I have to say, the reaction to this team and to the goal has meant more to me as a football fan than the goal itself has. Even before the game, ESPN has been giving it equal coverage to Wimbledon and the NBA Finals. I’ve thought for some time we were just on the cusp [...]
Posts Tagged ‘World Cup’
America’s reaction to Donovan’s goal
June 26th, 2010 
douglasawhsport 
Posted in Football, Soccer 
Tags: ESPN, Football, Landon Donovan, MLSTalk, podcasts, Soccer, US Soccer, USSF, World Cup, World Cup 2010 
No Comments »Not the South Africa review
June 24th, 2010 douglasawhsport As many of you know, I was in South Africa last week for the US-England and US-Slovenia matches. What many of you don’t know is that I caught Ebola while I was there. …ok, so not Ebola, but I was pretty sick. I was literally sick the entire time. The day after I got back [...]
Posted in Soccer Tags: Football, playing tips, Soccer, South Africa, sports psychology, tips, World Cup, World Cup 2010 1 Comment »Thoughts on US Chances with ~3 days to go
June 8th, 2010 douglasawhsport First off, join my World Cup bracket group. I got the following excerpt from someone that will remain unnamed: Oh now I understand why you are heading there for the early rounds and not the finals. Sorry to hurt your feelings, but the teams you are supporting aren’t going to get past the first rounds. [...]
Lazyweb: Truphone in South Africa this summer?
May 7th, 2010 douglasawhsport So, just a quick post here. I’ll plan to do a more extensive post in May as well. I’m trying to decide what I want to do for notifications while in South Africa. I’m doubting the stadiums will have wifi. I don’t know how much it’s worth to me to do live updates via identica/twitter, [...]
Posted in Soccer Tags: cell phones, Football, footie, HDTV, International football, live blogging, meta, Sam's Army, Soccer, South Africa, television, truphone, WC2010, wifi, World Cup No Comments »World Cup Bracket
March 26th, 2010 douglasawhsport With all the talk about brackets for the NCAA tourney, and seeing this article on dynamic duos, I was inspired to do a World Cup bracket. There still could be a lot happen. There could be so crazy Togo-esque shooting or just simple injuries. I got the layout of the below from Wikipedia, so please [...]
