So, #URUFRA, the matchup we didn't want but the one we need!
Bad luck for (Poor)#Messi & #ARG, but they were outclassed by #Mbappe & #FRA (playing up to potential for once).
#FRAARG
Bad luck also for #Ronaldo (& 1-man? #POR), but that #Suarez-#Cavani goal👏! #URUPOR
#WorldCup
Excellent stuff from @Bonnie_D_Ford! #Kvitova's comeback has to be one of the most inspirational (forget just sports/tennis but human) stories of all time! Hoping for a deep #Wimbledon run! #PetraKvitova
Get ready for #Wimbledon with this great read from #MichaelSteinberger about #Federer's backhand. Let's hope that thing-of-beauty-which-sometimes-misfires 1HBH holds up for the next two weeks! 😥
#ThreeIdenticalStrangers
I mean, that whole truth-is-stranger-than-fiction thingy doesn't even *begin* to describe what we have here!😮
Don't read/see/hear *any*thing about this incredible doc...just go see it with a blank slate & prepare to have your mind *blown*!🤭
@NEONrated
Wait, wha?! #FairPlay?! Ya gotta be kidding me! Bad luck for #SadioMane & #SEN. I'll miss eminently GIF-worthy #AliouCisse😫 #SENCOL
#AlexiLalas was mad about the end of the #JPNPOL match...wonder why?!🧐
Great goal by #Januzaj. #BEL's reward: #SideOfDeath!😱 #ENGBEL #WorldCup
Angelenos came through today, huh?😄
#MEX ran into a #SWE-dish buzzsaw(?!), but got bailed out by #KOR, & their goalie #JoHyeonwoo!
#MEXSWE #KORGER
PS. Congrats to #BRA (& their...defense?!); #WorldCup wouldn't have been the same without them.
#SRBBRA
Congratulations to the great #MadhabiMukherjee & #SoumitraChatterjee on being invited to join @TheAcademy. Absolutely brilliant the two #Charulata leads are going in together. Richly deserved... and really what took so long?! 🎥👏
Finally! Redemption for (Poor) #Messi (#EverBanega pass💪)! Sad for superfun #SuperEagles & their 19yo (#Goycochea-esque😇) goalie #Uzoho! Those #Maradona reaction shots!🤣😳
#NGAARG
PS #FRAARG, the #UnderachieversBowl?! 😅
Bad luck for #ISL😒#fyririsland
#ISLCRO
#WorldCup
#JurassicWorldFallenKingdom: How does that @GEICO commercial go?... as long as dinosaurs are brought back to life you can count on people doing dumb things?😂
Sit back, relax & let your senses feast on all those dinos, um, feasting... PS. Bayona's #Spielberg-ian opening 💪🦖
Duuuuuude...let's hope this isn't a prelude of things to come...
Great career-changing victory for #Coric over #Federer to win #Halle & stop that awesome #GOAT-run. Sigh😒...
For what is considered the epitome of gentility #Wimbledon sure is gonna shred my aging nerves! 😰
Yikes! Another day another tough match for #Federer. #GOAT-fighting spirit comes through against young American (remember those?) #DenisKudla. #Coric up next & the kid has revenge on his mind...
duh-duh-duh! 🎾🙀
#Halle
Speaking of #SUI what a cracker from #Xhaka...& run from (Xherdan) #Shaqiri (Swiss X-Men?🤣) to beat #SRB! #SRBSUI
Bad luck for TBH's fave #ISL, #WorldCup run all but over. #NGA's 19yo goalie #Uzoho! 😀#NGAISL
PS. #DerekRae: "The Ice is melting!" "Where #SuperEagles dare!" 👏
Whew! Another close one for #Federer as he uses all his #GOAT magic against #Ebden to keep the #Halle (& No. 1 ranking) dream alive!
Hope he keeps something in reserve for #Wimbledon... man these next few tennis weeks are gonna be brutal on my blood pressure! 🎾😳😰
#BabylonBerlin: My goodness!! The reason that @netflix was put on this Earth! *Lavish* subtitled(!) post-(the *other*)war Berlin noir, cops, gangstas, politics, Le Carre-esque intrigue, corruption, etc.! Tykwer, DP Fischer, Bruch, Kurth, Brandt, Janusauskaite & *esp* Fries! 👏
Bad luck for TBH's (2nd) fave #PER, so-close vs. #FRA. That kid #Mbappe is a bolt of lightning! #FRAPER
Beauty by #Modric, but poor #Messi. Has there ever been a more melancholic #GOAT? #ARG never had a chance. #ARGCRO
PS. #AlyWagner-#DerekRae are awesome!⚽️👏
@FOXSoccer
Whew! #Federer needed *all* of his powers to fend off #Paire at #Halle. Give the "old" #GOAT credit, he still refuses to go gentle into that good night!
