First up — gotta plug my latest espnW content: My report from Japan-New Zealand, featuring the almost-overconfident Ferns and my second video from Berlin, opening with a joke about one of Julie Foudy’s prior endorsement deals. Bochum. I used to pronounce…
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Germany 2: Leaving Berlin, never easy
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I’ll let the pictures tell the story for the most part. I’ve covered so much of my stay in Berlin for ESPN and espnW already. (See the game story, crowd story, day-before press conference story and video – hoping to…
Germany: Day 1-2
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A few notes from the trip: – Lufthansa is a very nice airline, but the pilots seem intent on breaking speed records. We landed in Frankfurt and Berlin at high speed with a little bounce, then hit the brakes as…
Quick international update and break
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As you may have seen or guessed, I will spend the next couple of weeks traveling in Germany, covering the Women’s World Cup. The top priority on SportsMyriad is still finishing up the 2012 medal projections. If I get bored…
Thunderstruck: D.C. United Women’s home debut
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A decent crowd was walking up to the stadium despite the 100-degree heat, the bagpipes were in effect, the staff was ready, the players were warming up … Bzzzt … beep … blaaaaaare … bzzt. That’s the static-electricity detector at…
Friends, athletes, objectivity and professionalism (SEO adds: MMA and sex)
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You CANNOT make friends with the rock stars. That’s what’s important. If you’re a rock journalist – first, you will never get paid much. But you will get free records from the record company. And they’ll buy you drinks, you’ll…
The Ultimate Fighter: Season 13, Episode 10: The finalists are …
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After a slow start to the season, everything has perked up in the last couple of weeks. We’ve seen some decent fights, some brazen efforts to grab reality-show infamy, some heartwarming kindness and some drunken idiocy. Tonight, we have a…
Best reads on FIFA/CONCACAF crisis
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Yes, I feel rather frustrated that we in the U.S. media just don’t seem to have the time or resources to do this story justice. A lot of questions are just begging to be answered, and a lot of powerful…