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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 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... |
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 June 7, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Garber talks Ten months after leaving the NFL to take over as MLS commissioner, Don Garber sat down with me in his Manhattan office on Tuesday for a wide-ranging discussion on MLS, its present and its future.... |
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? |
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. |
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 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... |
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 March 29, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Feeling Minnesota The Twin Cities bring out the best in soccer's diehards... |
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 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. |
Sports Illustrated May 14, 2002 Grant Wahl |
No mas for Armas What now for the U.S.? Chris Armas, the U.S.'s tough-as-nails defensive midfielder, will miss the World Cup after tearing his right ACL against Uruguay. But this isn't a catastrophe for the U.S. team... |
Sports Illustrated May 2, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer Poised and creative, Chris Albright powered the U.S. into the Olympics |
Sports Illustrated May 21, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Soccer coverage SI's coverage of soccer is expanding -- just not as fast as, say, boating... |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2002 Grant Wahl |
World Class By thumping archrival Mexico, the U.S. punched through to soccer's elite eight, its best showing in 72 years. |
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. |
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. |
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 Illustrated May 14, 2003 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer: Hitting Home After 12 months of foreign success, Brian McBride is thriving Stateside. |
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 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 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. |
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 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 Illustrated May 2, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Starting at the Top The U.S. is unbeaten in World Cup qualifying. Why is the once-struggling team so torrid? |
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? |
Salon.com June 27, 2002 Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
Sports Central April 4, 2013 Kevin Beane |
Welcome Back, Landon Landon Donovan has held the weight of United States soccer on his shoulders for a very long time. It has been almost 15 years since he earned tryouts with soccer giants like Manchester United and Arsenal. |
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 October 1, 2007 Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 Stanley Holmes |
A Breakout Year For Soccer? Investors seem to think MLS has a big future. You be the judge. |
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 August 28, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
Hamm, Hockey, and Homers Random thoughts: Quincy and the Jets... Hamm and geez... Major League Soccer stupidity... etc. |
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. |
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 April 25, 2001 Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
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 Illustrated September 11, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Milbrett makes noise in Melbourne U.S. striker Tiffeny Milbrett gets into an argument with anti-globalism protesters in Sydney... Clive Charles hasn't been watching his own team... Defender Kate Sobrero gets a MTV gig... |
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? |
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 February 12, 2009 Kevin Beane |
Liveblogging the USA/Mexico Match The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team kicks off the final round of World Cup qualifiers against its toughest opponent in the region and their bitter rivals -- Mexico. |
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. |
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. |