Articles tagged with "sporting"
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 ...
Old Trafford is Infested!
By Daryl | November 28th, 2007Seems Manchester United have a rodent problem at the Theatre of Dreams. The TV cameras spotted this (very literally) field mouse during Man Utd's 2-1 ...
The Road To Moscow Resumes
By chris | November 27th, 2007Champions League Matchday 5a Preview After swinging into the domestic leagues for a weekend it's back onto the continental stage with the 5th matchday of the ...
Jornada 10 Wrap Up Cursed By You Guessed It... Frank Stallone
By Greg | November 14th, 2007Heyyyyyyyyyyy everybody. Sorry I didn't make it around to bloggin' yesterday, I got a small pang of concsience and decided to let my "career" ...
Porto Drop Points Again?! A 3-0 Sporting Loss?! US Dollar Worth Less Than Canadian Dollar?
By Greg | November 12th, 2007True. True. True. It was an interesting and exciting weekend in Portuga football, as you can see from the scores below. ...
Skip to the Asterisks If You Came Here Wanting to Read Only About Football
By Greg | November 9th, 2007I'm faced with a dilemma. I'm sincerely interested in having a nice weekend filled with football, folks, and fun. However, my wife seems ...
Portugal's Second UEFA Cup Team Is Being Prepared
By Greg | November 8th, 2007What a load of poo. Sporting aren't going to make the knockout stages of the tournament and undeservedly so. While I understand that ...
Two Match Recap One Match Preview
By Greg | November 7th, 2007All the news today is going to be about Liverpool's 8-0 win over Beşiktaş. Historic? Yes. Shocking achievement? Yes. A ...
There's No Place Like Home Portugal
By chris | November 6th, 2007
Sporting - Roma Well, at least there's one silver lining to having so many matches close together: You don't have to wait long after a poor ...
Swinging Around for the Second Leg Thrillers
By Greg | November 6th, 2007Now that each team has faced one another in the Champions League groups, it's time for the second legs of each fixture to be played ...
Jornada 9 Ends Porto's Win Streak
By Greg | November 6th, 2007As you found out here yesterday, Belenenenenenenenses (1 'en' for every one of Porto's wins prior to the draw) slowed Porto's avalanche down Mount Portugal ...
Jornada 9 Pre-Recap and The Curse of Frank Stallone
By Greg | November 5th, 2007It's finally happened. Porto have dropped points. I'm convinced that this is a result of Frank Stallone's appearance on last week's preview. ...
Jornada 9 Preview Brought To You By... You Guessed It...
By Greg | November 2nd, 2007Frank Stallone. Another day, another dollar. There's somewhat of a shot that Porto actually drop points this weekend but I'm not holding my ...
Wait, This Was Supposed To Be Boring and Meaningless!
By Greg | November 1st, 2007I've spent a fair amount of pixels on making fun of the Carlsberg Cup tournament. An elephant sized diarrhea has come out of ...
Carlsberg Cup Fifth Round, Second Leg, Row Thirty Five, Seat A
By Greg | October 31st, 2007The I Couldn'tcarelessberg Cup is continuing tonight. The second leg of the tournament's pre-group stage takes place as the real stories here are the ...
Porto Challenging Mourinho For Station in Life
By Greg | October 30th, 2007Jose Mourinho once said, when referring to the fact that he could have stayed at Porto and lived the easy life, that in Portugal it ...
Jornada 8 Pre-Recap and Joyous Dish Of Joybeams
By Greg | October 29th, 2007I'm home today waiting for both the gas and satellite installation technicians. I couldn't care less about cooking gas being enabled, and given the ...
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