PS. Take it easy champ... we need you to conserve all your energy for #Wimbledon!
Meanwhile, in #WorldCup #Liverpool news, #MoSalah scores but #EGY loses by the skin of its teeth & #SadioMane doesn't score but #SEN wins by the skin of its teeth…
& (as always) #LuisSuarez ends up at the right place at the right time for the #URU win.
#RUSEGY #POLSEN #URUKSA
Wait, wha?! 481 for 6 isn't a Test score, but it's what #ENG put up in an ODI… against archrival #AUS?!
Everyone has #WorldCup fever, but someone in England must've noticed this, no? 🏏💪
PS. Anyone beginning to, just a teeny bit, feel a bit sorry for the Aussies?
#ENGvAUS
No fuss, no muss as #Federer keeps the #GOAT-train chugging after solid win over #Bedene.
To keep that #MercedesCup-#Halle Double dream alive he'll have to get past stylish Frenchman (aren't they all😉) #Paire, all 6'5"(!) of him, a tall (ahem) order on grass...
#InTheDark: Kaleidoscopic, chilling, moving look at a crime too horrific to comprehend. Podcasting/journalism at its very best, no? None of the true-crime podcasting tricks to create any false drama. Massive credit to @madeleinebaran, the dogged reporter at the center of it all.
That's one off ye olde #BucketList: @BillPlaschke's @AroundtheHorn chair!
Thanks @LATimesFreshInk for the wonderful tour! Sad to see the venerable @latimes leave its venerable DTLA HQ…keep up the venerable great work though!
📰👏💪
Well done #Koepka, uncomplainingly (ahem) won back-to-back! Great showing by #Fleetwood (63?!😯) I was cheering for #Finau.
But *all* everyone's gonna be talking about is #Mickelson🧐?!Hopefully fawning golf writers will take checkered past into account for his legacy.
#USOpen
Speaking of #SUI, did they just beat #BRA 1-1?! How many yellows?! PS Remember when #Coutinho was scoring those beauties for #LFC 😒 #BRASUI
But #GERMEX was something, eh? Fantastic win for #MEX over fancied #GER. Well done (22yo!) #Chucky(🤣) #Lozano! PS #Chicharito 😭
#WorldCup
To steal a phrase: #ISL Beats #ARG
1-1?🤭
Lotsa #Goycochea-esque(😇) saves from #Halldorsson! Poor #Messi, has there even been a more melancholic #GOAT?
#ARGISL
Bad luck for TBH's (2nd)fave #PER (*every*one's fave is #Iceland, no?), had all the chances vs #DEN
🙁
#PERDEN
#WorldCup
Whew! #Federer needed all of his #GOAT-ness to overcome mercurial/awesome #Kyrgios!
He'll need *all* of his No. 1 power against flamethrower #Raonic in the finals...
... but I guess I buried the lede... Welcome back to No. 1 champ! 👏👍😀🎾
#MercedesCup
Any #Shikhar Test Century & #IND Win is a reason for celebration... but well done #AFG. The fact that they got to play a Test at all, in the face of all these obstacles, is remarkable. One of the best sports stories of our times.
PS. Great sportsmanship by #Rahane! 👏🏏
#INDvAFG
Sigh, in the #LiverpoolBowl #MoSalah loses...& #Suarez somehow manages to win (again). Tough loss for #EGY to #URU.
Look, #Ronaldo is not a likeable guy but whatagoal!⚽️😳 Any win for #POR over #ESP (& villainous #SergioRamos) is a win for us all!
#EGYURU #PORESP
#WorldCup
#Incredibles2: Fine, so it's not as good as the original (*nothing* is!), but it's one of the most fun movies you'll see all summer! #BradBird has to be on a shortlist of greatest living male action director. Secret star, again, is composer #MichaelGiacchino. PS Voyd=#KStew?! 🤣
Another good, solid win for #Federer over #GuidoPella.
Buuuut...he's gonna need *all* his #GOAT-magic for the person who stands between him & an unexpected return to No.1: #Kyrgios... duh-duh-duh! 🙀
#MercedesCup
Welcome back Champ! Okay, not exactly #GOAT-esque, but that good, gutty #Federer win over the awesome (other?) #Zverev (serve-&-volley on grass... remember that?🙃) was a good first step. This #Wimbledon summer is gonna be murder on my nerves! 😰
#MercedesCup #tennis
#2001ASpaceOdyssey: Brilliant unrestored #70mm! Remains a terrifyingly immersive cinematic experience. Original analogue mix: Bl**dy H*ll my ears were bleeding as my brain was reeling! Film, still ain't nuthin' like it! So whats it all about? Your guess is as good as mine!🤷♀️
Congrats to #Nadal on winning the #FrenchOpen ... for the 11th time?! Wait, what?! 11?!
