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| Name: | Steve Bacharach |
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| Member since: | January 28, 2006 |
| Last visit: | March 21, 2010 |
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Fifasaurus Rex: The World's Top Sport's Top Governing Body is run by dinosaurs.
posted by sbacharach at 08:30 PM on March 06
How do you reach people like this? This guy is obviously so far outside my mentality that I just wouldn't know where to start.
posted by sbacharach at 01:37 PM on February 21
I'd always wished that the Olympics was about the best that our species could offer athletically. Citius, Altius, Fortius for the individual, not the country.
As for the TV coverage, I have no idea how anyone could watch it in the US w/o using a DVR. The commercials breaks are far too frequent to be at all tolerable.
posted by sbacharach at 04:46 PM on February 17
I'm confident that gap will increase further this year in particular since the Champions League final has finally been scheduled for a weekend instead of a Tuesday/Wednesday like all the matches leading up to it (and all CL finals of recent memory).
posted by sbacharach at 10:48 PM on January 31
A punishment was never gonna happen. The ensuing Pandora's Box would've been wicked.
posted by sbacharach at 07:15 PM on January 18
Can we petition ABC/ESPN to remove the damn scrolling Bottom-Line during matches?
posted by sbacharach at 12:01 AM on January 05
You're joking right, Drood? There were a few questions concerning Fergie's team selection, but even so the players he put out there have played in Premier League matches this year, and there were several 1st team starters as well (the wages of Man U's strike force on the pitch is probably equal to the entire value of Leeds United). Now the Carling Cup (or League Cup) - that's the one they generally blow off, but not the FA Cup. Yes, these days it's not taken quite as seriously by the biggest clubs as the Premier League or Champions League, but there's still some major prestige with that trophy.
posted by sbacharach at 11:19 PM on January 03
My favorite band of all time - the only shame is that they don't get the Super Bowl halftime gig until half the original band members are dead.
posted by sbacharach at 07:42 PM on December 31
"Maybe in a few years once he's actually done something to merit it" - maybe it's analgous to Obama getting the Peace Prize. In this case, the Eagles are using the award to encourage him to not do stupid, cruel things?
posted by sbacharach at 11:43 PM on December 24
The writing was written on the wall, oh maybe last July when the big signings took place. Hughes was never going to be a big enough name to fulfill the expectations of City supporters.
posted by sbacharach at 06:30 PM on December 19
The Eddie over at Waimea is incredible, particularly since the surfers are paddling in, but the even bigger surf is on Oahu's North Shore at Jaws, where the tow-in crews really tear it up.
posted by sbacharach at 03:00 PM on December 10
I think Neuheisel and Carroll both took the low road. A bleak end to a bleak game. Now I can harbor dreams that all those prized LA recruits trying to choose between UCLA and USC will go to Cal instead.
posted by sbacharach at 07:50 PM on November 29
Yet another reason to go to a single table format.
posted by sbacharach at 11:30 AM on November 18
No, dfleming, you got it wrong. My point is that I don't feel "pride" at anything American in particular. I'd like the USMNT football team to do well in South Africa because I follow their matches. I feel the same way about the French side. But I don't personally know anyone on either team. Why would their accomplishments have anything to do directly with me? I like Arsenal FC, but I've never seen them play in person or been the Emirates.
Sports allegiance doesn't necessarily have to do with anything rational like where you were born. End of tangent.
posted by sbacharach at 08:14 PM on November 03
Major League Soccer Reaches New CBA, Avoids Strike
Is Landon Donovan happy or sad about this? He certainly put on a nice face, but he must already be missing the blue side of Liverpool.