Sentient Life on the Third Rock: Sports

My Favorite Blogs

Buckley Collum
Sometimes you just have to stand up and look around.
Bethlehem Shoals
Providing the best in Slovenian farm league analysis since 1968. Mostly basketball and politics. Check out his book "The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Styles, Stats, and Stars in Today's Game".
Jason Cooper
The fiction, art, scribbles and notions born of a mind that often wanders, rarely arriving at any particular destination.
Matthew Haavisto
A mountain hiking, guitar picking, hockey playing, badminton hitting, outdoor loving great friend of mine.
Halle’s Smooooth Words o’ Wisdom
Michael Halle is a professional photographer in Portland Oregon.

Links

Antiwar.com
Antiwar news, viewpoints and activities.
Fisher House
Supporting America's military families in their time of need, Fisher House provides "a home away from home" that enables family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful time -- during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury.
Iraq Body Count
This is an independent public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention.
Living to 100
The Healthspan Calculator is a great tool to quickly assess what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong and to show where your biggest health risks are. This tool will tell you your approximate life expectancy
Michael G. Halle Photography
Michael Halle is a professional photographer. Visit his website for images of snowy winter peaks, landscapes and snow riders as well as people and scenes from the Pacific Northwest.
Starbucks Nutrition Guide
The nutrition information for Starbucks® Fresh Food products are based on data provided by multiple suppliers. It is representative of Starbucks’ national bakery program and may not accurately represent the product in any one market.
The ONE
The ONE Campaign is a new effort to rally Americans to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. Sign the ONE Declaration.
Tim Hortons Nutrition Guide
Just a few facts for your next visit to Timmy Hos.

Fun Stuff

Atom Films
Hilarious and Bizarre Shockwave Shorts.
Comedy Central
For a somewhat different perspective than Fox News.
Derf City
An art school dropout, Derf worked on a garbage truck before deciding to give cartooning a try. Today his comic strip, The City, is one of the most widely-read alternative cartoons, appearing regularly in nearly 60 publications.
Odd Todd
Odd Todd produces short animations on, well, whatever he's thinking about.
Thinking Machine Chess
If you like chess, you're gonna love this!

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1 post categorized "Sports"

2005-06-04 Ireland, Israel and the IRA

Soccer or Football?
Potato and Tomato.
Who will play Israel?

The Republic of Ireland was left frustrated on Saturday night finishing 2-all in a draw with Israel at the famous Lansdowne Road stadium in a World Cup qualifier in Dublin (1). Lansdowne Road is where Irish rugby and international soccer matches are played.

Dublin_lansdowne
Above: Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland

As might have been expected, there was a Pro-Palestine rally organized by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and Sinn Féin in downtown Dublin. Sinn Féin is the political arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) umbrella of paramilitary groups. After the rally, protesters marched to the Israeli Embassy down the street from Lansdowne Road. I rode my bike over just to take a few photos.

Above: I just loved this photo.