Soccer Talk With Mark At The Rockies Game

I went to see the Colorado Rockies play the Cincinnati Reds at Coors Field here in Denver last night with Mark, my friend and a current employee at the University of Denver's library, now called the Anderson Academic Commons.. First, however, we went to The Three Lions Pub, at the corner of Colfax and York near the Bookstore where I work, to have dinner.  The Three Lions is a soccer pub, and Mark is obsessed about soccer.  He follows virtually every soccer team in the world, and has traveled to the far corners of the known world to attend games.  One fact he told that surprised me was the number of soccer teams in Europe owned by wealthy Americans, especially the ones who own sports franchises in the U.S. too. Globalization has hit even the sports world.  In any case, Mark is all excited about his trip to Russia coming up this fall.  He will visit St. Petersburg and then cruise the Volga River to Moscow.  In any case, I told him that Russians are very interested in the opinions of Americans these days, and he should bring a "Down With Putin" banner to hang on the side of the cruise ship.  I'm sure it will be a big conversation starter.  Good luck with that, Mark!  By the way, the Rockies won on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 9th in a very sloppily played game.  Go figure.