Features:

• How Good Is This World Cup Squad, Really? (New Yorker)
• The Education of USMNT Goalkeeper (and Harvard Grad) Matt Freese (ESPN)
• Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball? (Slate)
• This Soccer Club Has Everything You’d Want Except … (The New York Times)
• Topping Studies With a Dollop of Athletics at the Culinary Institute of America (The New York Times)
• The Forgotten Men Behind the Ideas that Changed Baseball (Defector)
• A New Wave of American Buyers Has Set Its Sights on European Soccer (The Ringer)
• A Last Dance World Cup for Soccer’s Biggest Stars (The Ringer)
• How the quick high of ‘fast-food gambling’ ensnared young men (The Guardian)
• Dangerous heat is a real threat for the 2026 World Cup. Are teams ready? (The Guardian)
• Vintage base ball: the charm of a sport where the 1860s never ended (The Guardian)
• The Johnny and Tara show is the main event (SB Nation Longform)
• Can Wayne Rooney Rebuild D.C. United? (Washingtonian)
• The Kit-Industrial Complex (short-lived newsletter)
• Morocco’s average annual salary is $7,400 – some fans are paying double that for World Cup tickets (The Guardian)
• ‘It’s Bible time’: How religion became part of the USMNT’s World Cup identity (The Guardian)

Opinion:

• US actions in Venezuela put the 2026 World Cup in disgraceful company (The Guardian)
• A single match cost me thousands of dollars at 2026’s World Cup of the 1% (The Guardian)
• World Cup’s dynamic pricing model lays bare Fifa’s singular motive: profit, at all costs (The Guardian)
• In the stands with my son, the Club World Cup was as human as it could possibly be (The Guardian)