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Good news and bad news for US U-17 MNT; USMNT, USWNT blurbs
The US U-17 team advanced to the round of 16 with a scoreless draw vs. new Zealand this weekend. The result left the US and New Zealand tied in points and all tie breakers. The scoreless finish guaranteed both teams would advance to the round of 16. Lots were drawn and the US were chosen as the...
Timbers Sign Two from PDL Side Portland Timbers U-23
Some lighter signing news this morning, but important nonetheless. The Timbers have announced that they have signed both midfielder Freddie Braun and goalkeeper Jake Gleeson to the MLS squad from the Timbers former PDL team the Portland Timbers U-23, a team with which we are still uncertain about...
Was Eric Devendorf Gilloolied?
As we've already heard, this weekend Eric Devendorf went down with an ankle injury, potentially ending his season in New Zealand and ruining the high hopes of the Wellington Saints season. Devendorf entered the New Zealand National Basketball League and immediately took it by storm. In fact, he was...
Weekend Royals Links: Maier, Meche, A Stout Squad in Omaha, and the Baseball Card Bubble
I'm actually out in San Francisco this weekend for a wedding, so I can only hope nothing interesting happens with the Royals today or tomorrow. Royals: Maier forced to fight for backup role | royals.com: News Five Pitchers and a Schedule - Royals Authority Stiff shoulder nixes Meche's next start...
New Zealand Grappler Seriously Injured During BJJ Competition
This was just passed along to me by ICNZ promoter Neil Swailes: In the last few seconds of the last round on the Saturday 12th December, Haydn Clasby from Submission Martial Arts (NZ) suffered a serious injury to his neck. This injury was sustained in a controlled BJJ environment and was a freak...
Brief Wednesday Sips:
I'm tryina learn about American Government and Art History over here, ya heard? Oh, and read my post two posts ago about ex-NU folks gone pro. Not to mention the fanposts Loretta and Chad posted over on the right. For the only time this year, the mystical curtain behind the Coaches Poll is...
New Zealand Time Differentials confuse me
Remember the post of less than a half hour ago wherein I said that John Shurna would play Croatia in the semi-finals today?Well, turns out it already happened. There's something like a 16 hour time difference, and 8:30 PM there is apparently 4:30 AM here, or something like that. I would be angry at...
John Plasencia named World's Best Tight End
OK, not actually true. Technically, Plasencia is just the World's Greatest Tight End in the World under the age of 19 after being named to the IFAF Junior World Cup all-tournament team, but, hey, we'll take it. A short but incomplete list of things John Plasencia is: A mountain, a tall tree, a...
2008 FIBA Men's Qualifying Tournament: Day 4 Preview
After a pilgrimage of sorts to Chipotle and way more WEEI over the last 2 days than I care to admit, I'm beat. So I'll keep this short. Here are my picks for tomorrow:Croatia over CanadaGermany over BrazilSlovenia over Puerto Rico Greece over New Zealand
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