Category Archives: I can’t believe we pulled this off

The miracle hat trick, the last gasp game-winner, the overly ambitious project that turned out better than anyone could’ve imagined.

benny and bamboo

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Hoover Dam

This spring, over the weekend when it was being determined what MLS club would land Benny Feilhaber, it looked for a few minutes like Chivas would be his destination, to the delight of my SoCal based-pal Bamboo. Sure, she’s a … tell me more →

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always believe

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Hoover Dam

In January, all-time Breakers and USWNT star Kristine Lilly announced her retirement, much to the surprise of the soccer community, who always figured she was a Highlander and could not retire by conventional means. Here’s a player who, in her … tell me more →

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we went to South Africa: the megapost

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Hoover Dam

If you’ve got the time to kill, here’s the entire 11,000+ word trip report in one gigantic post. It’s the same stuff in the other five South Africa entries, so if you’ve read those, there’s nothing new here–this is just … tell me more →

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we went to South Africa: epilogue

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Hoover Dam

This here’s the post with miscellaneous observations that didn’t fit into the rest of the trip report, or else I forgot to put them in. Half-assed discussion of social issues included.

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we went to South Africa, part 3

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Hoover Dam

When last we left, we’d spent another week in Johannesburg hanging around watching soccer games. Now it’s the time for the third part of the story, in which we decide it’s a good idea to go on safari with, among … tell me more →

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we went to South Africa, part two

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Hoover Dam

When last we left, we’d just spent our first week in Johannesburg, and were hitting the hay the night before the US-England match. Now, here’s the second part of our story, which is wordy as hell and involves an awful, … tell me more →

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we went to South Africa, part one

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Hoover Dam

This is so long, I’m going to break it into three sections, which is a nice way of saying I want to get something or another up before the end of July. The photo gallery’s here, so follow along as … tell me more →

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!ke e: |xarra || ke

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Hoover Dam

I’ve been back from South Africa for about a week, and still have no idea when I’m going to finish captioning all 900 photos or writing up the trip report. In the meantime, here’re the mostly uncaptioned photos (broken into … tell me more →

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make a miracle, d, pump the lyrical

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Hoover Dam

Back in October, a series of unpredictable events led to one of my most popular banners to date. I wondered what became of the banner after Jozy took it home that night, so I bugged him on Twitter for a … tell me more →

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how do you measure a year

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Hoover Dam

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