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I was introduced to Johnny Cash via my readings on Dylan. In the old folk music tradition, Cash gave his guitar to Dylan, as a symbol of a master ordaining an apprentice to a guild. One of the most important feature of American -as a matter of fact of all- Folk music is its storytelling side. Here is the story of a boy who was named Sue by his father, as told by one of the masters of this guild:

I am speechless. I can watch her sleeping for hours.

We won 2-1. I am in heaven. I find it hard to write down my feelings. Its not the score, its not the game, it's not the team we beat. It's this love I share with millions. It's this love, which finally found its lover. I know this will be a short coming together. I know the players will forget this game soon and play miserable as they have done for the last years. But everything was worth fot these 10 minutes, when love -in my humble opinion- appeared in it most pure form in televisions: We did not sing my favorite chant, Gündogdu - The day has broken, during the game. I am sure they did sing it after the game. Here is the chant that means so much to me, and its translation We woke up when the day broke, and we made it to the stadiums Covered us with flags, in the name of Besiktas, Our neighborhood is the neighborhood of honest men, it charms every one, May the shadow of my flag never be far away from me, Here we are, standing shoulder to shoulder on days of trouble, Don&

It is not usual that the teams I support win on the same weekend. This weekend was different, and I hope my luck goes into the week to. On Saturday Besiktas scored an important victory away to Trabzonspor, the so-called 4th Giant of Turkish football. After conceding 2 very stupid goals in 6 minutes, every one was fearing for the worst. However Ziya Dogan, the trainer of Trabzon, made some very important tactical mistakes, and we were able to comeback in 20 minutes. We dictated our game and found the winning goal in 70th minute. Due to a clear error of judgment by the linesman our goal keeper was sent of on 80th minute. As we had used our 3 subs, the goalscorer Bobo had to play as the goalie for the last 10 minutes. After his perfect performance we won the game. It is not the first big game we won without a goalie. We had won in Fenerbahce stadium 4-3 in 2004 without a goalie too. On Sunday the most unlikely of the outcomes did take place and Kimi Raikkonnen won the 2007 Drivers Cha

I started Box training yesterday. Just like my friend Regina warned me, the training was torture. 1.5 hours of running, push-ups, sit-ups and many creative and hard exercises followed by half an hour of basic boxing exercises. Not more than shadow boxing up to now. To keep the tempo of the exercises high, they played a well chosen mix of songs. Among them was the only Guns'n Roses song that I like, "Welcome to the Jungle!"

Thanks to my dear friend Ozan, I got my tickets to the Champions League game between Besiktas and Liverpool in Liverpool. Once I get my visa -after a process that has taken more than a month- everything will be ready to silence the Liverpool fans with "Gundogdu - The Day has broken..."

The clouds in Berlin cannot decide if they are winter clouds, or autumn clouds...

My interest for non-traditional variants of football started when I found an illustrated book in our elementary school library on the 1990 championship season of New York Giants, when they beat Buffallo Bills 19-20 in the super Bowl. Then bing the obsessive type that I am, I tried to follow other forms whenever I got a chance. The toughest being the Australian Rules Football , most fun to watch being the Gaelic Football , the fastest and one needing most tactical skills being the American Football, Rugby has always appeared to me the one requiring most strength, courage, and stamina. Despite its extreme contact sport nature, it also the most "gentleman" sport of all. The amount of respect the players show to the referee makes traditional football -soccer- look like a nursery school birthday party. The referee talks only to the captains of the team, and other players, if they bitch about referee's decisions can be expelled from the game. Like Gaelic Football Rugby has s

The upper and lower rows shout the same melody with "laylay" and "ooo" interchangebly. Its gonna be a great game the next Wednesday. I hope the game in Liverpool will be a better one...

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