United States

Who will England blame?

by Esther Song on June 28, 2010 · 10 comments

The Three Lions are land­ing back on their home turf today and before they even deplane, the Eng­lish media will be on them like hounds. Their defeated faces will be splashed across the tabloids with hor­ri­bly corny puns sim­i­lar to the one shown in Nike’s ‘Write the Future Ad’. And the whole coun­try is going […]

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How the World Cup Made Me an Obsessive

by Eric Altshule on May 20, 2010 · 7 comments

  When you are 11 years old, the word “gay” has a very spe­cific mean­ing.  It has noth­ing to do with homo­sex­u­al­ity.  It is all-purpose adjec­tive that refers to some activ­ity or event that no self-respecting 11 year old boy would want any­thing to do with.  Clas­si­cal music was gay.  Pic­nics with egg salad sandwiches […]

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Poll: Who Will Advance From World Cup Group C?

by The Gaffer on December 16, 2009 · 2 comments

Who Will Advance From World Cup Group C?(sur­veys) Group C of the 2010 World Cup is one of the most inter­est­ing ones for sev­eral rea­sons, most of which revolve around who will have win the brag­ging rights after the United States com­petes against rival Eng­land. But who do you think will advance from Group C? […]

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Rounds 7 and 8 of CONCACAF World Cup qual­i­fiers were the rounds that re-established the known order of CONCACAF national teams. The US & Mex­ico came into these rounds in need of 6 points to over­take Hon­duras & Costa Rica in the stand­ings. The Stars & Stripes defeated El Sal­vador 2–1 at home in Utah […]

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The eter­nal ques­tion of football/soccer and its sur­vival in the United States is: Why won’t the sport be huge and break into the Big 4 of US Pro­fes­sional Sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, NASCAR)? Well we have 5 answers to that ques­tion that will make you think and hope­fully bring out some emo­tion in favor or […]

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As the USA stum­bled upon a sec­ond place fin­ish in the Con­fed­er­a­tions Cup, ESPN surely reaped the ben­e­fits. Although the team were lucky to be in the final, every “soc­cer” fan in the United States of Amer­ica was jump­ing up in down as the US took a two goal lead, only to suf­fer a heartbreak […]

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How would some­one char­ac­ter­ize US Soccer’s Sum­mer of 2009? The extreme opti­mist would say that the US made a non-CONCACAF tour­na­ment major final for the 1st time by end­ing Spain’s world record streak, then with a “B” side made it to the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The extreme pes­simist would say that the United […]

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