Neat article in today’s New York Times about Ebbsfleet United, a lower-tier British soccer club that was purchased by an ownership group started on the Iternet (MyFootballClub.co.uk), which raised money via readers, with the promise that the ownership group “could vote on every decision, from uniform design to player selection.”
Ok, who’s going to start [...]

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Before it gets too old I want to bring you this very good article by Dayn Perry of Baseball Prospectus. He really makes a great case — basically asking why baseball gets bogged down in the steroid controversy (amongst others) while the sport featuring small truck-sized, 400 lb. monsters, running like track athletes gets off [...]

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I’m going to follow last night’s Hite-fueled rant about football with a clip from this week’s Economist, which talks about the fact that while the Premier League has clearly established itself as…well, what it’s name indicates — the premier football league — it’s also a very international league.
The article notes that in the recent Champions [...]

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I’ll admit it. I really started rationalizing my dislike for football (soccer) when I started writing about baseball. The two are connected and I live in a country where baseball was once the national game, but it no longer is because the people love football.
A few days ago at my apartment complex I saw some [...]

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