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only really saw all the overtime, but i saw the goal!

hey, brotherelf--our teams are tied to come out of the group of doom!

of course that's not going to last very long but i'll enjoy it for the day or so that it's true....

apparently mother nature feared that i would miss the background of the vuvuzelas--the crickets are in full-voice tonight, and it sounds very familiar.

ever notice how similar the color orange and the color red are?

all right--i don't know much about soccer, but that was a hell of an entertaining game. i hope the final is that exciting ( Read more... )

currently reading the liveblog of the slovenia vs. england match ( Read more... )

all week i've been having trouble with the two meanings of the word "through" in a sports context. when i say "the US is through"--i could mean what i mean, which is that we have made it through these qualifying rounds into the round of sixteen. or i could mean that they are through in the sense that samantha stosur is through at wimbledon--her ( Read more... )

this is the soccer equivalent of a million dropped passes in the end zone.

you know, there was a time, and i think it was two weeks ago, when i could not have told you what a goal differential was to save my life. this is what happens when you date people from foreign countries. profit from my experience ( Read more... )

in the words of the liveblog that i love: Sac. Re. Bleu. SA is up two goals over france at the half. halibut went home early to watch--he's getting his money's worth ( Read more... )