It is no secret that I am a huge fan of the US Women’s National Soccer Team. This past weekend there was a friendly between the US and Canada and one of the American players was the subject to racial slurs while she was on the field. Sydney Leroux was born in Canada to a …
Tag Archive: football
Jun 02 2013
Blame Canada! USWNT liveblog
6:37 And the game is over. What have we learned in this rematch? Canada are sore losers and USWNT is the best. BAM. 6:36 Leroux, the Canadian who is now American, scores! USA 3 – CAN 0 6:35 Camada still pushing pretty hard. I imagine it’d be a major morale boost if they could get …
Jul 11 2011
Women’s World Cup: Weekend Summary: Insanity
Wow, what an insane weekend. So much overtime, so many surprises. France defeated Australia with no surprises, except that Australia’s defense is even worse than we thought. A lot of people are saying that the Matildas have it in them to be a contender next World Cup, but they’ve got to majorly change their defense …
Jun 27 2011
Women’s World Cup 2011 Predictions
Group A Predictions Points Germany (2) W W W 9 (first) Canada (6) L T W 4 (second) Nigeria (27) L L L 0 France (7) W T L 4 Germany has already beaten Canada, but France only beat Nigeria by 1, which is potentially good news for Canada. Canada doesn’t have to beat France …
Jun 10 2010
World Cup: Fun with Excel
First, here’s the link to the spreadsheet on Google Docs should you want to play. Basically what I did is make a spreadsheet predicting the winners based solely on their FIFA rank. It should be immediately noted that, in the past, FIFA rank has meant nothing. The World Cup is high stakes game playing, and …
Jun 09 2010
World Cup: Links
I’m sure you Americans (aka 90% of my readership) are like in total hate with me right now. I’m sorry, this link is for you. For you other crazy kids, I’ve got the super awesome calendar. Seriously, it’s super cool, the information is so organized and sane, yet visually pleasing. Then there’s this: Running a …
Jun 09 2010
World Cup: Ashley Recommends These Games
Let us pretend I’ve spent no time on this and am merely grabbing some things out of a random hat. The following are 6 games over the next few weeks that I think will be entertaining, in order of appearance, all times PST. 6/12 11:30 England (8) v USA (14) England is hungry for another …
Jun 07 2010
Internet help?
Using the massive power of, um, asking a question on my blog in the hopes that someone who reads it knows the answer, does anyone know if there’s a place online where I can watch the world cup games after they air? As in, I have no plans to be up at 7am to watch …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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