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Barcelona 3 Real Madrid 2; Greg Biffle vs. Boris Said at The Glen on PPV As I type this little dispatch from my townhouse overlooking Grundahl Park, the entire Spanish La Liga is out on strike. No Football for Spain. They’ll have to watch the National Football League! So, for now, the ugliness, the…
Japan 2 (3) USA 2 (1) I was going to say nothing about the Women’s World Cup since I really had nothing much to say other than the obvious. We puked on our shoes in the Penalty Kicks. No way to sugar coat the obvious even if it pisses Hope Solo off to say…
Knights of Columbus, Madison WI, 07.16.2011 I was going to wait to post this until after tomorrow’s Women’s World Cup Final, but why push the metaphors any further than they need to be pushed. Hmmmm….I seem to start these meetup posts in the same mode. Oh well…great minds think alike. And both of them are…
England 1 Mexico 1 On Monday, England played Mexico in the opening round of the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Wolfsburg, Germany. Now under most circumstances, I have nothing against Mexico….in fact I’m all for Mexico and even if they lose, I want them to at acquit themselves well. I don’t want them to beat…
You’ll Never Walk Alone….etc. Silly Season is upon us. The transfer window is open and all the great gods of England and Europe and NASCAR are lining up the bids and proposals for the next remarkable talent, the next piece of the 4 man or 11 man puzzle. Search parties are scouring the continents, far…
England 2 Switzerland 2 Maybe someday, the British…well…the English more specifically, will speak of and revere The Young Jack Wilshire someday in the same way they revere Bobby Charlton. But given the results of this Sunday’s Euro 2012 qualifier with Switzerland, that day might be a long-time coming. Through no fault of Young…
“First we make it to the top of Blue Mound…..THEN we go win the Tour de France!!“ As I scribble this in a small Neopets notebook in purple ink with a UNIBALL Micro Vision Elite pen while waiting for the end the of the world to begin today at 6PM Christian Standard Time, I thought…
Ryan Newman and Juan Pablo Montoya have a little argy-bargy at Richmond At last, finally, and not soon enough, NASCAR returned to real racing at Richmond last Saturday night, as I clang the keys of this cybernetic simulacrum of an Adler J-5 typewriter. No more of that “YOU get to play butch tonight, little…
Hey big fella….it’s TALLADEGA!!! And you know what THAT means…..!! Yes…it’s indeed Talladega, Baby!! And you might know what that means…if this was 2010, that is. But not anymore, I’m afraid. Not anymore. 2011 brings us a Talladega that is going where no Talladega has gone before. Sorry, you monsters…you evil ones…I’m sorry sorry sorry.…
Manchester United 2 Chelsea 1 Manchester United wins 3-1 on aggregate If 10 Men Want To Mow A Meadow, the meadow must first be properly ploughed and planted. And it seemed, of course, that it was. Then, it must be tended with care but not meddled with….that is if not the first principle…
This morning, at 7;35 AM CDT, Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner, announced the that the NFL is going to disband, and merge with Major League Soccer. There will be a major realignment of teams, and the league as a whole as result of this historic decision. The MLS season will start immediately upon conclusion of the…
Wisconsin 70 Kansas State 65 So…how’s yer bracket doing so far?? Are you beating the facking President Of The United States?? AS I write this, I’m trailing the President by 50 points. He’s beating my ass in the East and the SouthEast, but I got his number in West and SouthWest….he missed on…
Chelsea 2 Manchester United 1 There. One match down and one to go. Mr. Chelsea did the talking ahead of this epic tilt at Stamford Bridge. And David Luiz and Frank Lampard did the rest. Luiz with a beautiful 10 yard tap-in off Michael Essien’s cross via Ivanovic at the 54 minute mark to level…
Danica Patrick leads Lap 30 of the Drive4COPD 300 at Daytona Int. Speedway Sometimes it seems to me that I stop speaking out loud, thinking out loud and that all my voices are mumbling, mumbling, mumbling. I think that I’ve said something , written something, and when I look for the documentary evidence, it is…