by Ty Davison | Jul 6, 2014 | Sports
Still the forerunner for the Golden Boot, Columbia’s James Rodriguez had his coming out party brought to a halt by the home side Brazilian squad. Given his tender age of 22, he should return for a couple more Cups, but it was sad to see him go. It was similarly...
by Ty Davison | Jul 5, 2014 | Sports
Goalkeeper Tim Howard is getting all kinds of well-earned props for saving more shots than any keeper in the history of the World Cup. We knew we had a great one in Howard already, and he follows in a line of world class American net minders (Keller, Friedel). Of...
by Ty Davison | Jun 28, 2014 | Sports
I’ve been watching World Cup since 1986 and this has been the best one yet. Other than Spain crashing and burning most of the major powers trooped on through to second round without much trouble, but the traditional second tier squads of the world were upended...
by Ty Davison | Jun 18, 2014 | Sports
I’ve stopped blogging game by game. I simply couldn’t keep pace, and my priority is to enjoy the experience rather than create color commentary for a web site. Yet I’m not without things to say (ever), so I thought I’d collect a few of them...
by Ty Davison | Jun 13, 2014 | News & Commentary, Sports
A repeat of the last World Cup final. Netherlands looked very strong in warm-up matches prior while the ongoing question for Spain is simply are they too old. Van Persie up top makes Netherlands a threat to score at any time. Well, that was a questionable penalty, but...
