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Yep, Barcelona crushed Arsenal yesterday 4-1 to knock them out of the Champions League, but there was an upside. Lionel Messi’s game for Barcelona was simply the greatest single performance I have ever seen as a soccer fan. Sorry, Christiano Ronaldo, Messi is the greatest player alive. If he can win a World Cup for [...]

Yeah, it was a really great Super Bowl. (Though to be honest, I only watched 50% of it, and I really just wanted it to be over so I could watch the oddly much more violent Liverpool vs. Everton match on my DVR.)
More importantly, here are a few thoughts on the ads I saw. (No [...]

I’m fascinated by movies where my primary response is, “Why the hell did they make that?” Some movies (like 2012) might be mindless, but at the same time you get the feeling that they are carefully micro-marketed and planned by accountants from the start. They know the audience, the amount that audience is likely to spend, etc. [...]

Last week I took Sam to his first professional baseball game, and my first at the new Busch Stadium. Not surprisingly, I wanted to dislike it (since I think St. Louis has more pressing needs than a $400 million stadium as a replacement for the acceptable previous Busch Stadium). I also love baseball history but [...]

Note on my previous post: Certain crimes change the ordering of attributes. Example: Mike Tyson isn’t a boxer who got busted raping a woman; Mike Tyson is a rapist who was also a good boxer. Phil Spector isn’t a music producer who murdered somebody; he is a murderer who produced music. Michael Jackson is a [...]

Attention: Greatest sporting event of the year takes place this afternoon, 4:30 to 7:00 on ESPN Classic. Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona from Rome. Don’t miss it!
Go Barca! (But ManU should win 3-2.)

True primate lovers know that the final judgment of a Super Bowl has nothing to do with the football score and everything to do with the primate commercial count. A great Super Bowl providesendless primate entertainment in the minutes between plays. This fabulous recent trend began with E*Trade’s classic Super Bowl XXXIV ad featuring a [...]

The funny thing about being a world soccer fan is that you don’t have a natural team to support. Yeah, it’s possible to support a United States MLS team, but (1) they’re not the quality of other teams, (2) they don’t play in cool things like the Champions League, and (3) I’d have to root [...]

In this latest installment of fascinating NFL coverage I’d have to report that Super Bowl XLII occurs next weekend and I DON’T CARE. I plan on driving home from St. Louis during the game and perhaps listening to part of it on the radio. I’m sure that I have watched less professional football this year [...]

Liverpool looked terrible recently. I hate to jump on the bandwagon and tear into Rafael Benitez, but platooning strikers isn’t working when they aren’t used to each other yet. Quit dissing Peter Crouch and let him play (and let all the haters laugh). And leave Dirk Kuyt in since he never stops running. And, uh, [...]