With the U.S. ready to face Honduras today at 7pm ET (4pm VST) with first place in their group on the line, Olympic qualifying is in utter chaos. First, seven players defected from the Cuban National Team, leaving that squad completely crippled. Then, in a remarkable turn of events, Haiti defeated favored Canada 2-1 while […]
Entries from March 2008
Soccer: Chaos Strikes Olympic Qualifying
March 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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Bob Costas to Fans: Shut Up and Leave the Opinions to Me!!
March 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments
While you might read this as an incoherent screed on the fact that sports fans have decided to use the internet to voice their opinions, Bob Costas (whose baseball qualifications include being born in New York in the 1950s) does come up with a very insightful quote at the end: “It means I’m an idiot.” […]
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Soccer: Disappointing Act for US; Disappearing Act for Cuba
March 12th, 2008 · No Comments
The U.S. U-23 National Team came away with a very disappointing 1-1 draw versus Cuba last night in Tampa in Olympic-Qualifying. The U.S. team still has two more games in the group stage, the top two in the group move on to the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-final matches head to China later this […]
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Soccer: Big Game Tonight!
March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
This is really the first time I’ve ever tried to be Voros McCracken Baseball Guy and Voros McCracken Soccer guy at the same time in public, so you’ll excuse me while I work out the kinks. Tonight the US National Team plays arguably its first really meaningful game since the 2006 World Cup. Head Coach […]
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Fluke HR Seasons
March 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have a new article up on Baseball Digest Daily which looks at the flukiest Home Run seasons since 1920. Unfortunately Rick Wilkins doesn’t make the list.
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Grow Up
March 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
First some imbeciles in New Hampshire get in a twist over Yankees caps in a presidential primary. Then a bunch of angry painters beat up a guy in Cambridge for wearing a Yankees hat. Now Mets and Red Sox “fans” have decided that Yankee Stadium is an inappropriate place for their NYU commencement ceremonies (as […]
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Square at the Roundtable
March 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Over at “Two Guys Who Like Never Agree” I participated in a roundtable with lots of other smart guys. I feel terrible about being as brief as I was considering how in depth others were. It makes it seem like I couldn’t be bothered which is miles away from the truth. I just misdiagnosed how […]
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