If anyone asks you why this is a great country, tell them this story. Yesterday the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, opened its annual conference on international strategy with a speech from the Navy Secretary in a vast…
I said I’d follow up on the report that Coalition forces in Iraq can’t watch the World Cup on TV. My friend Maria sent me this exchange with her brother in Baghdad: I asked about his coalition friends, if they’d…
In his otherwise-stinging postmortem of the U.S. team’s loss to the Czechs in the opening round of the World Cup, George Vecsey did the unpardonable in yesterday’s Times: “…The Czechs played the way they can; the Americans reverted halfway back…
1. They sh*t the bed against Czech Republic 2. Their countrymen could give a sh*t 3. Every other darn country actually cares 4. Their coach looks like your landscape guy 5. The U.S. defied world opinion in launching the most…
Anderson Cooper’s down-home, appealing commencement speech at Yale 10 days ago was marred by a crack he took at Yoko Ono. He brought up a commencement speech she gave 3 years ago, as a non-model. She said: “I say you…
/Cheryl This New Orleans dog, abandoned by her owner even after the waters receded, was rescued by Maria, at left, when she worked at a shelter in Baton Rouge. As a doglover, I welcome her onto my blog, but chiefly…
got further credit with last night’s 1-0 victory of Portugal over Angola. It looked like this was about to be a high scoring romp at the start. But the play quickly subsided. I think the Portugal goal came in the…
Mexico’s 3-1 victory over Iran has provided some support for my theory of how to tune in and out of a soccer game. If you’d followed my recommendation and watched the first 25 minutes and last 20, you’d have caught…
You’re a busy person, you have work to do. And admit it, you find soccer a little boring to watch. So when should you tune games in? If you consider the best part of soccer the scoring, as I do,…