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I dunno. Sigurdsson brings a lot of value, no doubt, but I think he's more limited player than any of those guys, and he's at least a year and a half older than all of them. Kudos to Swansea for...

Seriously, if Sigurdsson is worth 45 million how much is Dele Alli worth?

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm.

Anyway, my Red Bulls have made the final this year, and ... oh look the final is on the first night of Rosh Hashanah. Get it together, US Soccer.

I have a lot of sympathy for refs. I was a referee in my teens--it was an utterly thankless job then, and I was only doing rec games (both kids and adults). I can only imagine the imagine the kind of...

So my personal winning streak at Spurs matches in person is over, sadly. At least it was an entertaining match, highlighted by some, shall we say, idiosyncratic refereeing. For example, a handball in...

Thanks. I've only seen the highlights but his goal was excellent. Friendlies are nice because they're stress-free, as it doesn't matter if Spurs lose 3-0. That said, they have a perfect record when I...

I'll be at their match with Roma tomorrow night. Hopefully we'll see some of the first-teamers with the short turnaround. Though I won't complain too much if not as I saw them against Swansea in...

My impression is that a lot of people had this same reaction. For me, the deep plunge into the multi-layered fabulations of L.C. Spinks was engrossing--my tastes run pretty esoteric, though.

Anyway, I ended up liking this a lot, though I'd say it's probably not for all tastes. It's a story about stories--a nesting doll structure that is occasionally challenging to follow but worth the...

Oh, and full disclosure, La Farge is a friend of a friend. I met him in a bar once, and he seemed perfectly pleasant, but my endorsement of the book is based solely on my experience with it so far....

Lovecraft fans might be interested in a novel that just came out: Paul La Farge's The Night Ocean. It's a (semi-?)fictionalized story about Lovecraft's life and the thin edge separating truth from...

MLS has largely moved away from the "retirement league" model, though there are still exceptions--we have to tolerate Ashley Cole, for example. But megastars like Ronaldo or Zlatan, both of whom have...

Oh dear, Hugo Lloris.

Another striker to back up Kane is probably among Spurs' biggest needs, but I'd also like to see another CB to rotate with Vertonghen and Alderweireld, who are both getting up in years, especially...

Exactly. I took my son to White Hart Lane this past season so he would be able to see it before it was demolished, and it was certainly nice to see them in good form (we went to the Swansea match...

Well, Brazil has already qualified so that part's done for better or worse. Argentina is on the edge, though. It would get very interesting if they need a result at Ecuador on the last day.
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For me hypocrisy is at worst a venial sin. It can have a corrosive effect, yes, and there is a certain self-satisfaction in pointing out hypocrisies (especially of the holier-than-thou types who...

We don't really want him to stop playing golf though, right? Every minute he's playing is a minute he's not whimsically destroying life on Earth as we know it. Let's not mess that up by pointing out...

The DNC had no legal obligation to not favor one candidate over another, whereas the hacking of the DNC emails was a violation of federal law. The first is, at worst, an ethical offense( and arguably...

Fun story: Two of Murray's kids (Marc and Melissa) go to my shul; our rabbi performed Marc's wedding to his husband. I don't know them but my wife says they're all nice. We got the good side of the...

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A friend of mine wrote about this back in June: Why Donald Trump won't stop talking about Judge Curiel. Trump's accusations of a rigged election follow this pattern exactly. He, Donald...

Trump's argument was that everybody except him sucked. The fact that Bush is part of "everybody" is merely incidental. Yes, he called Bush out on a couple of occasions but it was hardly the...

It's not even that so much as the fact that life expectancies were heavily skewed by infant and child mortality rates (as noted in this article, "the most common age of death until the 20th century...

No, not the case. Remain had a reasonably large lead up until the beginning of the year, but the polls tightened considerably from January, to the point where in the month leading up to the vote is...

Although the data is limited and further research is needed, there are studies that suggest that sexual harassment prevention training actually makes the problem worse. The better, long-term (though...