As Major League Soccer gets ready to kick-off the 2011 season, in addition to our annual Pick’Em competition the crew here at Avoiding the Drop have put together a roundtable of items for the upcoming season. Read on after the jump to get a glimpse into our keen insights, prognostications, and wild speculations.
Archive for the ‘Roundtable’ Category
Major League Soccer – Round Table – Day 1
Posted in MLS, Roundtable, tagged Baseless Guessing, MLS Roundtable on March 15, 2011 | 6 Comments »
World Cup Final Roundtable
Posted in Roundtable, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010, tagged Roundtable, World Cup on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The day is nearly upon us. Every four years the countdown to the World Cup culminates in an orgy of three-games-a-day madness for the first week and a half. Then it’s four a day. Then it slows down to two and one a day. After four years of waiting, when it comes, it seems like [...]
Champions League Final Roundtable
Posted in Champions League, Roundtable, tagged Bayern München, Champions League, Inter Milan, Roundtable on May 21, 2010 | 13 Comments »
In 26 hours or so, the Champions League Final will kick off in Madrid, on a Saturday, on major network television in America for the first time. This is the second or third most important game in soccer, and this year is no different. Sure the matchup isn’t as sexy as United-Chelsea (which sucked) or [...]
The Staff Drops Some Premier League Science
Posted in Commentary, English Premier League, EPL Season Previews, General, Matchday is for Homerism, News, Off and Running, Power Poll, Roundtable, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on August 14, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The great thing about creating a aggregate final Premier League table is that all six of us get to have our say in creating an end product with which none of us are happy. “Resigned” is probably a more apt description. On the one hand our boundless homerism is tempered by our more dispassionate peers [...]
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