The All Shakespeare Starting XI

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Leftovers: Pants Off Dance Off!
Published 5/1/2007 at Deadspin
... • The Shakespeare soccer starting lineup? [DC United Blog]

Support for My Belief that US Soccer Fans Have High IQs
Published 5/1/2007 by Laurie at The Offside
... Remember that day? Well, I’d like to point you to a blog post that will help you combine that excitement with your current, modern-day love of soccer. D at The DCenters has written a hysterically funny yet quite erudite post about The All Shakespeare Starting XI.

Which NBA Player Are You?
Published 5/2/2007 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... , none of which were odd enough to make me want to fill them out. Point being, it's not really an NBA personality test, it's more a test of basketball styles, which is considerably less interesting. The first time I filled it out, in which I basically said I was below average whenever possible, the test told me I was Gilbert Arenas. The second time, in which I just clicked randomly as quickly as possible, it said I was Yao Ming. I think the enterprise is flawed, but if someone made an actual personality test (i.e. if you printed a t-shirt for fans what would it say, in which bathroom appliance does your daughter play, etc.), I would be extremely pleased. In other blogs that you might want to read: The DCenters compiled an all-Shakespeare Starting XI , likely marking the first time in world history that Falstaff was compared to Marco Etcheverry and Polonius to Ray Hudson. Suitably inspired, Ben Olse