Monthly Archives: October 2015
Donald Trump speech being used to promote USA v Mexico game by FOX
Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric has made tomorrow night’s USA v Mexico winner-take-all CONCACAF Cup match an even higher stakes deal. That’s thanks both to Trump, and FOX Sports who have decided to use the speech to promote tomorrow’s game. The temperature is already super high as I can personally attest to around this match so […]
Flashback Friday: Sunshine State Parkway in the early 1960’s
Florida’s Turnpike, originally known as the Sunshine State Parkway opened in 1957 spanning 109 miles from the future Golden Glades Interchange north of Miami to Fort Pierce. It was the first limited-access road in the southeast United States outside of large urban areas. Since Florida was becoming a tourist haven, after World War II the decision […]
Tampa Bay Rowdies terminate two former US Youth Internationals
In a surprise move the Tampa Bay Rowdies have released Omar Salgado and Gale Agbossoumonde. Both players are former US Youth Internationals brought to the club by former Manager Thomas Rongen who also managed the US U-20 Men’s National Team for years. The Rowdies signing of former Orlando City attacker Long Tan (Who played for […]
Doctors without Borders Bombing Goes Largely Unnoticed
Any continued thoughts that the American press is serious about committing resources to covering American military excesses when the story is not so flattering was put the rest this week. Six days after the United States bombed an Afghan Hospital staffed by Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) finding any mention of it in the American press […]
Why MSNBC’s format change is good for the left
Many progressives are lamenting MSNBC’s format change which has emphasized hard news during the daytime rather than liberal commentary. The desire to mimic FOX News mindless commentary and selection of news (which is almost as bad as the commentary – see issues like Solyndra, Islam in America, Immigration and Benghazi) by many liberals to me […]
Kartik Report Podcasts: Brian Quarstad on Minnesota, Neil Blackmon on USA v Mexico
This is an especially important week in the soccer community here in Florida. Saturday night the Fort Lauderdale Strikers take on Minnesota United FC looking to hold off the Tampa Bay Rowdies and others for the final spot in the NASL Championship. But at the same time, most eyes will be focused on Los Angeles […]
Generic drug price gouging brought to you by PhRMA (and POLITICO)
By now we’ve all heard about Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who bought all the rights to a life-saving drug and jacked up the price more than 5,000 percent. What you probably haven’t heard is that U.S. policy protects price gougers like Shkreli, and with new provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership, we’re going […]
Florida can learn a lot from Texas
Florida is now the nation’s third largest state. Texas, the nation’s second largest state is reliably Republican now in Presidential elections, though throughout out the period from 1960 to 1988 it performed better for Democrats than Florida in every single election. Since 1992, Florida has outperformed Texas for Democrats in every single election. However, in […]
Alex Morgan and Orlando City Women’s Team
Orlando City’s potential entry to the NWSL next season club officials hope according to my own sources and Charles Boehm at Soccerwire, the new team would like to have superstar US Women’s National Team Forward Alex Morgan, who graces the cover of this year’s FIFA game in the US (alongside none other than Lionel Messi) […]
Orlando City break Florida all-time pro soccer season attendance (average) record
Thanks to 35,421 customers on Saturday night, Orlando City SC now will hold the single-season attendance record for a Florida pro soccer team. The Lions defeated Montreal 2-1 to close to within one point of the final playoff spot (currently held by Montreal) in the MLS Eastern Conference with two matches remaining. The previous record for […]
The Florida Squeeze 