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Hua Hsu - Hua Hsu teaches in the English Department at Vassar College and writes about music, sports, and culture.
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Hua Hsu teaches in the English Department at Vassar College and writes about music, sports, and culture. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Bookforum, Slate, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe Ideas section and The Wire (for whom he writes a bi-monthly column). He is on the editorial board for the New Literary History of America.
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Making Freddy Adu Look Hella Old

By Hua Hsu

Jul 22 2009, 10:18 PM ET Comment



The youngest-ever professional soccer player debuted the other afternoon in Bolivia. Number 10 shirt, subbed in at the 39th minute, coach's son: a bit of pressure, eh? What happens to him is both terrible and slightly funny.

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Barely related: the Jordan Crawford-dunking-on-LeBron video, finally liberated.


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