

Champions League
Where’d that come from?
By: Chris |To all that read this blog, my apologies–I’ve been on a wonderful and well-deserved holiday sans laptop for over a week.
Circling the drain
By: Chris |Our Hanseaten heroes are back to their blundering ways, having lost any momentum they may have gained in their well-played defeat to Bremen, with their away loss to relegation-strugglers Cottbus. Cottbus, for their part, ensured that they will stay in the 1. Bundesliga with a victory. Not sure what else there is to say about [...]
Bring on Bremen, Redux
By: Chris |Chalk one up for the success of avoiding predictions. Hamburg have the Northern Derby mid-week against arch rival Werder Bremen at the Bank (See how I’ve taken to calling the ground by some sort of nickname based on the ground’s naming sponsor? It’s quite the thing to do in American sports journalism. And if I [...]
Short and sweet
By: Chris |Tomorrow is the second of HSV’s six-pointers versus other Bundesliga contenders. Ha. HSV aren’t contenders anymore. If they somehow manage to sneak into the CL qualifying, they will have done so because one of the contenders (Schalke, Bremen, Stuttgart) somehow slipped up and spit the bit.
HSV - Vfb Stuttgart Preview
By: Chris |The big match this weekend in the Bundesliga. Hamburg come in trying to regain their form, which they apparently left on the pitch in their last UEFA Cup match versus Leverkusen, while Stuttgart comes in a pretty big roll–to the tune of 4 wins in their last 5 matches at home. Vfb also come in [...]
Brawl in the Bundesliga
By: Chris |I was trying to come up with a WWE-esque title for this post, which really is about the chase for 2 of the 3 Champions League spots in the Bundesliga. I am not conceding the title to Bayern Munich by any stretch, but it will take a collapse of 1964 Phillies/2007 Mets proportion for the [...]







