Articles tagged with "sporting"
Hump Day Quickies
By Greg | May 7th, 2008Since there's no one huge news story today, I figure I might as well take it easy, enjoy the 78 degree New Jersey weather, and ...
A First Look At Summer Transfer Targets
By Greg | May 6th, 2008Every summer, Manchester United (especially recently) and other prominent clubs look to strengthen their teams by purchasing a number of young Portuguese league stars. ...
Jornada 29 Review: Nacional Take Six Points From Porto
By Greg | May 5th, 2008When the boys of Nacional are sitting around the dressing room at the end of the season to discuss what took place over the course ...
Jornada 29 Preview: Thank God It's Friday My Ass
By Greg | May 2nd, 2008Man, do I love Fridays. Actually, the only thing I hate about Friday is that people over acknowledge the day as being one to ...
Jornada 28 Recap: Big Three Winner Weekend
By Greg | April 29th, 2008Now that V.Setúbal and E.d.Amadora have recorded their draw, let's check them results once more: Braga 2 - 1 P.Ferreira Benfica 2 - 0 Belenenses Nacional 0 - 3 Académica Naval 1 ...
Jornada 28 Pre-Recap: Porto's Big 'F You' To The League
By Greg | April 28th, 2008Ever since the heat has been turned up on the Golden Whistle proceedings, Porto have taken the extra warmth of the spotlight and turned it ...
Jornada 28 Preview: Why AS Roma and Its Fans Need to Go Away
By Greg | April 25th, 2008I usually start each preview off with some witty banter but this week I have to discuss AS Roma and its huge fan base which ...
Top of the Table Run In Probability Game
By Greg | April 23rd, 2008I'm something of an amateur prognosticator / absolute genius, therefore I'm going to take a look into the future with the final three weeks of ...
Jornada 27 Recap: Come On the Chels!!!
By Greg | April 22nd, 2008Don't be confused by the Chelsea badge, it's there for my boys in blue who are going to take it to Fernanda Torres and Co. ...
Jornada 27 Pre-Recap: Sporting Hammered, Porto Rampant
By Greg | April 21st, 2008The weekend's action saw Porto absolutely dominate Benfica with two goals from Lisandro Lopez, putting him on twenty four goals for the season thus making ...
Jornada 27 Preview: Clássico Time
By Greg | April 18th, 2008These matches this weekend have a huge amount of expectation to live up to after the Sporting v Benfica cup semifinal. As if a ...
Taça de Portugal - Match of the Season Edition
By Greg | April 17th, 2008Simply put, I haven't watched / been a part of a match that was this exciting or entertaining for at least a year... Taça ...
Taça de Portugal Recap / Preview
By Greg | April 16th, 2008Ever since my return, I've largely ignored the Taça de Portugal. I even mistook it for a competition where you don't actually gain a ...
Jornada 26 Recap: Formula For a Happy Ending (Updated)
By Greg | April 15th, 2008Once more, here's them scores... Benfica 0 - 3 Académica E. Amadora 0 - 2 Belenenses V.Guimarães 1 - 0 Boavista V.Setúbal 1 - 2 Porto Nacional 1 - ...
Jornada 26 Preview: Fight For Porto's Scraps
By Greg | April 11th, 2008Now that King Porto have been crowned champions for the third successive season, all that is left for the other clubs is "to be or ...
What do The Offside and Boavista FC Have In Common?
By Greg | April 10th, 2008If you guessed "They both make you toil away in the world of football for no pay," then you're the winner, winner, galinha dinner. ...
UEFA Cup Second Leg Preview: Sporting v. Rangers
By Greg | April 9th, 2008The Royal Crown Cola of European club competitions kicks off the second leg of its quarterfinal round this Thursday. Sporting, the last remaining "Great ...
Jornada 25 Recap: Porto-guese League Champions
By Greg | April 8th, 2008As you all know by now, this was Porto's weekend to pat themselves on the back for their third consecutive league championship. There's still ...
Jornada 25 Preview: Time for Porto to "Wrrrap it Uppp"
By Greg | April 4th, 2008I recall as a young kid having my friend Elliot over (who is still incidentally 15-20 years later still one of my best friends) to ...
UEFA Cup Recap: Sporting 0 - 0 Rangerzzz zzzzz zzzz
By Greg | April 3rd, 2008I'm going to do the considerate thing and not subject you to a recap of a match that can only be summed up by the ...
UEFA Cup Preview: Sporting CP v Rangers FC
By Greg | April 3rd, 2008Today, Sporting face fellow Champions League rejects Rangers at Ibrox in the land of fried food and Sean Connery. A while back I listened ...
Jornada 24 Recap... Made Possible By Viewers Like You
By Greg | April 1st, 2008The league is basically a done deal what with Porto ahead of 2nd place Benfica by more points than Robert Downey, Jr has on his ...
Porto March On, Sporting and Benfica Dominate
By Greg | March 31st, 2008If you don't know the drill here, you might as well learn. Mondays mean you get the basic score rundown from the weekend's action. ...
Sing it With Me Now... Porto the Magic Dragons Own the Portuguese League
By Greg | March 28th, 2008Ahh good Ol' Puff the Magic Dragon. Peter, Paul, and Mary pulled quite the coup by having everyone happily sing along to a "children's" ...
Only A Shoot Out Can Save Us Now!
By Greg | March 24th, 2008Sporting and Setubal owe me a good 94 minutes of my life back. These two teams played such a boring, droning, and lifeless match ...
Carlsberg Cup Final Preview
By Greg | March 21st, 2008As the final of the Carlsberg Cup is upon us, the big question on everyone's mind here is... Where have all the fans gone? ...
November to Now: The Season In Time Machine Mode
By Greg | March 20th, 2008I figure that since I've been gone that the Portuguese Liga has been in dark mode to all of North America. Even though I ...
Portuguese Phoenix From the Flames
By Greg | March 19th, 2008Okay, enough of the elaborately dumb ruse. I'm back. I got a promotion back in November and realized that I had to make ...
UEFA Cup Draw: The Ignored Little Brother
By chris | March 14th, 2008UEFA Cup gets pushed down the ladder enough. Today it was going up against the Champions League draw anyway. Then some dude in Britain went ...
Fiorentina: UEFA Cup Draw
By Ted | March 14th, 2008Today in Switzerland UEFA announced the draw for the next two rounds of the UEFA Cup. (They also announced the draw for the Champions ...
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