{"id":1174,"date":"2006-06-08T14:05:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/06\/08\/uncharacteristically-sporty\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T19:05:24","slug":"uncharacteristically-sporty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/uncharacteristically-sporty\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncharacteristically Sporty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody that knows me knows that I&#8217;m not the biggest sports nut. I casually follow the Dallas Mavericks and may catch a game or two here and there for sports other than basketball, but that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the Mavericks in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\">NBA Finals<\/a> for the first time ever and World Cup starting up tomorrow, I&#8217;m in sports mode for the next couple of weeks (sorry, Spurs fans). Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve got to go to a rehearsal dinner tonight, so I&#8217;m DVR&#8217;ing the Mavs-Heat game. Shhh! I don&#8217;t want to hear it! I&#8217;m watching it later.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup can be entertaining, especially as the teams are narrowed down. We&#8217;re getting the usual assurances that the U.S. team has improved and they&#8217;ll do better this time, but I have a hard time believing they&#8217;ll make it out of their bracket with the Czech Republic and Italy to get past. You can check out the schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/fifaworldcup.yahoo.com\/06\/en\/w\/schedule.html\">here<\/a>, complete with nifty local time converter.<\/p>\n<p>So where do you go to watch the big game? The consensus seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringerssportslounge.com\/\">Ringers<\/a> on Colorado between 4th and 5th although I&#8217;ve never been in there. What about <a href=\"http:\/\/warehousesaloon.com\/nextindex.asp\">The Warehouse<\/a>? For World Cup in particular, it seems like Irish or English Pubs will also be hopping. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadoirishpub.com\/austin\/\">Fado<\/a>? What about the Ale House in the alley behind Old Pecan St. Cafe on Sixth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody that knows me knows that I&#8217;m not the biggest sports nut. I casually follow the Dallas Mavericks and may catch a game or two here and there for sports other than basketball, but that&#8217;s about it. However, with the Mavericks in the NBA Finals for the first time ever and World Cup starting up <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/uncharacteristically-sporty\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-iW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}