Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

I’m about to go watch. Some pregame stories:
Globe and Mail: : Upstart Austrians face tough test against U.S. even though Beckham’s their top soccer story and the Jays lead Sports.
Der Standard: Zur Prime Time um das Semifinale The Babelfish link didn’t work so well so i’ll just past the [...]

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It was a nice 2-1 win for the US under-20s, in a game where Uruguay probably deserved better, but before it gets stale i should recount my story.
After URU took the lead and with time running out in the 85th minute, i thought to myself, “Rather than wait for the game to end to take [...]

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Predictably i’ve gone silent in the summer lull for college sports, but if all those old-time sports editors across the nation can write rambling columns (”Hitting to all bases”, the guy in Springfield used to call it; “Random ruminations while wondering what happened to…” was another from Huntsville or Nashville, i forget which) then so [...]

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Well, i damn near missed the whole tournament, which is one of the hazards of trying to be a soccer fan in this backwater i suppose. I knew about the Gold Cup (well, thanks to my friend Joel reminding me), was sitting in a Mexican restaurant in Mobile when Univision was previewing the [...]

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