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Kyle Schwarber might attend -- big plus (if he's there. So will Michael Irvin -- big minus. And it'll be on Nexflix -- big minus.

Down to eight ...

Egypt scores. 2-0. Can't take this one away (they might try, however)

Wow. Messi turned away on a PK.

The world's top-ranked team down a goal early. I suspect Lionel and the boys will come back, but still -- kinda interesting.

Hey Jude ... Bellingham scores twice in less than two minutes for England. Crazy.

WOW! HUGE NEWS! Not sure how this came about, but I'm not complaining (Belgium might be, however).

Totally forgot the Mexico-England match will be in Mexico City.

Current odds say England vs. Brazil in the quarters. Other than any U.S. match -- that might be the one I'm most looking forward to. If it happens, of course. Right now, FIFA has England ranked No. 4 and Brazil fifth. Before the tournament, they were 4 (England) and 6 (Brazil).

Only 16 remain

FIFA's pretty corrupt, so it might not make much of a difference, but I didn't realize that during the World Cup, there is no appeal process. (Probably should've known that -- but I didn't). So the U.S. cannot appeal the horrible red card call on Flo. That means it all comes down to one guy's decision. One guy -- and he made a bad call. Officials make poor calls all the time, and though the U.S. won, it really hamstrung us having to go with 10 against Bosnia. But now that the match is over and the dust has settled, why not create the ability to go back, have more than ONE person look at it and say, "Hey, this wasn't the right call. Balogun can play the next match." Or, conversely: "Hey, this was the right call. Red card stands. Balogun is out against Belgium." To go into a Round of 16 match without one of our best players on a very questionable call -- with no review of that call ... well, it sucks.

GREAT WIN!

Down a man, Tillman scores!

A couple guys get tangled up, so Flo gets a red card?

Damn -- that Harry Kane is an absolute beast.