Consider yourselves lucky to be reading theses words. Only a month after hurricanes touched down in the “World of Fuse” a freak thunderstorm arrived bringing down power lines on three of the four sides of my block yesterday afternoon and it was over 12 hours before power was restored. It rained hard enough for long [...]
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The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in CAF, Champions League, English Premier League, FA Cup, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, MLS, South America, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on July 27, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Your Weekend Preview: The Centenary Edition…WHOA!!
Posted in CAF, Champions League, English Premier League, Europa League, FA Cup, General, Homerism, League One, Ligue 1, Matchday is for Homerism, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Serie A, The Championship, USMNT, Weekend Preview on February 11, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Lekhwiya Sports Club v. Al-Gharafa Sports Club (Friday) Whether we like it or not the World Cup is going to be played in Qatar, so we might as well get used to it. First off, the top flight in Qatar is called the “Stars League,” and at present first place Lekhwiya hold a one point [...]
Your Weekend Preview: World Cup Weekend 2
Posted in CAF, CONMEBOL, FIFA, General, UEFA, USMNT, World Cup 2010 on June 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Germany (3) v. Serbia (0) (Friday) Serbia are a better side than Australia and should give Germany a better match. Should. The way Germany played against Australia I have a hard time seeing this match ending in anything other than a win for Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft. The Germans played like the young team that they [...]
The Thursday Challenge: Balls.
Posted in CAF, CONMEBOL, FIFA, The More You Know..., Trivia, UEFA, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010 on June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Normally, when the previous week’s challenge has been a bit too…challenging, I back off and lob you a softball. Not this time. It’s the World Cup, kids, this isn’t the time to make things easy for you. Consider your feet held to the fire!
Your Weekend Preview: It’s time.
Posted in Bundesliga, CAF, CONMEBOL, FIFA, General, Homerism, Matchday is for Homerism, UEFA, USMNT, Weekend Preview, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010 on June 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
South Africa v. Mexico (Friday) Were this match being played anywhere else at any other time I’d pick Mexico to win convincingly. However, it is the first match of the World Cup and the Bafana Bafana are playing at home. For that reason, I don’t think there can be a true upset in this match. [...]
2010 World Cup Preview: Group G
Posted in CAF, CONMEBOL, FIFA, General, UEFA, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews on June 9, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Group G has been referred to as a “group of death,” and not just because it contains North Korea- I kid, Dear Leader, I kid! When this group was drawn last December it contained two very strong teams- Brazil and Portugal- one team full of potential- Côte d’Ivoire- and one unpredictable team- North Korea. Only [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers…for real this time!
Posted in CAF, FIFA, General, South America, Trivia, UEFA, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010 on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It looks like I’ve finally found a way to get more people to send me their answers- give them a hint and an extra week to shirk their workplace duties to do their research. For those checking in for the first time, here’s another look at the challenge: What was unique about all of these [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in CAF, CONMEBOL, La Liga, Ligue 1, MLS, Scottish Premier League, South America, Trivia, USMNT, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on March 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
My apologies in advance if you, dear reader, submitted your answers to this week’s challenge and do not see your name below- I’m off to Florida for a quick vacation starting tomorrow and a few things might slip by while I’m “in transit.” Have no fear, however, I’ll update the post once I’ve arrived in [...]
The “Hate Match” Could Be Played Twice
Posted in CAF, FIFA, World Cup Qualifiers, tagged Algerian National Team, CAF, Egyptian National Team, FIFA, World Cup 2010 Qualifiers on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the side effects of having international soccer is that countries don’t always put their nonsporting issues aside during those matches. As Americans, we’re familiar with this phenomenon; the U.S. national team is frequently pelted with insults, abuse, and the occasional baggie filled with urine whenever they travel abroad as a result of whatever [...]
2010 World Cup Preview: Group F
Posted in Bundesliga, CAF, Commentary, CONMEBOL, English Premier League, FIFA, General, La Liga, Serie A, South America, UEFA, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010, World Cup Previews, World Cup Qualifiers on June 8, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The defending champions, the “other” team from Down Under, and two very competitive teams make up Group F. Three of these teams have the quality to make it out of the group stage, but only two of them are going to do it- read on to find out which team is going to join New [...]
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