North Carolina Tar Heels

[Jungle Rat]

Whew, finally I found it. I hope the time clock means time left. Cause the Beaners are up by two I think. USA! USA!! KICKBALL RULES! !

[Jungle Rat]

Ron Mexico jinxed the USA. Ron Mexico hates America.

[AlabamAlum]

Yeah, up 2-nil I was pretty excited. We've done this shit before. It's frustrating.

[AugustWest]

the only reason to watch kickball...


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[Jungle Rat]

GGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sardis]

In addition, Univision beat ABC, CBS, and Fox in ratings with its Gold Cup coverage on Wednesday night. The USA-Panama actually had about 8 million total viewers between Fox and Univision and the Mexico game got about 7 million viewers on Univision.

And the question is, how many of those viewers were fans of the U.S...

[AlabamAlum]

The US was not the home team in LA. They did the Spanish intros first and the the US team was booed. It was a bit surreal.

[Dr. Nostron]

If thats not reason enough to build a fucking wall I dont know what is.

[Bklyn]

If we wanted to stop illegal immigration, we could. It's easier than the war on drugs. We don't want to stop illegal immigration. We just want to make it look like we do.

[sardis]

Banning soccer matches would be a first step...

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Kurt Busch grabs 1st road course victory
By JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer
13 hours, 53 minutes ago


tweet0EmailPrintSONOMA, Calif. (AP)—It certainly seemed as if Kurt Busch’s season was in serious trouble just two months ago, when poor performances led to an intense radio tirade against his entire Penske Racing organization.

What could have destroyed his race team has actually had the opposite effect.

Busch’s impressive turnaround continued Sunday with a dominating run at Infineon Raceway, where he earned his first career road course victory and his first win of the season.

“We’ve been on a great run these last few weeks,” Busch said. “To get a road course win, it’s a big check mark on my list. It’s just really neat to bring home that ‘W.”’


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AP - Jun 26, 4:22 pm EDT 1 of 2 NASCAR Gallery Busch led a race-high 76 laps and beat Jeff Gordon by almost 4 seconds for his first win of the season. It’s a marked turn for Busch, who unraveled over his team radio at Richmond in early May because of how poorly his Dodge had been running.

The rant led to behind-the-scenes changes at Penske Racing that have sparked both Busch and teammate Brad Keselowski, who won at Kansas earlier this month. Busch, despite three consecutive poles, was winless but inching closer and closer.

It finally came on a road course, of all places. Busch was winless in 10 career starts at both Sonoma and Watkins Glen, the only two road courses on the Sprint Cup circuit. And Busch helped Keselowski finish 10th with advice and a tour of the track on Friday.

“It’s a good feeling to know that the two teams are working as closely together as they ever have,” Busch said. “Knowing that Brad is definitely maturing, seeing him bust off a top 10 at a road course is great. We went around the race track, I pointed out some of the apex points, exit points, shifting points. He absorbed it like a sponge.

“That’s what it takes as a veteran of the team to help the kid that’s coming up through and to have his information help us. That’s exactly what’s helped both teams get stronger.”

Beating Gordon made it extra special for Busch, who was one of many drivers wrecked by Gordon here last year. It was fresh in his memory when he arrived, and one of the first things Busch said was Gordon had apologized to every driver he wrecked last year but Busch.

“It was a definite boost at the end of the day, to see him finish second,” Busch smiled.

Gordon congratulated Busch in Victory Lane, but said “I still didn’t apologize.”

Carl Edwards, who decided Friday to skip Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at Road America, finished third. He was scheduled to miss both of Saturday’s practice sessions so he could be in Wisconsin for the race.

“It was very tough to watch the race from Road America, but I think staying was the right decision,” Edwards said. “It worked out. It was a good call.”

Sunday’s race featured several on-track flare-ups, most notably Brian Vickers’ payback spin of Tony Stewart.

Stewart knocked Vickers out of his way early in the race, and Vickers gave it right back later. The bump sent Stewart’s car spinning into a stack of tires, and the rear of his Chevrolet came to a rest on top of the stack.

Stewart didn’t seem angry over the retaliation, but he wasn’t apologetic, either.

“I probably had it coming, because I dumped him earlier, but I dumped him because he was blocking,” Stewart said.

While Stewart was calm, tempers were flaring across the rest of the garage. Juan Pablo Montoya was mad at Keselowski, Kasey Kahne was mad at Montoya, Joey Logano was mad at Robby Gordon and Denny Hamlin was mad at AJ Allmendinger.

“(Seventh) week in a row I’ve had a winning car and then Boom. We get Dinger’d,” Hamlin posted on Twitter immediately after the race.

Hamlin, who led 12 laps and was competitive with Busch, wound up 37th.

