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July 12, 2014
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
In Chevrolet terms, driving a Monte Carlo and wishing it were an El Camino.
posted by beaverboard at 09:36 AM on July 12, 2014
This is a story I've never heard before: The day Harry Redknapp plucked a heckling West Ham fan out of the stands and put him in the game.
posted by rcade at 01:40 PM on July 12, 2014
The officiating in the Brazil/Netherlands consolation game was atrocious. Robben gets fouled outside the box and it's called a penalty in the box. Thiago Silva drags him down in what the announcers were calling an obvious red card and only gets a yellow. Oscar gets fouled late in the match in the box and it's called a dive. The collision that caused the "dive" led to the Netherlands player being carted off.
I hope it's not an omen for tomorrow. This has been a great World Cup and it deserves a finish that lives up to that.
posted by rcade at 06:51 PM on July 12, 2014
I picked an interesting couple of days to go to a friends' cottage with no internet/tv/radio/wireless connections.
posted by grum@work at 12:10 AM on July 13, 2014
James Rodriguez goes on and on about how it would be his "life's dream" to play for Real Madrid, then says, "but I will always respect my current club."