USMNT Archives - Sibling Rivalry https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/tag/usmnt/ How Mexico and the US Built the Most Contentious, Co-Dependent Feud in World Soccer Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:06:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Depth of Talent is a USMNT Game-changer https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/12/09/its-depth-of-choice-that-gilds-this-usmnt-cohort/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/12/09/its-depth-of-choice-that-gilds-this-usmnt-cohort/#respond Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:19:34 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4223 In assessing the inherent, overall quality of a golf course — not in comparison to another but on its own, in a vacuum — it’s helpful to start at the bottom: What’s the worst hole out there? Out of 18, how many objectively bad or fair-to-middling holes are there really? In other words, what's the [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/12/09/its-depth-of-choice-that-gilds-this-usmnt-cohort/feed/ 0 The Canonization of Graham Zusi, Patron Saint https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:36:01 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4171 Sibling Rivalry Excerpt: From Chapter 3: That morning of the October 2024 friendly down in Guadalajara, we weren't thinking about Graham Zusi, Patron Saint of the North American Derby. Still full of optimzism for US fortunes, my posse of New Englanders headed out for another outdoor brunch on a tropical terrace. Our stomachs well [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/feed/ 0 Why Mainstreaming U.S. Soccer & The Dream Team Share a Movement https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2024/02/16/mainstreaming-of-u-s-soccer-paralleled-the-internationalization-of-american-sport/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2024/02/16/mainstreaming-of-u-s-soccer-paralleled-the-internationalization-of-american-sport/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:32:25 +0000 https://genzero.halphillips.net/?p=3848 During the late 1980s — when super powers went mono, mullets were fashionable, and iconic walls came crashing down — it was easy to miss the internationalization of American team sport. Yet this phenomenon took shape all through the first Bush Era, step by step, forever changing big hunks of the U.S. sporting landscape. The [...]

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