Posts Tagged ‘soccer’

Winners and Losers: A bad case of the Mondays for some; others, not so much

Rough day in the markets today. We saw it coming last night (we’ve seen it coming). Choose your loser. But it ended on a high note, right? The champion U.S. Olympics Women’s Soccer Team was on hand to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. So there were a few winners on [...]

15th September 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in anticipation, art, money | 3 Comments »



The Masterfully Disastrous

One of the good things about the Urban Dictionary–which everyone seems to refer to by its URL, “urbandictionary.com“–is that it allows you to have a conversation and pretend that you understand all the slang thrown around because as soon as you get to a computer you can go to urbandictionary.com and type in whichever phrases [...]

16th July 2006 | Tags: , , , ,
Posted in politics, San Francisco | 2 Comments »



World Cup and Politics and Culture and Et Cetera

OK, I said something about politics and soccer in my previous column. I’ve not much energy for writing some long involved post, per my usual behavior. So (don’t tell anyone) I’m just sort of phoning this one in. Even if one contends that the games themselves aren’t inherently political, they represent an opportunity for politics. [...]

13th July 2006 | Tags:
Posted in politics, race | No Comments »