by Ty Davison | Jun 26, 2006 | Sports
It seemed to me that the Italians were the clearly more talented side, but they didn’t play like it for much of the match as Australia held a nearly 60-40 possession advantage. An iffy red card reduced Italy to 10 men early in the 2nd half. On the whole, the...
by Ty Davison | Jun 26, 2006 | Sports
Soccer purists may disagree, but I thought this was the best match of the Cup so far. Sure, the ref handed out a record-tying 16 yellow cards and tossed players right and left. Sure, in the second half teams held one scrum after another which had to be broken up by...
by Ty Davison | Jun 26, 2006 | Sports
Just when you think England can’t get any more boring, they churn out this clunker against Ecuador. Aside from an admittedly brilliant Brazil-like free kick from David “Mr. Spice” Beckham, the English stunk. What was worse was that Ecuador played no...
by Ty Davison | Jun 24, 2006 | Sports
Props to Mexico for making this much more of a game than I anticipated. All CONCACAF teams are now eliminated, which should surprise no one after the US crashed and burned. Since this game went to overtime, I’m now picking Germany to top Argentina in the next...
by Ty Davison | Jun 24, 2006 | Sports
It would have been closer than the 2-0 final had Sweden’s Larsson not lofted his undeserved penalty kick into the stratosphere. Of course it would have been more of a blow if Ballack had made even one of his half dozen shots on goal. As it stood, Germany put...
