Yeeaap. The football season is just around the corner.
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Michael Phelps won a gold.
BEIJING — The Michael Phelps gold medal count commenced early Sunday morning here with the 400-meter individual medley final, and his pursuit of a record eight golds began with a victory and a world record. [Phelps Smashes World Record to Win Gold. Greg Bishop. New York Times. August 9 2008]
And yup, Phelps is a Wolverine.
There are 22 Wolverine athletes in this edition of the Olympics.[1]
And, not to forget, another Wolverine, Hao Wu, was jailed in 2006 by the PRC government.[2]
[1] University of Michigan Roster for 2008 Beijing Olympics. MGoBlue.com. August 6 2008.
[2] Wu was detained by the Chinese government on February 22, 2006 for almost five months. According to the Global Voices initiative at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Hao had been producing a documentary on “underground” Christian Chinese house churches in China when he was detained by authorities in the People’s Republic of China.[Hao Wu. Wikipedia. Accessed August 10 2008]
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[1686] Of Huntelaar on the loose!
Yeehaa!
According to a source close to the Dutch team, van Basten is likely to rest up to five of the starting line-up which beat 2006 World Cup finalists France 4-1 on Friday.
Ajax striker Klas-Jan Huntelaar is set to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy up front. [No easy ride for Romania, insists van Basten. AFP. June 16 2008]
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[1685] Of time to screw the Italian team
Since the Dutch are now through and that the Romanians at the moment have more points than both the Italians and the French, this is a golden opportunity to continue to screw with the Italians after all the ugly defensive games that they play to ruin the game.
The way to do it: the Dutch should let the Romanians win.
It is just too bad that the Dutch will be playing the first game while the French and the Italians will play the second one. If it had been the reversed, then I would love to have the French in the quarterfinal. If the French managed to come up on top of the Italians, the Dutch would not need to lose to the Romanians to screw the Italians.
In any case, I do hope that the French will come out victorious over the Italians next week.
Yes, I hate how the Italians play. If you have read many various entries on soccer here, you will realize how painful it is for me to watch the Italians gaining the upper hand over the Netherlands as well as Ajax. In all cases, the Dutch played beautiful games while the Italians merely defend, defend, defend. That resulted in a very frustrating and, given the effort produced by the Dutch, unfair results against the Dutch. Needless to say, it had always been an excruciating pain watching a Dutch-Italians match, until recently.
This is the perfect time for payback.
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[1681] Of hup Holland hup!
Need I say anything?
Hail Marco van Basten! Ajax’s new coach.
And ah, hell. If the Italians are so mad with Nistelrooy’s goal, let’s just disallow it and win 2-0 instead. It is still a win!