more women’s World Cup

So, more women’s world cup action in Portland today. Very exciting, very cool, very much ignored by the city. How sad it is that we couldn’t muster up any of those quaint neighborhood flags like for the Greek Festival (so crowded as to suck) and the marathon (to each his/her own). But instead, it seems nearly ignored, relegated to the back pages. Oh, well, I’m jacked for it. Today China plays Canada and Germany plays Russia (pretty sure on those). So cool. The US won yesterday so will be playing here on Sunday. Remember, you heard it hear first because nobody else talks about it 😉 heh, just kidding.

One thing I’ll say about women’s soccer as opposed to most other women’s team sports is that women’s soccer is actually as much fun to watch as the men’s variety. Half the fun of watching basketball is seeing the bizarro athleticism these guys are capable, what with being 12 feet tall and jumping half that, but in soccer, the team is the game, and these ladies are fast, strong, capable, and honed as a team. Not that I’m biased towards soccer or anything. See you at the game!