Post Tagged with: "Soccer"

Larissa Riquelme will get naked if Paraguay wins Copa America

Yeah, this is not a new declaration. She has promised to show the world her “goods” before during the Men’s World Cup, with the same stipulation: Paraguay must win it all. “If Paraguay win the Copa America then I shall pose nude on the pitch,” she said as she gestured in the direction of the [...]

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NTSF 127: A Fresh Start for Spring…

Sporting a new look in a new residence, Zach tackles topics ranging from Djokovic’s early-season dominance and an unexpected positive outcome from a positive drug test to a look forward at another season opener in the sports world…

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NTSF 125: Back in the Technological Saddle

Zach returns after a fortnight’s absence and a move back into technological bliss to cover skiing, cycling and more in this week’s A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America…

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NTSF 121: The Life of a Blessed Sports Fan…

I’ve been thinking the past few days about just how blessed I am as a sports fan. Perhaps it is just the glow after finishing the first draft of my first book, achieving the New Year’s resolution I set on the first of January 2010 of having this thing completed and ready to edit by [...]

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NTSF 112: Misadventures in the land of the Giants

So I spent the weekend traveling into the land of the Giants. As Dickens said, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Hell, I’ve taken trips to Vegas that wound up being less eventful than this weekend. It was my first trip ever to San Francisco, coming three weeks on [...]

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NTSF 111: Freeform from the phone…

Look. I was all set to dive into another full week of news and notes in the 111th edition of this column. But things have been afoul with the cerebral vortex in the Bigalke household lately. It really started a month or so ago, when the high-speed internet we had been getting from Qwest lost [...]

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NTSF 110: New challenges on the horizon, the reality of health and sports and more…

The sports world is in another one of those moments in the year where everything begins to crunch together at once for fans in the United States. The NBA joined the NHL this week in starting its regular season. College football enters its stretch drive, while the NFL prepares for its second half of the [...]

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NTSF 108: Uncrowded Commonwealth cause for concern, international competition galore and more…

By the time this goes up on the site, I’ll be somewhere en route to California to the Bioneers conference in San Rafael. The coffee company my wife’s family owns and operates needed a few extra bodies to man their trio of locations at the event, and so I was conscripted for active duty. It’s [...]

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