The tournament begins June 14 in Moscow, when host Russia faces Saudi Arabia in the opening match of the 2018 World Cup. So it is getting late to be talking about the U.S. failure to compete in the greatest competition in global sports. But I am going to do just that, one last time. (Well, […]
Entries from June 2018
One Last Look Back at U.S. World Cup Failure
June 12th, 2018 · No Comments · Football, Landon Donovan, Russia 2018, soccer
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Hey, Let’s Go See the USA Play France!
June 10th, 2018 · 1 Comment · Football, France, soccer
Usually, the hare-brained schemes are mine. Or were. A night college football game followed by a 1 p.m. NFL kickoff the next day — in some other state — followed by a flight back to SoCal after filing. … The plan to drive from SoCal over the Rockies and to Denver in about 22 hours, […]
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A Look Back at our 2018 Camino de Santiago
June 6th, 2018 · No Comments · Pilgrimage, Spain
Final notes and thoughts on our spring 2018 pilgrimage along the Camino Frances to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela …
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LeBron James: Greatest of All Time
June 2nd, 2018 · No Comments · Basketball, NBA
We have at least three more games in the 2018 NBA playoffs to mull this, but over the past weeks and months I have come to believe that LeBron James is the league’s GOAT — greatest of all time. Is he better than Kobe Bryant, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Bill Russell? Absolutely, I am […]
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Two Races to See the Botafumeiro
June 1st, 2018 · No Comments · Pilgrimage, Spain
The final day of our medium-sized pilgrimage to Santiago featured two threads of action. One thread was three of us up at dawn, driving our senior/middle-aged bodies as hard as we could to walk 20 kilometers to the cathedral near the northwest corner of Spain, arriving in time to see the special noon pilgrim’s mass. […]
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