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Joe Cole hopes that history repeats itself
We're still in touch with the leaders, in all the competitions and the lads have taken to him. "We're improving every day. We're trying to employ the new tactics and style the new manager wants. It's about learning and adapting - we're winning games while we're in transition." Cole, whose attacking tendencies were sometimes curbed by Mourinho, has been encouraged to take up a wider position under Grant's new system and he says that the intention is for the whole team to play more expansive, flowing football. He predicts that this reformed style will become more pronounced during the concluding months of the season. "It's probably closer to my own philosophy to playing the game," Cole said. "English players get told a very cautious way of playing - it's inbred in us, taught not to take risks.
Liverpool 5-0 Luton Town
Tom Hicks and George Gillett may be acting up like a pair of clowns, but something needs to change on the pitch now, if not sooner, if only because Jamie Carragher deserves better on his 500th appearance for the club. This is a strong team Liverpool have put out tonight; you'd be forgiven for thinking after three-and-a-half years the penny has finally dropped: Itandje, Arbeloa, Carragher, Hyypia, Riise, Pennant, Alonso, Gerrard, Babel, Crouch, Torres.
Subs: Martin, Kewell, Aurelio, Kuyt, Lucas. Luton Town meanwhile are doing what they can, but Don Hutchison in central defence, for goodness sake; they may as well field a wardrobe and be done with it: Brill, Jackson, Don Hutchison for the love of sweet baby Moses, Keane, Goodall, Bell, Robinson, Spring, Currie, Andrew, Talbot.
Notes: Fox finds home with Pettys after years at Yates
FONTANA, Calif. -- Thursday's opening day of the final session of Sprint Cup Preseason Thunder, at California Speedway, marked the completion of the first week that Bobby Labonte's new car chief, Raymond Fox, had spent working for Petty Enterprises on its No. 43 Dodge. Twenty years and an even greater family legacy with Robert Yates Racing didn't keep Fox, the grandson of NASCAR legend Ray Fox, from realizing the future at Yates Racing wasn't for him. .
Explosion of Indie Games Kills 'Best of' Column
This is getting ridiculous. Two years ago, I wrote my first column celebrating the best indie games: small, offbeat titles, programmed usually by a single auteur and given away for free. I figured I'd make it an annual affair. For 12 months, I'd scour the net for independent games that had a spark -- some innovative bit of design or gameplay -- and gather a list of the top 10. But I've decided it's impossible. This is not because I can't find any games to praise. It's because I can find too many. Two years ago, the number of people making genuinely polished indie games was pretty small, numbering in the dozens or scores. A single columnist could reasonably hope to sample the year's offerings and make some picks. But in the last two years, things have blown up spectacularly.
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Chiefs fan in Bronco country
I can't imagine he was so busy out of the playoffs that he couldn't take a second to sign it. He may have used it as rolling paper. Who knows. But the point is, respect was lost and he is officially mentioned in the Bat Guano entry. Good luck Travis. Next up...............................The New England Patriots. I hate to mention the team as a whole, so let me be more specific. Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and Randy Moss. Let me start by saying that I was born in Salem Massachusettes. I was a Patriots fan as a child and I have always supported them right behind the Chiefs now that I am an adult. But I must say regrettably, it will be hard for me to do that from now on. Let's start: Tom Brady - Before the SuperBowl started Eli Manning approached Tom Brady to shake his hand and wish him luck.
According to Harold Bloom, “What We Are Seeing Is…the Fall of ...
The Bushites are bullies and for a long time nobody dared criticize them and just swallowed their propaganda and lies. People have become scared. In this kind of climate, nobody is interested in the critical voice. You ask about the role of the intellectual in America today and I have to say: What role? What intellectuals? There is no room for them in the simplified and dumbed down world of today's media. We used to play a role, and there are still a few left, but we are a dying breed. Nobody seems to be interested in nuance anymore." This is where the real danger lies, he says. "Democracy, whether in Sweden or the United States, depends on the voter's capacity to think. If you have read the best of what has been thought and said, then your cognition and understanding is on a much higher level than if you have read Harry Potter or Stephen King.
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