In January, I made a couple of earth-shattering predictions: 1) Manchester United would win the English Premier League. 2) Barcelona would win the Spanish La Liga. Both clubs were up by about 2347892347890234789 points at the time, but I promised to revisit both of the leagues after the Round of 16 in the Champions League. [...]
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Revisiting La Liga and EPL after Round of 16 UCL
March 24th, 2013 
douglasawhsport 
Posted in Football, Soccer 
Tags: Barcelona, Basketball, Champions League, England, english premier league, EPL, Football, La Liga, Lakers, Madrid, manchester city, NBA, Soccer, Spain, united 
1 Comment »Prediction #5: UCL to Real Madrid
January 7th, 2013 douglasawhsport Unfortunately, these days I do not get FOX Soccer and thus I have only caught a few highlights on the Champions League. I hate this pick. I realize the days of Franco are long gone and the ties between Franco and Real Madrid are somewhat suspect, but I can’t get the taste out of my [...]
NFL Pre-Season and “Winter Break”
August 24th, 2010 douglasawhsport I’m still officially on hiatus, but I couldn’t help but comment on this NY Times article about the NFL. As you know, I’m not an NFL guy, but I’ve been interested in this move to the 18-game season. Let me talk about something first to set the stage for my discussion on the NFL. Skip [...]
Posted in Football Tags: Basketball, bpl, brett farve, bundesliga, christmas, english premier league, EPL, Football, fotboll, france, Germany, ifa, italia, italy, La Liga, ligue 1, nfl, NYTimes, pre-season, serie a, Soccer, Spain, wales, weather, winter, winter break No Comments »EPL, FA Cup, etc wind down. MLB, MLS, etc get started. The Circle of Life.
April 11th, 2010 douglasawhsport Just quickly, NCAA Frozen Four final was yesterday. The hometown Badgers got annihilated by Boston College. Also, what was the deal with the ESPN spring football coverage? Are you really hurting that much for content. Here’s an idea, PUT THE MADRID BARCELONA GAME ON! It’s not a matter of rights, because ESPN had English coverage [...]
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