Stumbled across this today, and I’m glad I did.
I was reading a story on Clint Dempsey in the New York Times and I followed a link to his clever goal for Fulham against Juventus … and off on the side of the youtube home page I noticed a clip that has all 17 of Dempsey’s […]

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Just made me laugh. It’s not important. Just silly.
“Eagles WR Johnson uncertain after concussion.”
Well, I’ll bet he is.
That would be Philadelpia Eagles receiver DeSean Johnson. Long Beach Poly guy by way of Cal. Great deep threat.
And how might his uncertainty manifest itself? Like this:

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Riding in the taxi on the way to the office. Thousands of us creeping along, needing three or four cycles of green/yellow/red lights to get through one intersection.
It gives me plenty of time to gaze out the window of my hermetically sealed (and delightfully air-conditioned) cab … and look at license plates that have the Arabic […]

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You know we’re talking soccer, don’t you? Baseball puts up some zeroes, but halfway through a baseball game the odds are really high that someone will have scored. In soccer? Not necessarily. Especially when you are France.
Yes, France. World Cup champion in 1998. World Cup runner-up in 2006.
Tied 0-0 with Romania at halftime here in […]

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I did not know this.
I am not a huge golf fan. Not even a semi-big one. But I’ve covered a bit of it, and I watch the majors, or at least parts of them.
But somehow, I managed not to know this:
Tiger Woods can’t control his temper (or his mouth) at golf tournaments.

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Lance Armstrong hadn’t competed on the cycling tour in three-plus years. He is 37, 38 in September, which is easily on the back side of an athlete’s career.
Yet he went to the Tour de France and hung around the leaders for nearly three weeks before getting pretty much buried today — though he remains in […]

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We tend to divide humanity into segments. By nationality, ethnicity, gender …
A grouping that some people don’t always think of quite as readily:
Groupings by age.
And I now root for old guys. Because I am one and because I understand far better the challenges they face.
That’s why I’m a bigger fan of Tom Watson right this […]

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Today was the day David Beckham deigned to speak with the media after a Los Angeles Galaxy training center at Home Depot Center, and he said the spat between him and Galaxy captain Landon Donovan … is over.
Here is a link to a story on espn.com in which Becks says the barbs between the teammates […]

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I know. The story is Roger Federer winning his 15th grand slam event, becoming the first guy with 15 championships in the Big Four tournaments.
But I feel badly for Andy Roddick, who played as well as he can possibly play but still lost. Score of 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14.
Yes. 16-14 in the […]

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Uh-oh. This could be awkward.
David Beckham is due back with the Los Angeles Galaxy inside of two weeks. Just in time for soccer fans in Los Angeles to have picked up a book (by Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl) in which it seems clear that Galaxy players don’t believe Beckham is emotionally invested in […]

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