Re: soccer is a man's game

On May 24, 5:48 am, Phil <p...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-05-24 02:51:12 -0400, Ruben <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On Thu, 24 May 2007 05:24:37 +0000, Phil wrote:

/dev/null killfile

That'll teach her to diss Open Source.

You knew that was coming, didn't you ;)

Ruben

It seemed likely enough. But we're not all as liberal about untrained
people dabbling in our professions as you...

What Travis quoted jibed with my memories of news reports i read or
heard in the late 70s/early 80s. I did what I usually do with
Wikipedia articles outside my particular areas of expertise: I
clicked on some of the footnoted articles, from such scary sources as
the CDC and THE NEW YORK TIMES. They seem to back up the version
Wikipedia is peddling.

Anyone who ever seriously studied history knows to read secondary and
tertiary sources skeptically, and to check the primary sources when
possibles. The better Wikipedia articles reference and/or link to the
sources they are plagiar^H^H^H^H^ paraphrasing, quoting or
interpreting. The crummiest ones are totally unsourced. Caveat
lector.

As Casey might have said (to bring things marginally back on topic...)
"You could look it up!"

As for that soccer thingee:

If the one-nil score, with the goal coming in "extra time" [overtime
in American], that won the recent FA Cup final was a relative rarity,
I would probably expect that it was a corker of a game. Probably the
footy fans got a charge out of that the way I did when my New York
Islanders garnered one of their many sudden death overtime victories
during their various Stanley Cup playoff appearances. But a score
like that is typical in elite soccer. Baseball has so much more
range, from the one-run shutout to the laugher; from the pitcher's
duel to the slugfest. Modern FIFA-style football makes the left wing
lock seem like an invitation to a scoring orgy. Even Bill Parcell's
1980s Giants, whose perfect scoring drive seemed to be a deep punt and
a safety, look like an offensive juggernaut compared to that crowd.
Even the pre-24 second clock NBA had more variety.

At least that butcher couldn't fake the blood, could he...?

Kevin

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