Posted by Zach Bigalke on October 21, 2010 · 3 Comments
Wednesday morning really left me with a lot of time to think, and boy was there plenty to think about. I was up before 4:00 am, waking up to drive my wife to the airport for a week away on business. (Sweetheart that she was, having been up awake all night unable to sleep, she had a cup of coffee in hand for me as soon as I walked in the kitchen.) As I drove home in the pre-dawn fog of a cool autumnal morning, her plane turned northward for the short... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on October 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment
With the conclusion of Wednesday’s games, the UEFA Champions League is officially halfway through its group stage. When the groups were first announced, I made my predictions as to who would be advancing on to the knockout phase of the competition. Ranking every group 1-4, I pretty much laid it all out there on the line and made my best judgments as to how the world’s preeminent club tournament would play out this season.
So perhaps now... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on August 27, 2010 · 2 Comments
Just as one continent wraps up their tournament of champions, another gets theirs ready to start anew. On the heels of Internacional’s Copa Libertadores victory over Chivas last week, Italy’s Internazionale gears up for its Champions League title defense after their defeat of Bayern Munich in the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid last May. Inter has a lot easier path back to the knockout stage than their cross-town Milanese rival, for... Read More
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