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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 Illustrated
April 25, 2001
Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
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
May 15, 2002
Steve Richer |
How To: Play Soccer While it's true that most twenty-year-olds probably have more gray hair than the added score of the average soccer match, the game is nevertheless a blast to play. The size of players doesn't matter and you don't need a smorgasbord of equipment... |
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? |
Salon.com
June 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
Sports Central
July 15, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
A Penalty Kick in the Pants Forget that famous head-butt. The real tragedy, the true outrage, of this near-classic match is the way it ended. |
Sports Central
June 28, 2007
Kevin Beane |
The Gold Cup is Golden (Pt. 2) A recap of the Gold Cup playoffs. |
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. |
Sports Central
April 8, 2004
Piet Van Leer |
The Adu Debut It's disappointing. You feel extremely frustrated that you turned on the television to watch, of all things, soccer. On a Saturday! All to see this Freddy Adu, a 14-year-old phenom, who didn't even start! |
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. |
AskMen.com
Simon Kuper |
How To Win Penalty Shootouts Few know about the statistical analysis of soccer, and it can be used for financial advantage. |
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 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 Central
July 18, 2011
Brad Oremland |
Alex Morgan and Missed Opportunities With the United States women playing in the final of the World Cup, Morgan twice appeared poised to emerge as a hero. |
Science News
July 8, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Bending a Soccer Ball Mathematics suggests a variety of alternative designs for soccer balls. |
AskMen.com
June 28, 2014
Dave Golokhov |
GIF Guide: Understanding The World's Soccer Strategies, One GIF At A Time For those of you new to soccer, we've highlighted some strategies from basic to advanced in terms of what you might see at the World Cup |
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 Central
July 13, 2010
Bill Hazell |
World Cup Final: The Beautiful Ugly Game After 40 years, and 120-plus agonizing minutes of waiting, the euphoric fans of Spain could care less if the final was ugly. |
Popular Mechanics
June 14, 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
Do Robot Players Dream of Synthetic Goals? The World Cup isn't the only global soccer tournament raging in Germany. Welcome to the world of RoboCup, where teams of robot dogs seek their own glory on a modified, wireless-enabled soccer pitch. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Soccer Bends It for Beckham Major League Soccer bends its rules to crank up Brand Beckham. |
Salon.com
June 22, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Welcome to the world In defeat, the U.S. soccer team won an epic victory: It brought America into the world of sports. |
Sports Illustrated
September 23, 2000
Grant Wahl |
Coming of age U.S. men's soccer joins ranks of the world's best... |
Sports Central
October 1, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
Sports Illustrated
May 27, 2002
Grant Wahl |
World Cup ball has a mind of its own For all the controversy over the years about whether baseballs are juiced -- Major League Baseball has never admitted to doing so -- the funny thing about the World Cup is that soccer officials trumpet the fact that their ball comes equipped with an extra kick... |
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
January 19, 2013
Adam Hodge |
Rec Leagues I never go to gyms. I run outside sometimes, which is invariably better than running on a treadmill. But mostly I participate in amateur sports leagues to stay fit. I am addicted to recreational sport in the most positive way possible. |
AskMen.com
May 22, 2013 |
Greatest Soccer Matches In the spirit of personal fandom, here is Simon Kuper's list of the moments in soccer he'll never forget. |
AskMen.com
Daniel Barna |
Women's World Cup Yesterday, the Japanese women's soccer team shocked the world when they beat their heavily favored U.S. counterparts in the impossibly dramatic finals of the Women's World Cup. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
November 20, 2002
Michael Silver |
Ties that bind Stoking the competitive spirit in 6-year-olds |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Scott Leibs |
Second Chances However popular a sport may be, turning it into a going business concern requires careful planning around everything from salaries and sponsorships to, of course, TV contracts. |
AskMen.com
April 24, 2014
Anthony Yeung |
There's A Simple Secret To Getting The Body Of A Soccer Player - And It's Not What You Think The average English Premier League footballer covers about 12km (7.5mi) per game. But it ain't a 90-minute jog. |
Sports Central
May 12, 2006
Ray Leroy |
Soccer: The Beautiful Game June 9th will kick off the most watched sporting event in the world, as 32 teams from across the globe vie for professional soccer's 2006 World Cup. |
Sports Illustrated
April 16, 2002
Grant Wahl |
A Bad Break If you think the U.S. media hyperventilates over sports, consider the reaction in the U.K. last week to the news that English soccer captain David Beckham may miss the upcoming World Cup finals -- which begin on May 31 -- after breaking a bone in his left foot... |
Salon.com
June 12, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
Sacre bleu! Dios mio! It's the Bizarro World Cup! France fades into Sartrean nothingness, Argentina dances the tango of despair and the United States and Japan, titans of world baseball -- sorry, I mean soccer -- rise up. |
Sports Central
March 29, 2007
Kevin Beane |
European Soccer Gluttony The biggest country-level soccer competition besides the World Cup is probably the UEFA European Football Championship. |
AskMen.com
Ross Lipschultz |
Football Dives: It's In The Game Soccer's stars are notorious for their tendency to take football dives and ham it up for the fans whenever possible. They trip, fall, cry, and whine more often than babies learning to walk. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Caroline Winter |
Product Shot Kicking a sOccket soccer ball for 15 minutes produces enough power to light an LED bulb for three hours. |
AskMen.com
September 20, 2015
Simon Kuper |
Holland's Soccer Woes It's a rough time to be a fan of Dutch soccer. Here's how Holland sank so low. |
AskMen.com
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. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2005
Kevin Beane |
World Cup Fever, Anyone? Sports fans who find themselves lost between seasons, or in the midst of boring ones, may find that soccer fills the void quite nicely -- particularly, the high-stakes, world cup level. |
Sports Central
May 13, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
The Idiot's Guide to the World Cup In less than one month, the grandest tournament on the planet kicks off -- the World Cup of football, or what Americans call soccer. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Mark Hyman |
Young Athletes, Big-League Pain Year-round play and dreams of going pro are side-lining kids with serious sports related injuries. |
Sports Central
June 24, 2010
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: France's World Cup "De"-Bacle France's 2-1 loss to South Africa mercifully ended arguably the most disgraceful performance in the history of the World Cup. How did the 1998 champions and 2006 finalists fall so stunningly from the top of international soccer? |
The Family Room
Jimmy Patterson |
Going For Broke En Route to Soccer Practice Just the other day, I was unwittingly forced into a common dad position: Chief Executive Officer in Charge of Family Financial Affairs. In my role as CEOCFFA, I was rushed into a purchase without really having any time to give it much thought, or to get a consult -- much less an approval -- from Mrs. P. |
BusinessWeek
April 3, 2006
Stanley Holmes |
Adidas' World Cup Shutout U.S. fans of soccer's big event will see only Adidas ads on television. Nike's response: A MySpace-style site for soccer nuts. |
BusinessWeek
July 24, 2006
Stanley Holmes |
Nike: It's Not A Shoe, It's A Community Nike has set up a Web site where soccer fans can network. |
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. |
