Lynne Kiesling I am indulging myself this morning and staying home to watch Spain-Ukraine. My thoughts so far: -12 minutes in, Spain just scored off of a corner from a header by … you guessed it … Xabi Alonso! Yay! -Sergio Ramas is very visible and active for Spain -Spain’s using the offside trap to …
Lynne Kiesling Some random thoughts on the World Cup thus far: -I thought England’s performance in their Saturday win was lackluster, and I hope they are saving it for later. -But given that Trinidad and Tobago did so much better than expected against Sweden (and that was a fun game to watch!), England can’t phone …
Lynne Kiesling Congratulations to Levi Leipheimer on winning the Dauphiné Libéré race in Provence. This race is a great, grueling race through gorgeous parts of the south of France, ending in Grenoble. Leipheimer is one of the Americans to watch in the upcoming Tour.
Lynne Kiesling Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article on a manifestation of the plenitude of capitalism: Wal-Mart is selling customized World Cup gear in the various countries where it operates around the world (US, Germany, England, Mexico, for example). My favorite: Garden gnomes in England kit. If that’s not culture-specific marketing, I don’t know …
Lynne Kiesling An entire month of international football (ok, soccer) begins on Friday! Skip Sauer kindly provides the television schedule in the U.S., which I also went out of my way to find yesterday. I’m not optimistic about Team USA this year, particularly given the group they’ve drawn. As usual, I’m cheering for England as …
Michael Giberson Via Virginia Postrel, I see Daniel Drezner is upset with the Bono-voiced World Cup ads running on ESPN. Drezner apparently believes, contrary to implications of the ad, that soccer can’t in fact stop war. I appreciate his sentiment, especially the point urged in his title: Will Bono Please Be Quiet, Please? (As a …
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Lynne Kiesling Yay Steelers! How satisfying a win; the teams were well-matched, so not a dominating win … but a fun game. Ben throws two interceptions and still wins, Randle El throws a pass for a touchdown, Parker has the longest rushing touchdown in a Super Bowl, and Jerome Bettis goes out in style.
Lynne Kiesling London will host the Grand Depart, the first stage of the Tour de France, in 2007. Some think it may be a clever, sinister plot to invade England, but if that’s the case, London is paying for the honor: The U.K. capital will host the prologue and first stage of cycling’s biggest event …
Lynne Kiesling Todd Zywicki beat me to it this morning, so I will only add that I knew this was going to happen, have known it all season … but I’ve known it in the sense that Mike Madison articulated a few days ago: Steeler fans — and this includes Steeler fans everywhere, even in …
Michael Giberson The sacrifice bunt is evil, say the sabermetricians with their numbers and charts and spreadsheets. The cost of the out given up is greater than the value of the base gained, and they can prove it mathematically. Offer to elaborate about this to Washington Nationals Manager Frank Robinson, to show him the charts …
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