USA! USA! USA!
Holy, Moly!
United States' Landon Donovan, partially visible at right, kicks the ball to score a goal past Algeria goalkeeper Rais M'Bolhi, center, during the World Cup group C soccer match between the United States and Algeria at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
If you didn’t see it…………. well, you missed something special. The United States’ chances of advancing into the World Cup round of 16 looked dim. Then Landon Donovan came to the rescue and Team USA beat Algeria 1-0 in the stoppage time added on at the end of regulation. Wow!
By scoring the winning goal USA not only advances along with England, who beat Slovenia 1-0, but ends up being a the Group C winner.
It’s a good day for Team USA
United States' Landon Donovan, front left, celebrates after scoring a goal with fellow team members United States' Clint Dempsey, back left, and United States' Edson Buddle, front right, during the World
Subscribe to the comments for this postThe SportsPod — Episode 4
Telegram assistant sports editor Mike Kessinger and sports reporter Jason Elmquist sit down with Garden City Community College men’s soccer coach Stephen Gorton to talk World Cup soccer.
The next step
What a mess
OK, I’m just going to be up front about all this conference mumbo-jumbo — I don’t like it. Nebraska has made a monumental mistake and Big 12 is crumbling because of it. I did read today that Texas is listening to a proposal by Big 12 Commish Dan Beebe, and they’re interested it sounds like. The conference may become 10 team, but that’s OK. If the remaining conference schools stay together then this still can be one powerful group.
If it comes to this…. plans have to be made
Earlier this week I came up with a plan to start thinking of realignment situations. I personally believe K-State and KU are going the same way. Just my opinion, but we’ll see. So I dug up some logos and had our awesome IT guy Karl come up with a map for me and place the logos with the title of what I’m naming this one conference. As I look more at it, I’m not as impressed with the idea as I originally believed it to be. Heck, I even left Iowa State out, and I don’t know if I would actually want to do that. But anyways, this is just a thought of one alignment situation. Feel free to give me some feedback on what you think, and what you think of this whole realignment situation. Over the next couple weeks check out some columns I will be writing on the situation in The Telegram, and hopefully I’ll get a little help from the rest of the Sports Pod with what we believe would be good for the Kansas colleges and the what’s left of the best conference in the nation — the Big 12.
Rodeo Week in Garden City
As one of our website gurus said, it’s been a long drought for one of my blogs.
So here I am attempting to play a little catch up.
This week is Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo week and it’s a great break from the typical 9-month schedule of covering high school sports in southwest Kansas.
Interview Variety
So far this week, I’ve interviewed a brother who steer ropes and travels with his brother and dad on the rodeo circuit; interviewed a mother-daughter duo who barrel race and also interviewed one of the prize bulls for Korkow Rodeos, the stock provider from Pierre, S.D. for the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
From the Beast to the Beauties
Later today, it’s a big change of scenery. It’s interviews with the Cheyenne Dandies Precision Drill Team that is comprised of 16 high school girls from Cheyenne, Wyo. I am looking forward to seeing them perform for the first time.
Add in interviews with Miss Frontier Days, Rachel Shutter, and her (this is the real title) Lady in Waiting, Amy Berry, and the rodeo certainly takes on a different atmosphere. Later, though, I will return to earth and cover the rodeo portion and have stories for Friday’s paper.
Support Garden City Events
It’s a great week in Garden City and you should come out and support the community, support Beef Empire Days, the contestants and other entertainers and help support the Rodeo Committee’s Wounded Warrior program and on Friday night Breast Cancer Awareness Night.
See ya there, pardner!
I Would Walk 500 miles… And I Would Walk 500 more
What makes a fan, a fan? Is it the amount of clothing the fan wears supporting his/her team? Is it a tattooing a logo on his/her neck of the fan’s favorite team?
All are great ways to show ones fanaticism. But the bar has been raised by one Tyler McGill from the New England area.
In a bet with friends, the Boston Celtics fan walked from Boston’s TD Garden to New York City. That’s 218 miles. And oh yea, he had to do it in just seven days!
The prize: courtside seats to Games 3-5 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Lakers.
McGill said he walked the equivalent of a marathon AND a 10K per day. That’s roughly 32 miles of walking a day. And he did it.
Not only did he succeed in reaching his goal, but he apparently finished the bet with a day-and-a-half remaining. But most importantly, he reached his destination on Sunday night… Just in time to watch the fourth quarter of Boston’s 103-94 victory over the Lakers.
Related Links:
Rye man walking to NYC for Celtics tickets
Fan walks from Boston to NYC for tickets (Includes video from ESPN’s First Take)