“Man, it was nuts out there,” Jeff Gordon surmised.

Clint Bowyer finished fourth, Marcos Ambrose was fifth and pole-winner Logano was sixth. It was a huge turnaround for Logano, who used coaching from Max Papis to score his career-best road course finish. He also showed some mettle in intentionally moving Robby Gordon out of his way midway through the race.

“He drives like a moron every week,” Logano said. “We were a lot faster than him. I got outside of him one corner and he knocked in my fender. So I had enough of it. I’m not going to get pushed around; I don’t care.”

Defending race winner Jimmie Johnson was seventh, and Martin Truex Jr. came back from an early spin to finish eighth.

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Kurt Busch won Sunday at Infineon Raceway, and there wasn’t much drama in his route to victory lane. He dominated the day in the Toyota/Save Mart 350, leading pretty much wire-to-wire, never getting so much as a challenge from anyone en route to his first career road-course victory.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s play the feud.

While Busch may have had an incident-free day, mostly because no one could catch him, he was about the only one as tempers flared at a rate that, well, Irate Kurt Busch would be proud of.

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It started with Joey Logano wrecking Robby Gordon and ended with Brian Vickers doing the same to Tony Stewart. Scattered in between was Juan Pablo Montoya acting like last year’s Jeff Gordon, wrecking anyone in his way.


Physical racing left Brian Vickers to race without a hood.

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Not that any of this was unexpected. With tight quarters and few passing zones, racing at Infineon has become a bumper-car affair. On Friday, Jimmie Johnson warned that things would get chippie, while Matt Kenseth called the track the most physical on the circuit.

Their prognostication rang true when Gordon got into Logano, the polesitter. Having grown tired of being everyone’s punching bag, Logano used the chrome horn to send a message to Gordon, spinning him around going into Infineon’s hairpin Turn 11.

“Somebody ought to have Joey Logano’s dad come down to watch him get a spanking,” Gordon fired back over his radio.

While Gordon didn’t get retribution Sunday, he shot a fairly vicious warning across Logano’s bow afterward.

“I guess I need to pull a Richard Childress on him, just not at the race track,” Gordon told SB Nation.

When Childress took a couple swings at Kyle Busch a few weeks ago, it was an elder sending a message to a youngster that he wasn’t going to stand for a lack of respect. It’s the same sentiment, sans fists, that Stewart has been lamenting all season long.

After last week’s race at Michigan, Stewart, who has installed himself as the arbiter of all things fair and unfair, called his fellow competitors “idiots” for the way they had raced. While he acknowledged that Vickers had a reason to be mad on Sunday – Stewart did spin him earlier – Stewart stood by his actions, saying he’s going to keep delivering messages as long as there is a lack of respect on the track.

“I’ve been complaining about the way guys have been racing all year,” Stewart said. “I like Brian; I’m not holding it against him at all. I don’t care if it was [teammate] Ryan Newman. I would have dumped him, too. If they want to block, that’s what is going to happen to them every time for the rest of my career.”

For NASCAR, it’s a perfect situation, really. Because while they want the boys to keep having at it, there needs to be some policing, and Stewart appears more than willing to be the sheriff.

“I don’t race guys that way and I’m not going to let anybody race me that way,” Stewart said. “So if they block, they get dumped. Plain and simple.”

Does this take away from the goal at hand – winning? Sure.

Kurt Busch turned in one of the most dominating performances of the season, becomes the 11th different winner in 16 races and moves up to fourth in the standings, yet the talk centered around the shenanigans that went on behind him. Last month at Darlington, Regan Smith’s first career win was an afterthought in the Kyle Busch-Kevin Harvick pit road mix up.

The drivers are playing a sport, but at the same time they are entertainers.

“This sport was based off of guys roughing each other up,” Kurt Busch said. “That’s that good old short track racing that we see – the good old door slamming, bumper to bumper. It’s the heritage of our sport.”

Without that heritage, Sunday’s race would have been a ho-hum affair devoid of any drama. And you never would have read this far.

[TheBigMook]

Don't worry Rat, there is still some US national team play going on!

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_ ... orth-korea

[sardis]

The most important question is, are any of them hot?

[TheBigMook]

Maybe, I need a better picture. I suspect Hope Solo may be cute, but I think she also paints herself up quite a bit.

[Bklyn]

Why is Derek Rose in the photo?

[sardis]

I also hear Heather Mitts has posed for Maxim?

[Jungle Rat]

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=6729348

Who hasn't?

[Bklyn]

The USA's Women's Team got screwed today by the refs in the game against Brasil.

[aTm]

It was largely like watching paint dry but i at least started paying attention when they kept getting fucked over repeatedly. Amazing goal in 122nd minute down a (wo)man. I even golf clapped a bit. Down to the penalty shootout.