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By the way, I forgot Germany, because I hate them. Pencil in the Czech Rep. for a dark horse. But you can discount any of the following: Denmark, Sweden, Latvia, Russia, Switzerland, Croatia, Greece and Bulgaria.
Maybe I’ll bother to make predictions in the next week or so.

PRN: What should we look for in the EuroCup? Who do you think is favored…?

All the usual suspects: France, Italy, Holland, Spain. France could annoy everyone and win it. I doubt they’ll piss-up again like they did in the 2002 W.C., but it would be a good laugh if they did. Italy always have [...]

If you want to see Freddy Adu do a trick with a soccer ball click here.

The HK paper has a story about Signori. They say that this is Signori’s final swan song. As soon as he finishes playing with AC on this Asia tour, it’s over. He scored 107 goals in 5 1/2 seasons for Lazio and then scored 73 goals with Bologna in six seasons. [...]

That ESPN article about Freddy Adu that Pat linked to is over a year old, and for a 14-year-old, that leaves out a lot.
Here’s a recent story about Adu, who began playing in the U.S. pro league this season and has scored twice already. And he’s just graduated from high school.
I blogged before that he’s [...]

Interesting article on U.S. child soccer phenom Freddy Adu.
But read this other thing that I found about Adu and his natural talent. This kid is like 14 years old.
At the same time, Freddy remains exceptional in so many ways. In his first organized basketball game two years ago, a jayvee contest for The Heights [...]

I know Fifa’s ranking system is a bit kooky….but also of note is this.
No African teams until 12 (Cameroon tied with England)
Mexico is ahead of the US at #6
Costa Rica is at #22. Concacaf is well respresented eh?
Portugal is 20 while Spain is 3. Will Spain then have the “home court” advantage and [...]

Here’s who I know played last night.
Maldini (amazing to see him live near our goal)
Shevchenko (who scored on a header)
Redondo (amazing to see him too! Is he gay?)
Costacurta
Abbiati
Serghinho
and the guest players, with Signori playing (thank God!).
So the biggest draws seem to have made the trip–especially Shevchenko and Maldini.
Which leads me to an [...]

It hadn’t occurred to me until you mentioe the guest players, but all of AC Milan’s top players likely missed this game as they have joined their national teams to warm up for Euro 2004, which starts in a couple of weeks. This is why they had “guest players.” They probably couldn’t even arrange a [...]

I still can’t believe it. I’m just in total shock. AC Milan was in Hong Kong to play the local team Kitchee. Never in a million years would I have guessed that AC Milan would be bringing Guiseppe Signori along as a “guest player.” It was amazing. When I saw [...]

In typing that last post, I first mispelled PRN’s initials: “PORN.”
It may have been a Freudian error, as PRN has been know to enjoy Che-themed porn films. If only his book were entitled “The Airplane Diaries…”

An interesting New York Times article (registration req.)about about the apolitical way many young Latin Americans are regarding “Che” Guevara included this great little nugget, which sounds like an idea PRN might have had 14 years ago:

…a Brazilian film comedy released last year imagines that Che never died but escaped to the Amazon jungle, where [...]

Jon Stewart gives the commencement speech at William & Mary. I love the ending.

Pop-folkie Jewel apparently just totally loses it onstage.
The Cintra Wilson Backstory, part 002: Ms. Wilson attempts to write a story for super-girly Mademoiselle magazine in 1996, with predictable results.
This week in the New York Observer: An interview/profile with David Cross, an application of class theory to military prisoner abusers, another “Kerry Watch” installment, and an [...]

Interesting scouting report on Tigard High’s Steve Cook. Read botttom part.

Loyal Dorrk.com reader Dan (my old roomate from Korea) has arrived in Hong Kong from Korea. Seeing him at the airport was like that scene in Born on the Fourth of July where Frank Whalley runs into Tom Cruise. We immediately started sharing war stories about our tours of duty.
Needless to [...]

My Yahoo page had a funny headline yesterday.
Snoop Dogg and wife get a Di-vizzle.
Very funny!
To which I responded, “I’ll bet he’ll have to pay alimizzle and child suppizle.

The other thing I thought was interesting about that Mayfield deal was the apparent incompetence of the agents who broke in to his house under the Patriot Act provisions for secret searches. Don’t these guys take classes on how to not make it look like somebody has been in the house? Pretty poor.
Mayfield said there [...]

I don’t know squat about fingerprinting technology beyond what I’ve seen on C.S.I. I’m always suspicious of those shows, because their offices are always too dark and the computer databases they use look over-designed.
In the Mayfield situation we’re unlikely to know whether or not they really had a partial fingerprint match. That sounds credible to [...]

So I think this Mayfield situation is pretty interesting. The disturbing part to me is that the additional information that was used reminds me of the old idea of guilt by association, and I think that’s scary. Maybe the fingerprint was an honest mistake (I’m trying hard to buy that idea, not having much success), [...]