Team USA - Women's Soccer

should I make any comment at all about how good their ball play is?

The defining photo was the one in the Statesman today of Brandy Chastain, her shirt torn off, with her black Nike sports bra, raising her sinewy arms to the heavens, in utter ecstasy at having just kicked the goal that put the USA into the World Cup. And then cut to Mia Hamm and the rest of the team racing to embrace her. It was one of the century's great sports moments, filled with emotion and jubliation.

think this will make Alexander start an American Sports culture topic?

The girls of summer were on Good Morning America this morning and I watched their hour long celebration from 7 am to 8 am and taped it and put it as part of the springcast. I should start playing around 11 am again. Then I heard our local sports talk guys and they were telling a story about the time Briana Scurry ran naked through her home town after the teams Olympic victory. Now, that makes Chastain ripping off her shirt seem mild. They raised their winnings share from $12,500 to $50,000 but that's just the beginning. Let the endorsements begin.

LOL, wer!! I had to smile when I read the newspaper article, all had names like Brandi, Chelsea, Tiffany, Briana...nary a Susan among them! It's funny how names evolve.

It gives new meaning to victory laps and "war" chests, too, does it not?! Each year we get Freshmen lady volleyball and softball players. Last year we had three Jennifers. and three Michelles...wonder what it will be this year.

My money's on Caitlin and Brittany.

I'll let you know this weekend - the Hawaiian Style Classic Volleyball tournament is on. I shall let you know what the spotters, slammers and spikers are named this season. Could very well be Caitlins out there. I am betting on Christy or Chris or some permutation of that.

Oh, really? Care to put your money where your mouth is on that one, dearie?

Not particularly...I am always surprised with the names...I was going by the coach's daughter's name and her friend. I am totally clueless about what is the Nom du Jour for the ladies.

Marcia: Our 1999 Vulcan women's volleyball players include: Jayme Hatcher, outside hitter, 5'8", Cloverdale, CA (Sr) Meliah Hai-Kelly, middle blocker, 5'10", Hilo, (So) April Pana, outside hitter, 5'9", Hilo (So) Marnie Grant, middle blocker, 6'0", Rotorua, New Zealand (So) Ann Haggerty, setter/outside hitter, 5'11", Salem, OR (Fr) Loretta Coffman, middle blocker, 5'10", Phoenix, AZ (Fr) Fanaafi Falemalu, outside hitter, 5'9", Arroyo Grande, CA (Sr) As for U.S. Women's soccer, I had a disturbed and disturbing dream last night. Mia Hamm was paid a ton of money to play with a men's professional team. She was beaten nearly unrecognizable by jealous males during play--and that was her own team! I don't know where that came from, but I woke up in a cold sweat...

We have a Jayme on the Softball team. That is the only duplicate name I see so far, but Coach has a big job ahead to cut the walk-ons and wannabes from the telented athletes in Softball. Keep your money handy, Autumn...we are not finished yet! John, stop eating Pepperoni Pizza before bedding down for the night...! How ghastly!

The being paid a ton of money part is true. The rest is nightmarish.

I wasn't eating pepperoni pizza, I promise...still it seems like the nightmare must have come from "Little Seizures" (ugh)

Marnie? Ann? Loretta?? Who saw that coming?

I have discovered that the Volleyball Team here is not indicative of the names-du-jour...but I will have in my hot little hands the program listing all of the teams entered in the tournament on Thursday when I start selling T-shirts again. I shall report back. Loretta?! Marnie!! Wow! Ann is always around. Good name. I'll like to bet on Diana being popular in about 15 years...and we have an incoming Freshman on the softball team with that name.

That'd be a Freshgirl, tho, I take it?

