Today at 2pm, my family and friends will gather around the television with food, drinks and vuvuzelas left over from the 2010 Men’s World Cup. Yes, we really bought vuvuzelas. We will be a mixture of true soccer fans, big…

The saga of the North Korean women’s soccer team, already suffering from an epidemic of lightning strikes, has gotten weirder: Five of the team’s players have tested positive for steroids. Now you’re saying to yourself, how much bad luck…

I heard the result of the match earlier in the day, at my kid’s swim meet. In between summoning seven- and nine-year-olds to their IM heats, the guy with the microphone had summarily spoiled the surprise: the US had…

It’s easy to joke that the only thing Americans care less about than soccer (translation for our non-U.S. readers: “the sport called ‘football’ that’s being ruined by Sepp Blatter, rather than the one being ruined by Roger Goodell”) is…

I find it difficult to fathom that none of the other writers at this fledgling sports website have not picked up on what has clearly been the biggest story of the week if not of 2011 thus far. Perhaps,…