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Sports Illustrated April 19, 2000 |
Mad Bulgarian fires up Chicago Hristo Stoitchkov at the Chicago Fire... Which soccer players got the most votes?... World Cup qualifying to begin in July?... Extra time... Game of the Week... |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Stanley Holmes |
Bend It Like...Blanco Cuauhtemoc Blanco, like Beckham, has amped up pro soccer's star power. Plus, he's pulling in Latino fans. |
Sports Illustrated May 16, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Don't send Mathis to Europe yet Just because MetroStars striker Clint Mathis is the hottest U.S. player in years, MLS doesn't want its fans to assume he'll be on the next flight to Europe... |
Sports Illustrated May 18, 2000 |
Klinsmann loves L.A. Soccer News: Still, don't expect Klinsmann to join the Galaxy -- he retired for good in 1998... MLS discovery zone gets ugly -- again... MLS players responded to the following question: Who's the best coach in MLS? Who's the worst coach?... |
Sports Central December 17, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
MLS Grows Up Lamar Hunt's dream of America as a Soccer Nation is still unfolding. But his vision of Major League Soccer as a professional sports league has become a reality. |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 Stanley Holmes |
A Breakout Year For Soccer? Investors seem to think MLS has a big future. You be the judge. |
CFO July 15, 2008 Kate O'Sullivan |
Going for the Gold Can a savvy finance strategy propel Women's Professional Soccer to post-Olympic glory? |
Sports Illustrated April 12, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Overbeck gets assist from Devers Soccer news: U.S. defender Carla Overbeck has Graves' disease... Why do some players star in the club game but flounder at the international level... special meeting Wednesday in Chicago with Fire coach Bob Bradley... etc. |
Sports Illustrated July 13, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Confessions of a soccer fan My reaction to Frank Deford's "soccer is un-American" piece in SI not long ago... |
Sports Central June 14, 2006 Zach Jones |
The Great Disappearing League Signs the NHL is in decline. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Least Profitable Sports Leagues Many pro sports leagues are running in the red. Here's a look at some of the least profitable pro sports leagues in recent years. |
Sports Illustrated August 30, 2000 Grant Wahl |
The crazy life of Landon 18-year-old sniper Landon Donovan is much more likely to start for coach Clive Charles now that another field position has opened up for an under-23 player... News on the MLS and national team fronts... |
Outside June 2008 Mark Anders |
Turf Battle U.S. soccer fans are turning to homegrown hero Taylor Twellman, the New England Revolution's 28-year-old striker. |
Sports Illustrated August 10, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Fire-MetroStars rivalry turns ugly "It was gonna be a bloodbath"... Tempers flare on the field, and on the national team's bench... Joe-Max, Five Bellies and two continents... Who is the cleanest team in the MLS? |
AskMen.com Mark Simmons |
soccer betting What do we think about when high-budget sporting franchises come to mind? Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? Although all of these might be valid answers to the question, soccer should also be added to the list. |
Sports Illustrated June 17, 2002 Phil Taylor |
No vacancy U.S. has no room for soccer on its full sports plate. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
David Beckham's MLS Team Since retiring from the sport, Beckham has been searching for the right place to land his MLS expansion team. According to some early reports, he's going to get a discounted rate of $25 million to start up the franchise in Miami. |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer Cobi Jones has suddenly found his scoring touch for the U.S. team |
Sports Central January 20, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
The Booze, Banter, and Betting Theory A sport's popularity, on a professional or college level, can be directly linked to its fans' ability to debate it, bet it, or use it as the entrance point for a few hours of total inebriation. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
3 Big Questions (And Answers) For Soccer In 2011 Question One: Will Jose Mourinho leave Real Madrid if he fails to take the Spanish title from Barcelona? |
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
MLBAM Goes Beyond Baseball Diamond Major League Baseball's Internet subsidiary has launched a spin-off company to hawk technical expertise to sports leagues and franchises. |
Sports Central June 29, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Why I Don't Love Soccer Why has the beautiful game of soccer, something easy both to play and to understand, failed to make headway against baseball and basketball and American football? |
Sports Illustrated July 18, 2001 |
Divided we stand There's a league for everyone these days. Declining TV ratings for individual sports are caused by an increase in choices. |
AskMen.com Rob Fox |
