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World Cup South Africa 2010, Part Five.

June 27, 2010

America’s problems in this World Cup: 1. The central defense was awful early in the matches. DeMerit and Onyewu got caught too far up in the 4th minute against England: Gerrard slips behind them for a goal. They got caught too far back against Slovenia in the 13th minute: Birsa has room and blasts one [...]

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World Cup South Africa 2010, Part Four.

June 23, 2010

I watched this morning’s US-Algeria game at O’Brothers with a buddy. ‘Twasn’t the best game of the Cup so far, but it was certainly the most tense. As that second half dragged on, and as our guys kept missing shot after shot, I thought I’d have to start this entry with something along the lines [...]

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World Cup South Africa 2010, Part Three.

June 18, 2010

10:52 AM: Good Lord, the US team sucks today. No central defense. No buildup in the midfield, nothing but boom-ball–I’ve got no idea what Michael Bradley is trying to accomplish. Findley and Altidore look lost up top. To be continued. 11:05 AM: HOPE! If Donovan misses that, it’s hit squad time. 11:39 AM: 2-2! Way [...]

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World Cup South Africa 2010, Part Two.

June 12, 2010

USA 1:1 ENG! Proud to say that I correctly predicted Steven Gerrard would score the first goal of the US-England match, and that the US would tie it up. However, the US failed to get around to scoring the other ten goals I predicted. I’m glad we picked up an unexpected point, and I’m especially [...]

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World Cup South Africa 2010, Part One.

June 10, 2010

The best month in sports is back. Hopefully it’ll be as good as the last World Cup, won by Italy. The US is in Group C with England, Slovenia, and Algeria. On paper, it’s the easiest group we’ve ever drawn because we should beat Slovenia and Algeria, and two wins should be enough to advance. [...]

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A mixed bag.

May 16, 2010

The new co-ed beer league soccer season started a few weeks ago. I was optimistic heading in: my team, the Stubby Holders, won our division’s regular season and finished second in the cup, and we were adding at least one new player. We bought new, lightweight jerseys and picked our own numbers. We were going [...]

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Messi 4, Arsenal 1.

April 8, 2010

On FIFA ’10, I play as Barcelona mainly because of the front line of Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Thierry Henry. I’d like to know why Messi can score four goals against a strong opponent in the Champions League in real life, but I can’t get his pixelated counterpart to score more than a goal [...]

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Zero.

January 24, 2010

I returned to my co-ed soccer beer league a few weeks ago. My team, the Stubby Holders, wears pink jerseys that the league gave us last season. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough pink jerseys left over from last season so I don’t have an official jersey. The first week, when the temps were in the low 40s [...]

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Finalist and Champion.

October 4, 2009

Today was Championship Sunday in my coed soccer beer league. Both of my teams were still in the playoffs in their respective divisions. At 2:45 my bottom-division team, the Stubby Holders, played in the championship game. We started the season with a win and two ties in our first six games, then went on a [...]

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“Superstars.”

August 2, 2009

I made sure to drink plenty of water and Gatorade well ahead of today’s games. It paid off; now I’m just sore and winded, instead of sore, winded and dehydrated. The first game went pretty darned well. It was hot, but overcast, so that was a huge help. We gave up an early goal, but [...]

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Brace.

May 20, 2007

A long, long time ago, upon not being assigned the jersey number I wanted, a wise man told me, “The number doesn’t make the man, the man makes the number.” It was consolation and inspiration. It’s advice I’ve since passed along to many players on many teams, whenever an argument broke out over who got [...]

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