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1. George Best is one pathetic dude.

2. Sex garages for the World Cup.

3. The Minnesota Thunder somehow scraped out two victories and a tie last weekend from a hellacious three-game, 96-hour southern roadtrip. The team tied Puerto Rico, before drubbing Charleston and Atlanta by a combined score of 6-1.

The Thunder are now 3-1-4, putting them mid-table in the First Division. This is better than decent when you consider that they have only played two home matches so far. Now the team will enjoy a lengthy run at The Jimmy, playing seven of their next eight matches in St. Paul. 

The homestand starts Saturday night when Charleston come to town for a rematch. Folks will be kicking off the pre-game festivities early, starting at the Nomad World Pub. That fine watering hole will be showing the 3 p.m. Columbus-Colorado MLS match (which given the overwhelming stinkiness of those two clubs promises to be one of the dullest displays of soccer ever broadcast, unfortunately). Tailgating at the Jimmy will get underway around 5 p.m. Kickoff is 7:05 p.m. More details here.

I had hoped to get out to practice and conduct some interviews with Thunder players this week, but the front office failed to respond to my inquiry seeking the time and location of these kickabouts. No respect for LNW!

4. The Indomitable Drinky Crows garnered their first victory of the season last Sunday, 2-0. We are now 1-0-4, putting us eighth (out of 18 teams) in the table. We are the Inter Milan of Minnesota co-ed rec league soccer.

(My undoubtedly misguided musings about horseracing can be found over at Balls!--a sadly soccer-free zone owing to the bigoted views of certain CP staffers.)

Posted by Paul Demko at June 9, 2005 6:14 PM

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