Laugh about it, shout about it / When you've got to choose / Every way you look at it, you lose
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Lost in the whirlwind tour of South Africa and the Confederations Cup, which brought outlets
from Harper's to Deadspin to what seemed like every newspaper in the country out for a week-long
soccer columning festival, was the demise of Brad Friedel's once heralded (here at least) soccer
academy in Ohio.
Discovered at the age of 10 in New York. In an elite American residency program in Pennsylvania
at age 11. Three seasons at FC Metz youth academy in France at 13. A year in Italy as an amateur on
AS Livorno's reserves at 17m followed by a spell in Scotland at St. Mirren.
A soccer vagabond by the age of 19, Devann Yao is now back home in New York, and that's where he
wants to stay.
Steve Nash and friends throwdown for the showdown in chinatown, for charity, take
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It's never as good as the first time. The rain, the grand stand bleachers, the wet turf, the
steady cam man on the field, the crane cam hovering over the crowd. What was an underground
experiment last year became the mainstream mainstay as Steve Nash and Claudio Reyna hosted their
2nd annual Showdown in Chinatown to benefit each of their namesake charities.
Grant Wahl discusses his new book, The Beckham Experiment, out now from
Crown
Why do book reviews have to be summaries of the book? I never got that. I understand it but
don't get it. I do get jacket blurbs, though. Those few sentences of praise on the back of a boo
I'm always curious what names are there and what they say.
QUICK PROGRAMMING NOTES: TIAS, Du Nord, The Original Winger, Soccer By Ives, and The
Offside Rules will be hosting a party Friday night 9pm in downtown Seattle at Kell's Irish Pub (FYI
- bar charges $5 cover, which is not going to us). It's a true soccer bar I'm told, should be a
good time.
