30 days of competition comes to a head today, with the World Cup Final. For the first time in recent years there's a guarantee that the winner will be a country that has never won the competition before. That's very exciting from the standpoint of the average fan ( Read more... )

It is excitement, rather than a ridiculous amount of humidity that we've suffered through this past week. No more 120 degree weather for at least the foreseeable future ( Read more... )

Let's face it, that's what many people are viewing today's World Cup match as. Between Spain and Germany, the popular vote sees either of them beating The Netherlands. It's a hard point to argue, despite the underdog Netherlands doing so well ( Read more... )

Early morning, 40 degrees with the humidity. Our living room is a comfortable 31 degrees at 4 in the morning. Fortunately, the air conditioning in the bedroom is working overtime and we've essentially bunkered down up there (even the dog only comes out to get a drink when someone else is going downstairs...and even that is sporadic at best ( Read more... )

Brazil is done, and so goes my theory of an all-South American final. Kudos to the Netherlands, as they've definitely been playing excellent soccer at this tournament. I, on the other hand, have fogged my crystal ball after an oh-for day once more ( Read more... )

Hope everyone had a great day. It was certainly one that did not feel like a Thursday. Still doesn't, and I know 5 am comes early ( Read more... )

First day of summer hours is always a bit of a rough one. When you're used to crashing around two, and are up at six. Still, starting next week when we only work four hours on Fridays, it's a pretty sweet deal ( Read more... )

FIFA is apparently considering instant replay. They pretty much had to come out and say that after two brutal calls on Sunday. Would it have changed the outcome of either game? Hard to say...but those were pretty terrible calls ( Read more... )

Had a nice anniversary yesterday. Wasn't too "exciting" so to speak, in that we didn't do anything extravagant. Went to see the A-Team and had an "appetizers" dinner after. The A-Team is entertaining. Remember, we enjoyed Snakes On A Plane, so take our opinion of the movie in context. If you're looking for a simple action flick with a ( Read more... )

The Ghana/US game was good, what I saw of it. This morning's game could be just as good between England and Germany. I want to go with the Germans because England played like ass in group play, but I think they just might be turning it around. So, I'll go with the English. Here's hoping Argentina doesn't perform their usual post-group play ( Read more... )