What up ya'll...
Just so everyone knows, in a few hours I will be traveling to Florida with Abe for a couple days. I am driving my grandma's car back (18 hour drive, yay) and we will resume posts after that.
Some things you might want to look forward to:
By Dan Rodgers
The past few days have been rather exciting in the United States of America. On Wednesday June 23, the United States faced a win or go home scenario against Algeria in the World Cup. It wasn't exactly a win-or-go-home scenario until England scored against Slovenia.
Regulation time had expired with the scored still tied at...nil-nil? (0-0 for us in the states) The USA's chances were beginning to look slimmer and slimmer, but Landon Donovan to the rescue! 
Less than one minute into the injury time, Donovan follows a pass he made up the field and the deflection off of the goalie went straight to him. Donovan put it right into the wide open goal and sprinted and dove on his stomach in ecstasy.
With the goal, the USA won their pool for the first time in over 70 years. They held the tiebreaker over England, who now will play powerhouse Germany in the knockout stage. We (the USA) will play Ghana, who held the tiebreaker over Australia and Serbia.
USA vs. Ghana - June 26 2:30 pm
Germany vs. England - June 27 10:00 am
Even though this was an incredible victory for the USA and it came with almost no time left in the game, I think it was the second most amazing sporting event we were victorious in the past two days. This morning, (23-USA) John Isner finally defeated qualifying Frenchmen Nicolas Mahut in the first round of Wimbledon 2010.
The reason this is so incredible is because these two players took part in the longest match in professional tennis history. The three-day match was postponed Tuesday night after the fourth set due to darkness, and postponed again last night due to darkness when the players were tied at 59-59 in the fifth set. The 11 hour and five minute match concluded when Isner broke Mahut's serve to win 70-68.
The fifth set alone took over eight hours, which is long enough to break the record for the longest 
match ever. Both players had over 100 aces, breaking the previous record of 78 by a single player in a match.
Both players were also supposed to participate in doubles matches today. Isner missed his because he was still playing Mahut, but Mahut reportedly went to play his doubles match at the conclusion of the record-breaking one. Gosh only knows how he is still breathing, let alone playing another match in the same day.
Props to Isner for winning (go USA) and now he advances to the second round and will play tomorrow (four days in a row). Good luck to him the rest of the way.
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By Todd Kalmanson
Just so you guys know, I had a buddy of mine (TK) write this article because he is a huge soccer fan and is closely following the World Cup. I thought some of you might enjoy reading some soccer news from someone who knows the game. The following was written by him, and I thank him for it.
Hello… you play to TIE the game. Ok so they did not beat
By Dr. Jekyll
Apologies for the hiatus, but when life gives you
The Los Angeles Lakers remind me that every sport constantly needs a bad guy. I’m not an NBA fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I tune in to watch them lose… Andrew Bynum makes me feel like a failure at life for doing what he does at my age. Originally, I ate cake while watching the game for enjoyment, now it’s eating feelings…
Strasmus came early this year in DC, as the resurrection of the franchise is in the hands of ohmygodthiskidcanpitch… For how awful it is that
I really hate Chris Pronger, and Duncan Keith was robbed of a playoff MVP trophy in the only sport where the playoff MVP trophy is just about pointless…
I watch soccer games on mute, thank you vuvuzela. Also, ESPN should have Spanish announcers do the World Cup as well; they’re much more active…
Speaking of active, Rajon Rondo is the reason the Celtics will win this NBA finals, as opposed to ’08 where they won in spite of him…Kobe Bryant is still “the next Michael Jordan”. No knock on LeBron, but when
Everyone throwing no-hitters every week is getting annoying. Want to make an anniversary less special? Have one every other day. See what I mean…?
Soccer won’t make it big in the states for one reason: that all of our best athletes play football or basketball. And the moment they’re good enough to play at an international level for soccer, they’re shipped to
The realignment of the conferences will be the death of age old rivalries, but will eventually lead to the playoff system over the BCS that we all desperately want…USC is doomed, Lane Kiffin will miss Oakland, if such a thing is possible…
By Dan Rodgers
Today I worked outside, in the 90+ degree heat...and the NBA Finals are on tonight? It has never made sense to me why basketball is still being played in the summer, but I don't make the rules.
The Lakers and Celtics have alternated wins so far this series, L.A. winning games one and three and Boston taking two and four. The series stays in Boston for game five (currently in progress: L.A. - 22 Boston - 30 Q2), and then heads back to Los Angeles for the final two games.
This has been a fairly heated series between the NBA's two most historic franchises; however, the smallest margin of victory for either team has been seven. That is definitely surprising if you ask me. Many people thought the series was definitely in Boston's favor once they took a game in L.A., but the Lakers answered right back winning the first game in Boston.
I think game five is a must win for Boston because even though they already won one game in L.A. I don't think they can.
*Ron Artest just kind of hard foul on KG. Rondo nudged Artest who then flopped onto the ground to draw a technical foul. Smart play by Artest even though he looked stupid flopping. The announcers said it best, "That's a 112-pound guy (Rondo) putting his hand on a 280-pound guy (Artest)...he couldn't even pick him up if he tried!"
You've got to love that. L.A. battled back to take a one point lead, but then Pierce hit a three followed by a tip in by Gasol (he was fighting for a board and tipped it in for Boston) to give the Celtics a 41-37 lead with 2:42 left in the second.
This is just a quick shoutout to my boys from the U.S.A. who are fighting in South Africa in the FIFA World Cup. I'm not a soccer fan by any means, but I will always root for the the U.S. no matter the "sport".
World Cup: U.S.A. vs. Slovenia Friday 9:30 am
NBA Finals: Boston @ L.A. Tuesday 9:00 pm
**Game seven: Boston @ L.A. Thursday Thursday 9:00 pm
**If necessary
Game five update: Celtics 45 Lakers 39 HALF
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