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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?   |
Sports Central
March 9, 2009
Luke Broadbent |
NFL Team in London? Let's Hope Not Talk once again has turned towards the possibility of a permanent NFL team in London. According to a senior league official, London could have their own team within 10-12 years. |
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 Central
October 1, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Mark Scott |
Can Manchester United Kick Its Debt Habit? England's most storied team is winning on the field, but like most other Premier League clubs it is deep in hock. |
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 Central
March 1, 2007
Kevin Beane |
English Premier League Picks and Pans Opinions on soccer teams in the English Premier League. |
AskMen.com
Simon Kuper |
Soccer Managers The American owners of Liverpool, United and Arsenal know that GMs make sense. They come from a country where GMs run sports clubs. These owners are successful businessmen who prefer their English teams to be run like mini-corporations rather than like nineteenth-century amateur clubs. |
AskMen.com
November 8, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Race And Soccer Management There's still a curious absence at the heart of English soccer: black managers. England has done a great job of tackling racism on the pitch and in the stands. Now it needs to do the same in the head offices of its clubs. |
Sports Central
July 21, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
The American Premier League While a remarkable 18 teams were within five games of a playoff spot on Monday morning, such parity is more of a Bud Selig parlor trick than an exhibition of competitive balance. |
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Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Teams Which five squads were the most profitable sports teams in major professional sports during the 2005-06 seasons? Hint: it's not the Yankees or the Red Sox. |
Sports Central
February 14, 2008
Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Soccer Quick Hitches A look at the English Premier team and the U.S. Men's National team. |
Sports Central
May 31, 2007
Kevin Beane |
In Praise of Losing Teams Love sports, but don't like the stress associated with being a hardcore fan? Then pick a poor team to support. |
Sports Illustrated
April 25, 2001
Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
CFO
June 1, 2007
John Goff |
Pitch Fever American investors spend it like Beckham -- and borrow heavily, too -- to buy UK soccer teams. The big lure: global branding. |
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. |
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Simon Kuper |
The Decline Of Drinking In English Soccer Drinking on pro soccer teams was a carryover from the British military, but these days athletes' bodies are treated as finely tuned machines. |
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. |
Sports Central
May 26, 2010
Andrew Jones |
Cherish the Parity Even if you are an extremely interested soccer fan, you probably don't know all that much about Turkey and its current predicament. |
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David Hellier |
British Soccer In Foreign Hands In their different ways, the recent, and sometimes controversial, foreign takeovers of soccer clubs Chelsea and Manchester United have changed the face of England's "beautiful game" forever. |
AskMen.com
December 5, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Do Ex-Players Make Worse Coaches? For decades, it was an article of faith that only someone who had played professional soccer himself knew how to manage a team. Players who had been leaders on the field were particularly favored. |
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Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
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Jack Doyle |
USA Soccer Has No Chance Against England With a runner-up finish in the 2009 Confederations Cup still fresh in the minds of U.S. soccer fans, expectations for World Cup success have never been higher. |
Scientific American
February 2009
Gary Stix |
Taming the Madness of Crowds Is an increased police presence in riot gear the best way to combat the hooligan crowd mentality at sporting events? |
Reason
April 2005
Michael Young |
Wide World of Sports A book review of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, by Franklin Foer: Soccer mirrors globalization and its discontents. |
AskMen.com
April 24, 2013
Simon Kuper |
Soccer Hooligans In April, Britain was suddenly jerked back into the 1980s. First, Thatcher died. Thatcher been so outraged by the hooligans that she nearly banned professional soccer. Then, the weekend after her death, 1980s-style hooliganism briefly resurfaced. |
Sports Central
August 6, 2015
Ross Lancaster |
Handling of Deflategate is Embarrassment If you don't think there are bigger warning signs for the NFL, you're really whistling past the graveyard. |
Sports Central
August 20, 2008
Corrie Trouw |
Preseason Football: Time to Get Used to It In its annual test of just how blindly NFL fans worship their favorite uniform, the league's 32 teams are in the middle of the charade of fake football in half-full stadiums at full price. |
Sports Central
September 15, 2014
Ross Lancaster |
Realizing Brevity is Beauty in College One incredible game of football on a rainy Saturday evening in South Carolina's Midlands reminds me why I watch, and why the thrill of down-to-the-wire competition in college football is unlike anything else. |
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. |
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Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
Sports Central
July 11, 2013
Kevin Beane |
NFL Culture By Team (Part 1) I think any sport or spectator pastime has a greater chance of taking permanent root if the learner has some sort of larger understanding of each team, its culture, its reputation, and so on. |
Sports Central
October 29, 2008
Luke Broadbent |
An English Perspective on the NFL This year's NFL International Series game was clearly the perfect advertisement for offense, while last year's was an advertisement for British weather. |
Sports Central
April 21, 2005
Kevin Beane |
Advocating the Johnny Walker Classic Yet another beauty of soccer revealed: you can still hope for a good result even if you play poorly. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2009
Adrian Rush |
Does This Economic Goal Fall Short? A new book, Soccernomics, by Stefan Szymanski and Simon Kuper, examines some of the monetary myths about soccer. |
Sports Central
September 20, 2010
Justin Shagrin |
London Calling Is the NFL selling out because of its international game in London? |
Salon.com
June 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
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. |
Sports Central
February 11, 2008
Adam Russell |
The Patriots and a Lesson in NFL History Even if the Pats had beaten the Giants, would we all be convinced they were better than Miami or Cleveland? |
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Simon Kuper |
Spain And Soccer When you think of Spain's brilliance at soccer, you don't immediately think of Bilbao. But even Spanish provincial towns have a lot to celebrate nowadays. |
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Simon Kuper |
Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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Simon Kuper |
Brazil Soccer Soccer players once fled Brazil for a better life; now, they're returning to play for home teams. |
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Simon Kuper |
Soccer In 2012 The year's highlight should be the European Championship, team for team a considerably stronger competition than the World Cup. Spain hopes to become the first side to complete the treble of Euro, World Cup and then Euro, and judging strictly by personnel, it should do it. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Soccer Bends It for Beckham Major League Soccer bends its rules to crank up Brand Beckham. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
Townsend & Elfes |
Adidas' Big Money Defense Against Nike With Nike closing in, Adidas hopes sponsorships will preserve its lead. |
Sports Central
November 8, 2012
Kevin Beane |
Ranking the Networks I am a sports fan, and I actually like all of these channels. I say this because I don't want the programming directors of the networks low on the list to jump out their 45th-floor windows. |
AskMen.com
July 31, 2013
Simon Kuper |
2013 Soccer The seven most powerful European clubs -- Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain -- start the season with a new manager. |
Sports Central
January 4, 2012
Louie Centanni |
Why the 66-Game NBA Season Should Stay Between playing more frequently, forcing stars to show effort nightly, and reintroducing the concept of team basketball, the 66-game NBA season seems to be a great experiment - one that should become the norm for years to come. |
AskMen.com
January 6, 2014
Simon Kuper |
Who's Going To Win The 2014 World Cup? A surer prediction for the World Cup: plenty of protests. Before past tournaments, host countries worried about hooligans or terrorists. This time, the bogeymen are demonstrators. |
Sports Central
September 8, 2008
Kenneth Dean |
Enough is Enough: Football's Unnecessary Risk How many more men have to suffer serious neck injuries in football before something more is done about it? |
