Due to popular demand … well, one of you asked … a list of 10 ideas/concepts/events I like about living in Abu Dhabi:
(And I also get to do a list, and everyone likes lists.)

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Brad Friedel is probably the best goalkeeper in the Premier League. Which, arguably, makes him the best goalkeeper in the world.
Yet he hasn’t played for the U.S. national team since 2004. He announced his retirement from “international” soccer — that is, the U.S. national team — in February of 2005.
Since then, he hasn’t missed a […]

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I don’t allege to be the ultimate Landon Donovan watcher. I’ve known him since he was 16, but it’s not as if he’s been readily accessible for the past few years.
And this may be more about just reading between the lines than any special insight.
On the Everton Football Club home site, Landon is quoted as […]

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Landon Donovan may not be extending his stay with Everton in the English Premier League,  after all.
That’s what his Everton coach, David Moyes, is saying.
Unless Moyes is engaged in some sort of semantics game here … it looks as if Los Angeles Galaxy fans can expect Donovan back in SoCal before March is over.  On […]

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I am devastated. Like a Boston Red Sox fan after losing the ALCS to the Yankees in 2003. Except keener. More intense. Deeper. Because my team has never won nothin’. Even the Red Sox have won the World Series — and did before the 2004 “miracle” edition.
We lost last night. We. Being Al Jazira Sports […]

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Give it up for Al Jazira, homies! The neighborhood team, the scourge of the UAE Pro League.
There we are, still undefeated after 13 matches. That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
So, nearly four months into life in Abu Dhabi, I finally got to see the local-local team. That would be Al Jazira, yes, which plays in 40,000-capacity […]

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As I write this, many of the people I know back in the States are watching the Lakers play the Celtics. In Boston. If I were on that side of the Atlantic, I would be watching too. I grew up watching that rivalry, and suffering through it. Jerry West, Chick Hearn and I … well, […]

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I saw this video a month or so ago, but early today a former co-worker sent me the link and demanded that I write about it … and I had considered it, earlier. So here goes.
In this bit of youtube video, Landon Donovan is shown attempting to sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Hilarity ensues.
This actually is […]

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I knew this was coming.
I knew it while standing in the newsroom here in Abu Dhabi two nights ago, stopping on my way out out of the building and watching via computer the final minutes of the Premier League match between Everton and Manchester City.
Everton coach David Moyes substituted for Landon Donovan in the 90th […]

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Mrs. Bolton would be proud. Or maybe not.
Mrs. Gertrude Bolton was my teacher in second and third grade. (I went to a small school.)
She thought it was a good idea for every kid in the class to come up front, while she sat at the piano, and to have each kid sing a hymn … […]

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