Dave’s Football Blog

Let’s talk a little bit about the future of watching football. Most of here are primarily spectators, and we often go to great lengths to follow our favorite clubs. That often means shelling out big bucks for cable or satellite sports packages. Being a soccer fan means giving DirecTV an extra $28 a month for [...]

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It’s a historic day for America, folks. Enjoy it. God knows Steven Cohen of World Soccer Daily will be insufferable today because of it… Incidentally, in his interview with Chris Berman on Monday Night Football, Barack Obama said he would like to see a college football playoff. Will that happen now? Joe Ovies of 850 [...]

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I know, I know, there’s a lot to talk about out there — the U.S. Open Cup Final on Wednesday, the start of the NFL season on Thursday, the start of the AFL Finals Series on Friday, and, of course, Manchester City becoming the new plaything of Arab oil trillionaires. Seriously, the Premier League is [...]

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I got back from Las Vegas on Sunday night just before midnight, unpacked my bags, collapsed on my sofa around 1:00 AM, and didn’t wake up until about 10:30 or so. Yes, it was that awesome a weekend — hanging out with the fun folks at the New Media Expo, watching the water show at [...]

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Hey, remember a few months ago when photos of Stuart Scott, Charles Barkley and Dennis “Principal Belding” Haskins showed up on Deadspin and With Leather — about 19 months after the party actually happened? Well, the annual Jimmy V Classic afterparty happened again in Raleigh last Sunday, and while Sir Charles was not present to [...]

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I know this whole mainstream media v. bloggers topic has been beaten to death in the last couple of days since Buzz Bissinger’s rant. Even Techdirt has chimed in, with Mike Masnick saying basically the same thing I did — MSM people don’t understand the Internet, nor do they want to. (And yes, Brian, he [...]

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