Connections: Soccer Edition #20
Average mistakes today: 1.4
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Good morning to our German and Dutch rivals and neighbors 🇫🇷 ⚽️
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Connections: Sports Edition #644
Average mistakes today: 2
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Connections: Soccer Edition #19
Average mistakes today: 1.1
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Tough run today — really pushed myself after not being super active these past few weeks (attending basketball games & concerts + surviving the extreme heatwave we all lived through.)
Connections: Sports Edition #643 Blue first today: 12% 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟣🟣🟣🟣 🟢🟢🟢🟢 Play the puzzle: www.nytimes.com/athletic/…
Connections: Soccer Edition #18 Green first today: 38% 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔵🔵🟣🔵 🔵🟣🟣🟣 🔵🟣🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟣🟣🟣🟣 Play the puzzle: www.nytimes.com/athletic/…
Heeeee-heeeeee ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
The pacing was certainly off at times, and I’m curious to read up on facts vs fiction. But overall very entertaining!
And as a side note, I couldn’t help but think of my daughter during this movie! 🍿
I don’t want to sound too alarmist to my German friends but Ecuador are pressing like motherfuckers!
Finished reading: Batman: Resurrection by John Jackson Miller 📚
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫: Took a while to get things going but once it did, it was a caper!
Connections: Soccer Edition #15 Average mistakes today: 1.9 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟡🟡🟣🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟣 🟣🟣🔵🟣 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟣🟣🟣🟣 🟡🟡🟡🟡 Play the puzzle: www.nytimes.com/athletic/…
Connections: Soccer Edition #14 Blue first today: 7% 🔵🔵🔵🟣 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟣🟣🟣🟣 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟢🟢🟢🟢 Play the puzzle: www.nytimes.com/athletic/…
Connections: Sports Edition #639 Green first today: 27% 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟣🟣🟣🟣 Play the puzzle: www.nytimes.com/athletic/…
A quick TV catchup
Finished The Expanse S6 🚀 — a hard-won, bittersweet send-off. Would’ve taken three more seasons, easily.
Also wrapped Drops of God S2 🍷 — still the only show that makes a wine tasting play like a heist. Two very different flavours of binge, both very good in their own ways.
And since it’s World Cup season, I’ve been catching up on 2 football (⚽) -related docuseries, both made from friends:
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U.S. Against the World:
Produced by my husband-and-wife friends Rand & Janina, through their Parkstories studio. They’ve followed the US Men’s National Team for the past 4 years, and this docu-series traces back the evolution of the North American team from the Qatar 2022 World Cup, through to preparing to host the 2026 World Cup on home soil. Incredible exclusive access with everyone from players to coaches, and a real human underdog story.
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The Root of the Game
Directed by my friend Alec Cutter, possibly the most Brazilian American man I’ve ever met. After an incredible short film called Nando, Alec shares a fascinating look at the Varzea, Brazil’s grassroots, amateur football championship, around the São Paulo working class neighborhoods.
Connections: Soccer Edition #13
Today’s solve rate: 68%
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Looking forward to the next round of concerts over the next few months — and stoked to have secured tickets for Blink-182’s freshly announced European tour next year too! 💪 🎸 🤘
Connections: Soccer Edition #12
Average mistakes today: 1.5
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Play the puzzle: www.nytimes.com/athletic/…
Connections: Sports Edition #637
Average mistakes today: 2.5
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Play the puzzle: www.nytimes.com/athletic/…
Connections: Sports Edition #636 Average mistakes today: 1.3 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟣🟣🟣🟣 Play the puzzle: www.nytimes.com/athletic/…