The Register: Pity if you will poor old Zinadine Zidane: sent off during the World Cup final for a serious infraction of FIFA’s “no headbutting Italians” rule and now reduced to the status of French national hero with enough cash in the bank to enjoy a lifetime of truffles, stuffed songbirds and fine vintage champagne. [...]
This is the kind of thing that none of my friends will think is funny, but I find hilarious, so I’m posting it here so maybe someone else can appreciate it. Over at Fire Joe Morgan, Ken Tremendous has an All-Star Break post that includes this bit: Was anyone else wishing that some of Ryan [...]
I watched yesterday’s World Cup final at a Northern Virginia bar, where the France supporters outnumbered the Italy supporters, but only just. It was a good-natured crowd, and the bar was filled to standing-room, but not so packed that you had to wait for a drink. The best moment of the match was not the [...]
Ben Roethlisberger continues to make bad choices. Less than a month after his helmetless, head-through-windshield motorcycle accident, in which he somehow sustained little more than a broken jaw, Big Ben is reentering celebrity life and being very careful to limit himself to public appearances suitable for a Super Bowl-champion quarterback: Also, a spokeswoman for The [...]
So this is the new site. Having paid more than a day’s salary for a year’s registration and hosting, I expect to be a little more motivated to keep up this Internet stuff. Regrettably, all comments on the WordPress site were lost in the transition. As for the design, I like the newspapery look, but [...]