us, as the great athletes usually do in any sport. he will evaluate the play. it remains to be seen if he can be someone who brings new eyeballs to men s soccer. i think he will right away, but will those people buy tickets. that s the key here. for the men s soccer to become what the women s soccer has, obviously, women s world cup this week, huge week, you ve got to have the best in the world. as football season starts, at of american sport fans go to their college football, and so you need to draw them away. messi, the headlines of messi, that s a start. but, yes, i think it s a really good thing and we ll see how it goes and hopefully he ll be playing well and scoring a lot of goals for those fans who want to watch that and see him play. and i want to talk about women s soccer in just a moment, but first let s turn to tennis. 30 minutes from now, lots of players will be watching their screens. novak djokovic hoping to make
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pga. this deal happened because there was real concern about players leaving and feeling pressure to join liv golf. he said the division and tension among players was unsustainable and it was starting to spread to fans and sponsored. do you buy that as a legitimate reason to strike this deal? no, no, i do not. it sounds like a great excuse for the pga tour to be defending its unconscionable decision to go into business with the saudis and allow them to be a part of an american sport, a worldwide sport. as everyone may remember, i m sure you do. there was that initial rush of several players to join liv golf for unbelievable amounts of money. phil mickelson, bryson dechambeau, brooks koepka. that stopped. the timing had been stemmed. and people like rory mcilroy and tiger woods said no. no matter how much money, no way, no how.
be concerned. keep your antenna up. and if you are manipulated, you don t want to lose total control over an american sport. but we are open to outside investors in sports. bill: i think the merger will make golf bigger than it s ever been, playing in places we cannot imagine right now. question for you, one nation this weekend, what you cooking up. open up with the landmark decision on july 4th. and also want to talk about the ability for social media companies to no longer feel pressure from the fbi or other entities, nor to do what they are supposed to do. and have an opportunity to not only do that, but take a look at what s happening with the hunter biden situation as well as the investigation into other entities they want to find out what exactly is bill: we shall be watching. hope you had a good 4th of july. you working all day?
pr side of it where people say why am i watching this? it seems to be about greed, about controversy and is a tough time for the game of men s golf. as i ve said it is all self-induced. this is all about these guys wanting more, more, more, and we will see, of course, how it plays out. self-induced was to be expected. is there a world, a universe this gives the pga some cover that the doj is digging around? certainly in the sense if they say at the end of the day, poppy, it s okay and everything is fine. then, yes, it would. the pga tour, to be fair to them, was in a real jam going up against mbs and billions of dollars and the pga tour didn t have that. the saudis bought their way in to an american sport. with the saudis we have to say