Thierry Henry Won't Save Soccer In America Beyond the money, it's difficult to see why a player of Henry's stature would want to compete in a league that's seen by many outside of North America as a golden retirement home for European and South American pros. |
Fast Company September 2015 KC Ifeanyi |
Can the NFL trounce FIFA to define "football" once and for all? The stateside popularity of American pigskin has always been as fierce as soccer's unshakeable foothold in Europe and Latin America. |
Sports Illustrated November 16, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Meola, Ramos turn back the clock Nobody was more instrumental in keeping the Americans' World Cup qualifying campaign alive this week than two grizzled vets, goalkeeper Tony Meola, 31, and midfielder Tab Ramos, 34. Both players' careers were left for dead in 1999, yet both came back to play splendidly... |
Sports Illustrated June 17, 2002 Tim Layden |
Give soccer a chance If there were justice in the sports universe, the players from an amazing spring would momentarily step aside today. All would understand that what is taking place in the World Cup is just a little bit better than what they are doing or have done. |
IDB America May/Jun 2000 Peter Bate |
Soccer meets economics Pele and Kissinger highlight seminar on sports and development |
Sports Illustrated September 19, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Unfamiliar refrain The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming! The U.S. is a decent side on the international stage now, one that has to be taken seriously by any team in the world. And that's a huge advance from what any European would have said before the World Cup. |
Sports Illustrated August 31, 2001 |
Donovan's big chance Every indication is that 19-year-old American soccer player Landon Donovan will get his first World Cup qualifying start on Saturday when the U.S. meets Honduras. |
Fast Company April 2014 Josh Dean |
How A Risky Ad Campaign Turned The Portland Timbers Into One Of Pro Sports' Hottest Startups In their short life, the Timbers have quietly become a fixture in the league -- and are changing the way MLS teams think about marketing themselves. |
Sports Illustrated March 29, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Feeling Minnesota The Twin Cities bring out the best in soccer's diehards... |
Salon.com May 24, 2002 Allen Barra |
Soccer may be the world's sport, but it will never be America's Every four years soccer officials assure us that if the U.S. men's team makes a run for the World Cup, their sport will finally break through in America. Dream on. |
CRM September 2012 Leonard Klie |
The Numbers Game Sports teams struggle with collecting and analyzing data about their supporters. |
Sports Illustrated April 25, 2001 Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
Salon.com June 27, 2002 Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
Sports Central October 1, 2007 Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
Sports Central June 14, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
World Cup: Getting Hooked in My Sleep This year's World Cup offered a view of Brazil and the world's finest athlete, Ronaldinho, taking on Croatia. |
Sports Central July 1, 2010 Kevin Beane |
On Soccer, Instant Replay, and Culture Five quick thoughts on the World Cup, and the need for instant reply. |
Salon.com July 2, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian. |
The Motley Fool January 12, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Soccer Bends It for Beckham Major League Soccer bends its rules to crank up Brand Beckham. |
Sports Illustrated July 2, 2003 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer: Razov's Edge What will it take for the red-hot Ante Razov to make the U.S. team? |
Sports Illustrated May 14, 2003 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer: Hitting Home After 12 months of foreign success, Brian McBride is thriving Stateside. |
AskMen.com February 2, 2014 Simon Kuper |
Why Men Love Sports More Than Anything Publishers are always complaining that men don't read much, but one thing we do read is daily chatter about sports. |
Sports Central August 28, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
Hamm, Hockey, and Homers Random thoughts: Quincy and the Jets... Hamm and geez... Major League Soccer stupidity... etc. |
Sports Central June 27, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Closing the Door on the Cup To send off the World Cup in proper fashion, here are some things I think about the World Cup and Team USA. |
Sports Illustrated May 21, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Soccer coverage SI's coverage of soccer is expanding -- just not as fast as, say, boating... |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
The greatest show on earth It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer... |
Sports Central June 5, 2014 Kevin Beane |
The Father of U.S. Soccer U.S. men's soccer coach Jurgen Klinsmann raised some eyebrows in a New York Times profile today when he declared the World Cup unwinnable for the Americans in 2014. |
AskMen.com Schrager & Weinberg |
Sports Gossip: The Monday Morning Couch Potatoes Final Four's semi-final blowouts... 2006 Major League Baseball season opens... Mickelson wows'em at BellSouth Classic... Heather Locklear, David Spade sighting... Major League Soccer kicks off 11th season... etc. |