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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? |
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? |
Salon.com June 27, 2002 Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
Sports Illustrated April 25, 2001 Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2010 Tony Luckett |
Arsenal Tops in the Business of English Football The Gunners still top the table in one respect. |
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. |
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 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. |
Sports Central March 7, 2013 Kevin Beane |
Changes Afoot in U.S. Sports Broadcasting Looks like the U.S. sports channel landscape is about to change dramatically. FOX Sports has announced that they are rolling out a national sports network called "FOX Sports 1" on August 17th. |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Jack Ewing |
Can Football Be Saved? In Europe, football is more popular than ever -- but the losses keep mounting. What can be done to fix the business? |
AskMen.com October 2, 2002 Mark Simmons |
Italy's Soccer Situation Italy's football problems are structural and deep-rooted in a system that failed to be held accountable. Maybe, just maybe, if Italy's lack of business philosophy does not change, the once-proud Italian league may need to take a lesson or two from that other Italian institution. |
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Holmes & Cohn |
What's Behind The Run At ManU? U.S. deal maker Malcolm Glazer may be out to build a global soccer superstation. |
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. |
Sports Central May 31, 2007 Kevin Beane |
In Praise of Losing Teams Love sports, but don't like the stress associated with being a hardcore fan? Then pick a poor team to support. |
AskMen.com Rob Fox |
Why The EPL Is The Best: Fox On Football If you're anything like me, you currently have a huge World-Cup-size gap in your schedule. A football vacuum, if you will. |
AskMen.com David Hellier |
British Soccer In Foreign Hands In their different ways, the recent, and sometimes controversial, foreign takeovers of soccer clubs Chelsea and Manchester United have changed the face of England's "beautiful game" forever. |
Sports Central March 9, 2009 Luke Broadbent |
NFL Team in London? Let's Hope Not Talk once again has turned towards the possibility of a permanent NFL team in London. According to a senior league official, London could have their own team within 10-12 years. |
Sports Central March 1, 2007 Kevin Beane |
English Premier League Picks and Pans Opinions on soccer teams in the English Premier League. |
Sports Illustrated June 17, 2002 Phil Taylor |
No vacancy U.S. has no room for soccer on its full sports plate. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
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. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Spain And Soccer When you think of Spain's brilliance at soccer, you don't immediately think of Bilbao. But even Spanish provincial towns have a lot to celebrate nowadays. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Soccer Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional soccer. |
Sports Central December 14, 2006 Kevin Beane |
A European Soccer Primer A basic guide to European soccer for Americans. |
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. |
Searcher December 2010 Irene McDermott |
The Gridiron on the Web -- Football Online Am I doomed to be shut out from the world of football forever? No! The internet has arrived to save the day with zillions of sites to explain and celebrate American football. |
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 January 3, 2008 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Quick Hitches Here are the college basketball games shaping up to be the most interesting on Saturday. Plus, a look at online sports games. |
Sports Central August 15, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
Basketball Needs to Quit Acting Like Soccer Basketball is really the only inherently North American sport that can rival soccer from both an accessibility and a cultural standpoint. |
Knowledge@Wharton August 13, 2003 |
David Beckham and the Selling of European Football The transfer of Beckham from Manchester United to Real Madrid is part of a deliberate management strategy aimed at transforming football into a world-class marketing machine. The message is clear: "It is no longer enough to score goals," says one observer. "You also have to sell jerseys." |
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. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2003 Frank Deford |
King Hut Pro football rules in America; here's why |
Sports Central September 15, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
Realizing Brevity is Beauty in College One incredible game of football on a rainy Saturday evening in South Carolina's Midlands reminds me why I watch, and why the thrill of down-to-the-wire competition in college football is unlike anything else. |
IDB America May/Jun 2000 Peter Bate |
Soccer meets economics Pele and Kissinger highlight seminar on sports and development |
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 Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Teams Which five squads were the most profitable sports teams in major professional sports during the 2005-06 seasons? Hint: it's not the Yankees or the Red Sox. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Soccer In 2012 The year's highlight should be the European Championship, team for team a considerably stronger competition than the World Cup. Spain hopes to become the first side to complete the treble of Euro, World Cup and then Euro, and judging strictly by personnel, it should do it. |
Sports Central April 17, 2008 Sean Crowe |
Why the NHL is Dead The question is, how do we bring it back to life? |
Sports Central September 2, 2005 Kevin Ferra |
It's Just American Football, or is it? The NFL is the top American sports leagues and is looking to expand into many international markets, including Europe, Canada, China and Mexico. |
AskMen.com July 31, 2013 Simon Kuper |
2013 Soccer The seven most powerful European clubs -- Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain -- start the season with a new manager. |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
AskMen.com David Stoll |
Top 20: Soccer Players Of All Time Basically, a footballer who is a national hero or a club legend must obviously be considered one of the greatest. Read these players' biographies and decide for yourself whether they would be included in your top 20. |
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... |
AskMen.com Rob Fox |
In Defense Of Manchester City: Fox On Football Manchester City's long-suffering fans have endured a roller-coaster history and now finally have success within their grasp and a first top-division title in their sights. And they might just be right. |
BusinessWeek March 11, 2010 Mark Scott |
Can Manchester United Kick Its Debt Habit? England's most storied team is winning on the field, but like most other Premier League clubs it is deep in hock. |
Sports Central June 28, 2007 Kevin Beane |
The Gold Cup is Golden (Pt. 2) A recap of the Gold Cup playoffs. |
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. |
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. |
Reason April 2005 Michael Young |
Wide World of Sports A book review of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, by Franklin Foer: Soccer mirrors globalization and its discontents. |