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I love how Michigan and the NCAA held Chris Webber up as an example of a bad guy: officially forfeited all the accomplishments of the Fab Five, took down banners of those teams, returned tournament money, and banned him for 10 years BUT they're all to happy to have him sport his old Michigan jersey...

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What was the flag for? Looked clean to me. There's nothing better than popping a goalie! 2014 NFHS rule change. Rule 5-3-5 stipulates that a body check that targets a player in a defenseless position is illegal and specifies a minimum two- to three-minute non releasable penalty for this violation. ...

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Here's the bottom line: We have a B squad capable of winning the Gold Cup, in pretty convincing fashion. We have more depth than we've ever had in our player pool. We are not, and probably won't be in my lifetime, a team that can trot out a C team end expect results against most teams from Europe or...

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If anyone is worried about Brooks and/or Onyewu even being on the squad in Brazil, they are clearly envisioning some kind of catastrophe befalling our A, B and C squads. And I feel sorry for that person (because it's clearly a crazy, lone person). Because that's no way to live life, man. (To this po...

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I haven't seen the game... which says a bit about how much importance I think you should place on this result. It is a weird, experimental batch of players, it's in Europe, an already suspect overall defensive unit plucked two of the more wobbly/wonky guys to "shore up the middle." I know ...

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Let's play the stubhub.com game!!! I'll just focus on games I care about, so do your own damn "research" if you don't like the games I picked. Bowl Name, Teams Playing, Cheapest Ticket Available, Remaining batch (keeping in mind that this is the batch on Stub Hub, who knows if this include...

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Taken as a stand alone, it was fucking hilarious. But any of my coaches had gone public with that kind of shit, forget about me playing hard or trusting the guy again. I'm transferring ASAP. I agree with Hemphill... Bitch move to do that publicly, and he comes off as unhinged. It's pretty damn early...

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I really don't understand why they have these finals in places where there's a strong likelihood of crappy weather. It's one thing to have the Frozen Four in Tampa. But Columbus, Philly... Why?

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I've been a curmudgeon on this issue for 20 years, so I don't really have any problem saying there are too many bowls and the corporate sponsorships further adds to the cheapening/sullying of the traditions of the game. As I've gotten older, and college football has increasingly become a semi-profes...

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Yeah, we had something kind of/sort of go down like that in Dupont Circle in DC last time we got a good snow dump. Huge snowball fight, and pelting of cars, only one of them happened to contain a plain clothes police dude. He flipped out, got out of his unmarked car and I believe pulled out his gun....

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You know, a fun game is to try and put yourselves in the shoes of another team's fan base. If you are Portugal, you've got to be in serious WTF mode right now. 2010 their group was Brazil, Ivory Coast and North Korea. Now they get this draw. Granted, I'm pretty sure they were in a really easy group ...

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The other thing I'd point out about the draw is that the top half (A-D) is ridiculous compared to the bottom half.

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The heat will be more of a concern than the travel. The only night match in Group G is USA-Ghana at 7pm All other matches are at 1pm or 4pm. The last two simultenous group matches will be at 1pm in scorching heat. Well, frankly, that's HUGE. That's the one game where the heat is going to be decided...

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* According to Grant Wahl (who someone on here inexplicably doesn't like, I forget who), the US got the worst travel schedule of all 32 teams. I'm not sure how he did that math, but the fact that we're in the NE part of the country, in the jungle, is not good for us. Yes, both teams play in the same...

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The Sybian wrote:Just a couple of years ago, I thought Canadian soccer was on the verge of being competitive for a World Cup slot. What happened?

Yeah, WTF? I was just going to type the same thing.

I mean, the women's side sure seems to be on the rise...

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That's exactly what I was bitching about up-thread. This shit is tiresome.

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And once again, significant pieces of false/bad information get picked up and promulgated online and by the media. Very early on they were talking about 2, maybe 3 shooters. Where did that come from? Do the media just listen to police scanners and then just put that shit out live? At some point, peo...

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Randomly came across this on YouTube. Some of Mike Tyson's early fights. Damn was he impressive. My favorites are Michael Johnson (the third one, I think) and Marvis Frazier (son of Joe Frazier). http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e5sAs_1Fzlo As impressive as he was... Wow. ...

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Coaching my 5 year old this year and the sponsor name sucked (Concord Township, really?). Our color is purple so I thought something regal. Monarchs came up and they all were like "Yeah!" so we are named for a butterfly. I think we are the only team with an actual nickname and not going b...

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The Korean gymnast first pitch would be impressive if they threw the ball as part of the spinning, flipping motion. It's moderately impressive, I guess, that they have the arm strength to get the ball to the plate. But there are a ton of folks that can do variations of that type of somersault. Grant...

