As the Tri Nations tournament nears the halfway point, the Bledisloe Cup enters the mix. So is called the inter-nation trophy between New Zealand and Australia during the Southern Hemisphere competition, a competition dating back to 1931. In what will…
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Friday Myriad: Not out of our league
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To be perfectly honest, we’re in a lull. No Tour, no huge world championships (no disrespect to the folks with rifles and pistols), etc. Plenty of league games, though. Through the weekend, eight Mexican league games are on various networks.…
Panic at the All-Star Game: Why MLS fans should chill
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Final score: Manchester United 5, MLS All-Stars 2. What does tell us? Nothing, without the following bits on context that will explain why this game was different than the typical MLS summer friendly and why last night’s Twitter panic was…
CONCACAF: The MLS graveyard
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Funny how the buzz over the Kansas City Wizards beating Manchester United can be killed so quickly. The Los Angeles Galaxy, several bajillion points ahead of the Wizards in the MLS table, played a more meaningful game last night in…
Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor prepares once more for battle
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Phil Taylor’s answers are just as methodical as his darts: thoughtful, measured, precise. When he says something you can be very sure he means it and has chosen his words with intent. The 15-time champion of the world has just…
Women’s soccer: Small world, wouldn’t want to paint it *
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Tom Dunmore has a post at BigSoccer about the global rise in women’s soccer, drawing from Nigeria’s upset of the USA in the U-20 Women’s World Cup. This women’s competition has indeed been as unpredictable as a men’s U-20 event,…
Phil Taylor wins World Matchplay
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Phil Taylor won his 11th World Matchplay title at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens tonight, beating Raymond van Barneveld by 18 legs to 12. Though van Barneveld led 3-2 at the first interval, with all the legs going with throw, Taylor broke…
Freedom’s misfortunes touch Gold Pride, too
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FC Gold Pride wasn’t necessarily planning to turn the entire Saturday evening at the Maryland SoccerPlex into one large-scale counterattack. The game just turned out that way, with the Bay Area team on their heels in the first half and…