Maybe you’ve heard the news: Leicester City won the English Premier League on Monday. Only, they hadn’t kicked a ball since Sunday. How’s that? Well… There are no playoffs in English football. That’s right. No playoffs. That’s a strange concept to an American sports fan, I know. “You mean, the […]
More so at the neighborhood shed in the portion of Liverpool painted blue than at the stadium on the baby blue side of Manchester 45 minutes away, big time football is an intimate family affair. Like a hankering for meat pies and a distaste for the cherry red side of […]
Photo of Claudio Ranieri from Leicester City’s Official Website Sometimes a child must stand face to face with boredom in order to find new ways to play with old things. This is part of a larger thought that came to me as I marveled at the accomplishments this season of […]
I saw a few minutes of the Super Bowl yesterday because I popped into a pal’s apartment in NYC after kickoff to say hello and it was also on when I picked up my girls from my parent’s house 90 minutes later. My mom called me today and she asked, […]
Throughout the course of an American football game, there are countless opportunities to get up from your lucky chair — the one that, thanks to you sitting in it religiously for every game while wearing your unwashed jersey, undoubtedly propelled your team to victory last season — to replenish your […]
Sports passions are a funny business; who we love, what we take to heart, the tears shed, the colorful garb in which we cloak ourselves, and the voices lost in the grandstand. The funny thing about my sports passion which caused me to spend thousands of dollars so that my […]
It really couldn’t be more ill-timed. Oh sure, it seems perfect on paper, that’s true, school pickup is indeed at halftime of midweek European football fixtures and of all Champions League matches. Should be easy peasy then: run out, grab ’em, get back for the 2nd half kick. Yeah, no. […]
2 games. 1/8th of a single season. That’s the going rate for knocking your fiancée out cold, on camera, during the NFL offseason. That’s what a woman is worth to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, the Baltimore Ravens football team, and the rest of the NFL machine in 2014 — 2 games. […]
