Browsing all posts from September, 2008.
09|30|08
Written by:
tyler ransburgh
WHAT THE? is my weekly Premiership review with only the interesting events that should not have happened in the first place. I forgot to do my picks this week and will never catch Ross. I have a few themes that have been coming to light this season. They are a combination of watching the promoted [...]
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09|28|08
Written by:
tyler ransburgh
Rumor on the streets (and The Times) is that Disney is looking into buying the rights to air the English Premier League in the United States. Will it be weird to watch an EPL match right after Hanna Montana? Actually Disney owns ESPN. The rights to air the EPL are up for bid in January [...]
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09|27|08
Written by:
tyler ransburgh
Forbes says about half a billion dollars if you add up the value of all 13 teams (the study was conducted based on last year, San Jose was not a member of the league yet). To be exact, $485 million. That is $37 million per club on average. But the actually break down is not [...]
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09|24|08
Written by:
tyler ransburgh
WHAT THE? is my weekly Premiership review with only the interesting events that should not have happened in the first place. The big match of the weekend was Manchester United at Chelsea. Man U really needed the 3 points to stay in the hunt for the league (cant believe I am saying that in week [...]
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09|21|08
Written by:
Gabe
Galaxy 5-2 DC United It’s exciting to watch two teams with terrible defenses go head-to-head. You get lots of goals, and that’s what Americans want! That, and David Beckham! Galaxy broke a TWELVE GAME winless streak to give them a snowflake’s chance in a microwave of making the playoffs. In fact, they looked fairly lethal [...]
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09|18|08
Written by:
Gabe
CREW 3-1 RED BULLS I will dedicate one sentence of credit to Juan Pablo Angel’s superb free kick. There it went. NOW… did you see Frankie Hejduk make Jorge Rojas look like a COMPLETE DICK??? LOLOLOL I seriously laughed out loud; what a super out-class by the well-capped back. Honestly, if Jorge Rojas played on [...]
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09|15|08
Written by:
tyler ransburgh
WHAT THE? is my weekly Premiership review with only the interesting events that should not have happened in the first place. This was a bad week for my fantasy picks on Facebook. The big game of the weekend was Chelsea and Manchester City (I dont care about Man U v. Liverpool, but I will get [...]
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09|12|08
Written by:
Gabe
This time last year, thousands of people who never had boners over soccer were nationwide achieving said boners over David Beckham’s transfer to the MLS. His face was everywhere, it seemed. Even I thought, wow this is kind of cool. Maybe it’s the weather, then, that inspired my curiosity last night about the status of [...]
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09|11|08
Written by:
tyler ransburgh
WHAT THE? is my review column of the World Cup Qualifiers and I only cover the interesting events. - The big upset of the day was Denmark coming back from 2 goals down to beat Portugal 3-2 in Libson. How embarrassing. The Danes scored in the 82nd, 89th and 90th minute to seal the victory. [...]
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09|10|08
Written by:
Gabe
FINAL: 3 USA V T&T 0 T&T had a greatly improved 2nd half. But enough about them. I’m worried. There’s a curse that has followed this team since at least 2006 and probably back much, much farther. The USA Men’s team has a severe deficiency in scoring during the run of play. And scoring off [...]
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