Monthly Archives: November 2009

Big, Big Weekend in Football Action and Picks

11/27/2009 – 12:07 pm

Whoa Nelly, it’s a big one this weekend. The Merseyside Derby, Ars*nal versus Chelski, and Villa versus Spurs. These games are big for different reasons. Everton need a win to move into a more comfortable spot in the table, and Liverpool need a win to get a foot back in the top four spots. [...]

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Main de Grenouille

11/26/2009 – 1:09 pm

Zeus writes:
How can you leave out the Frog handball incident in the only soccer blog that I read?
I’d completely forgotten about it, to tell you the truth. The main de grenouille incident (”hand of frog”) has been well-documented. This video clearly shows Thierry Henry double-handballing the ball in the crucial play-off game between France and [...]

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The Bimonthly Update

11/24/2009 – 1:07 pm

Things are winding down quickly in school; I only meet with my classes one more time as a large group and then in individual conferences. Teaching two new classes in my last semester of coursework isn’t ideal. Generally I was writing or modifying assignments each week based on how things went. Next semester should be [...]

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Have Baby Will Travel Abroad, and Last Men Standing

11/10/2009 – 10:35 am

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Call us nutty but we booked it—a trip to Europe with the wee one. Grey will be just over one year old when we head off to Switzerland to visit his Uncle Todd and Aunt Pee Wee with a stopover in London on the way home to see my high school bud Aaron. [...]

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General Busyness

11/6/2009 – 1:41 pm

School goes fine, but busy. The classes I teach are going fairly well as we steam into the last third of the semester, but at this stage most students seems to be running out of gas and then it gets tricky. It’s always a bit of a mystery to figure out what motivates students to [...]

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Getting Interesting in England and Spain

11/1/2009 – 12:10 am

Well, I have to say that I find the Premier League a lot more interesting this time of year than I did last year, although I’m pretty sure the outcome will be more of the same. My preseason pick was Chelski and I don’t see much to dissuade me at this point. Man Ure [...]

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