2026 World Cup Preview

 

FT - "Simon Kuper’s World Cup: Who will win?"

WSJ - "Can America’s Golden Generation Avoid the World Cup Curse?"
The Athletic - "A near-perfect World Cup opener takes the USMNT into uncharted territory"

WSJ - "The ‘Colosseum’ of Ear-Splitting Noise and Flying Trash That Will Open the World Cup"

BBC - "When will an African side win the World Cup?"

New Yorker - "How the Moroccan World Cup Team Became a Symbol of the Global South"

The Athletic - "Inside the making of Norway’s ‘Viking’ photo for World Cup"

The Capital Clubs

 

FT - "Arsenal, PSG and ther rise of the capital club"
By Simon Kuper

2030 World Cup and the World's Largest Football Stadium in Casablanca Morocco

 

Wikipedia - "Hassan II Stadium"
Populous - "Stade Hassan II — Casablanca Stadium"
Dezeen - "Official images of world's largest football stadium in Morocco revealed"
Reuters - "Morocco aims to complete stadium for World Cup final bid by end of 2027, official says"

Wikipedia - "2030 World Cup"
Reddit - "Host cities for the 2030 FIFA world cup"

Arsenal's Path and Tactics to the EPL Title

 

The Athletic - "‘Toxic’ to title: Inside Arsenal’s first Premier League for 22 years and how they nailed their ‘win window’"
By James McNicholas

The Athletic - "Mikel Arteta’s title-winning tactics: Embracing transitions and riding the set-piece wave"
By Ahmed Walid

LEGO's 12,000+ Piece Set for the Sagrada Família

 

Coming Soon November 1, 2026 for $799.99.

Dezeen - "Lego reveals Sagrada Familia set to celebrate Gaudí centenary"

Smithsonian Magazine - "You Can Soon Build the Sagrada Família Out of 12,060 Legos. Here’s Why the Famed Basilica Is an Architectural Marvel"

Related,

AP - "Pope honors Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia as masterpiece of stone, color and light on Gaudí centenary"

New Wolves Look

 

Timberwolves Press Release

Timberwolves Unveil Site

Quentin Tarantion Names Black Hawk Down Best Movie of the Past 25+ Years

 

Variety - "Quentin Tarantino Names ‘Black Hawk Down’ the Best Movie of the 21st Century; His Top 10 Includes ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Toy Story 3,’ ‘Zodiac’ and More"

"“I liked it when I first saw it, but I actually think it was so intense that it stopped working for me, and I didn’t carry it with me the way that I should’ve,” Tarantino said about selecting “Black Hawk Down” as his top pick. “Since then, I’ve seen it a couple of times, not a bunch of times, but I think it’s a masterwork, and one of the things I love so much about it is […] this is the only movie that actually goes completely for an ‘Apocalypse Now’ sense of purpose and visual effect and feeling, and I think it achieves it. It keeps up the intensity for 2 hours 45 minutes, or whatever it is, and I watched it again recently, my heart was going through the entire runtime of the movie; it had me and never let me go, and I hadn’t seen it in a while. The feat of direction is beyond extraordinary.”"