Two fixes of note over the last few weeks. I’ve fixed a bug in how I was parsing atom feeds, I was expecting an ‘issued’ date in the feed, but will now fall back on ‘published’ if its not there. Thanks to Jason from zigazoga for wondering why his feed didn’t appear. He’s also displaying […]
Host: On to our first question. Is Europe the answer? Oscar: I’m not convinced it is. I think when people pull out the Europe card, what they’re really saying is we need to get more of our players into more competitive leagues and matches. Alejandro: For now going abroad gives a player the chance to
Saw that US Coach Bruce Arena will be on the sidelines at Metrobull games starting August 12th. DCenters lays down the rules for his first MLS game back, against DC United. And it sparked this great Point-Counterpoint with Chris: Oscar: New York Red Bulls – News – 07/18/2006Chris vS.: big shock thereOscar: now we learn
Off the Crossbar has a link to an article on World Cup TV Ratings in the USA. Somewhere, an ESPN exec is bound to be fired, hopefully because 21 million (or 42%) of Univision’s audience were non-Hispanic. Presumably, the majority were english-speaking fans who were not swayed by the American networks decision to bring in
Still looking for a team to root for in the quarter finals and beyond? Tony passed along this team choser from the World Development Movement based on some non-footballing factors. Why not give it a try? Seems they got the USA pretty right " The USA’s average ranking across all the ten criteria make it
As in cleaned by the MLS Ministry of Truth, Tino Palace singles out Clint Dempsey by name for praise – since he plays in MLS – and Reyna and Bocanegra for criticism – since they play in England. Then in a section titled "Bid Names did not Deliver" Beasley gets called out a bit, but
Two good football links today via The Sports Economist. Craig Depken analyzes the number of cards being given at the World Cup and compares it to what we saw in 2002. He assumes that red cards depend on the number of yellow cards in a game, which is a generous assumption to make as red
Hello from Frankfurt! We arrived early on Saturday morning at 9am local time which was 3am for us. Thankfully, we took a direct flight out of Washington and both of Staci and I managed to sleep through most of it. We had a very nice driver pick us up at the airport, an expat from
One of the best analysis of the US loss to the Czech republic comes from the Sports Economist, World Cup – the long view. Instead of being firmly rooted in the moment, in despair and looking to hand out blame, he puts it nicely into context. Only us few US fans fancied our side against
If you’re looking for a decidedly American take and analysis of the teams and games for the World Cup, I invite you to listen to The World Cup Roundtable, a nighly podcast. Dave Lifton of the excellent Screaming Eaglies Podcast organized this meeting of the soccer minds and it’s been great fun to do. I