36 results for 'soccer'
Game Review: Pro Evolution Soccer 2010
Playing PES 2010, you could be forgiven for wondering just how much further football games can advance. Not very much might be your initial assumption. The graphics and gameplay in Konami’s latest footballing extravaganza are awe-inspiring. Players, famous and not so, are well rendered and are instantly recognisable by features, as well as more subtle observance of gait and playing style. Non-player controlled members of your team will work intelligently, depending on their individual attributes, and will place themselves in appropriate positions for seamless passes and quick runs. The more... (more)
Tags: soccer, football, xbox 360, review, game, Xbox, pro evolution soccer 2010, pes 2010, konami
World Cup 2010 in South Africa
Growing up with a love for the sport of soccer and spending my early childhood years in South Africa, World Cup 2010 is of great fascination to me as it is to billions of people around the world.
South Africa, the Rainbow Nation, the Hope of Africa, has had it's share of challenges and in numerous ways has not lived up to the expectations and hopes of many who saw the mantle of freedom sweeping across a magically, beautiful part of our world.
Despite horrid violence, poverty, an educational system that has yet to improve, and a country that has only recently recognized AIDS... (more)
Tags: soccer, football, 2010 world cup, south africa world cup, fifa
Green with Nauseous Envy
...their inexplicable rejection of you as a person – that you continue to dedicate your entire life and being to impressing them so that, in four years, you even have a chance at being considered once again.
Now apply the overarching themes of this scenario to the world of professional soccer, and you can only begin to understand the catatonically confounded state of the Republic of Ireland’s football team.
Two handballs, one offside, and no piercing blow of a whistle from the referee with an unobstructed view of le criminel – the sequence will endlessly loop in the minds ... (more)
Football vs. um..Football
...minute football dips it’s bruised foot in the Atlantic or Pacific, it’s washed back to shore with the rest of the rotted wood, oil spills and condom wrappers.
The real reason is because the rest of the world likes the “Other Football.” Yes, we can hardly say the dirty word……Soccer! Don’t get us wrong. Soccer is a beautiful sport requiring such skill it’s beyond us! Many of the professional soccer players can do things with their feet that we only dream about doing with our hands. (Shh….don’t tell our wives that or we’ll be replaced fast than you can say,... (more)
Youth Soccer Remembered
I was impressed by the turnout. There had to be at least a hundred parents jammed into the elementary school cafeteria on a rainy Sunday afternoon trying to get their kids signed up for soccer. No one even played soccer when I was growing up. We played football in the fall.
Not that I have anything against soccer, although, truth be told, I don’t really understand all of the rules. I’d been meaning to learn.
“We’re short one assistant coach for the 7-8-year olds,” said the league president, spying over the top... (more)
Los Angeles Lakers Fans Got Game
...streets of Staples Center and L.A. LIVE. The event kicked off Friday afternoon with Team Captains picking up information packages for their team. Entertainment was provided by Los Angeles Lakers Girls, E Kidz, Ole Skool Crew and SparKIDS. Galaxy Footboleros performed some amazing tricks with soccer balls to the delight of the audience. Scottie B served as Master of Ceremonies all weekend. He gave away a lot of prizes to members of the crowd. The prizes consisted on gift certificates to LA LIVE venues, Lakers tickets and other memorabilia.
Saturday, first game started at 8:00am.... (more)
Tags: los angeles, soccer, basketball, california
Conversations With A Neurosurgeon
...world it is not the responsibility of the delta wolf to teach the alpha wolf how to be a delta wolf, it’s the responsibility of the alpha wolf to teach the delta wolf how to be an alpha wolf.Yes but what if the delta wolf can never be an alpha wolf? Well, my best friend’s son plays soccer. He’s not the best on the team but he’s moved up from a five, (on a scale of one to ten) to a solid seven and when he’s on his game you’d swear he’s a nine.He knows he’s a seven but that’s exactly why it electrifies him when he spikes up to a nine in a... (more)
The New Mommunism
... of greater innate wisdom and respect for all other life forms. This flies in the face of a recent experience I had in Montecito, California (Home to Oprah Winfry, among others, and per capita one of the wealthiest communities on the planet).I was approaching the entrance to a local park, when a Soccer Mommunist at the wheel of the largest Range Rover ever built, rudely pulled out of the drive and cut me off, in her haste, no doubt to get her darling tots off to their next structured activity. As I watched the orca-sized rear-end of her designer SUV speed from sight, I espied this slogan on... (more)
Tags: iraq, soccer, california
My Own Worst Enemy Is Christian Slater's Own Worst Enemy
...named Henry Spivy, a traveling salesman with a wife (Madchen Amick),two kids, and a lovely house in the burbs. His wife doesn't like that Henry is "married to his job" - show code for, well... you know - and themost excitement in Henry's life is whether or not he can make to the kid's Saturdaysoccer game on time. Then imagine another man named Edward Albright, a career spy having kill-or-be-killed adventures in far-off places complete with wall-rattling sexwith hot enemy agents and (talk about no-strings)killing them before they kill you. Then imagine that (gasp!)they're THE SAME MAN!
... (more)Tags: soccer, movie, california, hollywood, sex
Despite Financial Crisis, Campaign Business Is Booming
...Senate”, some viewed the comment as a cheap shot; apparently, Senator Reid viewed it as direction. “No one knows what to do,” Reid said in reference to the financial crisis. “We are in new territory. This is a different game. We’re not out here playing soccer, basketball or football. … It is a multi-trillion dollar issue that is facing America, and we can’t do it on some timeline that is unrealistic.”
If only the Presidential candidates had some way to lend their voices to the congressional dialogue; you know, if only they ... (more)
Tags: soccer, miami, basketball, football, obama
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