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NFL refs making offensive offside calls during crucial momentsWhy are there so many penalties on offensive players showing up in the NFL as of late, and why do they all seemingly come at the most crucial times?...

And now, a national moment of silence: The Twins' playoff-win drought is overOur long national nightmare is over. The Minnesota Twins won a playoff game....

VAR performs its coup de moronWhether VAR is still in its teething stages, and this is season five so it’s really debatable whether or not it should still be having growing problems, it will never be able to escape its fatal flaw. And that is it is still administered by humans. So it’s still going to be susceptible to human erro...

World Cup Day 7: It’s easy when you’re big in Japan…and Spain we suppose

After Group A decided to keep everyone alive with some truly weird (and awful) soccer on Monday night, it was time to send some teams to the land of wind and ghosts on Tuesday, as Costa Rica, Zambia, and Ireland will make it home before the postcards. Let’s make it happen, captain!...

Lotta goals in the desert — World Cup Daily Diary Day 1

We’ll be running a daily roundup of everything that happens in Qatar, starting with the opening day today. Take the journey with us....

VAR might tear England apart more than the Tories will

Someone much smarter (i.e. everyone) than me one day will write a book about how VAR is the perfect distillation of the dual track of technology, both the advancement and the hindrance on society that it can be. Although, unlike most technological advances, VAR has actually provided another job for ...

Automated offside is here, and it’s pretty damn cool

Even through its many, many bumps and hiccups (the kind of hiccups where you feel like you’ve pulled an oblique) I have been pro-VAR. It is hardly perfect, and far too much of it still depends on the whims and judgements of people. Except now being in the hands of whatever is floating between one pe...

Phew! USWNT scores shootout win over Netherlands

With the United States tied with the Netherlands, deep into extra time in the Olympic quarterfinal — a rematch of the 2019 World Cup final — Christen Press took a beautiful pass from Megan Rapinoe, shot, scored… and then saw the offside flag go up....