I Jumped the Gun...

When Carli Lloyd scored at the three-minute mark of the Women's World Cup Final tonight, I tweeted that she was the best football player to ever come from Rutgers.

There's now no doubt about it. The best football player to ever come from Rutgers is Carli Lloyd.

— Beat Visitor (@BeatVisitor) July 5, 2015

I don't know what to add to that after she scored again at 5 minutes and 15 minutes. I don't know what to say about her now  except to confirm her place as the most important athlete to have played at Rutgers. What I don't understand is why her fellow Scarlet Knight Alexi Lalas is not even mentioning her Rutgers connection in the halftime discussion or in the postgame recap going on now.

This third Carli Lloyd goal is still unbelievable... https://t.co/d6Gb1Y5Pso #RUWorldCup

— Beat Visitor (@BeatVisitor) July 6, 2015

Get Ready for the 2014 Season at R House

Yesterday we received our challenge from fans of that other football on the opposite side of the Atlantic, piloting one of the most accurate analog drones (formerly known here as "paper airplanes") in the history of sports during a friendly match between England and Peru:



Though our paper-airplane piloting dominance may have dropped since its high point in the middle of the last century, now we remember why the players in the American version of football started wearing helmets.

The Soccer Run is Over

The Rutgers men didn't make the jump from the Sweet Sixteen to the Elite Eight in this year's NCAA soccer championships.

They lost tonight to UCLA, the same team that beat them in them in the 1990 final game.

Congratulations to the Scarlet Knights on making to the third round this year.

Have you bookmarked your NCAA bracket yet?

After beating Colgate in the first round and upsetting Boston College yesterday, the Rutgers men are now in the round of sixteen in this year's NCAA Soccer Championships.

Bookmark the bracket by clicking here.

Next Sunday, the 27th, they'll be playing the team that beat the Scarlet Knights for the 1990 championship, the UCLA Bruins. That final match was 0-0, with the Bruins winning on penalty kicks.

OK. We're all Manchester United fans now (and not just because they're another red team)

There are photos of football (the kind that doesn't have helmets) superstar Wayne Rooney all over the internet wearing not one, but two, different Block R Rutgers caps.

Check it out here, here, and here.

And check out these Manchester United song and chant lyrics here. Here's a sample:

"If you want to go to heaven when you die; you must keep the Red Flag flying high; Get yourself a red bonnet; and put 'F*** the Scousers' on it; If you want to go to heaven when you die"

Or, in place of "F*** the Scousers", you can just put a Block R on your red bonnet.