Tuesday - August 26 - 10:57 PM Filed in:
Panama
Tonight we
ventured out for a real football game (soccer to
those of you in the U.S.), a Liga de Campeones
(Champions League) match between Chivas U.S.A and
Tauro F.C. at Estadio Rod Carew. This was the first
time I have been able to see a MLS (Major League
Soccer) team in person and anticipated a pretty good
game because they were facing one of the better local
teams. It was a good game, although Chivas had
several serious defensive lapses - guess that’s why
they lost 2-0. Read
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Tags: Sports
Sunday - August 24 - 10:28 PM Filed in:
Panama
Looking around
for something to do after church I found a little
blurb on a “Varsity League Football” game in Balboa.
Tried to find a little more information to no avail
(was it soccer, rugby, “American football”) as the
“Varsity League” had me a little stumped. But, what
the heck - let’s just go and see. Turned out to be
“American football” (if you’re wondering why I use
quotes - it’s because in the rest of the world
“football” is really soccer). It was the leagues
opening day and
we saw the
Jaguars vs the Falcons plus two other teams we never
got the names of. The format, (don’t know if the do
this at all their “games”) two teams play a quarter.
Then the other two play a quarter and then they start
rotating opponents. Lots of cheering (no
cheerleaders), music, Spanish announcer with a little
English. Had fun, and the football, although not the
NFL, was entertaining. Read
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Tags: Sports, Misc.
Thursday - August 21 - 10:55 PM Filed in:
Panama
I suspect that a
lot of you are watching non-stop coverage of the
Olympics and cheering the efforts of the your home
countries team. Our Olympic TV coverage here in
Panama is nothing to rave about - language is not the
problem, it’s the amount of coverage (not a lot) and
trying to find it on the local channels. For those of
you paying close attention who might have looked WAY
down the medal standings list to those countries who
have a single medal to their credit you would have
seen Panama and maybe thought “that’s neat” or even
“that must be a big deal” down in Panama where Steve
and Jane are. Read
more
Tags: Sports
