seven, won seven, aggregate score 25-4.

    They did it brilliantly too, producing, from the TV footage, a whirl of interplay and high-class finishing. Even the winner in the final was a beauty, scored by Choe Il-son, the hyper-talented 17-year-old cutting inside on the right, gliding past a defender, then shooting left‑footed into the roof of the net via a deflection.

    Choe might have had a hat-trick on the day and looks an awesome prospect, scooting about like a combination of teenage Wayne Rooney and teenage Michael Owen, all fearlessly clever direct running, a rogue state Endrick. It is hard to imagine there is a better 17-year-old anywhere.

    Back home, Choe plays for Pyongyang’s April 25 National Defence Sports Club. She will now disappear behind the veil, away from international competition. But not just yet. She is also eligible for the under-17 World Cup next month in the Dominican Republic (birth date, 1 January 2007; cut-off date, also 1 January 2007), where North Korea’s re-emergent women have a chance to make it a clean sweep of the Fifa age groups, including a 23 October meeting with England, who are presumably already all over the footage of what awaits them.

    Choe Il-son (right) lit up the under-20 World Cup with her fearless style of play. Photograph: Julian Medina/SPP/Shutterstock

    It is important to stress that the success of North Korea’s age-group teams will only be surprising to those who haven’t been following the run of things. North Korea has long been a force in women’s football, the players cloistered outside competition, but the senior team rarely out of the top end of the rankings over the past 20 years.

    But for the neutral, watching this was also a reminder of that most cliched and degraded of notions – sport’s ability to surprise and dissolve preconceptions. It’s North Korea, dude. How do you expect them to play? Tireless robot-pressing? A kind of unsmiling insect football enacted for the love of Dear Leader?

    In practice the North Korean style was energetic and high pressure, but also free, creative and fun, all inventive high-speed combinations. The players were engaging and a joy to watch. When Choe missed a chance in the opening minutes of the final there was a lovely moment as Sin Hyang, her attacking partner, ran across to hug her and ruffle her hair like an elder sibling, which certainly makes a change from a sulky arms‑wide gesture and moaning to the bench about not getting a pass.

    But what about the shadowy team staff? The propaganda merchants in the background? Yes, a Wikipedia click does suggest the women’s senior team manager appears to have repeatedly threatened America with nuclear war – “its cities will be transformed into towering infernos” – but wait, it’s a faulty link. This is in fact a different Kim Myong-chol, not the well-known state propagandist but the 39-year-old ex-footballer of the same name, who didn’t actually say any of that. Phew. Close one, the internet!

    More widely, women’s football in North Korea is a fascinating story. The tale has been told often of party officials returning with an outreach plan from the 1986 Fifa summit where the Norwegian delegate, Ellen Wille, literally screamed on stage in frustration, demanding a proper women’s World Cup.

    Seeing an opportunity, the regime instigated football in schools and villages and created a national league where players were given accommodation and employment in the capital. Success followed. North Korea won the Asian Cup in 2001, 2003 and 2008.

    Then came the great interruption. In 2011 five national‑team players tested positive for a rare steroid. The excuse offered was the use of a traditional medicine made from the glands of a musk deer, applied after the players were struck by lightning. Oddly enough, Fifa didn’t buy this and North Korea were banned from the 2015 World Cup, lost their ranking position, failed to qualify in 2019 partly as a result, then went into major isolation during the pandemic, re-emerging only towards the end of 2023.

    As a result, this is more or less an entirely new generation, reared in isolation. Naturally, given the history, given the lack of contact, there will be some eyebrow‑raising over their startling degree of effervescence. But it is also an exciting notion, something that speaks to a long distant past, before total knowledge and access, when sport was a large, atomised place, when teams, athletes and ways of playing would emerge only through the cycle of international tournaments.

    Pyongyang citizens at the Kaeson metro station read about the Chollima’s triumph in Colombia. Photograph: Jon Chol Jin/AP

    The evidence of Colombia is that North Korea have something that looks, with the benefit of the surprise element, like a golden generation. Next month will be another showcase for a group of players who mature around the next senior World Cup in Brazil in three years’ time. So much can happen before then, but it is an exciting element. Can you imagine the sheer, cinematic difficulty for Fifa, for its corporate handshakers, for the flag-obsessed US elements, of processing a North Korean win?

    Colombia may not have offered any real insight into the world’s most opaque nation state. But sport does have the power to make human connections, and this is at the very least a window into something else beyond the stories of dictatorial oppression and poverty. Plus, if there’s any chance at all of seeing Choe in Europe, can someone out there please get on the blower to Pyongyang and rustle up a little tiki-taka diplomacy.

    Source link