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A Couple Things
Posted by B
on 7/1/2006
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Okay so a couple things here…
1). The Tour de France just started. It’s awesome. I love it. I really want to try and watch it this year even without Lance Armstrong in it. He won 7 in a row and it was great to actually watch a good percentage of the last couple years. The Tour is on OLN in the mornings and that is real good for me. I usually have all morning and most of the early afternoon before I have to go to work, so that works out. The big big news this year is that Ivan Basso of Italy, Jan Ullrich of Germany, Francisco Mancebo of Spain, and others were all banned from the Tour de France a day before it started (yesterday) because of their involvement in a doping investigation in Spain. So with Lance out, and these favorites to win in Lance’s absense also out, it’s anyone’s race!
2) Fantasy Baseball is nutty. I am still chugging along with my teams. All of them. Many of them are doing quite good actually. I have received stellar seasons from players like Alfonso Soriano, Ryan Howard, Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Zambrano, Francisco Liriano, and many more. I’ve made a lot of moves in all of my leagues and in many cases I am atop the standings sitting pretty. It’s nuts and it takes up a good chunk of my mornings. But I have the time and I dig it so whatever.
3) My quest continues.
4) Live actions sports in the morning (like Tour de France, the World Cup, Wimbledon, and others) is awesome. Whoever invented sports in Europe so I could have something awesome to watch on TV in the mornings was a very very smart man. It’s bad enough that Cold Pizza is still in the middle of a 6 week hiatus.
5) The World Cup is awesome. Looks like an all European finale. Germany vs Italy and Portugal vs France. Who do you think will win?
Okay thats all for now..
Ghana just too tough
Posted by B
on 6/22/2006
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Ghana has just beat the United States 2 goals to 1 to advance out of group play of the World Cup. The United States just played too lackadaisical, too indifferent, too soft. Bruce Arena failed to push his team forward aggressively attacking the Ghana defense who were often found pushing their line too far forward. 3 mistakes equalled three goals. Reyna lost the ball to the Ghana player and he beat Keller far post to score the first goal. Ghana failed to clear their ball and Beasley crossed to Dempsey who nailed the US’s only goal of the tournament. Right before the end of the first half the United States Oguchi Onyewu was called for a foul inside the box on a tough battle for the ball which resulted in a penalty kick goal by Ghana captain Stephen Appiah. Both teams were held scoreless in the second half. Arena made his substitutions too late and even after a late push, the National team just couldn’t execute.
It’s over again for us in the World Cup. We still haven’t won a World Cup game in Europe. We still have yet to prove ourselves to the world. We just could not do it here, again, this year. It’s not like we failed to come through today, we failed to come through all tournament.
Best Goals
Posted by B
on 6/20/2006
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wow
Posted by B
on 6/12/2006
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US Soccer Ranked Fifth
Posted by B
on 3/15/2006
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U.S. moves up to highest FIFA ranking ever
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ZURICH, Switzerland — The U.S. national team improved to fifth in FIFA’s monthly rankings — the highest it’s ever been placed by world soccer’s governing body.
The Americans, who broke out of a three-way tie for sixth with Spain and Mexico despite dropping a point to 764 in Wednesday’s latest poll, also moved ahead of France, which dropped to eighth.
The United States reached the quarterfinals at the 2002 World Cup finals and won the 2005 Gold Cup.
At the other end of the top 20, World Cup host Germany and European champion Greece dropped out.
Greece, which failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup, dropped from 19th place to 21st with 704 points. Germany, which reached the final at the last World Cup and will host the next edition, had been tied with the Greeks but dropped to 22nd with 700 points.
Brazil remained at the top of the list with 835 points, two less than it had in February’s rankings. The Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Argentina continue to occupy the next three spots.
The Czechs remain a distant second with 789 points, but that’s only one more than the Netherlands. The Argentines also lead the United States by only one point.
Spain remained in sixth place, while Mexico dropped to seventh and France to eighth. England stayed ninth and Portugal remained in 10th.
Iran and Croatia were the teams that benefited from the drop at the bottom of the top 20, sharing 19th in place of Greece and Germany.
Also, Palestine moved up 17 places to 121st, its best ever ranking.
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