Its "Lift Your Spirits" Time, Footie Fan Style
Posted onThanks go to Fox Sports for posting this Babes of the World Cup photo gallery which greatly helped to improve my mood. I wish I grew up in Brazil.
The Final Countdown for the US in Real Time
Posted onThe restaurant beneath my office opened early today just for the World Cup matches. I’m there, with a laptop, coffee, borrowed wi-fi, American Flag, heart in stomach, and will present the game as I see and experience it: 10.30 AM – I’m watching the US World Cup match and cannot believe the bullshit that I […]
Book Review Time: The Messiah of Morris Avenue
Posted onRecently I read Tony Hendra’s debut novel The Messiah of Morris Avenueand found it to be a quite interesting read that I would suggest it to anyone who is interested in religion and/or politics. The ideas presented, especially the idea that our world is not tolerant to the message of peace, really resonated with me. […]
Good TV
Posted onI recently donated money to PBS and provided the operator who took my call with my email addresses. Now I receive weekly “This Week on Thirteen” email updates. Too often one only hears about what the broadcast and cable networks are doing, specifically about the relative dreck that they are airing on a daily basis. […]
The Start of the End of America As We Know It
Posted onIt figures that it would take an egregious federal move to knock me off my footie soapbox. This bit of news happened sort of silently yesterday so here is the scoop: the U.S. Supreme Court made a landmark decision saying that police officers no longer must “knock and announce” themselves before entering a private home. […]
The Onion's Take On The US's Relationship with Footie
Posted onThe Onion’s recent World Cup related article Devastated By U.S. World Cup Team’s First-Round Loss, Nation Grinds To Halt is so satirically funny it just has to be read and shared. My favorite part reads: It is estimated that over 85 percent of U.S. households were watching the USA–Czech Republic matchup. And going into the […]
Does a Red Card Really Matter? It Depends.
Posted onTo continue on my “all things footie” theme, the International Hearld Tribune (IHT) had an interesting article a few weeks back which featured a statistical analysis of how much getting a red card and having a player sent off really matters to the teams playing. One would think that the team with more men would […]
World Cup Investment Strategy
Posted onI read in the Wall Street Journal about a study written by Alex Edmans of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Diego Garcia of Dartmouth College and Oyvind Norli of the Norwegian School of Management. They found that World Cup losses deliver a statistically significant market decline the next day, with greater impact on small stocks. […]
Orgy of Sports
Posted onThis past weekend I enjoyed what could only be deemed as an orgy of sports and loved (for the most part) every minute of it. Now, I’m not just talking about any type of sports. I’m talking about the sports that the good old U S of A could care less about. While I did […]
Gnarly!
Posted onThe Gnarls Barkley’s performance at the MTV Movie Awards has to be seen to be believed. The song is pretty good but the performance is out of this world, literally. Via Jordan