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- 11/07/09
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| Member since: | March 25, 2005 |
| Last visit: | November 05, 2009 |
Ricardo has posted 4 links and 235 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 8 comments to the Locker Room.
Heartbreak for women's US soccer team.: As Brazil head to the World Cup final with Germany.
posted by Ricardo to soccer at 10:04 AM on September 27 - 52 comments
Kasey Keller signs for Fulham: Pretty soon the American takeover of Fulham Football Club will be complete.
posted by Ricardo to soccer at 12:34 PM on August 23 - 13 comments
Michael Vick Admits to Dogfighting, Will Plead Guilty: The Falcons quarterback has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in his federal dogfighting case and will enter his guilty plea Monday, his attorney said today. No word yet on what sentence he might receive. Vick and his codefendants, who already reached deals, face up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
posted by Ricardo to football at 02:05 PM on August 20 - 183 comments
US names World Cup Roster: Bruce Arena named his 23 man squad today. Congrats go to all the players and here's to a successful campaign in June. Who do you think should have made it but didn't or should have been left out but made it?
posted by Ricardo to soccer at 08:28 PM on May 02 - 28 comments
I would like to jump in ... can I get the league unlocked?
posted by Ricardo at 12:44 AM on September 23
I missed the first couple weeks ... any way to get in it now? .. it looks to be locked up already.
posted by Ricardo at 09:50 AM on September 08
I wouldn't paint a 14 year old girl as the typical criminal who got a semi-automatic gun from an illegal source. Theres a good chance she, like many other criminals, got it from someone who bought the gun legally under said draconian laws.
posted by Ricardo at 05:03 PM on September 02
I didn't realize 7 innings constituted a perfect game. I always thought it was the full 9.
posted by Ricardo at 10:20 AM on September 01
As a Liverpool fan, he looked fan-damn-tastic against us last year. Red cards at both Anfield and Old Trafford.
posted by Ricardo at 04:33 AM on August 19
The fall guy looks like Steve Bartman.
posted by Ricardo at 03:05 PM on August 13
How many here donate their spare time and spare money and other spare resources to help the needy? If having money comes with the obligation to instigate social change, doesn't having free time come with the same?
How many here who condemn Tiger for "only" giving $5M away can take 5 minutes and hand out meals or give needy mothers a ride or volunteer at Goodwill etc?
If Tiger doesn't maximise the endorsements he gets, then maybe he only makes $10 or $20 million a year and wouldn't give away even $5 million.
Won't we be better off trying to figure out how to get rid of the athletes who are bad role models?
posted by Ricardo at 01:23 PM on July 06
It seems to me the work ethic of both on the field is pretty spot on.
It also seems to me that Beckham comes off as the villain not necessarily because of the comments made by Donovan, but by those made by Donovan, Greg Vanney, Chris Klein, the alcohol incident at the steakhouse (regardless of age, a restaurant could get in trouble for serving someone with no ID), the appointment of Byrne in whatever position he held and the appointment of Gullit as coach by Byrne.
I don't really know what kind of GM Alexi Lalas was, but he seemed to do a decent job before all this and I had never heard a complaint about him.
I can't blame Beckham for wanting to go to AC Milan because the World Cup is his ultimate goal (as it should be for any player I think). He came to MLS feeling his England days were over and when that proved not to be true, he wanted to do what he could to help his chances of making the England roster.
Where I think I have fault with Donovan is talking about these things in public when they clearly should be settled behind doors as they are still teammates at least in the technical sense.
I hold out hope that this all pans out somehow though.
posted by Ricardo at 10:39 AM on July 01
Here is the aforementioned Gilbert Godfried impression
posted by Ricardo at 02:27 PM on June 29
And if you watch Brazil's third goal again, Lucio is so surprised his header went in, he did a pretty good Gilbert Godfried impression (face, not voice) as he ran to the sideline.
posted by Ricardo at 01:36 PM on June 29
I just mean lucky in that it could have gone straight to Cesar instead of just out of his reach.
posted by Ricardo at 11:33 AM on June 29
You're right holden. It looked like it was exactly what Dempsey was attempting to do to me. Many goals take a little luck to reach their final destination. Fabianos first goal was luck to have nutmegged Spector. His second was lucky to have hit the post and rebounded right to him 2 feet out. Lucio's was lucky to hit the post and still go in ... and yes Dempsey's was lucky to have gone in from that kind of attempt.
posted by Ricardo at 11:22 AM on June 29
I agree. I didn't necessarily expect to win at the whistle, but once halftime arrived with the 2-0 scoreline, I was fully prepared to celebrate.
As for the moral victory question, I think I fall somewhere in between. I am glad we played a good game of soccer and made the Brazilians work for the trophy, but was definitely a little heart broken over the whole affair.
It did give me a little hope for next year.
Not quite sure why we're sending an understrength team to the Gold Cup though. This seems like pretty poor timing on Bradleys part. I want to see the team that beat Spain and nearly won the trophy to compete a little ahead of next year.
Couldn't figure out why Torres didn't get a look either. I've liked his play every time I've seen him.
posted by Ricardo at 11:07 AM on June 29
As a Liverpool fan, glad to see him go. Don't understand how Man U will be able to replace him though. Ribery isn't quite as good. Not a bad option mind you, but you cannot replace the reigning footballer of the year with just any body.
Not to mention their other winger, Giggs hasn't got tons of play left in him.
posted by Ricardo at 01:42 AM on June 12
EPL Fantasy 09-10
I got the code from an earlier post but when attempting to join, it says league is locked by owner.