Conference USA: Irony Lives Here

On the Sportscenter highlights, does anyone else think it's weird that the C-USA Tournament has written on the court "C-USA: Competition lives here"?

On the home floor of Memphis.

Who has won their last 40 Conference USA games.

And who won the 2008 C-USA regular season title by four clear games over their nearest pursuer and won their conference games this year by an average of 20 points?

If Competition lives in C-USA, I can only assume it went out for a pack of cigarettes three months ago...

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Irony

Today: FIFA, soccer's world governing body, opened its new headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland . FIFA President Sepp Blatter proclaimed on the rainy day, “The sky is touched with tears but we can live with that because football also has to live in all weather conditions and rain is a gift from heaven.”

Yesterday: FIFA drew controversy by ruling that no future international matches will be played above 8,200 feet, following the lodging of a complaint regarding a South American game between a team that plays home matches at sea level and a mountain team. The match was played in freezing rain at high altitude.

So I guess football doesn't have to live in all conditions.

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If only Robbie Gould had hit Rex Grossman with a golf club

It was widely reported last week that Liverpool's Wales international Craig "The Dennis Rodman of Welsh Football" Bellamy had drawn the wrath of team officials after a night of boozing in Portugal where LFC was training for their Champions League first leg match against defending champions FC Barcelona.

Allegedly, after Bellamy's teammate John Arne Riise repeatedly refused to enter a karaoke competition at Bellamy's request, Bellamy attacked Riise with a golf club in their hotel for humiliating him at the karaoke bar in front of the team.

In the Champions League knockout stages, it's a two-game total goals series, with away goals being the first tiebreaker, so scoring on the road even once is potentially a huge advantage should the series end in a tie. Liverpool won the game at Barcelona by a 2-1 scoreline, and the goalscorers were...Craig Bellamy (43') and John Arne Riise (74').

Cosmic.

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