Fox Soccer Plus arrives in eleven days, and we find ourselves no closer to answers as to whether we’ll actually be able to see the channel. DirecTV’s official “answer” is “DIRECTV is in discussions to come to an agreement to offer most of the same programming on Fox Soccer Plus that you received with [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Swimming the Channels – No answers, but lots of “discussions”.
Posted in Swimming the Chanels, tagged swimming the channels on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Thursday Challenge: Short and Sweet Edition
Posted in Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on February 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This week you don’t get any hints. In fact, you don’t even get an explanation. Puskas, Kocsis, Bozsik, and Hidegkuti. Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, and Lennox Sindelar, Smistik, and Nausch Cruyff, Neeskens, and Krol Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, and Beckham Wise, Fashanu, Jones, and Sanchez
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Alastair Johnson, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Bayern Munich, Bolton, Bundesliga, Championship Manager, Controversial Referee Decisions, English Premier League, Europa League, FC Porto, FC Unirea Urziceni, Fiorentina, Glen Johnson, Glenn Whelan, Jose Mourinho, Kenwyne Jones, Liverpool, Manchester United, Martin Hansson, Nemanja Vidic, Olympic Curling, Patrick Vieira, Rangers, Samuel Eto'o, Sol Campbell, Steven Gerrard, Stoke City, Sunderland, The FA, Tom Henning Øvrebø, UEFA Champions League, VfL Wolfsburg, Wigan, Wolverhampton on February 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
What you missed while the U.S. men’s curling team was losing all of their round robin matches…
Last Call: It’s Our Birthday!
Posted in General on February 17, 2010 | 39 Comments »
One year ago today, this humble little blog was started. We’ve grown quite a bit since then. I’m not sure any of us knew what exactly we were doing, but hopefully it at least appears that we know what we’re doing now. None of this would have been possible without you though. I’m sure we [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Bundesliga, English Premier League, FIFA, League One, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Ligue 1, MLS, Serie A, Transfers, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on February 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Nobody was able nail all of the answers on the first try this week, but Andrew, Andrew, and Mags all came the closest to perfection, so kudos to them! Here are the answers: 1. In which country’s top league will you find the In which country’s top league will you find the Scorpions, the Eagles, [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged AC Milan, Arsene Wenger, Cristiano Ronaldo, Danny Cepero, David Beckham, English Premier League, Europa League, Everton, Financial Disasters, Glen Whelan, Guus Hiddink, Liverpool, Luis Fabiano, Lukasz Fabianski, Manchester City, Manchester United, Marouane Fellaini, MLS, New York Red Bulls, Olympic Curling, Olympique Lyonnais, Patrick Vieira, Portsmouth, Real Madrid, Sevilla, Sotiris Kyrgiakos, Sporting Clube de Portugal, Steven Pienaar, Stoke City, Sulaiman al-Fahim, Turkish National Team, UEFA Champions League, USMNT, World Cup 2010 on February 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What you missed while Great Britain’s curling team was losing to Sweden…
Bill Leckie Loves Ross County!!
Posted in Homerism, Ross County, Scottish Football League on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My opinion of The Scottish Sun is a bit like Charlie Mackenzie’s view of The Weekly World News in “So I Married An Axe Murder”: “Hey Mom, I find it interesting that you refer to The Weekly World News as, “The paper.” The paper contains facts.” However, in this case I’ll overlook The Sun’s “tabloid-i-ness” [...]
Europa League Hexadecifinal TV Schedule
Posted in Europa League, tagged Europa League, TV Schedules on February 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Of course, we’re not all fortunate enough to follow a team that’s good lucky enough to be in the Champions League Octofinal. For those of you who fall into this category – and, yes, fellow Liverpool fans, that’s all of us at the moment – there’s a little bit of a snag: DirecTV owns you. [...]
Champions League Octofinal TV Schedule
Posted in Champions League, tagged AC Milan, Arsenal, Bayern München, FC Porto, Fiorentina, Manchester United, Olympique Lyonnais, Real Madrid, TV Schedules, UEFA Champions League on February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After a two-month break, the Champions League starts back up with the “Round of 16″ (or, as I’m going to call it until it catches on, “the Octofinal”). In years past, that would mean that there would be eight matches this week, four on each day; you’d pretty much pick and choose which ones you [...]