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not the right thread, but there's also talk about splitting off the money making D1 schools from the scrubs... a lot of the BCS-level schools are hinting at things like paying players, and I think this licensing stuff will eventually factor in (as suggested by Icepenis.)

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Hard to see fouls like that when you have your head up your ass. That is the kind of play that FIFA/CONCACAF needs to do post game video review and suspensions/fines. Start making these countries pay when they're players start getting thuggish. This foul is kind of similar to the one on Terrence Bo...

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unreal. nobody saw that??

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Good clarification on the card / no card thing... That actually makes me think it's more likely he will be there on Sunday. It's not like they'd have to rescind a red card, they just have to move around in what I'm sure is a huge gray area.

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Really? No talk at all about either Gold Cup game? OK, then I'll start. The US might've played a perfect game in the first half. I really can't think of any deficiencies in the opening 45. Honduras never really threatened in the first half. Donovan's assist on the Eddie Johnson goal? Um, yeah, more...

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guess who was standing next to the scorer and did absolutely nothing? That's right, Clarence Goodson. What? You didn't like his 2 inch vertical? Go back and watch it again. Goodson is all over his man, in fact is trying to get over his man to get to the ball. Bedoya's man is unmarked and has a free...

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Wondo's the current version of Kreis, Twellmann, etc. Excellent in MLS. Short in the national team picture. I just can't see him doing consistently well against non-CONCACAF teams. I'm happy with the depth being shown. I don't want Parkhurst anywhere near a big game. Waddup, A? Agree on Wondo and w...

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I could be wrong about it being a CONCACAF requirement. But my point still stands ... it's stupid to put temporary grass fields on top of artificial turf. They did that here a few years ago, when RSL was playing in Rice Eccles, and hosted a qualifier one year and Real Madrid the next. It worked wel...

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Took my son to the game in B'more yesterday... He won't soon forget that experience. What was crazy was the HON game (and it's happy horde of fans) were there for the game after us. At first I was like, HOLY SHIT there are a lot of ElSal fans, but quickly realized what was up walking into the stadiu...

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Yeah, we are actually in agreement... to a point. My point about depth is more about getting ATTACKING and POSSESSION guys into JK's system. And this is really important to this point, we need players that can actually help us win in Brazil. So, for guys like Holden (who I totally agree has massive ...

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I thought we had a longer thread on this, but I think it must've been on the old new new old place. At any rate, that article really caught the team at an interesting moment. I read somewhere else that the last three coaches (including JK) have had this type of make or break moment at some point in ...

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I thoguht it was funny. They're different, and don't take themselves too seriously. An update on the widely regarded Patrick-Olbermann stuff. Agreed. I haven't watched Sportscenter for any extended period of time for probably 5 or 6 years. It's boring as hell and if I want to watch highlights of so...

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That was a classic case of let's just take the win and move on. It would've been nice to have another Panama-esque performance, but that would've required some semblance of rhythm from Honduras in the first half. Someone already mentioned it, but it there is a pretty big impact on the flow of the ga...

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Yeah, that makes me miss Charlie Davies. The goal against Algeria went Howard-> Donovan -> Altidore ->shot by Dempsey ->Goal by Donovan. 9 seconds from literally one goal to another. (Howard saved a header standing pretty much in the goal and launched that massive outlet to LD.) Fuck it. I'm watchin...

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Wicker fucking baskets? C'mon. That's really stupid. Sorry, but we could all pull up a ton of examples where just the basic infrastructure for a given sport has been updated for various reasons in every sport. Not seeing the wind direction and speed on the green is a huge issue. You're altering a n...

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Wicker fucking baskets? C'mon. That's really stupid. Sorry, but we could all pull up a ton of examples where just the basic infrastructure for a given sport has been updated for various reasons in every sport. Not seeing the wind direction and speed on the green is a huge issue. You're altering a no...

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I thought it looked really fake when I saw Clash of the Titans in the theater a million years ago. I still thought it was cool though. And yeah, that skeleton scene was really well done though. Much better than Clash . What's really interesting watching that clip is how far we've come in sound (fol...

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tennbengal wrote:
garyclark wrote:This is the first time I've ever typed this, but ... OMFG AYFK WTF?
When that happened in the book, I had to put the book down for awhile.

I know they're following the books, but I really kind of wish there wasn't a show next week. That episode was a dropkick in the nuts.

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So, I know we have a larger thread on Klinsmann (or had one). I've been generally supportive of the bigger picture stuff he is trying to accomplish, but I'm becoming a little annoyed with a few on field and roster things. The biggest issue I have is that he can't seem to figure out Altidore is not a...

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Did the Swamp somehow miss this restaurant's incredible showing on Kitchen Nightmares and its subsequent Facebook meltdown? If so, check it out. It's fantastic. http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/this-is-the-most-epic-brand-meltdown-on-facebook-ever" onclick="window.open(this.href);ret...

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