Atlanta, GA
Revolution winless in MLS play with 4-1 loss at Atlanta
The New England Revolution’s dominance in Concacaf Champions Cup play has not carried over into league play.
The Revolution opened the season 0-3 in MLS play with Saturday night’s 4-1 blowout loss to Atlanta United FC before over 67,000 fans on Saturday night at Mercedes Benz Stadium.
Atlanta United FC dynamic attacker Giorgos Giakoumakis scored three goals, the second MLS player to record a hat trick against the Revolution this season. D.C. United striker Christian Benteke scored three goals in a 3-1 win in the season opener on Feb. 24.
“None of use are happy where we are in the league at all,” said Revolution head coach Caleb Porter. “We are disappointed and there were moments in every one of those league game where we were right there.
“But the reality is we are not doing a good enough job finishing the chances we are given and we are giving up, for me, soft goals.”
The Revolution (3-0) will play the second leg of their Concacaf Champions Cup Round of 16 series against LD Alajuelense on Thursday (8) at Estadio Alejandro Morea Soto in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The Revolution will resume MLS play against reigning Eastern Conference champion FC Cincinnati on March 17 at Gillette Stadium.
The Revolution played the sixth of eight games in 26 days and Porter made significant changes to the Starting XI that pummeled LD Alajuelense 4-0 on Wednesday night at Gillette Stadium. In contrast, Atlanta FC played its first game since losing their MLS opener 1-0 on Feb. 24 at Columbus.
“They were fresh and we were playing our third game in six days and we were there, we were in the game,” said Porter
Team captain Carles Gil, who signed a four-year contract extension on the Thursday, was back at the 10-slot after sitting out the game against Alajuelense.
Giacomo Vrioni, who missed consecutive games against Toronto FC and Alajuelense due to yellow card accumulation, returned to the striker spot in Porter’s preferred 4-2-3-1 formation. Center back Henry Kessler was stationed alongside Dave Romney in the middle of the backline.
Vrioni nearly atoned for his lost time in the fourth minute when his contested shot in the penalty area sailed inches over the crossbar. Tomas Chancalay suffered a worst fate when his header from the top of the box hit the crossbar in the 13th minute.
Atlanta went up 1-0 on a curious sequence of events in the 45th minute and stoppage time. Midfielder Saba Lobjanidze scored but the play was whistled dead because Revs’ keeper Henrich Ravas took down Giorgos Giakoumakis in the penalty area before the shot. Thiago Almada buried the penalty kick in stoppage time.
“I think the first half was good when you look at the execution to start game,” said Porter. “I thought we disrupted their build up and Tomas hit the crossbar on one of those and we should have scored on a couple more.
“I thought we were unlucky being down 1-0 going into the break. That was a tough goal to give up at the end of the half.”
The Revolution went down a man in the 50th minute when left back DeJuan Jones left the field after taking a forearm to the face by defender Bartosz Slisz. Jones was checked out and resumed play two minutes later.
Atlanta United went up 2-0 in in the 55th minute on its second awarded penalty kick of the match. Right back Nick Lima was called for a hand ball in the penalty area.
Giakoumakis fired the ball by Ravas on the gift goal. Giakoumakis scored on a header on a Brooks Lennon cross in the 60th minute to give Atlanta United FC a 3-0 lead. Giakoumakis completed the hat trick when he beat Ravas to the far post in the 74th minute.
Carles Gil scored the Revolution’s lone goal off a corner kick in the in the 83rd minute.
Atlanta, GA
Decatur Square businesses thrive during 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup and WatchFest: “…beyond our wildest imagination”
With all the soccer fans visiting metro Atlanta, local businesses are reaping the benefits.
In Decatur, shops and restaurants on the Decatur Square are seeing a surge in foot traffic during the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup and Decatur WatchFest.
Lee Fewell, manager and bartender at The Brick Store Pub on the square, said the excitement has been nonstop. “It’s been really crazy,” Fewell said. “We have our outback garden area just completely filled up. We added some TVs, and it’s just been full capacity at any given moment.”
While Wednesday night was relatively slower than recent days, Fewell noted that business is usually quieter during the summer. This year, however, the restaurant saw its biggest day ever when the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team played its first match in the tournament.
“It’s been 29 years this month since this place opened, but usually, it is definitely not like this,” Fewell said. “This is, I think, beyond our wildest imagination.”
Across the square, Siam Thai Restaurant is also enjoying record-breaking business. “We sold out of beer,” said Narit Narajit-McCrary, who works at the restaurant. “I had to go to the supermarket to restock for Monday.”
Narajit-McCrary said the World Cup boost has far exceeded expectations: “During the summer, normally it’s very slow for business, but this summer has been very good for us.”
Atlanta, GA
FBI orders field offices to send analysts to Atlanta for 2020 election investigation, sources say
The FBI is ramping up its investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County, Georgia, by ordering field offices across the country to send investigative analysts to Atlanta to help evaluate thousands of records, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
According to a memo sent to all field offices and reviewed by CBS News, the Directorate of Intelligence requested “surge support” to Atlanta to assist in what it called FBI Director Kash Patel’s “priority” investigation. The memo did not explicitly discuss the nature of the investigation, but multiple sources confirmed to CBS News the subject of the memo is the 2020 election probe in Fulton County.
The memo calls on every FBI field office to assign analysts, seeking to reach a total of 260 analysts. Large field offices are being asked to contribute eight analysts each, while small and medium offices must dedicate between three and five analysts. They are being asked to review 708 records each, and complete the work by July 17, the memo shows.
These “tactical intel” staffers typically provide help with day-to-day casework, such as running license plates, doing open-source checks on subjects of investigations, phone analysis, preparing subpoenas and reviewing subpoena returns.
The surge of personnel was first reported by MS Now.
President Trump has repeatedly alleged without providing evidence that officials in heavily Democratic Fulton County manipulated ballot counts in 2020 and that large numbers of votes in the state were cast by deceased Georgians, nonresidents or other ineligible participants.
After Mr. Trump lost Georgia by 11,799 votes, he frequently claimed the election had been “rigged.” But Joe Biden’s win in Georgia was confirmed in both a machine recount and an audit that involved hand recounts by every county in the state.
Earlier this year, the FBI executed a search warrant in Fulton County where it seized “all physical ballots” from 2020, as well as tapes from vote-tabulating machines, ballot images and voter rolls. Home to Atlanta, Fulton County was crucial to Biden’s narrow 2020 win in the state.
The case was referred to the FBI by Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who previously fought to help overturn the results of the 2020 election and now works for the Justice Department, where he is assigned in Miami to help investigate the so-called “grand conspiracy” into whether Obama and Biden-era officials conspired to keep President Trump out of office.
A judge in May denied a request by Fulton County to return the ballots that were seized.
The FBI declined to comment.
I think it’s time to chat again about Eric Hartman. The Braves’ now top prospect completed a 20 HR, 30 SB season on July 1st, through 71 games of his season. He was also ranked the 25th prospect in all of baseball by Baseball America and it’s getting easier every day to see him in the top 10 by the offseason. This is simply a hugely valuable prospect coming from a 20th round pick just two years ago and the back end of the organizational top 30 as recently as March. While he’s only at high-A (probably not for long) and still has work to do on his game, he has rapidly become a potential superstar on the position-player side for an organization that desperately needed talent on that hitting side and has got it this year from not only Hartman.
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