Read Naomi Wolf’s thorough and absolutely horrific article about the sexual perversity perpetrated by the Bushies in Iraq and elsewhere. I do not understand why Obama is rationalizing and temporizing about releasing the photos and really going after these sadomasochistic pricks.
The activities of these dudes so speaks to the fruits of the kind of self-righteousness [...]
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Phillies won, Red Sox won .. and I’ve got the Slingcatcher hooked up and working in Dewd’s room!
Meanwhile, the Breakers will be honoring soccer great Maren Meinert at the game with the Freedom on May 17th at Harvard Stadium. WUSA fans remember her fondly as a key ingredient in the Breakers’ success – most especially [...]
The crow has to do with my third erroneous WPS prediction … a Freedom loss. Not! Looks like an awesome second half (and the first wasn’t half bad, either). Beulah will be happy (but no post this week — too bad)! Oh, and the Breakers moved from first to last in the WPS Power Rankings. [...]
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First — I watched a snippet of Maddow this morning (it was DVR’d — so not sure what night’s show it actually was) in which she interviewed Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson about Cheney, et al. He’s the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell. One of the most interesting (to me) points he made with Maddow [...]
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First off — Beulah’s match report is up! (This is on the Breakers’ win over the Freedom … which ranked somewhere below a broken windshield in Beulah’s book … understandably!) Sorry to hear about your windshield! As for Abby not getting up — that was a huge gripe of mine (and my compatriots) back in [...]
Yup, after all was said and done for week 4 on the WPS, who should top the power rankings but our own Breakers. Rightly so, I’d add, IMVVHO! Next up for the Breakers, the hungry Chicago Red Stars, who played Sky Blue to a 0-0 draw in the televised game yesterday. The LA Sol beat [...]
Continue reading about Breakers Power Their Way to the Top and Liz Warren Asks Tough Questions!
Happy Saturday morning … as the clouds roll in, bringing some much needed rain to these parts. I went for a run yesterday after work and jogging by the fire house, noticed the sign saying that the fire danger was “extreme.” (Breathed a small sigh of relief that I wasn’t lounging by the chiminea, endangering [...]
… but that didn’t dampen the spirits of the nearly 5,000 Breakers fans who trooped to Cambridge to see their Boston Blues defeat the St. Louis Athletica 2-0 in their home opener at Harvard Stadium. Here are the Week 3 WPS Power Rankings by Jo-Ryan Salazar. (I’ll track these through the season on my WPS [...]
Check out MatchTracker starting at 7AM ET to follow the USWNT’s opening game of the Algarve Cup. They start off against Denmark, in a match-up that could prove one of their more difficult of the tournament.
“It’s not a World Cup year or an Olympic year, so we can try different things and one thing we [...]
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The Phillies won (Mets and Marlins lost) and Beulah has posted her match report! (Sounds like she had a tough time getting it onto her site .. but it’s up and a very good read as always!)
In other commentary, here’s Mark Zeigler on the game …
The rest of the women’s soccer world, though, likely is [...]
I opened up MSNBC this morning and saw the news that Obama has picked Biden. Probably a smart move … experience and gravitas and whiteness and all. I was kinda hoping for something more interesting – but would rather win. So Biden seems good. Biden I can live with. (But wouldn’t Pia have been fun?)
I’m [...]
Here’s a nice write-up from Merrill in American Soccer News. It will, indeed, be interesting to see how the WPS shapes the look of US Soccer in the years to come. As for Merrill … philosophy professor, eh? Nice.
Next up for the WPS? WPS Teams submit U.S. WNT Player preferences to the League
Tuesday, September 02, [...]
Call it change. Call it luck. Call it redemption. Call it bravery. Call it what you will – it’s gold and it’s real and it stays! The USWNT defeated Brazil 1-0 yesterday in extra time after putting on a gritty performance on the pitch on a wet, humid, Beijing night. Pia Sundhage and her 18 [...]
Continue reading about Congratulations to the Golden USWNT … Ch-ch-ch-ch changes!
The news wires are now full of player profiles, match reports, you name it, as the US women’s soccer team gears up for its gold medal match versus Brazil on Thursday morning. This team is living up to the Nike Women’s World Cup hype of several months ago … the greatest team you’ve never heard [...]
Continue reading about Tons of Good USWNT Stuff as They Go for the Gold versus Brazil!
First (from The Writer’s Almanac), a wonderful poem by Marge Piercy to start your day with something introspective – before diving into the usual sports-centric deluge! This poem runs along the thought-path I was pursuing last night just before sleep. Guess it may be time to get reacquainted with myself … as soon as the [...]
Wow, wow, wow. Even the Phillies’ loss has not dampened my amazement and feeling of great good fortune. The USWNT is through to the quarterfinals (not too surprising) and has won their group (pretty darn surprising) and is starting to score some goals (excellent news). To date, five different people have scored, and I’m hoping [...]
Here’s Beulah’s match report. I’m always so pleased when one or two things I noticed show up in Beulah’s write-up! I continue to be impressed with HAO’s play – and was also very glad to see Mitts playing more like her old self. Hope A-Rod gets her scoring started against New Zealand … and then [...]
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The USWNT kicks off against Japan tomorrow morning at 5AM ET and will (hopefully) field a team with its heads screwed on more securely than on Wednesday! I like to think that Wednesday’s game was a collective test, to see whether “Boom Ball” really doesn’t work. Lesson learned, guys?
Gayle Bryan has written about Wednesday’s game [...]
Continue reading about Soccer Sundries and a US Women’s B-ball Preview
First, the Paris part. She’s participated in a video response to McCain’s campaign ad – you know – the one where he implies that Obama is just a celebrity. It’s doing well on the net … and Paris has risen a notch in my estimation (although she still has a ways to go before she [...]
