I went snowboarding again. Aron came up for a visit with another friend of his and we hit Eldora for a couple of days. A traveling Brazilian couple shared the first day with us. They were lovely. You should follow their adventures. Anyway, check out my epic terrain park shizzle. We were wrecking face. It's […]
So I mentioned I was kind of excited about running again. Unfortunately for you, that means running log posts. Like this one. <NelsonVoice>Haha!</NelsonVoice> Actually, I don’t have much to report. Yes, I’ve been running, but I’m not crazy about it, like I used to be. No fanaticism nor narcissism here. Since I basically stopped running, […]
There’s a lovely article by John Spong about his late father in the December 2015 issue of Texas Monthly. I encourage you to read it as it’s a stirring recollection of fatherhood, grief and God. Spong went to my high school, where he was several years older than me, and I graduated with his brother. […]
I went skiing at Copper Mountain recently and made a janky video of the shenanigans. Andre says I use the word “janky” too much, but I think it fits. janky (adj.): of extremely poor or unreliable quality. Why a video? I’ll write more later, but recently I’ve been wanting to create, rather than consume. I […]
I posted this as a comment on another MLS-as-savior article, but thought it would be worthy of it’s own home… Thanks for the ideas, but please don’t just regurgitate the MLS spin on football in the US and abroad and their role in it. While MLS may be growing (albeit slowly), the other leagues they […]
This past week brought some interesting reading across the soccer web. First up, a blog post that aligns with our idea of how to tell if your coach is any good. A novel idea, judging your coach not on what they say, but on how their player’s play. Worth a read. Next, Jon Townsend, whom […]
Don Garber, 2010: “we will drive the increased quality and success of the Canadian national team.” Canada Soccer, 2014: “an embarrassingly low 122nd” in the FIFA rankings. I harp on US Soccer and MLS quite a bit, but at least we’re not Canadian Soccer. They are getting screwed by the North American soccer monopoly. Canada […]
Here’s an interesting article discussing (the lack of) training compensation for USA youth clubs. If you’re not familiar, the basic idea is that FIFA requires professional clubs to pay a fee to a young player’s youth club when they sign that player to a professional contract. However, because as usual the US soccer infrastructure is […]