FIFA's ruthless calculus is this: If we charge 10x mark up on tickets, we are ahead once we sell 11% of seats. The suppression of secondary ticket site pricing is remarkable---how have they pulled it off?
England v Croatia not sold out. Secondary ticket sites offering tickets from $867 (£648) to $9,225 (£6,900) for ticket and meal package with access to VIP lounge. Still some hospitality tickets ranging from $2,430 to $3,150 on the Fifa website. #ENG
John Kiely and his management team has released their Limerick Senior hurling team and match panel for their Munster championship Final against Cork:
Limerick Hurling team take on Cork this Sunday afternoon in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh at 2pm is Released.
I think the rule on men wearing a sports jersey with another man’s name on it is the player has to be older than you. Like it has to be the athlete you liked as a kid or something. A 47yo man wearing a 22yo dude’s name on his back is kinda gay.
New from Kailey Hughes Kramer and our group in @CIDJournal : Infectious Risks of Medical Cannabis. we consider our current state of knowledge and needs in the area. academic.oup.com/cid/advance…
Today, IDSA PPAC Chair @ClancyNeil spoke at an AMR Action Fund briefing on the need to invest in antimicrobial R&D, stewardship and the ID workforce to protect patients with cancer from resistant infections.
Urge your rep to cosponsor the PASTEUR Act: idsociety.quorum.us/campaign…
CNN projects Julia Letlow advances to GOP runoff. Cassidy still in third place — at risk of losing bid for renomination after enduring Trump’s wrath cnn.com/2026/05/16/politics/…
nytimes.com/2026/04/30/theat…
Great night at Italian staging of Jitney here in the Burgh at the always excellent Pittsburgh Playwrights. Wilson’s language & character driven plays seem
well suited to Italian.
Not sure me drinking half a bottle of 89 per cent absinthe here in Barcelona watching PSG vs Bayern has really helped my understanding of what just happened…or maybe it has…
I did something different for the Book-Rule Bucs newsletter and wrote about Globe Life Field. It was ballpark No. 30 for me, and MLB's newest ballpark just made me... sad.
My column on how baseball is having a crisis in ballparks (plus Pirates stuff too):
bookrulebucs.substack.com/p/…