Mexico’s 3-1 victory over Iran has provided some support for my theory of how to tune in and out of a soccer game. If you’d followed my recommendation and watched the first 25 minutes and last 20, you’d have caught…
You’re a busy person, you have work to do. And admit it, you find soccer a little boring to watch. So when should you tune games in? If you consider the best part of soccer the scoring, as I do,…
The reason I love the Adidas ad set in the South American sandlot is that the two kids’ dream of playing with Zidane, Riquelme, and Beckham isn’t just a sappy kid story, it’s what the World Cup is at its…
The apparently accidental killing by Israeli artillery of a Palestinian family on a Gaza beach yesterday has proved calamitous, resulting in the end of Hamas’s truce with Israel. The incident in some ways parallels another border event of ten years…
Blogging at Deadspin, editor/soccermeister David Hirshey, a sportswriter in a previous life, picks England, Argentina, Brazil and Italy for the finals. No surprises—though he gets off a couple good (rim)shots: While it’s difficult to take a team seriously that is…
The Jason Grimsley news, though upsetting to me as an Orioles fan, is a further reminded that Barry Bonds is being singled out, that perform-enhancing substances are widespread in the game of baseball. Maybe not everyone’s using it, but just…
Chris Matthews’ line on Zarqawi’s death yesterday—”he’s dead as Julius Caesar”—was ten times as poetic as President Bush’s: “Zarqawi has met his end.” And Bush’s writers had more advance warning than Matthews’s. I gather the line comes from Malone on…
I spent a couple days in New York city this week, including an obligatory meeting with a pseudo-friend. If you don’t live in New York, you might not know what a pseudofriend is. New York is full of them. These…