Still looking for a team to root for in the quarter finals and beyond? Tony passed along this team choser from the World Development Movement based on some non-footballing factors. Why not give it a try? Seems they got the USA pretty right " The USA’s average ranking across all the ten criteria make it […]
As in cleaned by the MLS Ministry of Truth, Tino Palace singles out Clint Dempsey by name for praise – since he plays in MLS – and Reyna and Bocanegra for criticism – since they play in England. Then in a section titled "Bid Names did not Deliver" Beasley gets called out a bit, but
I’ll still be writing about our trip to Germany in the coming days. I ran out of time during the trip to drag myself to the internet cafe and collect my thoughts. This time, I’ll also have pictures!
Two good football links today via The Sports Economist. Craig Depken analyzes the number of cards being given at the World Cup and compares it to what we saw in 2002. He assumes that red cards depend on the number of yellow cards in a game, which is a generous assumption to make as red
Monday was spent on a cruise up the Rhine river past Mainz to St Goarshausen-Loreley. Despite our best efforts to wake up extra early – I was in the shower before 7am – we had to run through the Romer to catch our boat. We grabbed coffee and breakfast at the hotel, thinking we were
Hello from Frankfurt! We arrived early on Saturday morning at 9am local time which was 3am for us. Thankfully, we took a direct flight out of Washington and both of Staci and I managed to sleep through most of it. We had a very nice driver pick us up at the airport, an expat from
One of the best analysis of the US loss to the Czech republic comes from the Sports Economist, World Cup – the long view. Instead of being firmly rooted in the moment, in despair and looking to hand out blame, he puts it nicely into context. Only us few US fans fancied our side against
A seemingly innocuous post on clarifying the offsides rule in soccer (I wish I could call it football), lead to a flattering post about my blog. If this is your first time here, I hope you find something interesting, funny, or informative.
Latino assimilate quite well into American society, more so than the anti-immigration conservative right would have you believe. Tyler Cowen and Daniel M. Rothschild have a data-packed column in the Washington Post looking at this issue. Throughout the article, I couldn’t help but pick parts where I felt like they were writing about me. Most
If you’re looking for a decidedly American take and analysis of the teams and games for the World Cup, I invite you to listen to The World Cup Roundtable, a nighly podcast. Dave Lifton of the excellent Screaming Eaglies Podcast organized this meeting of the soccer minds and it’s been great fun to do. I