The Daily Sweeper, Personal Problems, and “A-Ha” (read: Oh, S%$*!) Moments; Barely Soccer-Related

Here I was, poised to dig into the reading required to crank out another edition of the Daily Sweeper. It took only as long as needed to come up with my first item for a realization to hit me. But I begin in the middle…that’s no good. Back, back, my friends.
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MLS: Remaining Schedules, Updated and Analyzed (or, Rather, Pondered)

Ya know…since posting this last week, it occurs to me this would pretty easy to update. And, to think, I used to come across things like this on BigSoccer and whisper to myself, “holy shit, dude, get a life.” Now I’m that dude with no life it doesn’t feel so bad – and it’s [...]

EPL Daily 9.17: Heskey and Silvestre back to square one; three of the Big Four suffers; Jol vs. Defoe

A fractured metarsal will keep Emile Heskey from his international resurgence (whether it’s a postponement or eventual involuntary retirement, who knows). It will also keep Wigan guessing as to whether or not they can stay up this year. Heskey will be out up to 6 weeks and will most likely miss the England’s qualifiers next month [...]

La Liga Wrap Up–Jornada 3

Here is the wrap up for Jornada 3 of La Liga. I don’t have much time to write wrap-ups for the games, so I will attempt to link to a report of each game for you to enjoy. Once I have more time on my hands and an opportunity to watch the games [...]

MLS Week 24: Four Teams, Two Games, Two Levels

I held true to my viewing schedule for once: my Saturday featured Red Bull New York’s gutsy draw against the Chicago Fire and the New England Revolution’s (at-long-last-hallelujah) sharp win over visiting FC Dallas. By coincidence, both games threw two roughly equal teams into contention. By lesser coincidence, the gap in quality between [...]

EPL Daily 9.16: Chelski, L-pool falters while Arsenal and Man U push onward

Manchester United 1, Everton 0
A Tim Howard-less Everton lost out to Nemanja Vidic’s first goal of the season as the big Serbian powered home an 83rd minute . New signing and backup Toffee keeper Stefan Wessels performed admirably in net withstanding several offensive onslaughts triggered by Paul Scholes and Cristiano Ronaldo. It wasn’t until Vidic [...]