Soccer, NASCAR, F1 Fan Blog seasoned with Japanese Anime and served with Music and Beer.
Basically, I (left) post to my blog, and then you (right) read it. I’ve fallen off the weekly posting wagon and have been left behind in a trail of dust somewhere in the general vicinity of Iowa County/ Layfayette County line in SW Wisconsin. So there I am, a bit frazzled no doubt. But…
Queens Park Rangers 0 Chelsea 1 It doesn’t matter in sports how cute you are….sometimes you have to win the ugly way. Scoreboard, and all that. So today (as I transcribe these notes from my Egyptian Stationary Company stenographer’s notebook onto the pages whirling through my Adler J5 typewriter whirl as the hipsters sipping…
I do not know, nor do I care, how the Internet works. If you don’t know a TCP/IP stack from a stack of pancakes, don’t feel too bad there. Even Steve Ballmer (current owner of the LA Clippers and one time right-hand man to none other than Bill Gates (who also wasn’t all that…
The English Premier League Weekend in poetic form. Since I’m not well versed (see what I did there, Clive?) in classical Japanese poetry, I can’t and will not even pretend to try anything more clever than a well known 3 line poetic form based on the concept of 5 syllables, then 7 syllables and…
It’s Speedweeks!! *growl* On the eve of qualifying for the pole position for the Daytona 500 as the NASCAR 2015 season is about to blot out the sun with the engines’ hallucinogenic roar, I must admit that the start of Speedweeks and the NASCAR 2015 season has crept up on me more suddenly than…
Jeff Gordon announces his retirement I was absolutely stunned when I saw the report on ESPN.com that Jeff Gordon had announced his retirement from NASCAR at the end of the 2015 season. When the checkered flag drops at Homestead this coming November, regardless of who wins the Sprint Cup Championship, the racing world will…
“I’m just wondering here, Clive….shouldn’t he have just quit blogging already?” You might have been counting your blessings as the memories (such as they might be) of too many cups of wassail flicker out like the Christmas lights torn down on the stroke of Twelfth Night. After all, it’s 33% into the first month…
Yay!!! I get to WRITE something!!! ((But you get to read it…..)) Generally speaking, my year-end posts have taken a mordant tone as the year draws to a close…a tone that I’ve wrestled with in the past to limited degrees of success. I’ve never much cared for the facile notion of looking back on…
Ireland 4 USA! USA!! USA!!! 1 Jürgen Klinsmann had an amazing scheme Tuesday for team USA vs Ireland. It worked to perfection. Instead of trotting out an actual team, he set-up cardboard cutouts of Team USA and set them around the pitch at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin like they were training cones, and…
Wisconsin 59 Nebraska 24 The Gundam always wins. I used that little line once as a spoiler warning to lead off an essay about spoiler warnings. The start of the battle might not look so promising. But it is the truth. Truth!! The Gundam always wins!! So it was with today’s little tilt at…
Jeff Gordon and Bad Brad duke it out in Texas (pics not related) Well imagine MY surprise when I found out that Bad Brad was involved in yet another fight after a sporty little NASCAR race at the Texas Motor Speedway. Who saw THAT coming??!! No, to be honest I was not surprised. But…
Louis van Gaal and Manuel Pelligini share a bit of pre-Manchester Derby banter…. The most important thing that will happen tomorrow, as I write this, or one hundred years ago, as you read this, is the Manchester Derby. Not the Breeders Cup, the US Gran Prix, the Texas 500, nor Washington 23 Minnesota Vike-Queens…
It’s Talladega, Baby!! And you know what THAT means!!! It means exactly what you think it means. But this time, it also means so much more. Meanwhile, for me it means finding some trailer court in the general vicinity of the Talladega Superspeedway which is ideally located across the railroad tracks from a women’s…
On The Waterfront Too bad that Lewis and Nico can’t be best pals, play nice, and get along better. Mostly the latter would be a refreshing change of pace. Their animosity towards each other really wouldn’t play all that well in NASCAR where even though teammates are just as much in competition with each…