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I watch, play, comment on, and write about soccer and basketball. I have a couple of favorite teams in the NBA (Toronto and Dallas) though if I had to choose one, it would be the Raptors. My favorite soccer teams vary by country: MLS is Toronto; England is Manchester United; Spain is Barcelona and, occasionally, Valladolid; Italy is Roma. Visit my soccer blog at http://spotkicks.wordpress.com

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Gold Cup Final 2009: A series of unfortunate events

  • 05:12 PM ET  07.26
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Watching the Gold Cup Final on Univision is a somewhat unsettling
experience. Aside from the alarming lack of HD, it's a bit like being a
non-Cubs or non-White Sox fan and watching a game on WGN: the
announcers are so patently biased that it renders their analysis
pointless. The Univision announcers were clearly rooting for Mexico
from the beginning, apparently unaware that a good number of Americans
(and Canadians) can speak Spanish. But that is, in reality, just the
latest in a long line of weirdness by Univision's announcers.
The real problems with the game were two-fold. First, the…

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Gold Cup 2009: Canada is eliminated by the referee

  • 07:20 PM ET  07.18
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The most important person on the pitch in Canada's 1-0 loss to
Honduras today was wearing neither red nor white; he was wearing black.
That person was, in fact, the referee.He was terribly
inconsistent from the start which resulted in a choppy game. Neither
team really got going but that wasn't helped by Honduras's persistent
fouling; though only about 50% of those fouls were called. The crucial
call came near the end of the half, when the referee awarded Honduras
an undeserved penalty shot.The play itself was clearly not a
penalty. If the ball touched anything, it touched Kevin McKenna's…

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Kaka officially unveiled in Madrid

  • 01:42 AM ET  07.01
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Since I didn't do a links round-up last Saturday, here's one to celebrate Kaka officially joing Real Madrid.
Apparently 50,000 people showed up to welcome him and his new number 8
jersey which, I assume, instantaneously became the best selling jersey
in Spain. And, as if TFC wasn't happy enough about getting Real Madrid,
apparently that game will be his debut. That ought to make everyone in the Big Smoke pleased as punch.
In other news, Manchester United have apparently completed the signing of Luis Antonio Valencia for 16 million pounds.
I'm still not sure how I feel about this, especially…

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