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House Judiciary panel plans discussion on college athlete pay
The House Judiciary Committee is hosting a roundtable on name, image and likeness issues in college athletics in mid-April, according to a person familiar with the planning. Lawmakers have been mulling federal legislation to regulate college athletes’ ability to profit off their personal brand for years…
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White House FIFA Taskforce executive director Andrew Giuliani told me on Friday that he wanted this match to go to overtime.
You might have called the overtime, I told him as the players prepared to return to the field after 90 minutes.
“We can thank Martinez for playing out of his mind!!” he texted back, in reference to Argentina’s goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez.
President Donald Trump is watching the World Cup from a box with First Lady Melania Trump, Eric Trump and Barron Trump, the true soccer fan in the Trump family.
Trump is with fellow North American leaders Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The trio is meeting in-person for just the second time (their first meeting was at the FIFA final draw in Washington).
Also joining Trump in his box are King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who has clashed with Trump on defense spending and Spain’s refusal to allow the U.S. to use it’s military bases in its strikes against Iran.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is there of course, along with White House FIFA Taskforce executive director Andrew Giuliani, Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Patriots owner Bob Kraft and Brian Kilmeade from Fox News.
Shakira, Madonna, Justin Bieber, BTS and a coitier of other musicians and dancers just wrapped up a very Gianni Infantino coded half-time show at MetLife Stadium. Across the performances, but especially in visual displays on the field, there were snippets of his vision of soccer as a global unifying force.
Dancers carrying colorful globes and flags with hearts on them. A series of letters came together to spell out “LOVE” with an image of the Earth as the “O.”
Much of the halftime show took place atop a tarp covering the whole field with words and phrases in multiple languages, like “Purpose,” “Grow” “Future,” “Inspire,” and “We are all one in the universe.”
Many of the fans stayed in their seats to watch.
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