1. Heeft nieuwe eigenaar van SK Deinze centen? Spelers zijn ongerust en verschenen niet op het oefenveld  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Valse (door)start in Deinze: club krijgt puntenaftrek en ontkent "staking" van de spelers  sporza.be
3. Spelers Deinze staken omdat nieuwe overnemer niet betaalt, puntenaftrek dreigt  Het Laatste Nieuws
4. Even hol als hoopvol: het overnamedossier van Deinze doorgelicht  De Standaard
5. Deinze reageert misnoegd na puntenaftrek en is scherp voor media: “Fake news om de club te destabiliseren”  Het Nieuwsblad

“Alan Wake II: The Lake House houdt je op het puntje van je stoel”  Pragalicious

1. Prijsstijging energie-eiland voor kust kan huishoudens jaarlijks "20 euro" extra kosten  VRT.be
2. Kosten energie-eiland in Noordzee lopen op tot 630 miljoen euro per jaar  De Tijd
3. Kamerleden willen uitstel van miljardencontract voor energie-eiland  De Standaard
4. Kamerleden willen uitstel voor toewijzing duur contract energie-eiland  Knack.be
5. Van der Straeten: “Voorbarig om stekker uit energie-eiland te trekken”  Het Belang van Limburg

1. Keuze voor hondstrouwe hardliners illustreert welke koers Trump wil varen  De Tijd
2. Trumps buitenlandteam zoekt snelle deal in Oekraïne en wil druk op Iran verhogen  De Standaard
3. Wie zit (voorlopig) op welke stoel in het team van verkozen VS-president Donald Trump?  VRT.be
4. Marco Rubio genoemd als nieuwe minister van Buitenlandse Zaken van de VS  Het Nieuwsblad
5. Elon Musk wordt ‘minister van Overheidsefficiëntie’: Trumps ‘dreamteam’ begint snel vorm te krijgen  AD

Kinderopvang wordt duurder in Bilzen-Hoeselt: “Daarvoor zijn we geen fusie aangegaan”  Het Belang van LimburgHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. Grote verkeershinder verwacht in Brussel door betoging boeren  De Standaard
2. Vandaag en morgen grote verkeershinder verwacht in Brussel door betoging boeren en taxichauffeurs  Het Nieuwsblad
3. Betogingen én verkeersellende in Brussel verwacht morgen en donderdag, ook gevolgen voor wie naar Rode Duivels gaat  Het Laatste Nieuws
4. 2 dagen hinder in Brussel door boerenprotest en taxiprotest  VRT.be
5. Politie verwacht grote verkeershinder door betoging boeren en taxi's  BRUZZ

1. Trump breidt ‘dreamteam’ uit en benoemt Elon Musk tot hoofd “ministerie voor overheidsefficiëntie": “Dit zal schokgolven sturen door het systeem”  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Trump wijst oude bekende Ratcliffe aan als hoofd CIA | Presidentsverkiezingen VS  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Trump plaatst Elon Musk mee aan hoofd van nieuw ministerie: “Dit gaat schokgolven door het systeem jagen”  Het Nieuwsblad
4. Miljardairs Elon Musk en Vivek Ramaswamy aan hoofd van Trumps nieuwe ministerie van ‘overheidsefficiëntie’  De Standaard
5. Trump benoemt Musk tot 'minister van overheidsefficiëntie'  De Tijd

Party the absolute hardest you can imaginably party!

Though it's considerably less sanitary.

Especially after someone put that giant wooden thing on top.

He'll just wait this one out. Cacti can't survive without water, right? ~NSHA

Fun Fact: No-So-Handy Andy was also born on the year of the Dragon.

The GAA's annual Congress in county Laois votes to make adjustments to the controversial winter training ban for intercounty teams.

Tyrone expect Justin McMahon to be fit to play in the Ulster championship opener against Armagh on June 10.

Southern California’s football program has been fined $50,000 and placed on probation for one year by the NCAA because of multiple violations of coaching staff rules over two seasons

A detailed assessment of the hurricane damage to Tropicana Field concludes that the home of the Rays is structurally sound and can be repaired in time for the 2026 season, but not by 2025 Opening Day.

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse reacted to the second United States Men's National Team roster release of the Mauricio Pochettino era, with Christian Pulisic, Tim Weah, and Weston McKennie headlining the squad.

With several U.S. men's national team strikers out with injuries, 21-year-old Ricardo Pepi has a golden opportunity to prove why he deserves to be Mauricio Pochettino top choice up top.

Tom Brady gave his 3 stars of Week 10 which included Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, Cincinnati Bengals WR Ja'Marr Chase and Kansas City Chiefs LB Leo Chenal.

The 2022 UK-to-US Word of the Year is: fit

  British slang. Sexually attractive, good-looking.

