Sr Director of Media & Biz Ops,
@TruMediaSports
. ⚽ research @ WBD, FOX, CBS. Betting @ Ringer, VSiN. Expected Value pod. Wheaton (IL) alum.
#RootForChaos
🇺🇸🏊
After a three-and-a-half year battle with cancer, my dad passed away on Sunday.
Hero, idol, best friend, mentor…I don’t think of him as any of those things, but he was my dad, which is all of those things & much more.
Thank you for everything, Dad.
South Korea breaks CONCACAF's Best Director streak.
#Oscars
2020 🇰🇷 Bong Joon-Ho
2019 🇲🇽 Alfonso Cuarón
2018 🇲🇽 Guillermo del Toro
2017 🇺🇸 Damien Chazelle
2016 🇲🇽 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2015 🇲🇽 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2014 🇲🇽 Alfonso Cuarón
Wojciech Szczesny is the third keeper to save two penalties at a single World Cup (not including shootouts).
2022 🇵🇱 Wojciech Szczesny
2002 🇺🇸 Brad Friedel
1974 🇵🇱 Jan Tomaszewski
Christian Pulisic was fouled 11 times by Porto today. 🇺🇸
That's the most fouls suffered by any player in a UCL game since Lionel Messi vs Real Madrid in 2011.
For the first time, U.S. internationals have scored in the Premier League, Bundesliga & Serie A on the same day.
🏴 Christian Pulisic
🇩🇪 Gio Reyna
🇮🇹 Weston McKennie
Sergiño Dest is the first USMNT player with an assist and a red card in the same game since...
...Sergiño Dest vs Mexico in the Nations League semis earlier this year.
The Best Director award is turning into the Gold Cup.
#Oscars90
2018 🇲🇽 Guillermo del Toro
2017 🇺🇸 Damien Chazelle
2016 🇲🇽 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2015 🇲🇽 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2014 🇲🇽 Alfonso Cuarón
#USMNT
goes into Pot 2 for Friday’s World Cup draw…
Pot 1: 🇶🇦🇧🇷🇧🇪🇫🇷🇦🇷🏴🇪🇸🇵🇹
Pot 2: 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇲🇽🇺🇸🇩🇰🇨🇭🇭🇷🇺🇾
Pot 3: 🇸🇳🇮🇷🇯🇵🇲🇦🇷🇸🇵🇱🇰🇷🇹🇳
Pot 4: 🇨🇦🇨🇲🇪🇨🇸🇦🇬🇭 + 3 playoff winners...
- 🏴/🇺🇦/🏴
- 🇦🇺/🇦🇪/🇵🇪
- 🇨🇷/🇳🇿
The Best Director award has been CONCACAF-ed.
#Oscars
2019 🇲🇽 Alfonso Cuarón
2018 🇲🇽 Guillermo del Toro
2017 🇺🇸 Damien Chazelle
2016 🇲🇽 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2015 🇲🇽 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2014 🇲🇽 Alfonso Cuarón
Six U.S. internationals are starting in UEFA Champions League today, the most ever on a single day.
🇺🇸 Brenden Aaronson
🇺🇸 John Brooks
🇺🇸 Weston McKennie
🇺🇸 Jordan Pefok
🇺🇸 Christian Pulisic
🇺🇸 Tim Weah
For the first time in 20 continental and global tournaments played at home (17 Gold Cups, 2 Copas, 1 World Cup), the USMNT has gone out in the group stage.
Players fouled 6+ times in a UCL semifinal match, last 10 years:
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi
🇩🇪 Mesut Özil
🇪🇸 Sergio Ramos
🇧🇪 Eden Hazard
🇧🇷 Neymar
🇺🇸 Christian Pulisic
This is the first UEFA Champions League matchday to feature six Americans:
🇺🇸 Dest starts for Barça
🇺🇸 McKennie starts for Juve
🇺🇸 Pulisic starts for Chelsea
🇺🇸 Reyna starts for Dortmund
🇺🇸 Adams subbed in for Leipzig
🇺🇸 Richards subbed in for Bayern
Brenden Aaronson, Tyler Adams & Christian Pulisic are the first trio of U.S. internationals to play in the same Premier League game since Nov. 30, 2013.
🇺🇸 Tim Howard and Everton beat Stoke’s Geoff Cameron & Brek Shea (!) 4-0.
19-year-olds Christian Pulisic (Dortmund) and Weston McKennie (Schalke) start in today's derby.
They'll be the first pair of American teenagers to play in the same Bundesliga game. 🇺🇸
Atalanta had 47 shots and 5.86 xG in today's SCORELESS DRAW vs Empoli.
That's the highest xG total without scoring in any of the 85K games in our dataset.
At least 12 Americans could play in UEFA Champions League this season:
🇩🇪 Tyler Adams
🇩🇪 John Brooks
🇩🇪 Gio Reyna
🇩🇪 Chris Richards
🏴 Christian Pulisic
🏴 Zack Steffen
🇦🇹 Brenden Aaronson
🇪🇸 Sergiño Dest
🇮🇹 Weston McKennie
🇧🇪 Owen Otasowie
🇨🇭 Jordan Pefok
🇫🇷 Tim Weah
Weston McKennie is the first U.S. international to win Coppa Italia!
Not a bad European cup season for USMNT players so far...
🏆🇮🇹 Weston McKennie
🏆🇪🇸 Sergiño Dest
🏆🇩🇪 Gio Reyna
🏆🏴 Zack Steffen
🏆🇧🇪 Mark McKenzie
🏆🇦🇹 Brenden Aaronson
Christian Pulisic gets his fourth Premier League goal as a sub, tying the record for a U.S. international.
