Los Sudamericano Euros 2021 Preview: Colombia!

We’re on the verge of the greatest international sports summer ever! We have: Copa América (South American Euros) Euro 2020 (European Euros aka defiers of the space/time continuum) CONCACAF Gold Cup Tokyo Olympic Games And it all starts on June 11, 2021 with the European Soccer (Football) championships aka Euro 2020!  Obligatory Hippo Speak – they’s

Cabin Fever: Vaccination Station

As faithful readers may remember, last year when the pandemic started we ran a series of "Cabin Fever" posts about our status under lockdown.  It's been over a year since the last of them, so it's time for an update. RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY (Los Angeles): Early on I had spoken with a friend

Subsequent GTD reflections

And we're back baby.  The new servers are all bright, clean and shiny.  Or were, we've been here for a week now, so someone should really clean up a bit. Someone?  Anyone? ya, that's what I thought, Ferris isn't cleaning anything.  With things slowly returning to normal both front end

Eventual Balls Thoughts XLI

Welcome to the first Eventual Balls Thoughts of the New Year! As a reminder, this post will cover comments made up to and through the Saturday Night Open Thread. Sunday comments stand alone and Monday comments will go on the next week’s post. *** DFO Comments O' The Week! "Hooray placing 3rd, when only

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 11, #NuAIDS Season

Holy cats, what a weekend.  Between NC State and Everton, I stayed pretty puckered until the sweet release of RedZone Heroine.  Which, as usual, hit the sweet spot. We even got the mathematical beauty of Your 3-6-1, FIRST PLACE Philadelphia Iggles. That was...not one of your more well-played of contests.  No offensive points

2020 Quotables – Week 6 (Results)

SCENE: Interior, the DFO Clubhouse. The floor is littered with empty beer bottles, the walls are covered in Iguana Mart posters, and the couch is...sticky. BeerGuyRob: So today's the day, huh? HoratioCornblower: What are you talking about? Is Geno Auriemma finally coming to visit? BallsofSteelandFury: Didn't you read blax's Quotables submissions page this

Sunday Gravy with yeah right and DJ TAJ: A Joint Effort for a Pulled Pork Sandwich

DJ TAj will start our proceedings today Welcome to week 8 or is it 9? in the Covid cave, Christ does it even matter? Personnel hygiene has become optional and I've been wearing the same pair of underwear for eleven days ( I wonder what the record is?) the constant stench

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