We were so wretchedly bad. Holy cow, we sucked ( Read more... )

(From an e-mail written to two friends I grew up playing soccer with and whom undoubtedly share the general feeling of trepidation over tomorrow's events to take place in Germany ( Read more... )

( Well, everyone else is . . . )

This news makes me sad indeed. One of the nice things about living out here is that we tend to always get the Pac 10 game of the week and he was always the announcer. He simply is old school college football: never personally criticize an individual player (who after all is some random 19-year-old kid), always remember that an announcer is meant ( Read more... )

Every attorney likes to have their war stories about depositions gone awry.

This one has been making the rounds in the legal community.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e12sqYYLJxA

I'm sure Joe Jamail is Google-able or Wiki-available.

No real comment here. Just wanted to state, for the record, that Landon Donovan usually wears a no. 10 jersey.

So . . .

As many of you know, deridere is a Brit. Although said people are not entirely without their charms, they have a rather aggravating tendency toward thinking that they invented the game of soccer. (Yeah, so they did actually, but whatever. It's the haughty attitude that's really grating.) This notwithstanding that fact that in the last World ( Read more... )

So, was never a huge fan of the Stones. Give them their due, Paint It Black is brilliant, Exile on Main Street, blah-blah-blah. Like them even less these days because SISTER's boyfriend (who truly sucks) is like the world's hugest fan of the Stones, seen them live 414 times, owns every recorded uttering of Mick and Keith, has Rolling Stones ( Read more... )

Did anyone catch the John Hodgeman (sp.?) piece last night re: unfrozen organized flesh-eating cavemen and global warming?

It might have been an old one, but holy crap that was funny.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2362369

(Featured on last night's Colbert Report as well.)