A little more than a month ago, I wrote about my disenchantment with the latest version of EA Sports’ college football video game series. I managed to plug away and finish a season with SMU (we went 8-5 or something like that and reached a bowl), then chose to take a job with Syracuse. I […]
A friend took me aside recently. She had watched two co-workers engage in an hour-long conversation about college football and wanted to ask me something. How can they do that? She really had no idea how two people could carry on a conversation about sports for so long. She admitted that she tried to get […]
Late last month, the U.S. soccer team got some great publicity with a fantastic run at the Confederations Cup. People who usually didn’t follow the team tuned in to see us almost beat Brazil in the final. You might now know this, but the team has not stopped playing. They are currently competing in the […]
I am really glad I did not troll the Intertubes for reviews of Chuck Culpepper’s book Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer before I recently read it. I should have known that anything relating to an American and soccer would engender all kinds of angst and confusion. As it was, […]
Today is an embarrassment of riches for sports fans. It really is such a wonderful day to be alive. Of course, March Madness starts today. I am in four pools this year. I picked my teams kind of randomly so it’s not like I need one or two things to happen in order to come […]
Today ranks as one of the most important days of the year for me. Actually, this is one of the most important days in a four-year period. The U.S. men’s national soccer team takes on Mexico in a World Cup qualifer tonight at 7. Watch it on ESPN2. I think of myself as a pretty […]
I just realized something this morning. There are nly seven football games left in the season. College is done – I don’t count the all-star games. There are four NFL playoff games today, two next week, a week off, then the Super Bowl. The Pro Bowl also doesn’t count. Seven games, then nothing, nada, zip. […]
For the U.S. national soccer team, qualifying for the World Cup doesn’t really heat up until the final round. In the Hex (short for hexagonal because the round features six teams), we actually have to face teams like Mexico and Costa Rica who can put real dents in our plans to make the final 32 […]
If you’re hiding from Olympic results, shame on you. You’re gonna get spoiled here, and I don’t really care. If I “ruined’ the result of the soccer game today, take that as your warning to stay away from my site for the next few weeks. When I hear news, I don’t like to keep it […]
So the soccer team from the Czech Republic had a game the other day. They got all ready to face Latvia in a friendly match. Problem was, they were playing Lithuania. D’oh! Vaclav Tichy, the spokesman for the Czech soccer federation, took responsibility and resigned. His deputy was canned. No word on whether they have […]