Jun. 17th, 2006

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[livejournal.com profile] 2wanda graduated today from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Psychology, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.  I admire her more with each passing day.  Congrats, baby!

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[livejournal.com profile] 2wanda graduated today from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Psychology, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.  I admire her more with each passing day.  Congrats, baby!

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First off, you should friend [livejournal.com profile] michael_davies, TV producer ("Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?") and soccer fan.  His World Cup reports are fun reading (even if he recycles a non-trivial amount of material).  Click on the Archive link and work your way to today from the beginning (or, heck, read his `02 Cup stuff, too).

Portugal 2 - Iran 0: Iran didn't play as well as they did against Mexico, but Portugal's finishing was crap.  Pauleta was a zero.  Figo's dive that provoked the penalty that led to the second goal was top notch, though.

Ghana 2 - Czechia 0: The Ghanians should by all rights have scored at least another goal.  They ran the Czechs off the field, starting with that early goal that was a superb pass and a superb finishing touch.  The Czechs finished a man down after a defender took down, in the box, a Ghanian that was breaking away towards the goal; textbook red card offense.  The Ghanian shooter shot too early and earned a yellow card; when he tried again, he hit the post.

USA 1 - Italy 1: The US still hasn't scored in this Cup; their goal was thanks to what Michael Davies called "the crappest own goal of all time."  It is bewildering, and by all accounts this was one of the most bewildering soccer games ever.  I missed it while i went to Kim's graduation, but i hope to catch it with [livejournal.com profile] palecur sometime in the next week.  The US still have a hope to qualify; they'll have to beat Ghana and the Italians will have to beat the Czechs (an Italy-Czechia tie means the US would have to beat Ghana by four goals... right).

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First off, you should friend [livejournal.com profile] michael_davies, TV producer ("Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?") and soccer fan.  His World Cup reports are fun reading (even if he recycles a non-trivial amount of material).  Click on the Archive link and work your way to today from the beginning (or, heck, read his `02 Cup stuff, too).

Portugal 2 - Iran 0: Iran didn't play as well as they did against Mexico, but Portugal's finishing was crap.  Pauleta was a zero.  Figo's dive that provoked the penalty that led to the second goal was top notch, though.

Ghana 2 - Czechia 0: The Ghanians should by all rights have scored at least another goal.  They ran the Czechs off the field, starting with that early goal that was a superb pass and a superb finishing touch.  The Czechs finished a man down after a defender took down, in the box, a Ghanian that was breaking away towards the goal; textbook red card offense.  The Ghanian shooter shot too early and earned a yellow card; when he tried again, he hit the post.

USA 1 - Italy 1: The US still hasn't scored in this Cup; their goal was thanks to what Michael Davies called "the crappest own goal of all time."  It is bewildering, and by all accounts this was one of the most bewildering soccer games ever.  I missed it while i went to Kim's graduation, but i hope to catch it with [livejournal.com profile] palecur sometime in the next week.  The US still have a hope to qualify; they'll have to beat Ghana and the Italians will have to beat the Czechs (an Italy-Czechia tie means the US would have to beat Ghana by four goals... right).

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