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The five episode format of the last season of Treme forced it into the miniserie ghetto that has no writing nor directing award. On top of that, not even an acting nomination for Clarke Peters, be it in lead or supporting. A shame.

Just finishedThe Republic of Thieves(Gentlemen Bastards 3). Like the previous two: ENtertaining read, great dialogues, interesting contexts (one half dirty elections and one half theater company), but somewhat underwhelming plot and resolutions.

In the immortal words of Bill Shankly: 'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'

Well... if the penalty is not well placed and the keeper chose the correct side it's legitimate to hope for a save. That was the case for two of them. One was just wide enough and the other just hit hard enough OR the keeper did not dive far enough and did not have a firm enough hand.

Wimbledon.com posted the transcript of the english press conference with Federer. I suspect the french newspaper used a bit of it and a bit of the french part of the event (that has no transcript).

This article is full of fail. I searched for 'steamer' in it and found nothing.

It will be a strange match tomorrow for the brazilian fans. If Argentina wins, the arch enemy might win the World Cup! If Argentina loses though, Brazil risks getting curb-stomped by the arch enemy!

I wondered something the other day: when Nadal, Djokovic and a little later Murray burst into the scene, they knew that if they wanted to get anything out of this tennis career their were starting they had to become better than Federer and the swiss knew that to stay at the top he would need to...

Not much, if any, but my answer was more about the first half of your statement; about diving becoming a problem 15 years ago. It might be though that it became more of a problem in some leagues 15ish years ago because of an influx of players coming from leagues were diving was rampant and/or...

I can understand the feeling: it's not a question of quality but of variation. The domination of the members of the club has been outrageous, unlike anything ever seen before in the sport and it does not exactly look like it's going to stop just yet. I made that point several times already...

If you think diving started 15 years ago, you must be 20!

There was one in my favorite match ever: Italia vs South Korea during the 2002 World Cup. Totti got a yellow for diving in the box and was sent off as it was his second. A great moment, because Totti, probably for the first time in his life, did not dive on that particular occasion!

The thing is it's a sport with people who run and that is played with the feet. If you hit the feet of someone who runs, if you nudge someone while his balance is made precarious by the maneuvering of the ball, shit is going to happen. You don't even need to touch the other player: if a guy sees...

I am not too sure what happened in the final because I had a heart attack mid way through... just kidding but it could have been the case! We more or less got the match we expected as far as what the two players produced, but the dramaturgy of it all was unexpected. Federer tried to be...

I did not watch the final, but 6-0 sets are not uncommon in women tennis because the serve/return equilibrium is, generally, slightly in favor of the return, while it is firmly in favor of the serve in men's tennis. LOL at Pospisil and Sock winning the double though! That's so far out of left...

We have our final. The old generation is not old enough or the new generation still too young. DJOKOVICmanaged to do just enough against an inspired but ultimately too generous Dimitrov. The Bulgarian served brilliantly through the first set... only to gift a break to his opponent with four...

If there was a damning video, he would not be pleading non guilty.

My man Thabo is going to the Atlanta Hawks? They went 7 games against the Pacers so they must do some things right...

Good luck proving intent unless he told someone or wrote something about it. They can make 20 theories as to why he should have noticed his son in the car, that will not change the fact that the very definition of being distracted is 'not noticing things that you should notice'. They can...

Since Obama got elected it's cool again to be american. Just say you voted for him! Also, while food poisoning is certainly avoidable, any radical change in diet will have your digestive system not too happy (nothing bad though). That said, the average north american diet is not that...

Supposedly, a very good movie. I believe it seeing this trailer.

Nadal might have been a little bitter after his defeat but he pointed several things in interview that are not untrue: - It's a lot easier for Kyrgios to play the way he did as the youngster with no pressure enjoying the big stage. Can he play through a season like that and know similar...

Calling a new IP without zombies and/or boobs a cash grab is a bit of a reach. If anything, they probably suffered from a limited budget and tight schedule that did not allow them to make the game they hoped they could do.

No Rain! We have our semi finals! DJOKOVIC[1] sprinted to win the first set 6-1, but then things got complicated. Cilic served well, played well, proved more reliable than Djokovic on the backhand side and the serb had a lot of trouble with his footing. The cost: 6-3 7-6 for a pumped up...

While most members of the swiss team are first or second generation immigrants (which is not a huge surprise in a country with almost 30% of its inhabitant being foreign and immigrant making in average more children), it should be noted that, out of the 23 selected for the WC in Brazil, 17 are...

We need a psychoanalyst in this thread. This whole 'we suck, but we're better than you and would be the best if we wanted to' dance feels like a mix of paranoia and insecurity. If it can make you feel better, I watched this World Cup's coverage on swiss, french and english TV and they all had...

I think she had to withdraw from her double match as she had trouble with coordination and dizziness or something and she went straight to the hospital. It's supposed to be a viral illness of some kind and nothing too serious and she tried to play through it and could not. /shrug Talking...

We have our quarter finals! DJOKOVIC[1] played a very serious game against Tsonga, making the most of any little gap left by his opponent. Not many of those in the third round though when, much to Djokovic's chagrin, the whole crowd pushed behind the explosive frenchman. More than chagrined...

That's a little unfair, there was a number of dangerous fast breaks always with a number of players sprinting up the pitch to crowd the box, but the finishing touches were lacking. In this end we saw a lot of entertaining matches in this round of 16 (some by the quality of play, some by the...

Nope. You play until the end of extra time no matter what.

If the first 5 pk are missed by both team, 5 other shooters are then put on a list and I beleive it's sudden death. If they all miss, the keepers shoot. If they miss, you start over in the same order (still sudden death). No coin flip ever involved. A couple years ago there was an Africa's Cup...

This season was not very good. There was a handful of very good jokes lost in a sea of awkward. The TV show storyline hardly paid off, the retarded son was rarely amusing, the indecent proposal had no progression and even the big concept episode did not work so well (the evening dinner where...

Truth be told, the only winning team that looked good so far has been Colombia. It was a struggle for all the others.

The... opponent?

What about Deco? I am not sure he was a diver, but he certainly did not put much effort on staying on his feet!

Obviously can't type grape properly either.