Tied 1-1 at half, the Netherlands scored two goals in the second half and held off a feisty charge from Uruguay to hold on, 3-2, and advance to the World Cup Final.
Holland’s second goal was semi-controversial as one of the Dutch players could have been called offsides when Wesley Sneijder’s shot ricocheted into the goal.
Netherlands has been called the best team never to have won a World Cup, and they’ll have a chance to shake that moniker in Sunday’s final.
When playing in Milwaukee, most professional baseball and basketball players stay in the historical Pfister Hotel…except for the Giants’ Pablo Sandoval and Edgar Renteria, who say it scares the beejesus out of them.
From the Sacramento Bee:
While the rest of the traveling party is staying at the historic – and reputedly haunted – Pfister Hotel, Edgar Renteria and Pablo Sandoval requested rooms down the street at the Intercontinental. Sandoval got spooked last season. Renteria found the experience more leery than eerie, too.
“I slept like a baby last night,” Renteria said.
Some have complained about hearing weird noises while staying at the Pfister and at least one player reportedly sleeps with a bat when his team travels to Milwaukee. Brendan Ryan of the Cardinals also said that he saw “a moving light that kind of passed through the room” on one occasion.
I for one don’t believe in ghosts, but if I were a professional ball player, I might do the same thing Sandoval and Renteria did and stay somewhere else. I wouldn’t want to go 0-for-4 with three strikeouts because I was up all night talking to dead great, great grandmother. C.R.E.E.P.Y.
Of course, staying at another hotel certainly didn’t help Renteria’s game. He came off the bench in the seventh inning of the Giants’ win over the Brewers on Monday to lay down a bunt and instead popped up two attempts. The first one went foul, while the second wound up in Milwaukee catcher Jonathan Lucroy’s mitt.
As we all wait for LeBron’s decision, let’s watch Daniel Orton and Josh McRoberts push and shove in a summer league game. Orton got tossed from his first NBA game.
Here’s what he had to say on Twitter:
Still can’t believe I got ejected for fighting ha but it wasn’t a good day at all for me..
Yeah…no, it wasn’t a good day.
Doug Thonus of Bulls Confidential wonders if the signing of Carlos Boozer would bring LeBron or Wade to Chicago.
Say the Bulls sign Boozer today.
Bosh will then play with either Wade or LeBron in Cleveland or Miami. The other guy is then left with what? If Bosh joins LeBron in
MiamiCleveland then Miami’s off-season is down to some combination of second tier guys like David Lee, Anthony Morrow, JJ Reddick, and Brendan Haywood. He said he’d leave without getting significant improvements, but significant improvements would clearly not be coming.If Bosh goes to Miami with Wade the case for LeBron isn’t nearly as straight forward. He still may opt to continue to not win titles for his home town, but his odds of winning will continue to fall as his team gets worse and still lacks assets to improve considerably. The Bulls team will then have Rose, Deng, Boozer, and Noah.
Is that enough to lock in LeBron? How badly does he want to win?
You’ll notice I crossed out a typo that Thonus made to make the piece a little more clear. He was talking about Bosh joining LeBron in Cleveland, not Miami.
Regardless, it’s an interesting take on the latest news — that LeBron wants Bosh in Cleveland, while Wade wants him in Miami.
Bosh is a difficult get because he apparently wants the sixth year that the Raptors can offer via a sign-and-trade, so whatever team is on the other end of that will have to give up significant assets. He doesn’t seem to like the idea of playing in Cleveland either. (City-wise, Cleveland just isn’t Chicago, New York or Miami.)
So the argument goes, if the Bulls lock up Boozer, who would be a great fit alongside the defensive-minded Noah, they’d eventually end up with LeBron or Wade. Bosh would go to Cleveland or Miami, and then the superstar that doesn’t get Bosh would be left with the decision — stay in Cleveland or Miami or go play for the Bulls with a supporting cast of Rose, Boozer, Noah and Deng?
I’d actually prefer David Lee to Boozer (cheaper and less injury prone), so Wade might too, and elect to stay in Miami if the Heat can sign Lee. But he seems to already be on the fence with the idea of playing in Chicago, so if he misses out on getting LeBron or Bosh as a teammate, the Bulls suddenly look very attractive, especially with Boozer in tow.
For LeBron, if Bosh joins Wade in Miami, staying in Cleveland becomes even tougher. Then there’s Chicago, who would have that aforementioned supporting cast in place — would he sign a five-year deal and leave the money on the table? As Thonus asks, how important is winning to him?
That sixth year shouldn’t be that important to LeBron. He would be 30 in the final year of a five-year deal, so he would still be in line for a very big salary. In other words, that $30 million that everyone loves to throw about would really only be $4 million plus the difference in his theoretical sixth-year salary ($25 million) and the first year of his next contract.
So, really, under that scenario, the question would be — how important is Cleveland to LeBron?
While appearing on the NFL Network on Monday, Michael Lombardi said that the friction between running back Chris Johnson and the Titans is beginning to “thaw.” Lombardi hears a “calmness on both sides” and predicts that an agreement will likely be struck sometime before training camp.
Now, what that agreement will be is unknown. The Titans are still hamstrung by the “30 percent” rule and Johnson still wants to be the highest paid running back in the league. Maybe the team can offer him a modest raise now with promise to talk about a contract extension at the end of the season, assuming Johnson reports to camp on time and isn’t a distraction during the year.
Either way, this situation is becoming more positive by the day. Last week, Johnson reportedly worked out at the Titans’ practice facility and now Lombardi is reporting that the two sides could come to an agreement before training camp. Of course, Johnson did deny working out at Baptist Park, so who knows where things will go from here.
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