Going to the Mat (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have a few more thoughts on the MLS Cup Final. Kyle Beckerman --he had a solid Gold Cup performance and looked like one of the best, unsung players in American soccer on Sunday night. He was an absolute destroyer in the midfield, but did so in a way that was clean and efficient. At age 27, Beckerman is something of a journeyman, but last night, when combining with Andy Williams and Clint Mathis,...
The Daily Gazette stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Steve Garland apparently is a fan of Section II wrestling. The University of Virginia wresting coach, a two-time state finalist while attending Middletown High School, will bring two Capital Region athletes to Saturday’s Journeymen/Asics Northeast Duals at Hudson Valley Community College.
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Agony & Irony followup due out in February.
Wrinkled Weasel's World (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
U2, the most pretentious band in the universe, is going to headline at Glastonbury, the most pretentious festival in the galaxy. Michael Eavis' version goes: At last the biggest band in the world is going to do the best festival in the world. Well Michael, this is my take on the event. Your festival is good, efficient, eclectic and organised. In fact, it is everything a festival should not be. In fact,...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Research indicates more attractive sportsmen tend to have success. Educational - Language - Social Sciences - Qualitative - Methodology
ABC News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Research indicates more attractive sportsmen tend to have success. Educational - Language - Social Sciences - Qualitative - Methodology
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Martin Johnson's journeymen are impossible to define as a 15-man entity, except as an unreliable bulldozer Twickenham had been a graveyard for the imagination, a cemetery for entertainment, until England summoned the old standby of yeoman spirit to encourage their bored punters to keep coming back for more. This is a desperately mediocre England side who scored one try and fell to two defeats in three...
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A $3.5 million training school affiliated with Ironworkers Local 118 has opened in Stead, a place where apprentices learn the trade and journeymen update their skills, including how to build wind turbines.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The charismatic Italian has sculpted a team in his own image to remind the continent of his managerial genius Giovanni Trapattoni cares not for the moral victory. Five decades at the sharp end of European football have drummed into him the fundamental truth that the result is the only thing which stands the test of time. Last night in Paris, the Italian came as close as he will ever do to rethinking...
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
John Curl, For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009). Curl’s history of cooperative and communal movements in America is set against the backdrop of one overpowering trend: the transition from an almost completely self-employed work force at the time of Independence, to [...]
SLAM Online (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
From NBA pine to Euroleague shine.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
On Veterans Day, a feature on the Giants’ relationship with an Iraq veteran and the story of the Titans’ Ahmard Hall, a former Marine.
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Bill Crow's column, The Band Room, has for decades been a feature of Allegro, the monthly publication of New York's Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. He fills it with what he is most famous for after his...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa, a blue-collar playground built by a plumbers union half a century ago so that its members could afford to vacation like the 'rich kids,' is set to close Tuesday. The line cooks had matching stickers pasted to their chef's jackets one Saturday night in mid-October, brave words for a bleak reality: "We are the future of Konocti."
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
After surgery on left forearm, they think he will miss only 13 games The Bulls are optimistic Tyrus Thomas can return from his fractured left forearm on the front end of their original four- to six-week projected absence based on his surgery Saturday.
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