{"id":3734,"date":"2010-07-16T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2010-07-16T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:08:35","slug":"congrats-to-spain-but-not-to-labron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Spain, But Not to LaBron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY RANDY GARDNER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So many people that I have talked to are glad that the World Cup is over but not me as I looked forward to coming home everyday from work and catching the games that I had recorded.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing how you can get so caught up in the aura of the entire thing. It is so cool to see countries completely come together and forget about all of their problems for just awhile. The finals were two teams that you usually wouldnt see near the finals. I heard everyone talk about how crappy the final game was but I thought it was actually pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>I would have liked the\u00a0game to go to penalty kicks\u00a0though, that would have made it even more exciting. Congratulations to Spain though as the ended up being the better team in this one. Their were so many great goals in this World Cup along with some great goalkeeping. It seems like al I see now on TV is U.S. World Cup players on all of the talk shows, especially Landon Donovan. Pretty cool, huh.<\/p>\n<p>I just herd a couple of words that no dad ever wants to hear and that is, I am barbering my brothers hair. I had to take a quick peek even though I am under deadline, to check and make sure that my youngest boy doesn\u2019t look like one of the three stooges, thanks goodness, he just meant that he was combing his hair.<\/p>\n<p>Back to sports, can you believe the spectacle that was put on by LeBron James. 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