Maybe, but politically incorrect. We Colonials, whose E. Aron Presley "ate only with a knife" and still managed to eat and drug himself into a massive, fall-off-the-crapper coronary, must use the P.C. term "freshwoman." BTW, I know your comment about Presley--although perhaps not the ones about Americans needing lessons in etiquette--was firmly tongue in cheek. As for me, I would rather have dinner with Elvis, knife-wielding, lip-smacking, word-slurring, TV-shooting, fried peanut butter-and-banana sand ich binges and all, than with Mussolini, who was purported to have exquisite table manners, or his partner in crime, Deutschland's (sorry, I don't know how to make the umlaut outside of Microsoft Word) own "Der Fuehrer," who was no more representative of the average German than our obese but beloved "King" was of the average American. If I can clear some leeway on my maxed out Mastercard, I just might buy a long distance subscription to your mag (if an English language version is available). You do have a way with words!

Excuse me, I know that was a fork. But he was Southern so the knife part is certainly an understandable Freudian slip. And he was my daddy, although he never admitted to it. (Lisa Marie got all the money, all I got was the waistline).

I already asked Alexander if he accepted Plastic with an eye to learning a little German and helping him at the same time, but I never heard back...

...I mentioned we didn't, I faintly seem to remember... no plastic money here. Now, if I had a distributor in the US who'd accept plastic... I once nearly had one, but I never heard a word on that issue again. No English edition, but always some articles and reviews en ingles. And sorry, I don't write a lot/anymore. Running it takes up all time. Hiya, folks, and congrats, John! Nice move! "Colonials", he? Hey, I'm not british, just short tempered at times. And sometimes maybe even rude. Oh, John and thanks for the compliment! Actually, it's the other way round, the words have their way with me, especially in writing - I'm just an innocent helpless poor little editor...

(Hitler, by the way, was Austrian. And I bet he hid loads of freudian slips under his bed...)

What's Hitler doing in the USA women's soccer topic, bug off Hitler!

I know you're German, Alexander, and sorry Terry...I thought it would be my daddy, Elvis, that would offend more people! I'm not sure what I'm being "congratulated" for (if that isn't tongue-in-cheek as well), but I'm used to being clueless!

I'll bet no male had more Freudian slips under his bed than America's own Nazi, J. Edgar Hoover.

Real ones, too...!

(meaning ones he had just taken off of himself...of course!) Cannot think of anything on topic to mention. Is there still a Team USA Women's Soccer group? What are they doing?

Mia Hamm is embarrassing Michael Jordan and Kevin Garnett in Nike commercials. Brandi Chastain is probably going to make a fortune endorsing sports bras. And both of them plus Brianna Scurry can have a job anytime they want starring in my dreams. Too bad it's not a paying job!

There's a commercial where Brandi beats these guys at foosbal soccer or something and they stand around looking at her with these expressions of "Like, well!"

and they conclude that it is her Nike shirt which allowed her to win...

Of course...must be the shirt!

Nonsense, it's the Nivea roll-on for the active woman!

I should have known...(is Nivea roll-on available in the US?)

I always though it were the cereal... :=/

Heck, now I don't know anymore. I thought it was bound to be Nivea, 'cos, if ya wear it, you'll Nivea smell bad again.

I'vwe never seen it, nor seen it advertised...but, that does not mean it is not sold here!

I've got that cool picture of Brandie Chastan on my bulletin board, clipped it out of the magazine.

The picture may be cool, but she's hot.

Incredible what I learn here. Terry cuts pics out of magazines and puts them up on his bulletin board. I have not done that since College. Mine is full of game schedules and practices we don't want to miss...*sigh* I should put up a few (two or three come to mind immediately,)but this has not been a good week, month or lifetime for "other" men...*scowl*

If I were you I'd get a huge poster of some naked hunk, and paste it all over your bulletin board.

I hear you loud and clear! The better equipped the specimen, the better the point will be made...all the things he isn't *grinning maliciously*

Y'all probably don't know which Brandie picture I'm talking about. It shows her from the side, Buffed, indeed! Holding a soccer ball. Black and white. Hot, hot, hot.

You don't have to sell me, Terry. Any picture of Brandi will do.

Okay, this isn't the one, but maybe it will do:

Thank you!

No prob, wish I could find the picture of whence I spoke.

You and the guys who are salivating while they wait...

I find that on a computer screen they look EXACTLY the same when they're excited....