With the exception of the commercials which (I thoroughly agree with Boltgirl) were a surprisingly lame combination of woman-hating and achingly stupid attempts at humor, Superbowl 44 was a great success from my point of view.
The one commercial that didn’t make it was probably the funniest of the lot …
Keeping Peyton off the field worked [...]
Today I was sad to see a Google Alert re. the Breakers indicating that Jen Nobis is out for the season (torn ACL). Sounds like she had been working her butt off in the off-season, which makes this all the sadder. She had 2 goals in 11 games for a generally lackluster Breakers’ offense … [...]
Boltgirl has a nice write up of the WPS draft … a brief reminder (especially heartening to the mid-Atlantic states right about now) that baseball is on the way … and a little link at the end that you must click! All I can say is OMG. Or did I say it already? I sure [...]
I was going to write about the WPS’ Sol Dispersal Draft (Boxxy went first, and Marta moved up the coast) and especially how the Breakers fared … but I had a comment by a guy named Noah on my post about Obama at the Georgetown-Duke game … and just felt like I wanted to focus [...]
Sad news (I was too obsessed with John and Liz to pick this up when it first came out) .. the LA Sol have folded. You probably heard it from Boltgirl first! (I heard via an e-mail at work from a friend.)
At first I was horrified on hearing it — PTSD from old WUSA days. [...]
Okay, yesterday was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. How amazing to think about that decision on the heels of the recent SCOTUS debacle. So in honor of Roe v. Wade, HollyCornblog suggests that we visit the Angryblackbitch to read her post from yesterday – Blog for Choice – Not a PLea or a Request [...]
In a decision that I can only describe as chilling, the Supreme Court has opened the doors for corporate capital to pretty much buy whatever it wants.
While I don’t think that money was the issue for Coakley on Tuesday, truth’s comment on the race is telling:
Here’s the stat that brings it all home: After the [...]
If you go to the site of any WPS team these days you’re likely to see a counter displaying the days, hours, and minutes before opening day. We’re something like three months away, with a bit of March Madness in between, but with the days getting longer, you can definitely feel the soccer in the [...]
While I wait for the Eagles’ decisive defeat of the Cowboys tonight to get underway, I thought I’d do a little catching up on the WPS front.
The 2010 season gets underway in April. The Breakers’ home opener is Sundat, 4/18 at 6PM against the Philly Independence – who’ll be bringing Heather Mitts, Kelly Schmedes, Sue [...]
Violence in women’s sports has made the news, thanks to the recent YouTube exposé of unsportsmanlike play in a match between the University of New Mexico and BYU. And while it’s generally nice to read ANY press about women’s sports, this is some unwelcome attention.
In response to events, some are taking the opportunity to make [...]
Thanks, AMR, for sharing thie video below of the University of New Mexico’s Elizabeth Lambert demonstrating how NOT to play the game of soccer.
I am glad to see that New Mexico suspended this player, but even so, ya gotta think this kind of match play didn’t suddenly arise out of the blue. How does a [...]
JordanCornblog’s predictions proved slightly inaccurate, perhaps because the biking didn’t start soon enough in the series. Or perhaps because she didn’t wear her Utley shirt for those last two games … or the Phillies hat … or maybe the barometric pressure was all wrong (that was the problem the year the Eagles lost to the [...]
That’s where I’ll be as I watch Game 6 tonight.
Bold prediction time …
The short rest is gonna catch up with Andy Pettitte, as the Phillies bats will chase him out by the 3rd inning … and it’ll be an even more precipitous downhill slide for the Yankees from that point on.
Meanwhile a rested and highly [...]
I discovered last night that what I had been needing to do all along was ride the stationary bike during these World Series games. Sorry for the omission – I’ll be on board for games 6 and 7, guaranteed!
Oh, yeah – and I’ll try to pace myself so that I’m not on the couch for [...]
There’s Manny being Manny … and then there are the Phillies being the Phillies. They blew a hard-won 8th inning tie last night in the top of the 9th and then went down quietly to defeat. The only good thing about it was (selfishly) I got to go to sleep earlier than expected.
Cliff Lee’s on [...]
SirHitsAlot (aka Mo) rode into town yesterday with his marauding minions, used his head, and wreaked havoc in the Concord soccer world.
In plain English, his talented upstart U-13 team toppled the mighty U-14 Concord Express Team 2-1 on a windswept field where the Merrimack River meanders through Concord and soccer aficionados gather, hoping for just [...]
Continue reading about Lightning Strikes from the Upper Valley
The USWNT beat Germany 1-0 on Thursday.
And I’m liking that 1-0 score this morning, as the Bates Bobcats (that’s the women’s soccer version) ended their season on a high note, beating the Colby College Mules 1-0.
Meanwhile, here in NH that 1-0 score was the result in an upset of Hopkinton by Belmont in the Class [...]
I so love it when the Phillies pull off a win and don’t scare the bejeezus out of me in the process. And it doesn’t hurt if they make the Yankees look powerless and confused in the process. All those well-paid dudes going down swinging. Love it.
Somewhere I read that the payroll differential between the [...]
The day has arrived, as the Phillies square off with the Yankees in pursuit of a back-to-back MLB Championship. They can do it, I am confident. (And just in case they need any help, I am sure all Phillies Phans out there will be superstitiously pursuing all sorts of ritualized behaviors to help carry off [...]
Continue reading about Day 1 of the Phillies’ Phantastic Phinish
… it’s gonna be the Yankees that the Phillies have to put in their place to take the World Series again. Be there, starting Wednesday night … as two ex-Cleveland aces go up against each other in their new(er) uniforms. That’s CC vs. Cliff Lee. Let’s go, Phillies, you can do it!
And I love hearing [...]
