Lynne Kiesling I controlled myself this year and decided to summarize all of my Tour thoughts in one post, as opposed to last year. It’s been difficult, because I’ve enjoyed this year’s Tour more than any other in recent memory. That’s partly due to the Floyd Landis yellow win and Robbie McEwen green win, but …
Lynne Kiesling The Italilan football league scandal has brought the relegation of the four culprit teams, including Juventus, the best team in the Italian Serie A. If I understand the stipulations of the contracts, this relegation means that players are not obligated to remain with the relegated teams. It is better for their careers for …
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Lynne Kiesling Over at the Sports Economist Brian has a post with three recommendations to improve international soccer: post-match review and penalties for diving and melodrama, more granularity in penalties around the penalty box, and two more officials on the field. I chuckled when Brian referred to “Sepp Blatter and the FIFAcrats who seem to …
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Michael Giberson Adidas has generated a lot of talk and press over its new Teamgeist soccer ball design, which has been on display at this year’s World Cup. A FIFA story on the public introduction of the ball in December 2005 said it would be “loved by goalscorers, feared by goalkeepers??? and “offers a guarantee …
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Lynne Kiesling I’ve made my first foray into prediction markets, at Inkling. The market is Will Ronaldo Still Play for Manchester United Next Season? I was looking for such a contract at TradeSports, but no such contract exists, so I made my own. The Telegraph reports gossip from tabloid newspapers that includes a claim that …
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Lynne Kiesling So England lost to Portugal on PKs. I thought the red card on Rooney was a bit uncalled for, but I also thought his behavior was a bit uncalled for (the pushing Ronaldo after the whistle, notwithstanding how totally annoying Ronaldo is, but isn’t it funny that they’re ManU teammates?). Plus Andy Roddick …
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Michael Giberson In Slate, Austin Kelly dissects the dive in soccer. Diving – a player intentionally taking a fall in an effort to cause the referree to call a foul on an opposing player – is often scorned by soccer purists, most often when the diver plays for the other team. Count me as among …
Lynne Kiesling Spain >broke my heart. Now my only remaining team is England, which is doing just barely enough to survive, and may not be able to do so against Portugal. Deep sigh …
Michael Giberson Apparently, people elsewhere are actually watching this World Cup thing. Problems faced by retailers emerged yesterday in figures from retail analysts Footfall, who measure shopper numbers. These show the numbers visiting department stores last week fell by 24per cent compared to the week before. The figure was 3.2per cent down on the same …
Lynne Kiesling So lackluster play from the England side! John Terry proves what a great defender he is by saving a goal at the end of the half. Even Beckham’s set kicks are finding little oomph, and he’s not been passing very crisply. Blah, blah, blah. Eric Wynalda really harshed on Peter Crouch in the …
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