World Cup LGBTQ+ Pride Match will feature two countries where being gay is illegal

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/sports/world-cup-pride-match-countries

I was an avid reader of Grant's columns and listened to practically all his podcasts. It's been 2 years and his presence is sorely missed in the American soccer world. #Grant #GrantWahl https://defector.com/remembering-grant-wahl-americas-greatest-soccer-writer
Remembering Grant Wahl, America's Greatest Soccer Writer | Defector

Before Grant Wahl left to cover the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, he headed down to the storage space of his apartment building in New York City and retrieved a paper he’d written in college. It’d become a habit to revisit the piece before going on a big assignment, says Wahl’s Sports Illustrated colleague Alex […]

Just received "World Class: Purpose, Passion, and the Pursuit of Greatness On and Off the Field," a collection of Grant Wahl's writing.

Got chills reading the heartfelt forward by his wife and the introduction by Alexander Wolff.

Look forward to re-reading some favorites and discovering some gems I missed.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198563677-world-class

#grantwahl #worldclass

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Grant Wahl is in the Hall of Fame: Legendary soccer journalist who died in Qatar honored with induction ceremony and standing ovation for his family

The late legendary football journalist Grant Wahl was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame at a ceremony on Saturday.

Goal.com

Read this article today and realized how much I miss reading Grant Wahl. #grantwahl #TedLasso

https://grantwahl.substack.com/p/free-to-read-my-walking-tour-of-richmond

Free to Read: My Walking Tour of Richmond from Ted Lasso's Brendan Hunt

And a dose of feel-good that I didn't realize how much I needed.

Fútbol with Grant Wahl
Kudos to Ted Lasso for this (lifted from the dogeshite): #TedLasso #GrantWahl #dogeshite

https://nitter.it/celinegounder/status/1625627598494498817?s=46
When her husband #GrantWahl died of an aortic aneurysms she said his untimely death had absolutely nothing, zilch, zip to do w/ #sarscov2

She posted this yesterday… she’s a medical doctor…

Yet this is where we are. It will trickle down eventually to the masses, but the question is when & will it be too late

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 (@celinegounder)

1/ A recent study from Cedars Sinai Hospital shows the number of heart🫀attack deaths💀among people 25-44 years old during the first 2 years of the COVID pandemic was ‼️30% higher‼️ than predicted. with @CBSNews' @tonydokoupil & @lilialuciano https://www.cbsnews.com/video/covid-pandemic-heart-health-cardiac-deaths/

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Epidemiologist Celine Gounder, wife of late sports journalist #GrantWahl, on the nightmare of #anti-vaxx ghouls using her husband's death to promote their lies. #COVID19 #publichealth #medicine https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/grant-wahls-wife-fights-vaccine-misinformation-in-the-wake-of-her-husbands-death
Grant Wahl's wife fights vaccine misinformation in the wake of her husband's death

When sports journalist Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm while covering the World Cup in Qatar, a flood of misinformation took over social media, with anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists falsely claiming the COVID vaccine was to blame. Wahl’s wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, is an infectious disease specialist. She joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the fight against this kind of disinformation.

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Opinion | Grant Wahl’s Death Isn’t a Tool for Covid Vaccine Disinformation Spreaders

Anti-vaccine harassment cannot stand.

How Grant Wahl Changed the Place of Soccer in America

Louisa Thomas writes about the late journalist Grant Wahl, who died while covering the 2022 World Cup, in Qatar, and Wahl’s influential work in sportswriting.

The New Yorker