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College was sold as the ticket to the middle class. Get the degree. Get the job. Buy the house. Start the family. Build the life. Retire someday before your knees file for divorce. That was the pitch. And to be fair, for a lot of people, college …

St. Louis CITY walked out of Kansas City with a 1-1 draw, which is technically useful and emotionally disgusting. The unbeaten streak lives, the road trip goal of four points from San Jose and Kansas City was achieved, and everyone can update the st…

City SC Posse was supposed to have a midweek episode this week, but apparently the soccer gods saw Marcel Hartel leave town and decided Kev’s electricity should leave too. We had a plan. A real plan. Kev and I were going to record Tuesday night aft…

NFNP 2x26 — Mark Greaves Returns Pt. 2 There used to be a simple life path in America. Graduate school. Get a job. Meet someone. Buy a house. Mow the lawn. Complain about the water bill. Stand in the garage with your hands on your hips and say, “We…

Marcel Hartel leaving St. Louis CITY SC hurts. Marcel Hartel leaving for less than €1 million makes me stare directly into the middle distance like I just watched someone drop a full beer at CITYPark. According to the Sky Sport DE / Florian Pletten…

NFNP 2x25 — Pt. 1 Every once in a while, the NFNP brings on a guest. This time, we brought back a founding artifact. Mark Greaves returned to the Posse for NFNP 2x25, and technically he was the guest, but it did not really feel like a guest episo…

St. Louis CITY SC drew Real Salt Lake 1-1 on Saturday night, which is fine, but also the exact kind of “fine” that makes you stare at the scoreboard like it owes you money. A point against a team near the top of the Western Conference is not a disas…

There are episodes where the NFNP sits down with a plan. This was not one of those episodes. Bright opened the show in a classic late-July human fog: work, kids, routine, vague dread, and the creeping suspicion that maybe “blah” is not a mood but …

St. Louis CITY SC won the game, took the three points, climbed to 7th place, and still somehow made being up a man for 78 minutes feel like assembling IKEA furniture without the little wrench. This was not a beautiful game. This was not champagne so…

St. Louis CITY SC is officially no longer playing dead. A few weeks ago, this team was sitting in 14th place, staring up at the Western Conference like a raccoon trapped in a dumpster. Now? After a 3-1 road win over LA Galaxy, CITY is in 8th place, …

The first blog was supposed to be the whole story. A St. Louis CITY fan wears his CITY kit to Wrexham, eats fish and chips at The Fat Boar, visits the Racecourse, spends too much money in the Club Shop, grabs Wrexham Lager at The Turf, chats with We…

NFNP 2x22 — Part 1 America celebrated another Fourth of July the only way it knows how: by grilling meat, lighting money on fire, frightening every dog in the neighborhood and briefly wondering if the sound outside was fireworks or the beginning of…

A Houston man accused of killing his pregnant wife was released from jail on a $1 million bond, ordered to surrender his passport and required to wear a GPS ankle monitor. Then, just weeks before his capital murder trial was expected to begin, auth…

Wearing a St. Louis CITY kit through Wrexham felt like bringing a little piece of home into one of the strangest and most successful football stories in the world. I had followed Wrexham through the documentary, the celebrity ownership, and the ab…

The crowd was on demand, but the conversation definitely was not. Adam Swart, founder and CEO of Crowds on Demand, joined the Notorious Friday Night Posse to discuss paid protesters, political advocacy, manufactured attention, media narratives, the …

Unbeaten, Unsatisfied, and Mildly Twitching: St. Louis CITY SC went to D.C. on Saturday night with a chance to do something they have not done in a long time: win three MLS matches in a row and make us all act irresponsibly hopeful. After the road w…

Pregame Hope, Please Keep Hands Inside the Ride: St. Louis CITY SC heads to Washington, D.C. on Saturday with something we have not been able to say much this season: momentum. Real momentum. Not “we played okay for 28 minutes and then emotionally e…

One of the richest places in human history somehow feels like the opening scene of a dystopian HBO series. That was the core takeaway from our recent NFNPPOD episode, where we dove headfirst into California’s fires, homelessness crisis, six-dollar g…

Post-Match Optimism, Please Use Responsibly: St. Louis CITY SC beat LAFC 2-1 on Wednesday night, and I am not saying I have emotionally healed from the last several months of soccer-related nonsense. But I am saying this: back-to-back MLS wins, a fi…

Road Win Therapy, Now Available in Limited Quantities: St. Louis CITY SC went to Colorado on Saturday night and won 1-0, which is a sentence that feels weird to type without immediately checking for a typo. It was the first away win for CITY in MLS …

Pregame Apathy, Now With Altitude: St. Louis CITY SC plays Colorado tonight, and yes, on paper, this is a winnable game. Colorado is sitting around 9th in the West, which means they are not exactly an unstoppable soccer death machine. They are not t…

The Job Description Nobody Talks About Being President of the United States is sold as power, prestige, and Air Force One. What it actually includes, historically, is a non-zero chance someone is going to try to kill you. Not metaphorically. Not pol…

Monday Morning Apathy Has Entered the Chat: St. Louis CITY SC went to Austin on Sunday afternoon for what was supposed to be one of those “beatable opponent” games and lost 2-0, because apparently the word “beatable” was being used in the self-refle…

Survive and Advance, Baby: St. Louis CITY SC went to Chicago for the U.S. Open Cup Round of 16 and somehow came back with a 2-1 win, which feels both encouraging and deeply confusing, like finding a twenty-dollar bill in pants you were about t…