Seemingly out of nowhere, Goff is reporting that DC United has made some offseason contract moves. Olsen and Rimando are resigned, but no option pickup for Dema. Late forward signing Filomeno did not have his option picked up either, but the team is working to resign him at a lower salary. Hopefully they can come […]
According to DCist, Untied knows How to sell a stadium. Of course, having private funding behind the deal goes a longer way than asking for handouts for rich sports team owners. And beyond all the talk of job opportunities, affordable housing, and economic development, DC United officials have sworn that their stadium will be privately-financed,
The Soccer blogs aggregator continues to grow and last night I rolled out a new feature. You can now search the articles in the database and subscribe to the search results as an RSS or XML feed. I hope this will be really useful if you write a blog or are interested in a particular
My friend David R. sent me the link to a paper from the investigating the effect that international footbal competitions have on the stock market. The authors found a statistically significant decline in stock returns after losses in World Cup elimination matches. Their model attributes the loss effect on reduced productivity or loss revenues. Curiously,
The World Cup draw is tomorrow! The US barely missed being one of the eight seeded teams (but rival Mexico was seeded), chiefly because of the poor showing at the 1998 Cup. The FIFA rankings have a long memory, unfortunately. On the flip side, another strong run in Germany would go a long ways towards
Jeff Agoos retired today. His career included championships with DC United and San Jose, and a year with the Metrostars, and 134 caps for the national team. Although he had a penchant for costly own goals or mistakes – the ones against Jamaica in the 98qualifiers and in the Portugal map during the 2002 World
It still looks like Bolivians will elect Evo Morales, a coca farmer who’s promised to make coca growing legal again, as the next president. Elections will be held on the 18th of the month and Morales has an 32.8% to 27.7% lead over the other leading candidate Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga. Morales lost the 2002 elections
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Went out with Greg, Sandy, Nyk, and Corey to hang out and have a beer or more this evening. Some notable quotes from the evening: Sandy Oh was I drunk? Sometimes I’m a virgin when I’m drunk Nyk Greg, why do you have to be so f*cking belligerent Corey Five or six long island ice
Sandy went through one recently and Tony switched his look yesterday. I really liked the layout for Tony’s blog, particularly the pictures in the right most column, so I decided to emulate it. CSS as usual, made this really, really easy. I’d appreciate any feedback, if you actually read posts on my site instead of
Researchers find that dogs can laugh and it calms other dogs. I’m not sure if this qualifies a genuine breakthrough but its interesting none the less. Dogs can show aggression, fear, and other emotional responses so pleasure and “laughing” shouldn’t be out of reach. They say the long, loud pant is the sound of a