There’s quite a bit on the soccer news front, as you may have guessed from the headline this morning. The WPS has held its combines on the East and West coasts, and is gearing up for its draft on Friday, January 16th. (That’s this Friday, folks!) Here’s some nice video from the West Coast combine [...]
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Randomness rules this morning, as 2008 draws to a close with a snowy NH forecast, fighting continuing in the Middle East, a new President in the wings, the WPS (that’s Women’s Professional Soccer for those not well-versed in key JordanCornblog acronyms) will be kicking off in April, and the Pats out of the play-off’s for [...]
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This isn’t funny at all. It’s bizarre. Unfathomable. It’s one of those incidents that makes me feel like America is just a big, mindless appetite, ravening and rampaging.
What am I talking about? This.
Suddenly, witnesses and the police said, the doors shattered, and the shrieking mob surged through in a blind rush for holiday bargains. One [...]
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Wow – it’s very hard to believe that August is nearly over. It’s back to school time … the leaves are starting to have that wee bit of color that portends major changes … and my vacation is winding down.
Today I am at the “vacation wind down phase” where I struggle with all the things [...]
Seeing Nicole Petignat on Monday reffing the USWNT-Japan game brought back some really, really bad memories. Having a moment or two, here, I thought I’d Google her and see what came of it.
I found, as one might expect, that she’s probably human, and probably interesting, and probably not the evil (or at least unnecessarily cranky) [...]
The USWNT and Brazil both won in convincing fashion and will face off on Thursday morning (9AM ET) in the gold medal match. Germany and Japan (maybe it’s me … but doesn’t that sound awfully World War Twoish?) will square off in the Bronze medal match-up (6AM ET). Kudos to Japan for making it to [...]
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This is an awesome article about the new firebrand on the soccer block … Natasha Kai. After a rocky start, Pia is pleased … and when Pia’s pleased, I do believe that we all are.
(All of us, that is, with the exception of HollyCornblog, of course … who is going to have a very tough [...]
I was noodling around the WPS site this morning and came upon this interesting blog post about The Forgotten History of Women’s Soccer … so thought I’d share the post and add the site (Soccer Science) to my Links. It meshes the worlds of soccer and technology in what look like some very interesting ways.
The [...]
