Our nation's abundance of athleticism could overcome our lack of rich soccer culture, for sure. Problem is, our very best athletes aren't going to commit to the sport starting from a young age due to the lack of rich culture.
We've made great strides from top to bottom since I was a youth/HS player 30-40 years ago (the town I live in offers rec-level futsal in the winter now!). But progress has arrived at a snail's pace. It'd all move faster if the sport could steal more talent from football, baseball, basketball ...
The Jordan baseball experiment was a glorious, spring-and-summer-long, national traveling circus. Twitter-era Tebow coverage is still nothing compared to that. ...
(And watch ESPN. Read the New York Times, too. Don't be a big dummy.)
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I'm all with thinking outside the bun and all, but Klins is addicted to tinkering. No cohesion at all during his era.
Our nation's abundance of athleticism could overcome our lack of rich soccer culture, for sure. Problem is, our very best athletes aren't going to commit to the sport starting from a young age due to the lack of rich culture.
We've made great strides from top to bottom since I was a youth/HS player 30-40 years ago (the town I live in offers rec-level futsal in the winter now!). But progress has arrived at a snail's pace. It'd all move faster if the sport could steal more talent from football, baseball, basketball ...
True football.
Corner kicks
Picked the right week to lose a game.
Perspective ... Iowa only beat Rutgers 14-7.
Bad job by Manuel scheduling road games. BAD JOB.
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Rutgers lost a close one this season to Iowa, too.
Rutgers still has a way to go to top those Rutgers teams of 20 years ago ...
If you're getting a full-ride offer to leave New Jersey, you're leaving New Jersey.
...
Rutgers, 26-24
The college kids beat the Lions 35-19 in 1958.
And the Browns, 30-27, in 1955.
Is Harbaugh full-sized or half-sized?
A distant relative of Zubaz ...
And the segregated bathrooms.
Basketball team gave him a number.
I'll be with my son at a furniture-making convention in Lancaster, Pa. -- anyone know any good Amish/Michigan bars where I can watch the game?
(But only if the sound and TVs are good.)
He was either in Arbor Vita, Wis., Loch Arbour, N.J., Arborfield, Saskatchewan, or somewhere on the Boston Harbor ...
Google.
And podcasts.
Don't forget the podcasts.
I know they teach things a bit differently now since I sat in journalism school ...
But how is a 29-year-old, telegenic, socially polarizing, former Heisman winner playing pro baseball not newsworthy?
Solid-as-usual post -- until that last graf.
The Jordan baseball experiment was a glorious, spring-and-summer-long, national traveling circus. Twitter-era Tebow coverage is still nothing compared to that. ...
(And watch ESPN. Read the New York Times, too. Don't be a big dummy.)
He's an All-American novelty act. One of a kind. A real-life 21st-century Chip Hilton. (With an extra side of Jeebus.)
Let us gawk.
+1 for Jeff Bridges as Jesus ...
And God.
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Sarcasm is a dialect.
Like Cajun.
"Big Boy Pants"
Belichick a fan of Rutgers players. 4 were on the most recent Patriots Super Bowl roster.
I swear, I thought that term went out of style 25 years ago. ...
No. College chicks in the '90s were not walking around campus in yoga pants.
Or in shorts so short it looks like they're not wearing bottoms at all.
Acknowledging the existence of a crass retort pretty much the same as actually writing the crass retort.
Pretty much.
The shitty locations? You mean like U of M-Flint and U of M-Dearborn?
Let me let you in on a secret -- the states of Michigan and New Jersey are very similar.
Go Blue (Hens)!
Rutgers-New Brunswick is actually five small campuses located partially in the city of New Brunswick and township of Piscataway; about 40,000 students
Rutgers-Newark, about 12,000 students
Rutgers-Camden, about 5,000 students
And the 80th largest TV market in America, too!
I used the 2015 ranks in my previous post because it was linked to the Detroit News story I had googled up.
I hadn't realized the current-year rankings are out. Here they are:
http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2016.html
(And Northwestern & Wisconsin indeed changed places this year ...)
According to the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Big 14 unfolds like this, in order:
Michigan
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Illinois
Minnesota
Maryland
Penn State
Purdue
Rutgers
Ohio State
Michigan State
Indiana
Iowa
Nebraska
Rutgers is not "our worst academic school by a long ways." Stop being a bag of dicks.
Kill one?
And yet here we are.
'Not the Best Judgement' is engraved in Latin on the Rutgers University official seal. ...
I encountered Sweet Cream ice cream once.
Now that's "plain" ice cream. Tasted like whipped cream -- not the stuff from the can, but from a carton of heavy cream.
Carroll at So Cal was a happy accident.
Please please please let this happen.
I like bewbs.
Boston's got the chanting thing down to a science ...
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You might need a second plane for DON'T HONOR JOEPA. HONOR THE KIDS