Everything Bush Touches

Every four years, we Americans endure all the nationalistic sports coverage about how this is the year we will have a soccer team that makes a run into the late rounds of the World Cup. Inevitably, its followed by what happened today ...

the Americans taking a 3-0 ass-whoopin' from the Czech Republic.

But wait ... maybe it wasn't a case of media over-hype this time around. Buried in the AP's report of the game, I caught this possible explanation:

The Americans got a pregame pep talk from President Bush, who called from Camp David and wished them well.