Okay then, who is going to go all the way? So far, pre-tourney conventional wisdom has been for shit. Who is a lock to smash them next round?

Haha! The brits are now officially done. Way to go Ticos! You're breaking hearts all over.

Maybe England just isn't as good a side as their fans think it is. That's no slight on Rooney, it's team effort, but good lord do they put unwarranted amounts of pressure on their team.

You rarely meet a phony baseball fan

Huh, successful troll is successful.

HAHA! Red card, he'll be out for the USMNT match!

Looks like I just got served.

Boateng plays for Ghana and Reus is out. What they're fielding is slightly older and a bit more banged up than their potential.

I don't think that's even close to correct. The term "Yankee" was usede by brits to refer to Americans before we were even our own country. We've been called "Yanks" by other countries as least as far back as WWI, and many still do. More accurate would be to call the English team (there is no "UK" team) the "limeys"…

Exactly, that's why we use the name. Global context, not national.

Exactly, it goes well with the Vandon Arms song as well

It is the Yanks. It's a bit different than the Yankees. Yankees are something southerners call northerners and third worlders called us in the Cold War. Yanks are what the Euros (mainly brits) call us when we're coming to fight in one of their wars. It has more of a "the Americans are coming to wreck our shit" feel…

Where did you see this? Everything I read uses the term when white people where trying to whip up a frenzy to kill more natives, or trying to dehumanize them during warefare between various tribes and the Army. In any case, it's origin, what matters is how everyone feels about it now. That's usually called democracy,…

I can totally see that, although I don't have the same experience; I live in the midwest, promiscuity is the devil. I don't understand the backlash because no one discusses it like that where I live. I can see how it would get really old really fast. Now open marriage is another issue enitrely, but I thought Drew was…

I see what you mean, my reality is skewed by the fact they I probably would not be in one if we were not on seperate continents. Then again I have been in "closed" relationships that were also "okay" and some were downright awful. What's the difference between "dating" and an open relationship? I don't really see one…

Thankfully, Army cadets don't have to do this, as GEN MacArthur outlawed any and all "fun" during his stint as Superintendent.

Go home dude; high school baseball is not the Army. It's not life and death there, and having to stand there and take it from a witless-never-was is not a prerequisite for successfully navigating civil society. What's their recourse? Tell him to go fuck himself? Strike him for disrespecting them as human beings? You…

Probably because GRIT has become a bullshit buzzword that blowhards use to deride everything from what they think of the nation's poor to, apparently, the effort of 16 year olds paying a game. It's purposefully nebulous, obfuscates actual issues, and has been overused so often as to be devoid of meaning "America needs…

The guy who wrote the original article was a gigantic douche, but that does not mean it can never work. I've been in a n open relationship for a couple years now (geography is a huge factor) and although there have been rough patches, it's okay. I think you're conflating marriage with simply dating. One does not love…

Who would be available for coaching? We need better defense and more heart... oh sweet jesus no! PleasenotTortspleasenotTortspleasenotTortspleasenotTorts.