Dave’s Football Blog

You can tell the Rugby World Cup is getting closer by the number of people out there trying to do the All Blacks’ Maori Haka, but some people, like Max Bretos of Fox Soccer Channel here, should probably just leave it alone. To be fair, though, he does it better than these guys. (Spotted on [...]

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So Jozy Altidore, the teenage striker for the New York Red Bulls, is blogging for the New York Times, and he wrote last week about how he and some other players like to take their laptops with them to watch movies while taking the train to D.C. for a road game. Anyway, nobody blames Jozy [...]

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Most fans of American soccer missed this, but Tom at Pitch Invasion didn’t. The Portland Timbers, a USL First Division club, drew 15,833 fans to PGE Park for a regular season match against the Charleston Battery last Thursday, topping the stadium record of 15,376 for a Timbers v. Sunderland friendly two years ago. That’s a [...]

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I know it’s hard to get excited about a punter in a preseason NFL game, but seriously, did you see how far Sav Rocca kicked that ball? And did you hear how hard Al Michaels worked to sap that moment of any ounce of excitement? Thank you, Mr. Monotone. Officially, it’s a 59-yard punt, but [...]

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If you live in America and you’ve ever been curious about the Australian Football League — and really, if I haven’t fueled your curiosity by now, clearly I haven’t done by job — get yourself to a pub that carries Setanta Sports on Saturday night. Assuming their satellites don’t get hit by meteorites again this [...]

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The good folks that brought you soccer blog Who Ate All the Pies have just launched their latest project, Scrumbag, a rugby union blog, and they’ve already dug up a winner in this old video highlighting the early days of the All Blacks’ famed haka. Suffice to say, they didn’t quite have it down back [...]

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