Seriously – no one in the club has any problem with the manager making one of the active players do her job? Read more
Soccer
A Win – In Mexico???
No, the game didn’t count. But believe me, it counts. A huge round of congratulations to Team USA for a 1-0 victory tonight in Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. Yes, this was a “friendly” – but there’s an old saying, “There’s no such thing as a friendly between the USA […] Read more
Omedetou Gozimasu, Nadeshiko – and Clarkie
What an incredibly emotional day in sports. First off, Darren Clarke winning the British Open. Clarkie is a truly beloved guy on both sides of the Atlantic. A 42 year-old ten years past his prime, who lost his wife to cancer five years ago and is raising two boys on […] Read more
Sora no Otoshimono Forte – Series Review
Looking back at season two of Sora no Otoshimono, I’d have to call it something of a mixed bag – with more good than bad. At its best, it could be both hilarious (the Buddhist retreat episode) and powerfully moving (episode 8, the first “defeat” of Chaos and lots of […] Read more
And So it Ends
With all due respect to our friends in Espana, the real winner of this World Cup is a German, and English expatriate: Paul the Octopus. Our cephalopod sensation completed his perfect World Cup run by predicting Spain’s win over Holland. Would that the Dutch could say the same – their […] Read more
And then there were two…
Netherlands vs. Spain We will have a new World Cup champion in 2010 – and that’s a good thing, I think. Two wonderful football nations who have never tasted the sport’s biggest prize will fight for the honor of doing so in an all-Euro final Sunday. Holland’s win over Uruguay […] Read more