I donāt know where to put this but really need to vent it somewhere.
Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey are a couple of the most miserable of American sports figures.
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Bring one up end if the month!
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What they do?
I donāt follow soccer enough to know whatās going on.
They both showed lack of commitment and effort late in their own careers, but are consistently making jabs and criticising current USMNT players through the media.
Should be our biggest supporters nationally, but would rather just put our guys down.
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Exactly this. Lalas also piled on too which is a joke.
Nobody is obligated to play for their country and Pulisic has played internationally before, so this feels like a contextual choice.
Heās played in about 50 matches in the last year and scored a ton for AC Milan last year. Itās also a riskier for him. Heās about half done with his current contract and working on an extension after his strong year. All the math changes if he gets hurt or starts next season with dead legs.
I get not being up for this one. I donāt get the old guard trying to shame their replacements, especially in such a two-faced way. Pulisicās dad mic dropped that whole thing in hilarious fashion.
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Yeah, I used to respect Donovan for making the decisions he did, but as a talking head, he is very disappointing.
Too much Lalas, who has always been a total asshole and is following the Stephen A Smith model of journalism, which consists of yelling at a lot and insulting people, but I hoped that Landon would be different.
If Fox is broadcasting the world cup, imma need to learn spanish so I can watch the spanish language broadcast.
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Same problem the NBA has with a certain set of old guard players-turned-commentators. Some guys just get too anchored in how they experienced the game, which has value for commentary and analysis, but less so when they canāt maintain perspective around things that have changed.
I have a ton of respect for the commentators who can span multiple eras and not get caught up in comparing them.
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I donāt watch the NBA much, so I canāt compare them, but there is an ugliness to Lalasās commentary that I havenāt encountered in any other sport. Sure, some āback in my day, we played better defenseā is to be expected from any player turned commenter (even worse from many ex coaches in college basketball), but Lalas really goes out of his way to denigrate players as if it somehow elevates his own legacy in comparison.
He is the worst of the worst (at least Stephen A Smith is largely confined to the opinion pages, not actively commenting on games ā or at least not that I watch). It is sad to see Donovan follow that piper and not, say, Doris Burke or Peyton Manning.
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cough Reggie Miller cough
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Virginia Tech admission tours not going wellā¦
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Whichever one of yāall said South Carolina is a good state is a lie.
This place is booty cheeks
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You canāt just lump whole state into one description. All states have better and worse areas.
No you absolutely can and I just did. South Carolina sucks.
Mississippi 4th ring of Dantes inferno
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You gotta go to Charleston in late October!!! Bugs are gone and itās beautiful
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Charleston is gorgeous. Have spent many an evening having sips on the battery amd strolling up and down king street looking for my queen.
But that one city does not offset the abysmal circumstances of the rest of the state
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Prayers for the 
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Nasty fall for Red Pandaā¦
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Interesting way to drum up season ticket salesā¦
Auburnās out here ādiscoveringā new national titles. Virginia Tech STILL trying to find oneā¦
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Lol this is amazing: Auburn football now claims nine national titles, 15 conference titles
You know the sport is in a good place when championship legitimacy comes from like 500 different sources:
1910: Maxwell Ratings (Loren Maxwell), College Football Rankings (Kyle Matschke)
1913: Billingsley MOV (Margin of Victory) and NCAA Football Record Book
1914: James Howellās Power Ratings System
1957: AP and NCAA Football Record Book
1958: Montgomery Full Season Championship (David Montgomery)
1983: Billingsley, FACT, Football Research, Sagarin, NY Times and NCAA Football Record Book
1993: National Championship Foundation and NCAA Football Record Book
2004: Several, including Darryl Perry and GBE College Football Ratings
2010: AP, BCS and NCAA Football Record Book
Though maybe the takeaway is that this is all kinda fake, so why not stake your claim?
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