Here’s a sport Americans could get excited about: Hurling
Hurling: Sort of like Irish baseball
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The World Cup, Team USA, and why America doesn’t care
The United States finished third in 2004’s Olympic basketball tournament. The United States did not make the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic this past spring. We don’t even have the world’s best hot dog eater.
Given this data, is anyone really surprised that Team USA scored only one goal for itself?
Maybe we should be. After all, the US did make it to the quarterfinals in the last World Cup, but considering that we finished without a point in 1998, 2002 seems like a fluke.
The more interesting question though why America hasn’t embraced the world’s favorite sport. This is going to be a three part discussion: (A) Why America doesn’t like soccer, (B) why America might grow to like soccer, and (C) what would facilitate the process.
Fish out of water?
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Push for simpler spelling persists
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Is “Simpler Spelling” the new New Math?
You have to love agents.
Here are some things I learned surfing around Cot’s Baseball Contracts:
Pizza Monday
Pizza stone: $19.99
Whole wheat dough: $1.09
Pizza sauce: $2.49
The knowledge that at least one good thing will happen on Monday: Priceless
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Bowling at age 105
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The final proof that bowling is not a sport
Transformers Casting Call
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Fairy Doors
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Yet another difference between South Bend and Ann Arbor: Fairy Doors
What are the Ten Commandments?
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Today’s must watch: Why does Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (R – GA 8) think we need the Ten Commandments displayed in Congress? So he can learn what they are. [LINK FIXED!]