Game Updates

Score: Pitt 21-24 VT

First Quarter

Score: 7-14

13:44: VT 7

Followed by a blatant violation of US law, that in any normal presidency would be an impeachable offense. Fuck ESPN.

10:14: VT 7

00:11: Pitt 7

2nd Quarter

Score: 14-10

10ish: 3 VT

05:17: Pitt 7

2ish: VT 7

00:31: Pitt 7

Where to watch

Pirate it or ESPN

Matchup History

23 prior matchups

VT: 12 wins

Pitt: 11

Played every year since 2012 (Pitt 7-5 in that)

Close games every single meeting. Similar amounts of students from NJ attend with similar GPAs. Always night games. It's an in division rivalry

Coaching matchup history

4 prior matchups (Pitt vs. Penn State)

Narduzzi: 1 (Pitt)

Franklin: 3 (Penn State)

Franklin finds Narduzzi annoying.

Narduzzi hates Franklin as a rival dad.

These coaches hate one another. Franklin always disrespected the ACC but yet here he is, coaching in the ACC. This is the first matchup of Pitt and VT with Franklin at the helm.

Other stories

For the first time in history 2 4-0 unranked teams are playing. Both teams deserve to be ranked, but there's more money ranking shitty SEC schools over ACC schools. Winner gets ranked.

When NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on the night of May 7, 1999, I was a teenager whose wall was plastered with posters of the Backstreet Boys and Andre Agassi. The news reached us in China the following morning. U.S. President Bill Clinton apologized, saying the attack was an accident, and that the CIA, working from outdated maps, had mistaken the building for a Yugoslav military procurement office. The Chinese government rejected the explanation: The United States of America does not make stupid mistakes like that. The news was unavoidable for weeks. To this day, I can recall the names and faces of the three journalists who died: Shao Yunhuan, Xu Xinghu, Zhu Ying. Xu and Zhu were a young couple.

A fortnight later, a boy in Belgrade turned 12. It was the 60th day of the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, launched to stop Slobodan Milošević’s ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. The boy, his parents and his two younger brothers had been sleeping in his aunt’s bomb shelter. At night, he shivered at the sound of explosions above. During the day, he played tennis. He and his coach held their practices at the sites of the most recent strikes — “figuring,” as he recalled, “that if they bombed one place yesterday, they probably wouldn’t bomb it today.” That’s when he first played probability tennis. They played without nets, on broken concrete. His birthday party was held at his tennis club, near a military school. As his parents sang “Happy Birthday,” he later wrote, “their voices were drowned out by the roar of the bombers flying overhead.”

Novak Djokovic has never muted his love for his country the way athletes from suspect nations are expected to. Of all his sport’s prizes, the one he wanted most was Olympic gold — the one that had escaped him for 16 years, through four summers of heartbreak. When he finally won it in Paris in 2024, at the age of 37, two months after knee surgery, against a player 16 years his junior in Carlos Alcaraz, he sank to his knees on the clay and wept as he had never wept for any of the 24 Grand Slams he had won for himself. He said that, until that day, carrying the Serbian flag into the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Games was “the best feeling that an athlete could have.” He was still wearing the medal days later.

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Anyone who hasn’t watched a match since the last World Cup will notice something new: players stopping midway through each half to drink some water.

Introduced in the name of player safety, these mandatory three-minute breaks are a surprise controversy that has shoved climate change into the spotlight.

Campaign to deliver ‘biggest complaint Fifa has ever received’ launches before World Cup

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/03/campaign-to-deliver-biggest-complaint-fifa-has-ever-received-launches-before-world-cup

airSquare’s original complaint received backing this week from Lise Klaveness, the president of the Norwegian football federation and campaigner for Fifa reform. The NFF has written to Fifa’s ethics committee in support of the complaint and, on the eve of the Norway squad’s departure for the World Cup, Klaveness said of the letter: “We have sent it, and it is causing some political reactions. But it is sent, and that is checked off. We will follow up, push forward, request meetings, and build momentum on this as soon as the World Cup is over.”

Please support if you agree https://rebootfifa.com/

The first ever Enhanced Games are taking place this weekend in Las Vegas, with big names, big money and much controversy.

The world snooker champion is Wu Yize! An amazing tournament and final that went to a decider and won by Wu.

interview of Wu right after the match:

Mandarin Chinese speaker here. I noticed the translator simplified some parts of his speech and thought a few interesting points were lost in translation. Here’s my attempt. Congrats Wu!! We love you!

A1: I think it’s because of faith. I’ve always wanted to become a world champion. I think I wanted it more than anyone else in this tournament. One day after another I’ve lived the same routine/life for a whole month. I’m willing to give my all in order to win.

A2: I want to thank my parents. I want to say in fact they are the real champions because since I dropped out of school as a kid, my dad has never left my side. He’s always been there for me. And my mom has been through a lot over the years (he on a separate occasion said she had health issues). Truly, they’re forever my source of mental strength/my rock.

A3: Actually at first there was a bit of misunderstanding. I thought people were booing. Later the staff told me the audience was cheering me on. I love you all so much. Thank you for your continued support for Snooker. Regardless of which player you support, I think all that matters is your love for the sport.

A4: Actually I just want a good night sleep. I’ve been very anxious ever since the second session. So I just want good quality sleep.

