Beyond the boundary

I confess even more my gross Anglophilia: I've been waiting for The Ashes.
Day 1: England win the toss and choose to bat.
After 90 overs: England 336 - 7.
This would seem to put Oz ahead. Some say by a little, some say they won the day. What's bad is the way Kevin Pietersen went down--he bonked the ball off his HEAD. Brilliant.

He seems to think that England can get to 400 tomorrow. We'll see. Today was filled with wild back-and-forth swings. I think at one point, England were 90 for 3. Then KP and Collingwood combined for a 138 run fourth wicket, and England were back. When it was 327 for 5 with only 4 overs to go, it looked like a fantastic day. Wrong, per usual. This is England, after all. Prior and Freddy managed to go out in those four.

The Guardian's Ashes Coverage
The ECB's Ashes Site
BBC English Cricket

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Nat's Landing

USA play a country with no government tonight. Honduras gave us a tough match last time, possibly far tougher than it should have been. Let's hope the JV squad can handle the early going.

I was asleep at the wheel when Oguchi Onyewu signed for Milan. Let me say that again: OGUCHI ONYEWU SIGNED FOR MILAN. I hope he has a clear understanding of what it means to play defence for that club, and what it means to go play in a country where hooting monkey noises at black players is considered polite behaviour, instead of, oh, let's say being hit with a flair or a dart. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud and excited for him, but Serie A is the ugliest of the big Uefa leagues.