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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. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Russian Soccer Times have changed since the days when players only worried about breaking a leg on the field. FIFpro plans to publish its complete "black book" of bad clubs in January. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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. |
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 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. |
Fast Company February 13, 2012 Ben Paynter |
Livestrong Sporting Park Creates Games Within The Game For Sports Fans MLS club Sporting Kansas City knows not every one of its matches will be an instant classic. That doesn't mean it can't still keep fans entertained. |
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. |
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 October 1, 2007 Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
Salon.com June 27, 2002 Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
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 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 Simon Kuper |
Soccer Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional soccer. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
Fast Company May 2006 Michael A. Prospero |
Fast Talk: Good Sports These five executives from the world of sports bring an array of clever approaches to finding, wooing, and retaining their fans as competition for their devotion - and their dollars - increases. |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 Stanley Holmes |
A Breakout Year For Soccer? Investors seem to think MLS has a big future. You be the judge. |
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. |
AskMen.com Geoffrey Lansdell |
Top 10: Hardcore Fans Hardcore sports fans are groups of die-hard fanatics who express their loyalty in ludicrous ways, complete with unique rituals and organized cheering methods. |
Search Engine Watch April 5, 2011 Kevin Gibbons |
How to Entertain Your Facebook Fans Here are some ideas for entertaining your fans in order to gain that important brand interaction without irritating them. |
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? |
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. |
CRM October 2011 Leonard Klie |
NFL Flexes CRM Muscle Not even a threatened cancellation of the season could deter football's loyal customers |
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. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Brazil Soccer Soccer players once fled Brazil for a better life; now, they're returning to play for home teams. |
Sports Central October 30, 2006 Will Tidey |
English Soccer Fans: All Hooligans? If you believe the stereotype, England soccer fans are drunken hellions with a rabid thirst for violence. |
Sports Illustrated June 17, 2002 Phil Taylor |
No vacancy U.S. has no room for soccer on its full sports plate. |
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. |
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 December 14, 2006 Kevin Beane |
A European Soccer Primer A basic guide to European soccer for Americans. |
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. |
Sports Central January 26, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
Just Say No to On-Court Tennis Coaching On-court coaching alters everything about the nature of the tennis match. |
CIO February 23, 2015 Martha Heller |
IT Is a Game-Changer for Tennis Fans, players, sponsors and coaches all benefit from IT, says Lewis Sherr, chief revenue officer of the U.S. Tennis Association |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2003 |
New York, New Nokia The Finnish powerhouse will move some top operations to the New York area. What is the reason for the move? |
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. |
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. |
Sports Central May 27, 2013 Mike Chen |
It's Time For a NHL Coach's Challenge We're knee-deep in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and it feels like the officials have been front and center too many times to be comfortable. Critical calls or non-calls have contributed to key moments in just about every series, leaving fans on all sides griping. |
AskMen.com July 14, 2014 Simon Kuper |
How Germany Created A Lean, Mean Unbeatable World Cup Machine It takes a country to create a team like this. And not many countries could manage that project. |
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Gail Edmondson |
Aging More Productively in Finland Thanks to a farsighted, multidimensional government push, the country is now keeping vital older workers on the job much longer. |
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Robert Strauss |
Tech Me Out to the Ball Game Major League Baseball has devised some high-tech ways to keep fans happy both at home and in the stands. |
CIO August 28, 2013 Lauren Brousell |
Patriots Deploy Stadium Wi-Fi to Compete With the Comforts of Home The New England Patriots hope Wi-Fi and exclusive content will lure fans from the comfy couch to chilly Gillette Stadium |
AskMen.com June 16, 2014 Simon Kuper |
Why We're Seeing The Return Of Attack Soccer (And Why It's Better For The Fans) We know what viewers want: stars playing attacking soccer. |
Sports Central March 7, 2007 Will Tidey |
World Cup 2018: U.S.-Bound? U.S. soccer fans seem destined to have the world's greatest sporting event on their doorstep sooner rather than later. |
AskMen.com June 14, 2012 Jimmy Burns |
Spanish Soccer A cursory glance at Spain's current national team, who play Ireland in the Euro Cup today, tells us a thing or two about how much soccer -- and the men who play it -- have changed in the country. |
CRM June 2010 Juan Martinez |
Market Focus: Sports and Entertainment Facing Off with Social Media: Two National Hockey League franchise have goals for Facebook and Twitter. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Journalism In Sports Let's start with the great built-in advantage of sports journalism over, say, business journalism, political journalism or science journalism. In sports, you can see the most important events with your own eyes. |