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Soccer isn’t known for its high scoring games. Indeed, of all the stupid reasons many Americans use to still hate on the beautiful game – ties are okay, the clock goes up instead of down, flopping – the low score of many matches tends to top the list.
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Are you a fan of the band Velvet Revolver? Or perhaps Temple of the Dog? Maybe the Highwaymen? Don’t apologize if you aren’t, or if you’ve never heard of…
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If you asked French soccer fans, the star of Monday’s women’s World Cup win over Nigeria was French defender Wendie Renard, who scored the game’s only…
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One of the teams in my kids’ soccer club lost a game 18-0 last week. This team competes in a fairly competitive league, or flight I suppose, where every…
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Ronaldo just cost me $50. I’m speaking of Cristiano Ronaldo, the global mega soccer star who’s amongst a handful of soccer idols here in the US. I know…
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Ken Bensinger has been a journalist for more than twenty years. He has worked at The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and, since 2014, for…
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For many soccer is fun to play or watch. For Stephen Schirra, the sport breaks down language barriers and allows him to have a positive impact on children…
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There is perhaps no greater insult and hypocrisy than when FIFA, the institutionally corrupt federation that oversees global soccer, when they insinuate…
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In the spirit of art imitating life, the popular video game Football Manager 2018 takes its cues from reality. For the uninitiated, which in this case is…
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So I’m going to say two of the dirtiest words in the history of the American version of the English language. Travel soccer. If you’ve ever so much as sat…