UEFA Dishing Cash to Replace Soaked Pitch

First of all, the Reuters photo above is one of the best sports-weather photos I’ve seen in a while. As for the story behind the super cool pic, UEFA is shelling out cash to replace the pitch at Basel’s St. Jakob-Park following heavy rain Wednesday during Switzerland’s win over Turkey in the first week of Euro 2008 and ahead of Portugal’s quarterfinal match there Thursday. (Man, that was a long sentence.) The park will host another quarterfinal match and a semifinal. I could really get into this tournament if I didn’t have to be at work when the matches were being played. Stupid job… always interfering with my fun.

Rain on Spain's Getafe

Bayern Munich and Getafe played to a lousy 1-1 tie in a quarter-final match of the UEFA Cup in Munich earlier today, and Gatafe’s Ikechukwu Uche looks plenty upset. Perhaps he hates tie games as much as we do. But, there’s no reason to be angry. He and the other fellas got to play outside in the rain today and weren’t stuck in an office someplace.