Articles tagged with "sporting"
Shakhtar Donetsk v Sporting in Champions League
By sasha | October 22nd, 2008Following Dynamo Kyiv's great triumph over Porto yesterday, Shakhtar Donetsk takes on another of Portugal's great Football powerhouses, Sporting. With both clubs locked in a ...
Dynamo!!!
By sasha | October 21st, 2008With great pride I wanted all supporters of Ukrainian Football to be aware of Dynamo Kyiv's great victory today against Porto. This is Dynamo's first ...
Jornada 5 Recap: Familiar Faces in First Places
By Greg | October 9th, 2008The league really has to change its name. I know that it's allegedly called "Liga Sagres" after the beer company "Sagres," but without commercializing ...
Jornada 5 Precap: Here We Go Again
By Greg | October 7th, 2008Well, that lasted a whole four weeks... Jornada five brought us a Porto away win against formerly second place Sporting. Which, as you ...
Jornada 5 Preview: 2 v 4 and 3 v 5
By Greg | October 3rd, 2008It's a big weekend in Portuguese club football. Second place Sporting welcome fourth spot Porto with open arms and hearts for another iteration of ...
Champions League Matchday Two (Wednesday) LiveBlogaganza
By Daryl | October 1st, 2008Another eight Champions League games today, and I'm going to try and cover them all here in one big LiveBlog. Personally, I think today's games ...
Jornada 4 Recap: Logjammin' At the Top O' The Table
By Greg | September 30th, 2008Four matches have been played and only three points separate first place from tenth. While I don't necessarily expect Nacional and Leixões to be ...
Jornada 4 Pre-Cap: Benfica Protect the Fortress da Luz
By Greg | September 29th, 2008Since O Belem and Sexy Leixy still have a match to play today, I'll reserve the weekly superlatives (as I have in the past) for ...
Jornada 4 Preview: Benfica v. Sporting Derby Time!!!
By Greg | September 26th, 2008As you're all well aware (and according to the big bosses, I've made you too aware) I've been away for a while with vacation and ...
Vacation Extends Through Weekend
By Greg | September 12th, 2008The league international break continues through the weekend and the next meaningful league matches are going to be played at the end of next week. ...
Champions League Groups Set
By Greg | August 28th, 2008With Guimarães losing to FC Basel 1893 last night, Porto and Sporting stand alone as the sole Portuguese representatives in this season's iteration of the ...
Jornada 1 Recap: Benfica Need To Wake Up Fast
By Greg | August 25th, 2008What a frigging weather nightmare Tropical Storm Fay was this past week. My wife and sister in law had the bright idea of visiting ...
preview of Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
By j | August 16th, 2008The Portuguese SuperCup (Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira) against Sporting tonight is a perfect way to start an exciting campaign. Porto manager Jesualdo Ferreira is ...
Workweek In Review: 8/11 - 8/15
By Greg | August 15th, 2008Since I only blog during the week (sorry, I get even MORE drunk on the weekends than on work days, so I probably couldn't even ...
Dragões called up by Argentina
By j | August 6th, 2008With great pride I want all loyal Dragões fans to be aware that Alfio Basile has chosen Lucho González, Lisandro López and Mariano González for ...
Some Benfica Bits and Times, They Are A Changin'
By Greg | August 5th, 2008Benfica 2 - 1 Vitoria Guimarães -- Benfica have had an exciting transfer period with a round of crappy pre-season results thrown in. Before ...
Moutinho Tries the Crying Game, Boavista Officially Sent Down
By Greg | July 28th, 2008After using this space sparingly to pitch a bitch about how the Portuguese Liga has been Le Suck on the news front all summer, finally ...
Blogging in a Black Hole
By Greg | July 22nd, 2008The title says it all. I decide it's a great idea to come back in March of this year and hit ya'll off with ...
Sporting Chug Along In the Caboose of the Kit Train. Choo, Muthaf'ing Choo.
By Greg | July 11th, 2008Sporting unleashed their new kits on the world today, along with new signings in the defense Fabio Rochemback and Marco Caneira as well as attacker ...
We Have A League Fixture Schedule. Yay.
By Greg | July 7th, 2008This evening in Portugal, grown men dipped their hands into bowls filled with balls and determined the schedule for the upcoming season. Once they ...
Rui Costa's Successor Is....
By Greg | July 1st, 2008Carlos Martins. The Portuguese (somewhat) international will be the next to wear the #10 shirt for Benfica and, hopefully for them, usher in a ...
Quarta-Feira Quantum Leap
By Greg | June 25th, 2008Like I mentioned yesterday, most of the Portuguese footballing world (including myself) was so enraptured with the Euro that league news turned into middle of ...
The Euro Pwns Your League News
By Greg | June 2nd, 2008For the next month or so you can pretty much expect a quick run down of a number of league-related stories coming out of Portugal, ...
Who's Going to the 2008 Euro?
By Greg | May 29th, 2008Now that the final teams have been set, we can make a list of the fourteen players from the Portuguese Liga who will be representing ...
Tuesday Trainer Tidbits
By Greg | May 20th, 2008I'm sorry about the headline, really I am. I'm just so into alliteration lately that I can't contain causing conflagrations and cacophonies of concurrent ...
Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting 2 - 0 Porto
By Greg | May 19th, 2008In front of what looked like about three hundred people at the Estadio Nacional in Jamor, Sporting won this year's Taça de Portugal, defeating Porto ...
Preview of the Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting CP v FC Porto
By Greg | May 16th, 2008The climax of the season is upon us, as this Sunday's Taça de Portugal final will be contested between Paulo Bento Box's second place Sporting ...
Porto Are Champions, But Are They Champions League?
By Greg | May 15th, 2008As we are all well aware at this point, Porto were "punished" for their involvement in match fixing and referee bribing during the 2003/04 season. ...
Convenient Alliteration Day: Transfer Tuesday
By Greg | May 13th, 2008Concerned that all league-related news would be overshadowed by the naming of the twenty three brave Portuguese (Cape Verde, Brazilian, Congolese, etc) players that ...
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
By Greg | May 12th, 2008With the league still smarting from the Golden Whistle punishments handed down on Friday, the players took to the pitch to earn their money finish ...
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