Goodbye, Free Time
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 […]
Hard to Understand
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 […]
Road to Redemption
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 […]
Book Review: Bloody Confused
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 […]
Greatest Sports Day of the Year
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 Time
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 […]
Noooooooooooo!
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 […]
La Guerra Fria, Part Dos
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 […]
Where’s Coach When You Need Him?
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 […]