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Thursday September 2nd 2010

Thursday Backpasses: Sorry, not even Hope Solo can sway me

Damn if she doesn't look good while trying, though
Damn if she doesn't look good while trying, though

Hey, look!  The Under 20 World Cup kicked off today.  USA and England both start their campaigns on Saturday [FIFA]
USWNT in Germany. No Lorrie Fair=no ü75 interest. Oh, and one pic is NSFW, and not in the good way [ONTD_FB]
More Moammar! Kadaffi says (said) soccer causes diabetes. Someone tell Wilford to knock off the six-a-sides [The New Republic]
Hull are the same disaster now that they were last spring [The Football Blog]
Old and busted: getting robbed by Scouse thugs while on the continent. New hotness: getting robbed while at home because of injury [USA Today]
Seriously, would you be happier if footballers acted sheepish and said they didn’t deserve their wages? [The Spoiler]
It’s looking more and more likely that the next US qualifier will be played at a neutral site [MFUSA]
Was this Sol Campbell’s last act at Notts County? [Off The Post]

Finally:
This is a pretty cool gesture from RBNY to fans who have held season tickets from the first day they went on sale 13 years ago [NYT Goal]

13 Comments for “Thursday Backpasses: Sorry, not even Hope Solo can sway me”

  • jjf3 says:

    speak for yourself, umlaut! Hope can sway me with nothing more than that smile…easily!

  • ebullientfatalist says:

    Hope spring eternal.

    /shows self out.

  • jjf3 says:

    and, yeah, I don’t get it either. But she just “does” whatever “IT” is…

  • ebullientfatalist says:

    Since I’m a few Bush Blacks deep, I’ll treat Backpasses as an open forum.

    First order of business: I can’t believe I’m buying a new Raekwon AND new Ghostface album in the same year.

    Second order of business: Lorrie Fair plays for Chelsea, hence I’ve lost all interest in her.

  • ü75 says:

    You needed to end your 1st order with “, and it’s not 1997.”

    2nd order: I looked up recent Lorrie Fair pics. She no longer does it for me. Might just be the Chelsea blue. YOU’RE MY NEW GIRL, HOPE!

  • Georger says:

    She looks like if Lucy Liu and Sarah Chalke had a baby. Not sure how that would work.

  • ebullientfatalist says:

    @Umlaut: I will add the “1997″ caveat, because you’re right. Late-90s rap remains my favorite era of music: “It Was Written,” “Reasonable Doubt,” “The War Report,” and “Uptown Saturday Night” all released in a two year period? Please. Absolutely phenomenal.

    I’m also looking forward to The Black Keys new rap project. And Arsenal winning the league.

  • The NY Kid says:

    call me crazy, but I think Hope Solo is a very attractive woman.

    oh, you were all thinking that too?

  • Nathaniel says:

    So was that a man or woman in the GettyImages pic?

  • ü75 says:

    Man, I think.

  • Keith says:

    ef- “Ason Jones” and “Kiss the Ring” are my two favorites on the Rae album, by far.

  • phil says:

    @ ef: completely agree. Fantastic music back then. Wu-Tang solo project that too many people have forgotten about: GZA’s Liquid Swrods, which contained maybe the greatest Method Man verse ever.

  • ebullientfatalist says:

    @Phil: I’m unfamiliar with this “Liquid Swrods” of which you speak. I keed, I keed. I was at a GZA show last August in Seattle where he performed Liquid Swords all the way through, in song order.

    @Keith: “Gihad” and “Canal Street” for me.


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