As much as I hate to say it, I actually have been pretty busy lately so I’m leaving it up to Dave to take care of the regular updates (heh!).

Reasons I have not posted include:

- I’m moving
- I’m attempting to decide on my post-collegiate (or not) education. Decisions, Decisions.
- a bunch of other stuff you don’t care about but consumes my time nonetheless.

Also, interested parties should take note that I will be roaming the country from around July 22 to around August 7 or so. Inquiries during this time should be directed towards my e-mail.
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In all my 21 years of watching sports on television, I have rarely ever seen anything like what happened at the end of the championship match of the World Cup today.

This is already all over the internet, so I’m not going to comment much here except to say that Zidane’s radical head-butt in overtime was one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen in a pro game.

Speculation is running wild about why this happened, but I thought this comment on a message-board was pretty good, as far as speculation goes:

Words were plainly exchanged. Zidane is a Berber. Maybe something particularly insulting to a Berber was said. If so, since what is particularly insulting to a Berber is probably not common knowledge in Italy, the remark was probably calculated and planned in advance: a tactic. It is an established tactic for teams to provoke their opponents into misbehaving. However, as someone pointed out, Zidane’s probably heard it all before. My own take is that he decided, for whatever reason, to show himself bigger than the event. In this he succeeded. This final will be remembered for Zidane’s headbutt, not for the Italian victory. It was an almost mystical gesture which, if not elucidated, will be discussed and interpreted for decades to come.

Mystical gesture is right. WTF! What was he thinking!?

If you missed it, the video can be found on youtube here.