This is it, people. For country, for glory, for gold.
The U.S. versus Brazil.
Anthems. All the U.S. players are singing along.
Solo, Mitts, Rampone, Markgraf, Chalupny, Tarpley, Boxx, O'Reilly, Lloyd, Hucles, Rodriguez.
Brazil
Barbara, Simone, Tania, Renata Costa, Erika, Maycon, Daniela, Formiga, Ester, Cristiane, Marta,
Kickoff!
First (from The Writer's Almanac), a wonderful poem by Marge Piercy to start your day with
something introspective - before diving into the usual sports-centric deluge! This poem runs along
the thought-path I was pursuing last night just before sleep. Guess it may be time to get
reacquainted with myself .
I'm back from my quick road trip ... which was very successful and included a drive through the
Delaware Water Gap region - an area I haven't visited in years. It was quite beautiful - more so
than I remembered (from driving through in my childhood). Much of it has been reclaimed as
[...]SHARETHIS.
Tomorrow at 6AM we'll start the next leg of the Olympic tournament journey. There's not a lot in
the way of soccer news in the interim. The WNT Blog is a good place to track the USWNT's travels
and preparation for tomorrow's showdown with Canada. An upbeat and determined Canadian squad is
[...]SHARETHIS.
The USWNT and Brazil both won in convincing fashion and will face off on Thursday morning (9AM ET)
in the gold medal match. Germany and Japan (maybe it's me ... but doesn't that sound awfully World
War Twoish?) will square off in the Bronze medal match-up (6AM ET). Kudos to Japan for making
[...]SHARETHIS.
