UEFA Champions League

So, the 4 of Clubs. Man, what a deceptively simple card. For years, I just glossed over it. You read the old textbooks, right? They all tell you the same thing: stability, minor financial security, maybe a small gift. It’s...

Look, I watch a ton of football, right? But the thing is, when you get to the European fixtures, especially in the early stages, the mainstream media talking heads always focus on the big names and totally miss the messy...

I finally pushed myself to sit down and figure out exactly how to plan for something that feels ridiculously far away. Jan 2026. Seriously? That sounds like a date on a movie poster. But listen, I totally screwed up Q4...

Starting the Deep Dive: Why I Needed Villarreal’s Dirty Laundry You know me, I like to document how things work, how you get from point A to point B, especially when the mainstream path is blocked. This week, my focus...

Man, let me tell you about the chaos I got myself into last Tuesday. It was one of those days where you think you’re just going to glide through, and then BAM! Simple math bites you right in the butt,...

How I Finally Stopped Being Stupid and Understood Prediction I swear, for the last year, I’ve been chasing the shiny objects. Every tutorial promised some revolutionary new deep learning technique that would solve all my problems. I was diving headfirst...

You know, for years, I just relied on what the commentators were saying or maybe what my buddy, Mark, was shouting down the phone about who was going to win the next big European fixture. It was chaos. Absolute chaos....

I swear, I never intended to write about football, or soccer, whatever you call it. I was actually supposed to be grinding out some tedious legacy CRM system code for a client back in Chicago. My whole plan went sideways...

I was absolutely sick of it. Seriously, the noise level online about where to move for cheap living had reached a critical mass. Every blogger and their dog was pitching a different paradise. My bank account, though, was screaming that...

Man, let me tell you, sometimes the simplest questions send you down the deepest rabbit holes. I kicked off this whole mess a couple of weeks ago, wrestling with some ancient data analysis for a community project I volunteer with....