One of the things that’s special about playing England in soccer is that you get to play a very good team whose press you can actually understand. In this particularly instance, a sans Landon Donovan U.S. team got easily handled 2-0 in New Wembley. In truth the game wasn’t as close as that scoreline. As […]
Entries from May 2008
Soccer: Revenge for 1812
May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Tris Speaker = Borderline Hall of Famer
May 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Dan Connolly is unsure whether Mike Piazza meets his requirements as a Hall of Famer. Now it’s easy to jump all over someone when they say something that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes sensible people spout nonsense. I myself once argued that Major League pitchers have very little difference between them […]
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What the…?
May 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s Noon on May 23rd and it’s 60 degrees in Phoenix, Arizona. Considering that most pool temperatures were 20 degrees higher than that a few days ago…
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Soccer: Relegation Postscript
May 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Well Fulham won their final game of the season to complete a pretty remarkable escape from relegation. Reading and Birmingham were not so lucky and will be playing in the minors next year. On the more inspiring side of the coin, perennial yo-yo club West Bromwich Albion won the league below the Premiership and Stoke […]
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Soccer: Relegation is Fantastic
May 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
The Premiership side with by far the most American players is in the process of possibly completing a monumental dodge of relegation. After a 2-0 win against Birmingham, Fulham finds themselves out of the bottom three relegation spots for the first time since the very beginning of the season. They still have one more game […]
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Bissinger/Leitch Dustup on BBDD
May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have a new post up on Baseball Digest Daily about the verbal tirade Buzz Bissinger launched against Deadspin’s Will Leitch on Bob Costas’ HBO navel gavzing exercise the other night.
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