Posts Tagged ‘Team USA’

We Need More of This (US Soccer)

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Well, it was a beautiful half of soccer for Team USA. Unfortunately, they couldn’t defend against the Brazilian onslaught for two 45-minute intervals — relying on Tim Howard’s brilliance a little too much, perhaps? Nevertheless, the second goal scored by Landon Donovan was a thing of beauty. Off the top of my [...]

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Brazil Smashes Team USA

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

The above video is of Brazil’s third goal, one that could be described along the same lines as a Mortal Kombat fatality move. In their 3-0 win against an all-of-a-sudden impotent American team, Brazil was their normally-brilliant selves, while controlling just about every aspect of the game. As I was watching bits and [...]

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Giuseppe Rossi’s Brilliant Equalizer

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

It seems like every time I write about Team USA’s soccer team, it’s about them getting their heads handed to them by an European team. Well, not all the time, but the point remains: US Soccer is still miles behind their European (and South American) counterparts. Never was this point [...]

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Redemption Is A Dish Best Served In China

Monday, August 25th, 2008

By now, you know about Team USA’s golden victory over Spain Sunday morning. As indicated by the adjective, the win returned the gold medal to who many view as its rightful owner — USA Basketball. Yes, they had to earn it against a Spanish team that wouldn’t back quit and was executing their [...]

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USA/Argentina – Live

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Sorry this started so late; I wasn’t sure what channel they were showing this game on. It was NBC or USA like they have been. No, this time, they choose the Hi-Def NBC Basketball channel, a channel I didn’t know existed. Nothing like bucking tradition when showing one of the more important [...]

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Jason Kidd Watch – Still Perfect From The Field

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

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Our Jason Kidd watch continues with some great news!!! What the Kidd Did is still perfect from the field for these Olympics after going two-for-two against Australia today.
Still batting 1.000, y’all. What?
For the Olympics, Kidd is four-for-four from the field, with two of those makes being outside shots. Even [...]

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