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The Popdose Podcast: Episode 11
The Popdose Podcast returns with yet another show devoid of a theme, but with an added bonus - alcohol!
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The United States’ performance in the World Cup last month, and the attention if brought, caused many commentators, sports and otherwise, to ask if this was the moment when soccer finally arrived in America.
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Netherlands 0-1 Spain (after extra time) Call this one a win for attacking soccer. Although it doesn’t seem that way after four consecutive 1-0 victories, but throughout this World Cup, Spain were committed to
Read More »World Cup Semifinal 2 Recap
Germany 0-1 Spain The soccer world, including myself, had bought so into this concept of a New Germany – one that reflects a more open society than we’ve been accustomed to – that it
Read More »World Cup: Semifinal 1 Recap and Semifinal 2 Preview
Uruguay 2-3 Netherlands Usually in soccer, the phrase “Let the old defender who played for years in Scotland shoot from distance” is a good defensive strategy. But for Uruguay, it backfired. Thankfully for them,
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 21 Recap and Semifinal 1 Preview
Argentina 0-4 Germany Germany might not have played a traditional Teutonic style, but their tactics today were straight out of their playbook: score early, sit back and counter strongly. Part of that was because
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 20 Recap and Matchday 21 Previews
Netherlands 2-1 Brazil This matchup of two of the most celebrated diving/soccer teams lived up to its billing. It helped that Brazil took advantage of Holland’s defense napping early on. Then came some wonderful
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 19 Recap and Matchday 20 Previews
Paraguay 0-0 Japan (5-3 on penalties) As with Uruguay v. South Korea, this was always going to be the appetizer to the main course later in the day. But the marinara for the mozzarella
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 18 Recap and Matchday 19 Previews
Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia After all of yesterday’s drama, this game was bound to be a return to what we expect in the group stage: a perpetual favorite dispatching an overmatched opponent without too much
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 17 Recaps and Matchday 18 Previews
Germany 4-1 England This is going to be remembered as the game in which the ghosts of 1966 were evoked as payback in this famous rivalry. But even if Frank Lampard’s shot had tied
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