Sometimes More is Better: Defending FIFA’s 48-team World Cup
Few folks would dare express public admiration for FIFA. Only [...]
Belgium traps USMNT in Waffle House of Horrors
Monday night’s USMNT exit was gutting, but we shouldn’t be [...]
US-Belgium Preview: A Single Goal Could Win It — Where will it come from?
We’ve barely noticed how well the U.S. back line has [...]
A New World Guide to Sensible World Cup Expectations
I was rereading and search-engine optimizing some older essays last [...]
USMNT Final Roster Observations & Idle Gossip
It's getting real, folks. The World Cup is but two [...]
Envy & Scorn Furnish this Rivalry with Curiously Intimate form of Codependence
See below a brief excerpt from Chapter 1 of Sibling [...]
Lee Nguyen, Still a Great Story. But I Had it First!
Sometimes, when a fellow journalist publishes or posts a [...]
The Canonization of Graham Zusi, Patron Saint
Sibling Rivalry Excerpt: From Chapter 3: That morning of [...]
Requiem for Match of the Day (and The Sanctity of Unspoiled Endings)
There’s a wonderfully prescient exchange in Whit Stillman’s 1990 [...]
Why Mainstreaming U.S. Soccer & The Dream Team Share a Movement
During the late 1980s — when super powers went mono, [...]
