Tag Archives: Football
David and Goliath
If this is the big time, where are the fans? The stadium is empty. Mind you, Lazio is the ‘other’ Rome club in Serie A football (soccer), the top tier of the sport in Italy. Roma is much more popular. Still, on a Saturday afternoon, on a holiday weekend, I would have expected more than […]
Kicking Off Grey Cup 2016
The Grey Cup game is being held this evening in Toronto, the annual championship of the Canadian Football League (CFL). I had thought about going, but decided to opt for the pleasures of watching on television instead. Being at a national championship in any sport is special, and I was very tempted to make the […]
Watching the World Cup II – The Women’s Game
FIFA, the international soccer body, has taken a big hit lately. Corruption, rumored for years, has come home to roost – 14 FIFA executives have been arrested recently and the news seems pretty bad. Except in Canada, where the Women’s World Cup kicked off this week. No charges of corruption or bribery in the awarding […]
Super Bowl Sunday
It’s that time of year again. Americans are celebrating Super Bowl Sunday tomorrow. They want you to think it is a big deal. If you didn’t know already, it is a championship football game. That’s American football, which is no relation to what the rest of the world calls football. It must be a big […]
Watching The World Cup
It is arguably the biggest sporting event in the world, even bigger than the Olympics. Also held every four years, the FIFA World Cup dominates most of the world for a month or so – pretty much everywhere except North America. Here the sport that the rest of the world refers to as football has […]
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