Something has clearly gone wrong here on Planet Fútbol. After whiffing on a multitude of predictions over the years, I've somehow turned into Nostradamus so far during the 2011 MLS season, causing me to wonder if I should have visited Vegas and placed a few wagers. (Then again, does anyone know any Vegas sports books that take bets on MLS?)
Cormac McCarthy's novel about a man and his son trying to survive in a postapocalyptic world comes to the big screen.
This is how the world ends -- at least at the multiplex this month.
Two years are tattooed on the English sports consciousness like scarlet letters of anguish and self-pity. One is 1966, the first and only time the Three Lions hoisted the World Cup. The other is 1937, the last time a British player won at Wimbledon.
Forget Danny Sheridan, Nostradamus or the Weather Channel. No set of prognosticators have been more consistently accurate over the years than the sportswriters that cover ACC football.
SI.com: A shot at redemptionupdated: Mon Apr 30 2007 10:59:00
Journalists are supposed to be objective. But come on. We're humans. We're sports fans. Sometimes being objective is difficult.
'Prevail'updated: Mon Jul 10 2006 06:50:00
Heaven or Hell? Or perhaps something else altogether? In the final of a three-part series CNN hears how some scientists believe the future will be neither heaven nor hell. But that humanity's path instead lies somewhere in between --- a scenario author and journalist Joel Garreau has dubbed 'Prevail'.
The tallest building in New Orleans, 51 evacuated floors of very expensive office space, is known as 1 Shell Square, because Shell Oil has so many of its operations headquartered there. Shell is fa...
Apocalyptic dazeupdated: Wed Mar 24 2004 14:11:00
On October 22, 1844, a man named William Miller gathered his followers -- many of whom had sold all their earthly possessions -- and awaited the end of the world, as he had predicted months earlier.
Nostradamus, fix your vision! In January 1998, I watched a Wall Street investment strategist "guarantee" to a rapt audience that in five years, the Dow Jones industrial average would surpass 15,000...
Nostradamus had it easy. He could write cryptic four-line poems and make vague predictions, letting the generations to come debate whether he was a seer or a faker. We here at FSB are held to a hig...
For more than two years, Ed Yardeni, Deutsche Bank's chief economist, has been Wall Street's biggest Y2K agitator. His forecast--that Y2K had a 70% chance of causing a global recession this year--a...
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