In this week’s podcast, the entire Sportable staff got together to discuss the opening matches of EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. Germany is off to a blazing start with wins against Portugal and the Netherlands, and Andrei Shevchenko has lifted an entire country with his epic performance against Sweden. And what’s going on with [...]
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Ah, the Group of Death. There’s one in every major international soccer tournament, and Euro 2012 is no exception. All four teams in the group (#2 Germany, #4 Netherlands, #5 Portugal and #10 Denmark) are ranked in the top ten of the Fifa World Rankings. Without further ado, here’s a little more about each country [...]
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Will quiet offseason pay dividends? It’s been a strange few months for the Bronx Bombers. Fresh off a (by their standards) disappointing season that ended without a division title or World Series berth, the Yankees barely made a peep in the offseason. Instead, they turned the calendar back a decade and loaded up on former [...]
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The champagne is still flowing and the cars are still burning in San Francisco’s Mission District. The San Francisco Giants are world champions, capping off a crazy October run by winning the title in Arlington last night. If there’s one thing I hate more than series-clinchers on the road (so anticlimactic), it’s sweeping blanket statements [...]
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The news of Brett Favre’s impending retirement was (understandably) met with lots of skepticism, from Rich and I to just about everybody in the free world that’s ever heard of the asshole. Now, less than 24 hours later, we’re hearing that Favre looks set to play in 2010 if his health permits. In the words [...]
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