Mike Donovan
@themikedonovan.bsky.social
Current - Statting on many, many sports for @statsperform.optajoe.com
Former - #StatMan for Portland Timbers/Thorns
Former - #StatMan for Portland Timbers/Thorns
Some amazing stories
It's over!
🇵🇦 Panama returns to the World Cup after
🇨🇼 Curacao makes its first-ever World Cup to become the smallest nation ever to make the tournament
🇭🇹 Haiti returns for the first time since 1974 despite not being able to play at home.
🇯🇲🇸🇷 to the playoff!
🇵🇦 Panama returns to the World Cup after
🇨🇼 Curacao makes its first-ever World Cup to become the smallest nation ever to make the tournament
🇭🇹 Haiti returns for the first time since 1974 despite not being able to play at home.
🇯🇲🇸🇷 to the playoff!
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Some amazing stories
Had the pleasure of being in yearbook for two years with future CNN Hero of the Year Maggie Doyne. I was Mendham High School class of 04 and she was 05.
Who was in your high school graduating class, +/- two years, that would be of interest?
For example, I took a basketball class and graduated w/all-time 8th man Jud Buechler (look it up), and may have followed Stephanie Seymour (not sure if she still WENT to school after I moved there).
For example, I took a basketball class and graduated w/all-time 8th man Jud Buechler (look it up), and may have followed Stephanie Seymour (not sure if she still WENT to school after I moved there).
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Had the pleasure of being in yearbook for two years with future CNN Hero of the Year Maggie Doyne. I was Mendham High School class of 04 and she was 05.
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3 - Ricardo Pepi has scored three result-changing goals in second-half stoppage time in the UEFA Champions League, tying Cristiano Ronaldo and Sergio Agüero for the most in the history of the competition. Clutch.
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
3 - Ricardo Pepi has scored three result-changing goals in second-half stoppage time in the UEFA Champions League, tying Cristiano Ronaldo and Sergio Agüero for the most in the history of the competition. Clutch.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Bjorkgren had a better record in his one season as Pacers head coach (fired) than Billups has had in any of his four seasons as Blazers head coach.
Looking at the Blazers' assistant coaches, I'm guessing that Billups' interim replacement will wind up being ex-Pacers coach Nate Bjorkgren ... but we *could* be just one bold choice away from Coach James Posey. www.nba.com/blazers/coac...
October 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Bjorkgren had a better record in his one season as Pacers head coach (fired) than Billups has had in any of his four seasons as Blazers head coach.
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I don't think I've seen what Rwan Cruz did in...idk football o-line crashing into the side of the Timbers wall anywhere before.
A lifetime of playing & watching soccer from all continents, including so much of the particularly odd soccer this country produces, & this idea just never occurred to me.
A lifetime of playing & watching soccer from all continents, including so much of the particularly odd soccer this country produces, & this idea just never occurred to me.
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I don't think I've seen what Rwan Cruz did in...idk football o-line crashing into the side of the Timbers wall anywhere before.
A lifetime of playing & watching soccer from all continents, including so much of the particularly odd soccer this country produces, & this idea just never occurred to me.
A lifetime of playing & watching soccer from all continents, including so much of the particularly odd soccer this country produces, & this idea just never occurred to me.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion but if your top two isn't G and D, I'd have some questions.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Everyone's entitled to their opinion but if your top two isn't G and D, I'd have some questions.
Messi v Ronaldo has been the longest running cultural rivalry between two players in any sport worldwide ever
Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.
lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.
September 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Messi v Ronaldo has been the longest running cultural rivalry between two players in any sport worldwide ever
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“You’re putting words in my mouth” is an amazing thing to say when someone reads your quotes back to you, verbatim.
August 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“You’re putting words in my mouth” is an amazing thing to say when someone reads your quotes back to you, verbatim.
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NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman threatened to fine the Kansas City Current after a disagreement over extreme heat procedures that delayed a match against Orlando Pride roughly three and a half hours, sources told The Athletic.
August 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman threatened to fine the Kansas City Current after a disagreement over extreme heat procedures that delayed a match against Orlando Pride roughly three and a half hours, sources told The Athletic.
The more I travel for work, the more thankful I am to fly out of PDX.
Actually, you know what? Let’s stop complaining for a second. QT this with a GOOD airport. Defend that title as much or as little as you like. But let’s hear about airports that don’t suck.
August 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The more I travel for work, the more thankful I am to fly out of PDX.
Not a Portlander but luckily all the places he's connected to already have teams.
BREAKING: Portland Trail Blazers are off the market.
