 It has been two years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and while the city has recovered a sense of normalcy, its population has been altered permanently by the absence of the nearly 200,000 residents, mostly African-American, who have relocated since the storm. Writers, thinkers, and politicians have all had time to answer the questions posed by Katrina and its aftermath, but as New Orleans' reigning literary scion Richard Ford said in a piece published by the Guardian UK , "Our inept attempts at words only run to lists, costs, to assessing blame. It's like Hiroshima a public official said. But, no. It's not like anything. It's what it is. That's the hard part. He, with all of us, lacked the words."
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 Every major city in America possesses a particular inertia-a force that keeps you from getting out of town and regaining your sanity even when the high, buzzing whine of tension in your ear tells you, clearly, that you need it. In New York it's the pace of the city, the feeling that if you leave for a day your whole life will fall apart in a heap of unreturned phone calls, missed opportunities, and botched obligations. In San Francisco it's the line over the bridge, the very certain knowledge that to access one of the world's most beautiful landscapes, you have to pay up front with two hours of stop and go, fume-inhaling traffic. In Chicago it is just the raw size of the megalopolis. It feels like you can't get out of Chicago no matter what direction you try. It takes four hours, corner to corner, to get across it on a Friday...
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 On Friday, May 11th, 2007, a 22 year-old motorist named Liko Kenney shot a cop to death on a small highway in the shadow of Mt. Kinsman near the Franconia Notch in New Hampshire. The circumstances of the killing were bizarre. Kenney, traveling with friend Caleb Macauley, was pulled over by patrolman Bruce McKay, a local officer with whom Kenney had a standing feud . Kenney reportedly told McKay to get another officer if he wanted to arrest him, and he drove away.
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 I usually focus, when writing about soccer, on the English Premier League, because I like the speed and parity in the English game, harbor some Anglophile tendencies , support Arsenal , and subscribe to Fox Sports Channel. But there are times when the best soccer in the world is somewhere else. To my mind those time usually occur in Spain, because while you can't argue with the quality of competition in Italy, the game is so bottled up these days that the world's best talent prefers to play elsewhere. All that as introduction to what happened in Spain this past weekend...
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