Football
- Une mauvaise passe de Bukayo, Cantona appelle ça une Henri Michel… Parce que Saka merde.
- Le côté droit de la Roja a une angine parce qu’elle Yamal Carjaval.
- Pourquoi Gérard nous empêche de rentrer ? Parce que Le Normand joue trop près de Laporte.
Disney Finds $100M for Stephen A. Smith, But Not a Dime for FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight has shut down.
Its founder, Nate Silver:
Last night, as President Trump delivered his State of the Union address1, the Wall Street Journal reported that ABC News would lay off the remaining staff at 538 as part of broader cuts within corporate parent Disney.
John Gruber expressed frustration about the site not remaining online in an archive state:
But the standard behavior when closing a web publication is to just pull the plug. When the whole company goes under, that’s one thing. But when there’s a parent company, especially a thriving one, there’s no justification for pulling the plug other than spiteful disregard for the work. From the perspective of a company the size of Disney, it would cost veritable pennies to keep FiveThirtyEight’s website around forever. What a disgrace.
I could not agree more. I relied heavily on the site for my past attempts to start a company and my current confidential side project as a data soccer analyst. Which made me feel sad and disappointed about FiveThirtyEight’s fate.
And then this:
Stephen A. Smith has agreed to a new contract with ESPN worth at least $100 million for five years, an agreement that will result in Smith continuing to star on “First Take” on ESPN while scaling back some of his other required appearances on the network, which would free him up to talk even more about politics, sources briefed on the agreement told The Athletic.
This is driving me mad. The coincidence of these two events reflects capitalism at its worst: promoting fast-paced, nonsensical, emotionally-driven rants over data-driven analysis. The only thing I appreciate about Smith — or many other similar pundits — is its hilarious caricature by the Simpsons.
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La une de L’Équipe pour PSG - Liverpool est très réussie. Bravo. ⚽️
Wromance, the S1E17 episode of Welcome to Wrexham got me. And I am not the only one. Sports are definitely something to share. What’s the point otherwise? ⚽️ × 🍿
Je viens de poster le numéro 321 de Statium, ma newsletter de foot. Si vous voulez suivre le foot pour le jeu, sans le bruit autour, abonnez-vous. Vous aurez les dates des matchs significatifs à venir, les scores, les résumés. Garanti sans journaliste de RMC Sport. ⚽️
Abracadabrest
Cette épopée brestoise en Ligue des Champions me procurent des émotions inédites. J’essaie de les maîtriser en me rappelant La Ballade des gens qui sont nés quelque part, mais ça n’est pas hyper efficace. Les larmes au yeux. ⚽️
Bonne bière. Ses notes fruitées s’accordent bien avec des chips et un match héroïque du Stade Brestois contre le Bayer Leverkusen 🍻 × ⚽️
Nick Miller and Duncan Alexander, reporting for The Athletic:
Since February 2023, [Rodri] has lost just one game for club and country, that one game being last season’s FA Cup final against Manchester United. That’s 93 games played, one defeat.
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Hier, pendant Espagne - Angleterre, ces piètres jeux de mots me sont venus en tête. Enjoy. Ou pas.
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I thought Ted Lasso’s look was influenced by Ned Flanders. Since this morning, I now think it is influenced by David Seaman. ⚽️
Ce week-end, baisser de rideau de la Ligue 1, de la Premier League et de la Bundesliga. Beaucoup de choses à jouer pour se maintenir, se donner l’occasion de visiter l’Europe, ou mettre ses mains sur le trophée de Premier League. Tandis que déjà, au loin, Didier Deschamps prépare la prochaine page des compétitions de football en reprenant les Rolling Stones : “N’G, I still love you baby, everywhere I look I see your eyes”.
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