July 10 - Flopping and twin turbo Porsches

"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, with a favorable impression of himself."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


This is pretty funny. I have to say all the flopping is one of my least favorite parts of soccer (and NBA basketball for that matter).


I had heard about this. I didn't know there was controversy around it.  "Like a moonshot before we know how to build a plane" makes it sound pretty unfeasible.

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