Carl Tyler's Blog

1 - And the US has the top three riders in the Tour de France!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/sports/sportsspecial/08tour.html?ex=1246939200&en=2e9986df9292044e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

-rich

2 - How is this possible??? I think England need to play the US just so that they can slip below us!

3 - Carl, just wait.

The kids growing up now are the first generation of Americans who have as a group grown up with parents who played the game. That means we're finally starting to coach the kids reasonably.

A country with as many people as this, most of whom are well fed and have plenty of spare time, will ultimately field a top team in virtually any sport once the population has had a few years to be interested in that sport. Its a question of demographics.

Its like Rudi G. used to say: "This is a big city. Anything with a one in a million chance happens six times a day here."

4 - Another flawed computer ranking... I'm American and proudly support US Soccer but I know that Germany, England and Portugal (all ranked lower) would beat us 4 out of 5 games played. We're getting there though and agree with Andrew's comments above.