*11*?!
Wasn't young #Thiem supposed to, um, challenge him?!
#Rafa's clay record will be recorded on Mt. Olympus for the G*ds to behold & marvel at what Man is truly capable of.
#RG18
Congrats to #BobBaffert/#Justify/#MikeSmith on winning the #TripleCrown (with a little help from #RestoringHope?😇).
Though I know nothing about horse racing, even I could see this coming after that turn in the #KentuckyDerby. 🐎💪👏👍
#Belmont
RIP #AnthonyBourdain. A life lived in *full*, but also a life cut way too short. I was lucky to see him speak live, charismatic, vivacious, confident, passionate… you just never know.
Tremendous writer. "My Aim Is True" - you can see where that narrative voice came from.
So sad
Oh man, bad luck for #Sloane, uncharacteristically faltered down the stretch.
Well done #Halep, overcame all kinds of psychological baggage to win her maiden major.
Maybe the post-#Serena/#Venus #tennis landscape won't be so terrifyingly bleak after all.
#FrenchOpen #RG18
Death, taxes & #Warriors beating #Cavs to win #NBA title. #TheCity?! Try Flop City. #StephCurry got the calls #LeBron didn't in Gm1. But, this was inevitable.
@KingJames gets too much blame/praise...#GOAT discussion needs more nuance.
#KD catching up to #Kobe?! #SteveKerr👏
Gawd, if there's any justice #KD, not that insufferable twerp #StephCurry (whom I used to like) will win #FinalsMVP...
#Warriors #Cavaliers #WhateverItTakes
Okay, fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, I was wrong... 30-pt game and #LeBron is in the game ... remember the Captain goes down with the ship...
#Warriors #Cavaliers #WhateverItTakes
Dude... #TyLue... it's win or go home... you can't throw in the towel for the entire fourth quarter?! C'mon #LeBron get out there ... pad the stats a little... it'll all be part of the future #GOAT discussion...
#Warriors #Cavaliers #WhateverItTakes ...apparently not...
#Warriors up 10-3 in the first 2:27.... so it's over already?!
#Cavaliers #LeBron 😧
#WhateverItTakes
Wha?! #Capitals won the #StanleyCup?! Weren't they supposed to be, uh, #ChokingDogs?!
Congrats to #Ovechkin for (finally) getting the monkey off his back (& beating the insufferable #SidCrosby on the way). #TJOshie 😭👍👏
Sad for #GoldenKnights, (2nd) best sports story of 2018.
And so the #LeBron #NBA era ends with a #KD 3-pt bang 😢
For a second there #Cavs were up, #KevinLove was pulling down rebounds, role players were clicking...
...and then the inevitable happened.
Hopefully, #Warriors will show #Cavaliers the courtesy of a gentleman sweep.
PS. About that depressive air, is this the end of the *Non*-#BigFour Era?! #DelPo's comeback is miraculous, but what about #Wawrinka (#Stanimal!), #Ferrer, #Tsonga, #Berdych, #Monfils (#LaMonf), #Gasquet?! Any advanced stats for how awesome this group is...sorry was☹️?
#Tennis
RIP #BillGold.
You may not have heard his name, but you've definitely seen his awesome work. Legendary movie poster designer behind some of the most iconic images in movie history! We sure could use more of him right about now...
Bad luck for #Serena, just adding to the faintly depressive air hanging around this year's #FrenchOpen. 😒🎾
Help us #Sloane-#Kasatkina(!👀)/#Thiem-#Zverev(!👀)/#Cilic-#DelPo(!!👀👀), you're our only hope!
#RolandGarros #RG18
Ya know, #Cavaliers made it a 4-pt game in 2Q, #Warriors made it 11 in the blink of an eye...5 pt in 3Q that become 11...7 pt in 4Q then that #StephCurry prayer &...
At least #GeorgeHill & #KevinLove continue to play hard.
At some point #LeBron has to get some calls.
#NBAFinals
#AmericanAnimals: Terrific truth-isn't-just-stranger-than-fiction-it-*is*-fiction meta-heist/calling-card movie by the talented young director Layton! Reinforces, then hilariously upends genre conventions. Entire cast, incl young leads are aces, esp Keoghan. Not to be missed!
