Articles tagged with "sporting"
All Your Points Are Belong to Porto
By Greg | September 24th, 2007Another week, another Porto win. They've taken 15 of a possible 15 points thus far this season. Games 1-5 are just as valuable, ...
Jornada 5 Preview: The Special One Edition
By Greg | September 21st, 2007I feel the itching need to gain some blog closure on the Jose Mourinho situation as he closes the chapter on his Chelsea reign. ...
Cozido à Portuguesa
By Greg | September 20th, 2007There's a nice big stew's worth of news and stuff to get to today, so I'll just jump right in... Mourinho's Gone -- Unless this ...
APB Out for Steven Gerrard and Half of Liverpool Starting XI -- Benfica Understanadbly Worked -- Go Sporting, Woo!
By Greg | September 19th, 2007Day one is done and in the books. This is how each game looked to me and what I expect from today's encounter in ...
Santos, and Manny, and Chalo Make Three Today
By Greg | September 18th, 2007Four matches complete, three coaches sacked. Naval let manager Fernando Chalo go after a poor start to the Spring of '07. I could ...
Some More Scolari Balboa v. Ivica Drago and Big Up To Jornada 4
By Greg | September 14th, 2007Okay, so if you're in a barroom brawl, maybe you aren't going to go out of your way to search out Big Phil for help. ...
The Moutinho News
By Greg | September 11th, 2007Much like the diminutive Sporting midfielder, these are short, quick notes on some things that are so yesterday, quite today, and shall be tomorrow: ** I ...
Jornada 3 Recap: She's Already Singing
By Greg | September 4th, 2007After a well-deserved three day weekend, I'm back and no more energized but just as thrilled to hit the pulpit of Portuguese football for yet ...
Embarassment of News Riches and Jornada 3 Preview
By Greg | August 31st, 2007I love being in season. I don't mean like oysters or soft shell crab in season. I mean in football season. This ...
Marseille draws Liverpool, Porto and Besiktas....
By Magnusson | August 30th, 2007Let's leave my state of high pissed-offness to give you some news. Today was held in ...
UEFA Champions League Draw Is Complete
By Greg | August 30th, 2007All the pomp and circumstance is complete and the Portuguese clubs have taken their rightful places among the world's best (Don't gimme any BS about ...
Jornada 2 Recap and Other Bite Size Items
By Greg | August 28th, 2007Round two is in the books and Porto have taken their customary spot on top of the table, presently being shared with Maritimo. If ...
Rock Me Amadeus Nostradamus
By Greg | August 27th, 2007
Come one, come all... Try and out predict the amazing Portuguese Football predictor guy! Stand in awe as he predicts Anderson's game is more ...
Week Two and a Monster's Already On the Cards
By Greg | August 24th, 2007It's only the second jornada of the season, but this weekend brings us a clash of titans between Sporting and Porto at the Dragão. ...
Back To the DRAWing Board...
By Greg | August 21st, 2007Well wasn't that just a bunch of sister-kissing that went on this past weekend? Only three clubs (Sporting, Porto, and Maritimo) took maximum points ...
Jornada 0.875 results and a Small Club's Manager is Out
By Greg | August 20th, 20077/8ths of the first Jornada are complete, but apparently it's never too early to start the coaching carousel a-turnin'. The first boss out for ...
Some Amuse Bouches and... Fixture Facts 2.0!
By Greg | August 17th, 2007A quick aside before I do that damn thing: I just noticed, that in the fury to race out of my apartment (a new ...
What's With the Porn Star on the National Team?
By Greg | August 16th, 2007This will most likely be the question floating its way around the team bus en route to Armenia for the Euro2008 qualifier later this month ...
Monday Mixtape: Sporting win the SuperCup and A Dady's Love is So Fickle Sometimes
By Greg | August 13th, 2007Finally, a decent amount of "stuff" to write about. This must mean that the real season is almost upon us. I put together ...
Ironbound's Escudo Discussion
By Greg | August 7th, 2007Before I go any further, please allow me to explain the dopey references in my title which was an attempt to be really witty but ...
Decide the League in a Single Game!
By Greg | August 3rd, 2007It seems that Portugal Telecom, the kit sponsor of the triumvirate of Portuguese football has managed to come up with a solution to all of ...
Lost in Google Translator
By Greg | August 2nd, 2007For those of you who can not read Portuguese, it's a bit tough trying to keep up with what's going on in our country's world ...
Fearless Predictions for the 07/08 Season
By Greg | August 1st, 2007I could go the boring, standard-issue route of predicting the season's outcome, but I see no point in doing that. Prognostication when it comes ...
Stop Whining!
By Greg | July 27th, 2007I have managed to successfully go back to back days with Arnold Schwarzenegger references in my posts. For this, I am proud. The ...
How the Grinch Sold the Portuguese Liga
By Greg | July 26th, 2007(Note the irony of the Grinch's colors, while he takes everything from renowned Portuguese soccer fan Cindy Lou Who and pats her on the head ...
Get João Moutinho and Quaresma Outta Here, For Big Phil's Sake!
By Greg | July 20th, 2007I was sitting here at my desk, avoiding work as usual and thinking to myself "Is there any possible benefit to having all of these ...
Portuguese Liga Starting to Look Like the National Hockey League
By Greg | July 19th, 2007The Portuguese Board of Tourism must be smiling right now. Apparently, their recent advertising campaign in Eastern Europe has paid dividends. As a ...
Going Down?
By Greg | July 18th, 2007No, you sick, sex-crazed beasts, I mean down in the sense of an elevator. Or, in the case of Ricardo, Filipe Teixeira (pronounced Teh-Share-Uh), ...
Big Three Fashion Statements for 07/08
By Greg | July 17th, 2007Most of today's news is simply a reinforcement of the transfer rumors I touched on yesterday. While the asking price for Simao has been ...
Thank God It's Seixta Feira: Dicky Quaresma to be Royalty, 07/08 Fixture Highlights, and Born Loser Couceiro is Defeated in Tic-Tac-Toe Game Against Himself
By Greg | July 13th, 2007Even though in this blog it's always seixta feira, today it's really Friday and there's plenty of amuse bouches to get to your table, so ...
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