Wu came with his dad in England with all the money they had, and lived in a room with his dad, so he can achieve his dream and become the world champion snooker.
More info can be found here
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39012915/wu-yize-parents-tears-snooker-champion-sacrifices/

The World Snooker Tour (WST) has confirmed that planned editions of the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters will not take place, with the tournament cancelled.

https://www.wst.tv/news/2026/april/25/saudi-arabia-snooker-masters/

There are few things that have been so consistently political as football. This is true of the sport’s early folk origins, in which village-wide kick-abouts became an excuse to destroy fences threatening to enclose common agricultural land. It is true of the mid-nineteenth century, when—expunged of its plebeian elements and codified along a clear set of universal rules—football turned into a tool to enlist future members of Britain’s ruling class in the project of empire and initiate them to the amateur athletic cult of the Victorian gentleman.

However, soccer is even more political today. Not only is the beautiful game a multibillion-dollar industry and the playground for all sorts of economic and political interests from Gulf States’ sovereign funds to American private equity firms, but it is also the most popular spectacle on the planet. This has made the game a catalyst for political struggles of all kinds.

The historian of football, David Goldblatt, will be giving a series of seminars on the history of the game for Equator magazine. Ahead of these talks, he sat down with Bartolomeo Sala to talk about how, despite the best efforts of the monied interests behind the sport, elites just can’t kick politics out of football.

Ketel Marte & Freddie Freeman, from a recent baseball game.

March 10, 2026

PHOENIX, Arizona — As baseball fans around the world geared up for the Sixth World Baseball Classic, eight members of the Cuban team, along with their pitching coach and other support personnel, were denied visas to come to the United States. As a result, just 11 players were left to face a roster of 37 from the Kansas City Royals on March 3, 2026, and 33 from the Cincinnati Reds the following day.

The visa denials were a blow not just to the Cuban team, which was forced to play at a considerable competitive disadvantage; this was a blow to baseball fans across the board. And it ran counter to the goodwill of Major League Baseball and the organizers of the Classic, which draws together talent from around the globe.

The basis for the visa denial was simple; under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, Washington can deny visas to individuals from countries that it holds under sanctions. On January 29, the White House issued an executive order calling Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat.” This designation was the basis used by the administration of U.S. president Donald Trump to blockade ships carrying oil to Cuba and threaten to impose tariffs on any country daring to sell oil to the Caribbean nation.

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

​​Cuba is once again exceeding expectations in the World Baseball Classic. The Cuban team is one victory away from reaching the quarterfinals. It was unclear a few months ago whether Cuba would even play in the WBC. Not because of baseball — but because of U.S. policy.

“We were aware that there could be denials due to the United States’ aggressive policy toward Cuba,” said Juan Reinaldo Pérez, the president of the Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation. In the end, the players were granted the visas, but eight Cuban staff, including a scout and a pitching coach, were denied visas.

The Trump administration last year blocked visas for some 100 Cuban athletes and sports officials.

Cuban athletes also face pressure from right-wing activists and politicians in Miami. In the last WBC in Miami, Cuban players and their family members were harassed and had objects thrown at them.

👉Check out our article “Playing Dirty: Rubio’s War on Cuban Athletes”: https://www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/rubios-war-on-cuban-athletes

Heading into the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics, skiers and snowboarders were already adjusting to a ban on fluorinated waxes long prized for making their equipment faster. This week, the Winter Games saw their first enforcement of that rule, which is aimed at protecting public health and the environment.

South Korean cross-country skiers Han Dasom and Lee Eui-jin were disqualified from the women’s sprint event on Tuesday. That came one day after Japanese snowboarder Shiba Masaki was disqualified from the men’s parallel giant slalom. In all three cases, routine testing found banned compounds on their equipment.

For decades, elite snow sports athletes have relied on waxes with fluorocarbons that are exceptional at repelling water and dirt. Former U.S. cross-country racer Nathan Schultz told Grist the so-called “fluoro” waxes provide a “really ridiculous speed advantage,” especially in warmer conditions like those experienced at these Games.

But these waxes also contained PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. This class of 15,000 so-called “forever chemicals” are notorious for never breaking down. Studies have linked exposure to PFAS to thyroid disease, developmental problems, and cancer, and research has found elevated levels in ski technicians who regularly handled the waxes. PFAS have also been detected in soil and water near ski venues, including wells drawing from aquifers in Park City, Utah, suggesting broader environmental contamination.

Amid growing concern over the environmental impacts and the risks to skiers, their technicians, and others, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, or FIS, called for a ban in 2019. The prohibition took effect in 2023, and applies to all events governed by the federation, including nordic, alpine and freestyle skiing, ski jumping, and snowboarding.

taging future Winter Games as early as January and the Paralympic Winter Games in February is a possibility because of the effects of warmer temperatures, the International Olympic Committee said Wednesday.

Every Winter Games medal was won in February since the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics opened Jan. 29, and moving to January would likely disrupt scheduling of storied World Cup races and events. It also would more directly clash with NFL and NBA schedules. The IOC is now reviewing Olympic Games issues in the first year of Kirsty Coventry’s presidency and changing the winter edition dates is an option.

“Maybe we are also discussing to bring the Winter Olympics a little bit earlier,” the IOC member overseeing the sports program review, Karl Stoss, told reporters. “To do it in January because it has an implication for the Paralympics as well.”

The Milan Cortina Paralympic Winter Games will be held March 6-15.