soccer – the quick Sliver

1.8.21 Marine FC

January 8, 2021 Mike Keeler

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You may have missed this tiny but statistically amazing bit of news. Here’s the first thing you need to know. The English Premier League that has teams like Liverpool and Arsenal is only the top level of the whole English football pyramid. Below that league are numerous lower divisions –…

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8.19.16 Colorful Communications Contortions

August 19, 2016 Mike Keeler

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Ah, late August. It’s that time again: are you ready for some football? No, not THAT football, English football! The Premiere League is underway, which means we get to look forward to 38 glorious rounds of matches stretching from now until next May. But here’s the best part. There’s this…

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6.24.16 Ice Breakers

June 24, 2016 Mike Keeler

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There are no words to describe it. At least, not in the English language. But here’s some context. A generation ago, the tiny country of Iceland – population 330,000 – made a decision to build numerous indoor soccer facilities so that their kids could train through the long Arctic winter.…

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10.16.15 Promising Packaging

October 16, 2015 Mike Keeler

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You don’t often equate scientific advancement with the swilling of a few beers… But consider Carlsberg Brewing Company. It was established in Copenhagen in 1847 by J.C. Jacobsen, a wealthy philanthropist, who named the company and its flagship brew after his son Carl. From the beginning, the company has been…

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10.9.15 Bright Star

October 9, 2015 Mike Keeler

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South Sudan is the 144th-ranked nation in world soccer. (The operative word here is “nation.”) The deep history of Sudan reads like the script of a Cecil B. DeMille movie. In ancient times, it was known as the Kingdom of Kush. The Egyptians took it over and referred to it…

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10.18.13 Night of the Dragons

October 18, 2013 Mike Keeler

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It’s one of the most tortured place-names in the world, which is pretty apropos considering… The area is almost entirely land-locked in one of the most rugged parts of Central Europe. It was first settled by an odd mixture of Greeks and Celts, before it was fully developed by Slavs…

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