by Ty Davison | Jun 11, 2010 | Sports
Mexico controlled the run of play for most of the first half, with South Africa really only mounting sustained pressure in the final few minutes. Both sides were let down by some poor execution in the offensive end with multiple good chances gone a begging. The game...
by Ty Davison | Jun 6, 2010 | Sports
Again, if you’ve missed today’s match you can catch it in replay on ESPN360.com. You may want to do that before reading the following since spoilers will inevitably follow. Despite the universally loathed soccer ball and lousy pitch conditions, the US...
by Ty Davison | May 31, 2010 | Sports
Here’s my tentative World Cup starting line-up: Goal: Tim Howard I think we can all feel really good that, once again, the US brings stellar keeper play to the party. Howard is excellent, and given the sieve-like nature of the defense, he better be. Defense:...
by Ty Davison | May 27, 2010 | Sports
Having watched last night’s USA v. Czech Republic friendly—if you missed it, you can pick it up on ESPN360—my long-standing concern about our defense again bubbled up. Granted, we didn’t start our best players, but bear in mind that the Czech...
by Ty Davison | Apr 18, 2010 | Kids, Sports
Jonah’s AA baseball game yesterday was not exactly one for the record books. The spring-action pitching gizmo kept moving around so the coaches (who operate it) had to do lots of practice pitches to calibrate it before anyone could bat. (They said afterward that...
by Ty Davison | Apr 27, 2009 | Sports
Jonah played his first “organized” soccer game on Saturday. (If you’ve seen kiddy soccer, you know why the word organized is in quotes.) He played better than I anticipated. In fact, at the risk of sounding like one of those dads who is too...
