Monthly Archives: June 2009

Making Sense of the Confederations Cup

6/28/2009 – 5:05 pm

Well, about an hour ago the US went down to Brazil in the Confederations Cup final 3-2. Only the most blinkered myopic fan wouldn’t admit that the best team won. The US battled as hard as they possibly could and did fantastically well to get themselves up 2-0 but couldn’t hold off the more [...]

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¡Ay Dios Mio, No Lo Creo!

6/25/2009 – 11:08 am

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The near-impossible happened: the US upset the #1 ranked team in the world, and what’s more they deserved it. They rode their luck hard and took enough of the few chances they created to win. In fairness, 2-0 was harsh on Spain. A more truthful scoreline would have read 1-0 or 2-1 [...]

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My Two Favoritest Teams Squaring Off

6/24/2009 – 1:20 pm

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Call me a traitor but I’m really having a hard time deciding who I should be rooting for more during today’s Confederations Cup semifinal betwixt my two most favoritest national teams, the US and Spain. Consider:
* I’m American. Believe me, if I wasn’t, it would be very hard to root for the [...]

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And Where Did That Come From?

6/22/2009 – 4:58 pm

Like many critics of the US Nat’l Team, I have to take back a few things. I didn’t give them a shot in hell in qualifying after a hard-fought but disheartening loss to Italy and a complete no-show against Brazil. Frankly, I figured Egypt would mop the floor with this US squad. Happily, they [...]

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Novels on the Brain

6/20/2009 – 7:55 am

Summertime means a break a from school and allows for brain to dwell on things not (directly) related to academics. Dwelling is not always a good thing since it usually equates to keeping me from sleeping, either getting me out of bed late and night or too early in the morn because the brain is [...]

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Deja Vu All Over Again

6/18/2009 – 1:35 pm

My pre-Confederations Cup prediction for the US? Three games, three losses. Right now it looks a great bet!
The team’s in shambles, really. DaMarcus Beasley shouldn’t be on the roster much less in the starting lineup, a fact patently obvious to everyone except Bob Bradley. While the goal in the sixth minute was definitely a [...]

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The Lining is Silver

6/15/2009 – 4:36 pm

Well, that sucked.
The US tragically lost to Italy by a score of 3-1. Once again, any neutral would have to agree that the US got royally, royally screwed by the referee. There is no way, in any shape or form, Ricardo Clark should have received a red card for his tackle. A yellow? Of [...]

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Thoughts On Recent Purchases

6/15/2009 – 12:13 pm

Over the past week or so I’ve read From Hell, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and V for Vendetta. Between Alan Moore and Frank Miller, I find Moore’s work to be far more nuanced and compelling. In undergrad I took a course on comics where we read Miller’s Give Me Liberty and, while I liked [...]

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A Comparison of Champions

6/12/2009 – 12:24 pm

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A few years ago I started tracking the champions of European soccer leagues in a database to see if I could see any definite trend in competitiveness after the introduction of major advertising revenues via television rights deals, which exploded in the early nineties. I also wanted to compare them against the major [...]

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Murakami-esque Coincidence?

6/10/2009 – 11:11 am

In Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore, one of the book’s protagonists predicts that sardines and a few mackerel will rain from the sky on Nakano Ward.
And today from the Daily Telegraph: Sky rains tadpoles over Japan.
Current Mood: Hmmmm |

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