Women's World Cup

The Women’s World Cup in Germany is off to a more hopeful start that the Men could have hoped for in theirs. The USA plays Colombia tomorrow morning (Saturday) to advance past the group stage. Although the media is trying to make wind of a slight line-up change, the USA are in good spirits and have such a depth on their bench to make such a move. The more interesting story will be who advances with the US. In another group, Japan has already advanced after beating Mexico 4-0, and today England escaping a scare against New Zealand, winning 2-1 in a comeback. One thing England will need to do is work on their crosses into the box and take care of their headers. Their first goal today was scored on a one-time cross into the box scoring the tournaments only second goal by header. In tomorrow’s USA matchup, the USA will try to counter attack against Colombia swift forwards. With Brandi Chastain doing media coverage, will the USA be able to win it all like 1997?

Baseballl

Who would you rather have pitching any Game Seven of any playoff series? If it weren’t played in October or September, rather June, I would pick between Cliff Lee or Justin Verlander in 2011. Cliff Lee sported 3 complete games while Verlander had 2, Lee’s being shut-outs. Both sported an under 0.70 ERA and both showed one of the most dominant pitching months in Major League pitching history. So the question remains, after Cliff Lee and Justin Verlander’s dominant midseason performance, while also considering their track records in the post season, if the postseason were today, who would you take? Most would say Cliff Lee. I on the other hand would take Verlander. Cliff Lee has Roy Oswalt and Roy Halladay to lean on. If it were one game, pressure on you, I’d take Verlander. 

NBA LOCKOUT

Another lockout? What?! The interesting thinking about the NBA lockout compared to the NFL lockout, is that both parties, the NBA players, and David Stern have been there before. Being that its day one everyone will be assuming that the NFL lockout will last longer than the NBA. However one interesting note would be that there are some new NBA owners since the last NBA lockout. For example, the owner of the Phoenix Suns and the New Jersey nets whether this will make the talks go faster or slower, this is yet to be determined. However, one thing to keep in mind from the last NBA lockout would be to see how the players. For example Vin Baker and Shawn Kemp both were scrutinized after the last lockout for gaining weight and getting out of shape. This after Vin Baker being an all star and Shawn Kemp signing a hundred million dollar contract with the wizard. The crazy part out of all of this is that 2 out of the 4 major American sports, are in a lockout as of today. The United states government has already gotten involved with the NFL processes, it’ll be interesting to see if the NBA follows the same path.