Below from the Sports Business Journal:
Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon today confirmed to SBJ that a group he is heading up has reached a tentative agreement to buy the Trail Blazers from Paul Allen’s estate. 1/
Below from the Sports Business Journal:
Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon today confirmed to SBJ that a group he is heading up has reached a tentative agreement to buy the Trail Blazers from Paul Allen’s estate. 1/
August 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Not a Portlander but luckily all the places he's connected to already have teams.
Strange Wilderness! Saw it twice within 24 hours in the movie theater in college.
A quick question for anybody who wants to answer, just because I'm trying to get my creative juices flowing...
What's your favorite movie or movies that was a box office flop? I'm not talking about like "Man of Steel made $700 million rather than $1 billion," I'm talking about movies that bombed.
What's your favorite movie or movies that was a box office flop? I'm not talking about like "Man of Steel made $700 million rather than $1 billion," I'm talking about movies that bombed.
August 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Strange Wilderness! Saw it twice within 24 hours in the movie theater in college.
Tomorrow's Timbers/Club América match will be the 15th competitive match between an MLS team and a club from Mexico at a neutral site with fans present (so excluding 2020 CCL).
In the previous 14, MLS teams have drawn five times and lost nine times with zero wins. #RCTID
In the previous 14, MLS teams have drawn five times and lost nine times with zero wins. #RCTID
August 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tomorrow's Timbers/Club América match will be the 15th competitive match between an MLS team and a club from Mexico at a neutral site with fans present (so excluding 2020 CCL).
In the previous 14, MLS teams have drawn five times and lost nine times with zero wins. #RCTID
In the previous 14, MLS teams have drawn five times and lost nine times with zero wins. #RCTID
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Actual side by side split of Nikola Jokic NBA championship champagne celebration vs. Nikola Jokic random Serbian horse race victory champagne celebration
July 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Actual side by side split of Nikola Jokic NBA championship champagne celebration vs. Nikola Jokic random Serbian horse race victory champagne celebration
This shouldn't need to be said but the halftime show for the 2025 Women's Euros Final broadcast should not spend any time talking about the 2026 Men's World Cup.
July 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This shouldn't need to be said but the halftime show for the 2025 Women's Euros Final broadcast should not spend any time talking about the 2026 Men's World Cup.
Venezuela men's national team is currently in a playoff spot to qualify for next year's World Cup. Just sayin.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Venezuelan teenagers denied US visas for Senior Baseball World Series
Cacique Mara, Venezuela’s Senior League baseball champs, will miss the World Series in South Carolina after the US denied their visas, prompting outcry over fairness and access
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Venezuela men's national team is currently in a playoff spot to qualify for next year's World Cup. Just sayin.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
I mean everyone who was around for Clint Dempsey going to the Sounders has a pretty good idea of what will happen here.
On Lionel Messi and potential suspension for missing All-Star Game: MLS has not communicated an official decision and neither has Inter Miami, I’m told.
Head coach Javier Mascherano told media today they had not heard anything yet.
Head coach Javier Mascherano told media today they had not heard anything yet.
July 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I mean everyone who was around for Clint Dempsey going to the Sounders has a pretty good idea of what will happen here.
It's a fan vote so there's no need to get upset over it.
But here would be my list-
Poole
S. Thompson Ridgewell Charles
Nagbe Valeri D. Chara Bain
Blanco Best Adi
#RCTID
But here would be my list-
Poole
S. Thompson Ridgewell Charles
Nagbe Valeri D. Chara Bain
Blanco Best Adi
#RCTID
July 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It's a fan vote so there's no need to get upset over it.
But here would be my list-
Poole
S. Thompson Ridgewell Charles
Nagbe Valeri D. Chara Bain
Blanco Best Adi
#RCTID
But here would be my list-
Poole
S. Thompson Ridgewell Charles
Nagbe Valeri D. Chara Bain
Blanco Best Adi
#RCTID
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Feels like they should've worked something out!
July 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Feels like they should've worked something out!
I'm going to cheer for them either way but what a milquetoast decision
BREAKING: The Portland Fire are back.
Portland’s WNBA team revealed its name and logos Tuesday morning, a rebirth of the team that called Moda Center home from 2000-02.
Portland’s WNBA team revealed its name and logos Tuesday morning, a rebirth of the team that called Moda Center home from 2000-02.
Portland Fire: WNBA expansion team unveils name, logo for 2026 debut
As if reborn from the ashes, the Portland Fire are back.
www.oregonlive.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I'm going to cheer for them either way but what a milquetoast decision