Guess we missed out on the basil this year!  This morning there's serious frost everywhere.  Stern frost.  Dour frost.  A layer of it whitens the windows and powders the ground.  The nasturtiums still look miraculously green, but the zinnias and cosmos are brown.  November brown.  This frost will disappear as the sun rises and warms [. Click to continue reading...

The news wires are now full of player profiles, match reports, you name it, as the US women's soccer team gears up for its gold medal match versus Brazil on Thursday morning. This team is living up to the Nike Women's World Cup hype of several months ago ... the greatest team you've never [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

There are a lot of things going on right now to blog about. The new season in much of Europe is getting started. I need to point out how I feel Keane, a player who I loved, got too much credit for what happened at Sunderland last year. I have yet to point out my picks for winning the Championship (England's Div 2). There's also the issue of where a couple years of scandals in Italy have gone and how it's affected the Serie A (note : Juventus is already back up in Serie A; did their punishment really fit the crime? Click to continue reading...

I finally had a change to visit my parents, family and some old friends this summer. I flew back to Minnesota in a lil' ol' A319 on Frontier (had Donn the dall sheep on the tail) yesterday morning. About 6pm central time my sister calls to say there will be something more on the news about a call that just went out on Minnesota's emergency network ---> The I-35W bridge over the Mississippi had just collapsed. Click to continue reading...