An Upset for the century!

Well it happened! The greatest sports upset since the 1980 USA Olympic Ice hockey team upset the “unbeatable” Soviet Union occurred today. After backing into a semi final match against España (that is Spain for all you non Spanish speakers) thanks to a unlike 3-0 victory over Egypt and a 3-0 drubbing Brazil gave to Italy the US team took the pitch against Spain. To put this in context, Spain hasn’t lost a game since 2006. In this tournament Spain has not yielded a goal to their opposition! In the minds of many US soccer fans keeping the game in reason would have been a moral victory and scoring a goal could have been counted as a victory! Against all these odds, the US came out on top 2-0 over the Spanish juggernaut. Simply a thrilling victory for US soccer fans everywhere. What the highlights here

In a really sad news conference, Republican Governor Mark Sanford announced today he had been having an affair for over a year with a woman in Argentina. Gov. Sanford was thought by many as a possible presidential candidate in 2012 and was currently serving as the head of the Republican Governors Association. This story was rather bizarre as Governor Sanford had seemed to disappear for a week leading up to this news conference. It’s reported that he was in Argentina while his staff reported he took a weeklong vacation to go hiking. When will republicans learn they are completely bankrupting their moral arguments with their political leaders failing to walk the walk?

On Tuesday night Eric led his baseball team with 3 hits, 4RBI’s and solid defense in the field! Its tough to keep track of all that is going on with the brothers as they are constantly on the go. But I always enjoy hearing about what they are up to listening to their ridiculous stories! Finally – I will be traveling north this weekend to visit my Family as John, Nellie and the baby will be visiting as well. This will be the first time in a long time that most of our family will be together in one place. Needless to say, John and I will be fighting it out on the Crystal Mountain links for golf champion on the family! Regardless of what happens in the match (lets be real, John doesn’t have a chance at beating me) it will be great to see the family. Who knows we may even make it out on the lake to catch some bass!