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JACKSONVILLE, FL - MAY 26: Landon Donovan #10 gets a congratulatory hug from teammate Terrence Boyd #18 after Donovan scored the first goal for Team USA against Team Scotland on May 26, 2012 at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, FL. (Photo by Gary Bogdon/Getty Images)
>”Team USA against Team Scotland”
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I am an American.
When I say the word “football” to you, do you know what sport I’m talking about? Am I talking about American football? Association football? Am I trying to be nice to you by using your word for football instead of mine, or am I just acting as normal and calling the type of football most often played in America “football”?
Now, when I say the word “soccer” to you, do you know what sport I’m talking about?
I rest my case.
Based on the evidence that I saw that was released last week, and according to the law in Florida (that part is important), George Zimmerman will be found not guilty of murder. He may get charged with a hate crime, but he will not be convicted on that either. There is a good chance (I’d put it at 45%) that the charges will be dropped and Zimmerman will never go to trial.
I am 100% sure of this.
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Someone needs to check the scale of this x-axis.
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Most unemployed Americans attended at least some college, for the first time ever -
Also, American colleges suck at getting their students to graduation.
Maybe it’s just that too many students completely unprepared for college are still going to college anyway, because of the prevailing belief that ERRYONE should go to college regardless of whether or not you’re actually ready.
kylesbogusjourney replied to your post: alanmckinnon replied to your link: Sepp Blatter…
Players already drop of exhaustion at the end of 120 minutes…True, but Blatter wants a decider that would prevent the game losing “its essence as a team sport.”
So it would have to be something physical the whole team would be involved in.
I predict tug-of-war.
There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?
Calling pro-family Republicans…
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we’re into the third round of the 99th annual US Open Cup and the internet has been set afire as certain MLS clubs (Seattle and Real Salt Lake) have ‘bought’ home field advantage for their third round match ups. a lot of fans are incensed, and a lot of people have opinions. here are my thoughts:
1.) Yes, it sucks for the fans and the fans certainly have a right to be angry. These lower division clubs have essentially admitted that they care more about the money than their fans and community. Whether they meant to or not, they have made it clear that they do not believe that they are on par with MLS teams. For cities and teams that wish to someday move to MLS this is a setback.
2.) U.S. Soccer is to blame for allowing this too happen. It may be in the spirit of free market capitalism, but this kind of thinking within a sporting event betrays the definition of sport as an activity (in this case a competition) that is governed by a predetermined set of rules or conditions mutually agreed upon by the participants. Clearly the spirit of financial windfall is greater than the spirit of a tournament with a rich 99 year history.
3.) It is no surprise to me that MLS, which at its base is a business entity that sells entertainment franchises, would treat the US Open Cup as another business angle (though I can’t fault them too heavily - they should be expected to make moves such as this as it is in keeping with their corporate identity). Neither is it shocking that lesser division teams would accept - after all, these teams are business franchises as well (despite the idealistic ramblings of lower division fanatics that believe their leagues are more ‘pure’) and at the end of the day it is a businesses purpose to create profits. The owners of these teams would be remiss if they did not accept.
4.) Ultimately, the core problem is the identity of soccer in the United States. Professional clubs are franchised, not chartered. Thus, when you have a competition that appeals to a certain history and heritage, and the participants (i.e. most MLS, NASL, and USL organizations, though lumping the PDL in here may be somewhat unfair) by and large do not share that history or even operate under the same system of values, they are epistemologically DENYING the built in rule set of the competition. And by denying these, they agree as a body to create their own subset of rules by which to operate in the competition, decrying the very name of the Cup as ‘Open’. The reality is that the U.S. Open Cup is not a truly ‘open’ tournament. I could go on and on here about economies and systems of power, but at the risk of sounding too much like a paranoid political activist I will refrain.
5.) At the end of the day, it still really sucks for the fans.
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EDIT: One more thing I forgot to mention, it’s not a very good business decision to betray the trust of your loyal fans who want to see an MLS team come to town. To promise them that, like the Silverbacks did, and then to trade it away for some quick cash, may turn off fans. It may even end up losing them money in the long run. We’ll see, but such a decision seems very short-sighted to me.