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Playoffs! D.C. United! Thursday! Be there!!
That's all the energy I can muster this morning, you guys. Tired af and busy af and just tryna to slap together some links for y'all.
D.C. United, Southwest Land Holder LLC come to Buzzard Point stadium agreement - Black And Red United
Can we get some shovels in the ground soon or nah?
MLS Decision Day: The big winners, big losers and the super duper extra loser
DCU actually not mentioned anywhere in this, so I guess yay for not being loser-y enough to be called a loser? Because we certainly weren't big winners on Sunday.
Dissecting Bruce: Inside Arena's legend, from those who know him best | FourFourTwo
Full disclosure, I haven't read all of this yet, but what I did read was interesting and worth it. Also, Ben Olsen, Kevin Payne, John Harkes, and other DCU folks make appearances in this.
Most soccer announcing is crap. Here's how one man makes it better.
I don't know that I agree 100% with the premise here, but I agree 1000% elephants that commentators should, at the very least, pronounce names correctly. At the very least. It is simple to get right, if you try, and it makes such a difference.
How we discovered that heading a football causes impairment of brain function
Sometimes, in my brain, I think about how little we really understand the human brain, and my brain freaks out a bit. Kind of like how there's a crap ton of ocean out there that we haven't explored and who even knows what's going on in all that water. (Sorry for this brief existential crisis of sorts.)
It's Tuesday, friends. Go out there and be awesome—and cover whatever I missed in the comments!