We have a game tonight. An 'Iolani Alumni League Basketball game to be precise. I plan on dropping at least 10 on whoever we're playing. I am inspired to do so after watching the Japanese Women's soccer team defeat the German team 1 - 0 this morning. Okay.. "One - Nil" for you soccer purests out there. I figure I'm ethnically half Japanese so I can bask in their reflected glory.
I'll have more to play for since my motherland still lays in ruins after the biggest natural disaster to hit them since Godzilla fought Mecha-Godzilla in the streets of Tokyo. In fact, I wonder if the "earthquake" is actually a giant cover-up to hide the fact that a giant fire-breathing lizard lives in the seas just off the coast of Japan... Very suspicious if you ask me. The next thing you know, the Empire of the Rising Sun will shine once again riding the destruction of their iguana-like monster.
Sorry, I got a little off topic. While watching this "match" between Japan and Germany, I found out that even though a soccer game is already 90+ minutes long, if the game is tied at the end of regulation, they play another 30 minutes. Okay, I guess this is proof that the rest of the world has more patience than the U.S., but seriously? Half an hour of overtime? I mean, sure college football games that go into more than one overtime can last an extra half hour or more, but Soccer has a MANDATORY 30 minute overtime. Actually the overtime is split into two fifteen minute halves. That's ridiculous. Go to a shootout. Have a ten minute overtime, and for God's sake, run the clock DOWN so that we actually know when the game is over. Seriously... do any other team sports have clocks that run from 0 to 90 minutes? And oh by the way, we felt like you guys were dragging out the clock so we'll tack on another coupler of minutes...
As a side note to this... I'd like to say that I've been wrong about womens sports. I'd always said that softball players were uglier than women's soccer players... Generally speaking of course. However, after watching both the Women's College World Series and several of the Women's World Cup games, I'd like to retract that statement. I should have known I was wrong since Jenn Brown and Bianca Cruz (See Below) played college softball.
So come of University of Hawaii. Let's start getting our recruiters out there. I'm sure some of these ladies would love to play ball in Hawaii. I think I may have just convinced myself to go back to school.
"Take your time, don't live to fast. Troubles will come and they will pass." - Lynyrd Skynyrd "Simple Man"
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