If you’ve come to this blog post expecting for me to pile it on Robert Green, to add yet another witty headline bashing the ridiculed English keeper, to talk about Dempsey’s “Hand of Clod” goal, then you’ve come to the wrong place. That’s the easy path, the proverbial bandwagon choice, the road most travelled, and while I relish the USA draw with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tampa Bay’
23 May
Curious Exhibitions And The Return of The Dreaded Short Shorts
In anticipation of the World Cup, there are only so many opportunities for North Americans to see live soccer, to get a small glimpse of the much larger, much more intense stage we will hover above in late June. Shelley and I got our first taste back in March, which I chronicled earlier, when the US Men’s team battled [...]
29 Apr
The Ups and Downs of Free Soccer
Cultural experiences such as those I experienced in Frederick solidified my return to the game, and I felt it would be unlikely I would turn my back on the game again. With my “soccer swagger” at full tilt, my move to Tampa Bay in 2005 meant finding a new place to play. However, instead of the compact, [...]
27 Feb
Ain’t No Sunshine When They Played
Tampa Bay boasts 361 days of sunshine a year and holds an astounding record of 768 straight days of sunshine. Average daytime temperatures in February are mild, around 71, with temps typically dipping into the high 50s overnight. While I’m no meteorologist, and while I think ‘Klystron’ and ‘Doppler’ are fancy-pants words newscasters like to say [...]
