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High heat, drop kicks, random observations and points that amuse are all part of the wide, wide world of sports at the community and national levels.
The U.S. women’s national soccer team got me to thinking about Sam Webb – and Excelsior Springs High School sports.
Or rather, the frustration of trying to watch the U.S. women’s team did.
The night of July 21, I was planning to watch the U.S. ladies play Vietnam in the FIFA Women’s World Cup on television. Kickoff was set for 8 p.m. Central Daylight Time. I considered that a miracle. You see, New Zealand and Australia are co-hosting the quadrennial tournament and there’s a zillion-gajillionbazillion- quadrillion-trillion-billionmillion- thousand-hundred hours’ time difference between those places and the Kansas City metro area. As I learned from following the 2002 men’s World Cup, cohosted by South Korea and Japan (two other places a zillion-gajillion-etc. time zones ahead of us), that means the kickoff for most games will…