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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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NBA playoff matchups are set, and Sporting News Today makes its predictions
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
World Cup 2006 Blog
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| A Name to Remember: Jankel Schor (The 82 Year Old Keepie Uppie Legend) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 07:10 AM PDT
My first thought was “Did they just say he was 82 years old?”, and my second was “Is this on YouTube?” They did. And it is:
Apparently Mr. Schor can do 3,000 keepie uppies at a time. By sheer co-incidence, that’s about 3,000 times more than I can do. And this isn’t even one of those stereotype confirming things about all Brazilians being brilliant at football. Mr. Schor was actually born in Russia, and later became a naturalized Brazilian (which certainly goes against the recent trend the other way. At four score and two years of age, Mr. Schor is easily our oldest ever Name to Remember (they’re usually teenagers or younger). But just like those other wonderkids, Mr. Schor has big plans for the future. He wants to share his skills with a worldwide audience when Brazil hosts the World Cup in five 2014 We may or may not get to see Mr. Schor perform at World Cup 2014. Five years is a long time. But if you’d told me last week that an 82 year old man could do 3,000 keepie uppies then I’d have called you a liar. So after watching the above video, the idea of an 87 year old man doing keepie uppies suddenly seems a lot more reasonable. Hats off to Mr. Schor, and long may he keep keepie upping.        This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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Every NFL team schedule, plus Sporting News Today analysis
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
NFL Draft: Sporting News Today predicts the receivers most likely to be first-round picks
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Sporting News Today: Cabrera picks up unlikely victory at Augusta
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Sporting News Today: Still plenty for NBA teams to prove in final 96 hours
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
World Cup 2006 Blog
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| World Cup Qualifying Wackiness Round-Up Posted: 10 Apr 2009 02:12 PM PDT
First of all, FIFA has opened an investigation into Greece’s important 2-1 win over Israel in Heraklion. The win put Greece on top of UEFA Qualifying Group 2, but it’s alleged that Greek fans were distracting Israel keeper Dudu Aouate by flashing infra-red lasers in his eyes.
Greece has already been warned by FIFA after Greek fans pulled the same trick against Switzerland back in October 2008. The (alleged) repeat offence will likely have consequences, which could mean future home games being played behind closed doors or maybe even point deductions. And honestly, that wouldn’t be the worst thing. I know fans are supposed to be the 12th man and all, but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to try and burn the retinas out of opposition players heads. Elsewhere, North Korea didn’t take their defeat to South Korea too gracefully. The North actually had a good reason to be upset. Jong Tae Se’s 47th minute header (1:40 in the above video) wasn’t given, even thought it may have crossed the line, and then South Korea won the important qualifier 1-0 with an 86th minute free kick. But rather than bitch about the ball crossing the line, North Korea took it up a notch and claimed they’d been poisoned. Their statement read: “It was beyond all doubt that the incident was a product of a deliberate act perpetrated by adulterated foodstuff as [the players] could not get up all of a sudden just before the match.” They’re having trouble proving that claim though, since North Korea were in charge of their own accommodation and eating arrangements, so South Korea probably don’t have too much to worry about. As it stands, both Koreas should make it World Cup 2010. Hold on to your hats if they somehow wind up playing each other. Last but not least, it’s all gone a bit wrong for the Czech Republic who decided that if they can’t qualify for World Cup 2010, they could at least beat Scotland in the “who can end the most international careers at once” contest. As well as firing coach Petr Rada due to poor results (Czech Rep are fourth in Group 3) the Czech FA said it had banned six players from the national team “indefinitely” for partying like it was 1999 after the big Slovakia game (which they lost 2-1, by the way). And these weren’t just any players. The now unselectable six are Milan Baros, Martin Fenin, Vaclav Sverkos, Radoslav Kovac, Marek Matejovsky and defender Tomas Ujfalusi. The good news is that those six can now meet up and party every international weekend.   |
There’s been a lot of oddball fallout from last week’s World Cup qualifiers. We didn’t cover these stories when they broke, but figured it would make a nice weird Friday afternoon roundup for anyone who hasn’t already seen these stories somewhere else. How weird are we talking? How about laser beams, poisoned food and half of a starting XI being forcibly retired from international football.| You are subscribed to email updates from World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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Friday, April 10, 2009
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| FIFA World Rankings: April 2009 Posted: 09 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT
In April 2009 Spain are still top, but the big news is that they’re more top than anyone has ever been ever. Spain have been #1 for 10 straight months, and their current lead of 367 points over #2 team Germany is the biggest lead any team has had since the rankings began in 1993. Go Spain.
Big movers are Bosnia and Togo, who’ve jumped 20 and 26 places respectively after some impressive World Cup qualifying results. The full rankings are of course available at the FIFA website, but spread out over five pages. So after some epic cutting and pasting using only patience, coffee and Microsoft Paint, we can bring you the full rankings table - featuring every FIFA member nation on the planet - below:   |
We haven’t done a FIFA World Rankings post since back December 2008, mostly because it’s all been much of a muchness. Spain ruled the roost, everyone else didn’t and the top 20 barely moved. There was no news to report. And so we didn’t.
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