Sports highlights: Breeder's Cup, MLS Playoff

I know we're in the middle of the college and pro football season but the most high profile game: #1 LSU vs #2 Alabama was a snoozefest. I'd rather write about 2 not-quite-mainstream events from the past weekend. First, there was a horse race, the Breeder's Cup, on Saturday. 'Game On Dude' was in the front for most of the race but Drosselmeyer came from behind and outside to beat it by a neck. Even more interesting was the back story: winning jockey Mike Smith was the ex-boyfriend of the jockey on Game On Dude, Chantal Sutherland. She is a former model and part time actress, and she would have been the first female rider to win the race. Then were semifinals of Major League Soccer in US on Sunday. I usually dislike any team from LA but Galaxy is an exception, thanks to David Beckham. They played against Real Salt Lake Sunday night, around the same time as Sunday Night Football. I had both games on and actually paid more attention to the former. So glad to see they won and going to the final, with an assist from Beckham and a goal from Robbie Keane. Their opponent in the final would be Houston Dynamo. I don't mind either team winning it all (the current Houston team was moved from San Jose originally)

Music of the day: the pop songs that my daughter knows

The Chinese channel was showing a Taiwanese drama and was playing its theme song, which is basically a generic "adaptation" of current US pop music. I asked my daughter "doesn't the chorus sound like Firework?" (Katy Perry's hit song from last year) She thought about it a bit and agreed. Then she told me the song Dynamite (which I don't like) was also very popular. I said "don't you think the verse of this song also sound like Dynamite?" It was one of the moment I felt I was so connected to my daughter and her generation.