I mean, I know Italy isn’t exactly a bastion of western feminism, but the podium girls for the women’s Giro is really just too much.

*Decisions in my mind*
Lucy Kennedy: Let’s make a salad!
Me: Okay. *get’s up* *Goes to fridge* *opens door*
Marianne Vos: You can order pizza online!

Somewhere Greg Schiano is muttering, “This is why you play to the whistle” into a Keystone Light.

the Golden Boot for top scorer  

Honestly surprised he didn’t spontaneously cremate.

Alonso was playing to the homerun score.

Magic, in 1351

“I just witnessed the most dangerous plague in Western history! The Black Death set death records for Europe, wiping out 30-60% of Europe’s population and reducing the world population from 450M to 350-375M.

Exciting times!”

I’m self-aware enough to know that I was making a dark joke about the near future and stalled progress.

I would challenge this sentiment having played college soccer in one of the toughest conferences in the country. 2 of the 4 years I played, the Big West had a team in the National Championship game. UC Santa Barbara was that team. I can absolutely tell you that college soccer is the most brutal form of soccer played…

I'd watch the shit out of it. 

For me, Arriola might have been the best player on the pitch for the Americans last night. He had some really great turns on the ball, massive work ethic, and he played with a lot of emotion, just on the edge of taking it too far. I was really happy with his play.

I’d disagree (yay, I’m a contrarian again.)

I’m going to lose my job as an internet contrarian for all my agreements of late, but I’m with you on this. The US was arguably competent by international football standards against their CONCACAF colleagues. This version wouldn’t have been slumbering through the hex and losing against T&T to get eliminated. There was…

Berry was an old-school hard-ass who had no interest in designing an offense around Flutie’s strengths, or in allowing Flutie to improvise much.

100% agreed. I looked at my wife after the PK and said, god I hope we get at least one none PK goal. I think it would’ve felt cheap otherwise, but agreed it was certainly the right call. 

On the flip side, please show them all of Tobin’s attacks in the 2nd half of the finals. She’s by far one of my favorite players but made several baffling over-dribbling runs into the box

Her club team is the Washington Spirit, where you can also see Mal Pugh play. Yahoo streams NWSL games for free and the league recently made a deal to show occasional games on the ESPN channels.

I was so stoked for her goal. The penalty was absolutely the right call, but a team this good deserved to win with a goal in the run of play rather than a defender making a mistake that didn’t even deny a scoring chance. The perfect cap to the tournament.

I hope she gets traded to Portland so that every Thorn has its Rose.

Lavelle’s goal is one of the best, most beautiful goals I’ve ever seen. Absolutely amazing.