World Cup 2014

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He’s going to do it his way…this will not work-at least not this summer.

The US World Cup soccer team, which captured the fancy of our country four years ago with its spirited comebacks, opens play today in Brazil when they play the Ghana Black Stars.

Jürgen Klinsmann is running the show and it is definitely his rules, his style, his roster, his opinions.  It’s all that counts.

And Landon Donovan no longer counts in the plans of Team USA.  The best player our country has ever had, the face of soccer and the growing MLS, will not be on the pitch this afternoon.  Thrown aside like a worn out soccer shoe with holes in it.  The coaches decision has left a huge hole in the roster, a hole in the American heart.

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Father’s Day

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A  weekend is upon us. For some, time off. For some, time to work. For many, a time to remember. For a few, a time to forget.

A weekend of hustle and bustle. Padres games. U.S. Open golf. NASCAR race. Yard work and picnics and phone calls.

Will you take time to think of days gone by? Your heritage? Your background? Your family? Your dad?

Father’s Day has many meanings to many men.

I wonder what it was like for him to grow up in the Depression. Bread lines, riots, despair.

I wonder what it was like to lose his father at the age of 15. Become the man of the house as a mid-teen.

I wonder what it was like to be a minor league pitcher in the 1930s, him wanting to be a St. Louis Cardinal, the disappointment of never getting to the show.

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This and That on a Friday

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Names in the news today…

Padres-Ron Fowler and Peter Seidler now have a crisis on their hands..their lst one since buying the franchise.  How do  you fix a failing team.  Who do you keep-who do you let go.  Who do you hire to replace people you fire?  Non-baseball people with decisions to make.

Chargers-the OTAs are over and they did not get much accomplished with guys who needed to learn.  End of season surgeries mean Jason Verrett and Jerry Attaochu never got on the field.  Xs and Os are one thing, learning the mechanics of techniques, coverage’s, schemes really important.  That coupled with the fact no Jeromey Clary-no Dwight Freeney, still rehabbing, the Chargers look like they will be behind the curve when real camp opens next month..

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The World Cup

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It all starts today.  The History is out there and they will be out there on the pitch too.

The beautiful game kicks off this afternoon in Brazil.  The World Cup.  The Golden Boot.  The Hand of God. The Man of the Game.

The next couple of weeks will show the global stage how great the game of soccer is.

The World Cup is Pele-who forever changed the game.  It is Brazil and its heritage players, Ziko, Dunga.  It’s Zenedine Zidene and Diego Maradona of Spain.  It’s Michel Platini and Thierry Henry and the French.

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The Kings

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Name it-they’ve got it, and they’re going to get it again.

No one could have predicted this.  A team in a free-fall, gets hot at the end of the year.  A team on the brink of extinction, comes back from a 3-0 deficit to stay alive.  A team, with its backs to the wall, wins 3-straight Game-7’s on the road.

The LA Kings are 3-periods-60 minutes away, from winning the NHL Stanley Cup again, if they take out the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden tonite.

The Kings, with a “Cowboy” leader of a coach, Darryl Sutter, bounced out of Calgary, who brought passion-respect-and hard work to the room, about to win another Stanley Cup.

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