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Sexy Friday, Late July 2021 edition

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For the intro this week, I wanted to check to see how I did with my predictions for the Olympic fútbol tourneys. These are the teams I said would qualify for the Quarterfinals in the Women's tournament: USASwedenAustraliaBrasilChinaNetherlandsCanadáJapan And this is how they finished: USASwedenAustraliaBrasilGreat BritainNetherlands Canadá Japan Not too shabby... Meanwhile, here were

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 19

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! More COVID game changes are on tap for next week. Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 19 Recaps Port Adelaide Power 97 - 69 Collingwood Magpies For the second week in a row, the first game had a 69 in the scoreline. I

Sexy Friday, Start of the Olympics edition!

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I'll be honest. I've got nothing for this week. I thought I had something and then the week went by in a flash and now it's 4 PM Pacific on Sexy Friday and I'm typing out my thoughts on the keyboard ahead of post time at 5 PM Pacific. Beerguyrob had a

The DFO Olympic Fútbol Tournaments Preview and Evening Open Thread

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We're in the middle of the greatest international sports summer ever! We have: Copa América (COMPLETED! Argentina is your champion.)Euro 2020 (COMPLETED! Italy is your champion.)Concacaf Gold Cup (IN PROGRESS!)Tokyo Olympic Games (START TONIGHT!) Today, we are previewing the two fútbol tournaments on offer: The Men's (more even) and

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 18

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! More COVID game changes, a couple of big upsets, and a couple of disappointments. Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 17 Recaps Fremantle Dockers 31 - 100 Geelong Cats The Cats did a tremendous job of focusing on the task at hand with

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 17

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 17 Recaps Port Adelaide Power 55 - 86 Melbourne Demons Big loss at home for the Power. They have not beaten any of the top 4, even at home, so their finals credentials are highly suspect.

The DFO Copa América 2021 Final Preview: Argentina vs Brasil

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We're now smack dab in the middle of the greatest international sports summer ever! We have: Copa América (FINAL TODAY!)Euro 2020 (FINAL TOMORROW!)Concacaf Gold Cup (Started already!)Tokyo Olympic Games (NOW WITH LESS PEOPLE AND MORE COVID!) For some, no doubt gambling-related, reason, King Hippo declined to take his usual Saturday morning futbol

Le vendredi érotique, édition avant de 14 juillet

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I was goofing around last weekend by commenting in French and I said that one day I'd write a post completely in French. Then I looked at the calendar and realized the perfect opportunity was coming up as the day that Americans call Bastille Day was next week! So, this

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 16

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 16 Recaps Gold Coast Suns 77 - 67 RIchmond Tigers If no one saw last week's loss to St. Kilda coming, then absolutely no one to the infinite power saw the Suns handing the Tigers their second

Sexy Friday, KTLA/4th of July Weekend edition

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Litre keeps threatening us with a good time by saying he's going to watch KTLA for one morning and write a post about it. I am particularly excited since that's the station that I have in the background every morning as I'm working at home. The morning starts off with

AFL Beat 2021 AFL Week 15

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Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Let's see what happened this week. *** AFL 2021 Season Week 15 Recaps Brisbane Lions 94 - 50 Geelong Cats Woo that was a beatdown! Easily the Cats' worst loss of the season and Brisbane got sweet home revenge for a controversial early season loss to the