The Weekend That Was

Here are a few observations from the weekend.

Move out of the way July it's time for August! All the NFL teams have started training camp and college teams will report and begin practice this week. Baseball's trading deadline passed on Sunday and the pennant races are heating up as the MLB's regular season ends on September 28. Tiger Woods is playing in a tournament this weekend after not playing since The Players Championship in May and the US Open in Tennis begins at the end of this month. We got through the slow part of the summer and we are headed into the fall. Congratulations everyone. 

The problem with subleasing a room in an apartment is when everyone else leaves they take all their stuff with them and then you don't have a television. This was no fun this morning when I wasn't able to watch SportsCenter while eating my eggs.

When the band at a bar tries to leave after their intermission they will probably play an uninspired second half of their set. 

Kobe Bryant does have some soccer skills or can at least juggle pretty well. That PK seems block-able though. Uninspired goalie there.

Girls like to dance to Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show. Note that younger males if you ever want to dance with a girl play this song. (This might only work in North Carolina but I doubt it)

In five weekends we will be watching college football.

The Philadelphia Eagles are going to be picked a lot on Madden this year. The team improved their defense by getting two new corners Nnamdi Asomugha and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and two new defensive linemen Jason Babin and Cullen Jenkins. The offense already has Michael Vick, LeSean McCoy, Jeremy Maclin, Brent Celek, and DeSean Jackson. The Eagles have been aggressive in free agency and will be a lot of people's choice to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. 

When people are more interested in playing darts where the band is set up at than actually listening to the band, then they probably didn't need to play that second set anyway. 

The US Men's National Soccer team hired former German National team coach and player, Juergen Klinsmann, to be the teams new coach. This is a great hire for the US as Klinsmann is international respected as a player and with his work as an international coach. Klinsmann won a World Cup with Germany as a player in 1990 and took the team to a third place finish as a coach in 2006. Fans should be very excited about this hire and what it means for the Men's National program moving forward.

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