Posts Tagged ‘Brandi Chastain’
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
The final game of the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup filled the Rose Bowl to capacity – so much so, it still ranks as the most-watched women’s sporting event in human history. But, upon further review, the “victory” recorded by Team USA needs to have an asterix next to it. Why’s that?
Well, YouTube, in Its Wisdom, just referred me to this video from ABC that somebody uploaded a few years back – check out 2:15 when Team China lost the match because the American goalkeeper launched herself yards past the goal line before the ball was touched during the penalty-kick tiebreaker.
Should the American goalie have been penalized? Of course. Was she? No. There’s your asterix right there.
Leaving aside the issue of handing out asterixeses to 16-year-old gymnasts who weren’t yet 16-years-old, all we can do is look forward next month’s Vancouver Olympics. That’s where a ridiculous new figure skating scoring system (which itself is a knee-jerk reaction to the scandal-plagued 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City) promises a fresh new flurry of asterixii.
Oh well.
Anyway, due to unquestionable YouTube evidence, and on behalf of America, sorry about 1999.
Better late than never…
Tags: 1999, America, apology, asterix, Brandi Chastain, Briana Scurry, cheating, China, chinese, fifa, football, goalie, Mia Hamm, rose bowl, rules, soccer, sports, team, United States, usa, women's, world cup
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Well, it was on this morning at William de Avila Elementary School on Haight Street, where the Chinese language immersion students got to drink fruit smoothies from Bananaman and also got to meet soccer heroine Brandi Chastain. It all had to do with the National Parent Teachers Association’s Healthy Lifestyles Month. All the deets below.
The Jamba Juice Bananaman must be channeling the ghost of Jeff Spicoli. Anyway, the kids loved him. Click to expand:
And here she is, straight out of San Jose, Brandi Chastain herself:
Parents, including knuckle-knocking DCCC member Tom Hsieh, Jr. (Mayor Gavin Newsom’s friend, camera left), were encouraged by Brandi Chastain to get up and start jumping around, to the delight of the students:
Well, that was the medium, here’s the message, after the jump.
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
The International Children’s Games are going on right now in San Francisco.
Click to expand. From Opening Day:
The San Francisco JROTC was there as color guard for all the colorful flags. Phasing them out wasn’t quite the breeze some anticipated.
The last flag you’ll see in this entry:
Oops, more flags. It looked like a Quidditch Invitational over by Kezar Stadium.
At USF:
This soccer ball as your head thing is getting out of hand:
O.K, no more flags after this:
Tags: 42nd, annual, Brandi Chastain, california, childrens, chilrins, fiona ma, gavin newsom, genocide, International Children's Games, Mayor, Oakland, Olympics, San Francisco
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Participants are warming up now for the 42nd Annual International Children’s Games in our little burg.
The spirit of athletic competition that will sweep the world in August is coming to San Francisco in July. On Friday, July 11, the 42nd International Children’s Games kicks off with the Opening Ceremony at Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park. The International Children’s Games, this year held in San Francisco, brings together more than 1,200 youth athletes (between the ages of 12-15 years old) from 84 cities in 42 countries, and representing all six inhabitable continents.
Why don’t you buy yourself some tickets?
They aren’t all that expensive, and you’ll be able to see an international competition just like the Olympics but without all the drugs and the G-word issue that has Mia Farrow and the New York Times so upset these days. And who knows, maybe you’ll meet Brandi Chastain, winner* of the 1999 World Cup (thanks to a terrible noncall on keeper Brianna Scurry shown at 2:15 here).
Soccer practice at foggy, foggy University of San Francisco
Everything kicks off tomorrow. The Opening Ceremony at Kezar will feature Mayor Gavin Newsom and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma.
Mobile phone users: Feel free to sign up to receive updates about schedules and match results by sending a text message to code 95294 with the keyword “KIDS” in the body of the text message.
Will you root for the team representing San Francisco, Oakland, or somewhere else?
See you there!
Tags: 42nd, annual, Brandi Chastain, california, childrens, chilrins, fiona ma, gavin newsom, genocide, International Children's Games, Mayor, Oakland, Olympics, San Francisco
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