1985   Observer 28 Apr. 45/1   ‘Better 'en that bird you blagged last night.’ ‘F—— off! She was fit.’

1993   V. Headley Excess iv. 21   ‘So wait; dat fit brown girl who live by de church ah nuh your t'ing?!’ he asked eyebrows raised.

1999   FHM June (Best of Bar Room Jokes & True Stories Suppl.) 21/1   My first night there, I got arseholed, hit the jackpot and retired with my fit flatmate to her room.

2000   Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 14 Feb. 11   I would choose Gillian Anderson from the X-Files, because she's dead fit.

Yesterday, I declared the UK-to-US SbaCL Word of the Year. You can read about it here. 

The US-to-UK one may be as controversial as it was the first time (a)round (in May). But here goes: 

2022's US-to-UK Word of the Year is: homer

Each year since 2006, this blog has designated Transatlantic Words of the Year (WotY). The twist is that I choose the most 'of the year' borrowings from US-to-UK and from UK-to-US.  The question this year raises is: does 2023 deserve SbaCL Words of the Year?

The eligibility criteria remain:

• Good candidates for SbaCL WotY are expressions that have lived a good life on one side of the Atlantic but for some reason have made a splash on the other side of the Atlantic this year. 
• Words coined this year are not really in the running. If they moved from one place to another that quickly, then it's hard to say that they're really "Americanisms" or "Britishisms". They're probably just "internetisms". The one situation in which I could see a newly minted word working as a transatlantic WotY would be if the word/expression referenced something very American/British but was nevertheless taken on in the other country.
• When I say word of the year, I more technically mean lexical item of the year, which is to say, there can be spaces in nominations. Past space-ful WotYs have included gap year, Black Friday, and go missing. I've also been known to declare a pronunciation the Word of the Year.

See here for the UK-to-US WotY post.

Time for the 2023 US-to-UK Word of the Year. Before people complain that this word has been in British English too long for it to count as a word of 2023, let me remind you of the criteria for SbaCL WotYs: 

• Good candidates for SbaCL WotY are expressions that have lived a good life on one side of the Atlantic but for some reason have made a splash on the other side of the Atlantic this year. 
• Words coined this year are not really in the running. If they moved from one place to another that quickly, then it's hard to say that they're really "Americanisms" or "Britishisms". They're probably just "internetisms". The one situation in which I could see a newly minted word working as a transatlantic WotY would be if the word/expression referenced something very American/British but was nevertheless taken on in the other country.
• When I say word of the year, I more technically mean lexical item of the year, which is to say, there can be spaces in nominations. 

OK!

To make your argument another way, while -gous is unusual, '-jous' after an unstressed vowel is unparalleled.

[...] analogy is quite a common word, while analogous is much rarer (and people may not readily connect semantically to analog(ue)). Even people with a literary education are unfamiliar with the /g/ - /j/ alternation, so 'mispronounce' fungi, pedagogy, as well as analogous, taking no guidance from the spelling. The phoneme from the more frequent word-form wins.

Nothing like some good old-fashioned sports fun!

OBVIOUSLY he's their leader,

WE MUST LEAVE our love it's forbidden

This illustrator, John Holcroft, is genius! check out his website for more.

Just when we thought we'd never get anything better than Donald Trump grasping that orb, we get this dark-humored, delightfully awkward pic that just oozes cringe. Naturally, people were ready to flood Twitter with some entertaining captions. 

Last night the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus stirred up quite the controversy when it was announced that the results would be delayed due to "inconsistencies" in a new app meant to speed up the reporting results of the caucus. Ironic, to say the least. 

But hang tight, because they're set to be released at 5 pm Eastern Time.

Ahead of the results being released, Pete Buttigieg gave what appeared to be a victory speech last night to the confusion of many. The bizarre move has lead many to believe that the system may have been rigged in Mayor Pete's favor.

As always, we have to give the disclaimer that we're not picking sides; we're merely reporting on what the internet has been saying, so scroll down to see some of our favorite reaction memes and tweets while we all wait impatiently for the results.

Meet the Shadow team in charge of developing an app meant to help tally the votes from the Iowa caucus on Monday night. The purpose of the app was to help the process run more smoothly, but in the end it proved to be a complete and utter disaster, as precinct chairs supposedly couldn't get the app to actually work, in turn causing a delay in reporting.

The delay was blamed on "inconsistencies" in reporting, but honestly, who really knows what the truth is.

The team is reportedly run by people who worked on Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016. Additionally, 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg's campaign paid the tech firm over $40,000 in 2019 leading many to suspect foul play.

But this is America, and we can't possibly have problems with corruption, right?

As of right now, we still don't have all the results from the caucus, so while you continue to anxiously refresh the New York Times page, have some hot Twitter takes on the people (rats) behind Shadow, Inc.