Soccer fans got quite a treat this weekend in Foxboro as the 2010 FIFA World Cup Champion Spanish National Soccer team visited Patriot Place and Gillette Stadium on Friday and Saturday for a chance to meet young soccer players at the WeGotSoccer shop and to play Team USA in an international friendly match, respectively.
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It wasn't just us. A friend of Bostonist, who knows and cares more about soccer than we ever will, told us afterwards, "That was a terrible game." Sometimes we can't tell, but it's nice to have our suspicions confirmed. But nobody in Spain cares about style points today, since Andrés Iniesta scored in the final minutes of overtime, breaking a scoreless graceless tie and giving Spain their first ever World Cup win.
If you've been to the MFA recently and wondered if John Singer Sargent's masterpiece The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit had been lifted in some Gardner-esque heist or fallen victim to the molestations of an out-of-control art lover, rest assured. The painting is still in good shape and in better company. It's on loan to the Prado in Madrid, where, for the first time, it will be exhibited in the same room as Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas, Sargent's direct inspiration.
If you looked at the Red Sox schedule at the beginning of the season, and someone told you there'd be a series in the first week of July with first place on the line, you'd probably assume it was the weekend series in the Bronx. You'd be wrong. So wrong. The Red Sox find themselves on the last day of June in second place, looking up at the Tampa Bay Rays and heading into St. Petersburg for the epic showdown to end all epic showdowns. Well, not really, but it sounds good. The stakes certainly are getting higher every time TB appears on the schedule.
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