"The Nasty Dan Show" is a cartoon I created in high school. It was written (and crudely drawn) in a late night talk show style loosely based on the fledgling "David Letterman Show". This was around 1982-1984 (I graduated from Godby High School, Tallahassee, in 1984.) Of course, at this age in a young man's (boy's) life humor starts at a base level and often does not rise beyond the sophomoric. "The Nasty Dan Show" was indeed most often intellectually pretentious, overconfident, but immature. I don't mean to imply, though, that today it is wholly different. The 21st century "Nasty Dan Show" topics and story lines do still originate from time to time along those same base and jejune levels of thought. Although, I do try to at least end my trains of thought along the more cultured, cultivated and sophisticated lines.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Maicon's dazzling ball control and goal are worth drooling over

Saw this article on YahooSports. An awesome display of foot skill.


Inter Milan defender Maicon spectacularly broke a 0-0 deadlock in the 75th minute of Friday's Derby d'Italia against Juventus with a superb display of juggling that he turned into a perfect volley out of the reach of Juve goalkeeper Gigi Buffon. A man up following Momo Sissoko's red card in the 37th minute, Inter sealed the victory that put them back atop Serie A with a second goal from Samuel Eto'o in stoppage time, sending Juventus fans already demanding a refund on their season tickets into a slightly deeper depression. 
After the match, Eto'o was quick to echo the immediate praise for his teammate's display, saying, "I think Maicon scored the best goal of the season so far." And it's easy to agree.
Whether it wins that arbitrary superlative or not, it was certainly enough to conjure comparisons to Maicon's fellow Brazilian and Milan rival Ronaldinho and remind us all ahead of the World Cup why the Samba Kings are so dangerous. Even their defenders can do that.




Here's the article link
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/sow_experts/post/Maicon-s-dazzling-ball-control-and-goal-are-wort?urn=sow,234865
Posted by at No comments:
Subscribe to: Comments (Atom)