To quote Henry Miller, what makes money make money? It’s not precision, although calculation is certainly involved. Aside from Grant’s zinger at the end — note the interviewer’s shocked expression — I’ll turn back to football (soccer), you know, that game in which you play the ball with your feet, and show the best goal [...]
is all the space(time) required. Look at Germany’s third goal here. (ESPN has requested that the video not be embeddable, yet you can watch it on YouTube…). Had Lugano jumped up to defend with his head, rather than clumsily trying to use his leg to kick the ball away, would Khedira have scored? Soccer, or [...]
‘…a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it. A reporter once asked the German theologian Dorothee Soelle: “How would you explain to a child what happiness is?” “I wouldn’t explain it,” she answered. “I’d toss him a ball and let him play.” Professional soccer does everything [...]
I have a mind, an ADD one at that, to mimic Jackie Harvey’s style. Much easier than discursion. Aye, it is difficult to concentrate with the World Cup in swing now. Perhaps this will be less disjointed than my previous entry, but perhaps not. That said, as always there are interesting developments afoot on the [...]
Like all Uruguayan children, I wanted to be a soccer player. I played quite well, in fact I was terrific, but only at night when I was asleep. During the day I was the worst wooden leg ever to set foot on the little soccer fields of my country. As a fan I also left [...]
Not so random, obviously, but it offers a concise title. Herewith pith: “The giveaway of ideology is emotional hostility to skeptics.” For fans of bulletin board systems, I’m enclosing this appeal from Stephen Jones of SDF: So .. What can you do to help? We need largish SATA drives. If you have spares, email me [...]
So the great Pele called soccer, or football to most of the world. I’ve been whetting the appetite today for World Cup 2010 by checking out FIFA’s site and enjoying highlights from Cups past, such as this amazing goal, my favorite of 2006; it’s too bad the video is choppy, due to someone’s Tivo perhaps, [...]
that poem is. Other things, to wit: a friend of mine has a blog about sports that you may enjoy, at My Sports/Complex. I like his thoughts on Beckham, who for all the celebrity brouhaha, is a damn solid soccer player and refreshingly diminished of ego. Speaking of the beautiful game, the Sounders played poorly [...]