4 🇺🇸 Christian Pulisic
4 🇺🇸 Clint Dempsey
4 🇺🇸 Brian McBride
Weston McKennie goal! 🇺🇸
He has five Serie A goals this season, equaling the career total of all other U.S. internationals combined.
5 🇺🇸 Weston McKennie
3 🇺🇸 Michael Bradley
2 🇺🇸 Alexi Lalas
To reach the Copa América quarterfinals, the
#USMNT
needs one of…
🇺🇸 Win vs Uruguay (and win GD tiebreaker if Panama wins)
🇺🇸 Draw & Panama-Bolivia draw
🇺🇸 Loss and Bolivia win & win GD tiebreaker with Panama and Bolivia (currently U.S. +1, PAN -1, BOL -7)
Konrad de la Fuente subs in for Barcelona!
He’s the 7th American to play in UCL this season, breaking the record of six set in 2004-05.
🇺🇸 Adams (21 years old)
🇺🇸 De la Fuente (19)
🇺🇸 Dest (20)
🇺🇸 Horvath (25)
🇺🇸 McKennie (22)
🇺🇸 Pulisic (22)
🇺🇸 Reyna (18)
Australia’s Emma McKeon won 7 medals at the Tokyo Olympics. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥉🥉🥉
2nd woman to win 7 at a single Olympics, joining Soviet gymnast Mariya Gorokhovskaya (1952).
She has the most career Olympic medals of any Australian.
11 🇦🇺 Emma McKeon
9 🇦🇺 Ian Thorpe
9 🇦🇺 Leisel Jones
Christian Pulisic subs in for Chelsea. He's the first U.S. international to...
🇺🇸 ...play in the UCL quarters in two different seasons
🇺🇸 ...play in the UCL quarters for two different clubs
🏴 ...play in the UCL quarters for an English club
Sergiño Dest starts for Barcelona in the UCL Round of 16 today. 🇺🇸
The 20-year-old will be the first U.S. international to play for a Spanish club in the UEFA Champions League knockout stage.
Improbable
#RootForChaos
tonight…
🇺🇸 U.S. loses 7-0
🇲🇽 Mexico loses 7-6
🇨🇷 Costa Rica qualifies in 2nd place (+10 GD).
🤝 U.S. and Mexico are tied with +6 GD and 21 goals.
🇺🇸 U.S. advances on head-to-head (
#DosACero
).
🇲🇽 Mexico goes to playoff vs the Oceania champ.
Yunus Musah started for Valencia today. 🇺🇸
It’s the 52nd career La Liga game for the 19-year-old, passing Kasey Keller for most by a U.S. international.
Weston McKennie goal! 🇺🇸
He now has four Serie A goals, passing Michael Bradley for most by a U.S. international!
4 🇺🇸 Weston McKennie
3 🇺🇸 Michael Bradley
2 🇺🇸 Alexi Lalas
Ricardo Pepi subs on for his Bundesliga debut!
He’s the 7th U.S. international to play in the Bundesliga before turning 19.
🇺🇸 Gio Reyna
🇺🇸 Christian Pulisic
🇺🇸 Joe Scally
🇺🇸 Sebastian Soto
🇺🇸 Weston McKennie
🇺🇸 Josh Sargent
🇺🇸 Ricardo Pepi
Five Americans have played on the same UEFA Champions League matchday for the first time.
2020 MD1:
🇺🇸 Tyler Adams
🇺🇸 Sergiño Dest
🇺🇸 Ethan Horvath
🇺🇸 Christian Pulisic
🇺🇸 Gio Reyna
Record was 4 in 2012:
🇺🇸 Jermaine Jones
🇺🇸 Sacha Kljestan
🇺🇸 Oguchi Onyewu
🇺🇸 Michael Parkhurst
10 years ago today was my first day at ESPN.
#RoundNumbers
Thursday will be my last day at ESPN.
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining
@TruMediaN
next week. More details:
Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie are the first pair of U.S. internationals to each get a yellow card in the same Premier League game since...
🇺🇸 Adams and McKennie 10 days ago.
🇺🇸 Before that, it hadn't happened since 2012 (Brad Guzan and Eric Lichaj).
This is crazy! Bobby Finke's 25.78 on the final lap of the 1500m free was faster at these Olympics than...
- Anyone's final 50 in the 800m free (his own 26.39)
- Anyone's final 50 in the 400m free (27.06)
- Anyone's final 50 in the 200m free (26.46)!
Walker Zimmerman and Miles Robinson are making their 9th
#USMNT
start together tonight.
🇺🇸 U.S. has 7 wins and 1 draw (at Azteca) in the previous 8 games.
🇺🇸 U.S. has outscored opponents 18-1 with both on the field in those games.
With Iran beating Wales...
🇺🇸 With a win vs England, U.S. advances w/ a win/draw vs Iran, and could advance w/ a loss.
🇺🇸 With a draw, U.S. advances with a win vs Iran.
🇺🇸 With a loss, U.S. advances with a win vs Iran (and winning tiebreaker w/ Wales if Wales wins).
#RootForChaos
in the final week of the Premier League:
⚽ Liverpool beats Southampton 6-0 today
⚽ Liverpool draws 1-1 vs Wolves Sunday
⚽ Man City loses 1-0 vs Villa Sunday
⚽ City & Liverpool are tied on points, GD, goals, H2H
⚽ Title decided by a neutral-site playoff!
Christian Pulisic goal!!
🇺🇸 It’s his 4th
#UCL
knockout-stage goal, one more than all other U.S. internationals combined.
🇺🇸 He ties Dwight Yorke for most UCL knockout-stage goals by a CONCACAF international.
#USMNT
has reached three straight U-20 World Cup quarterfinals for the first time!
The U.S. is the ONLY country to reach the quarters at the last three U-20 World Cups. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