Leave it to me to add a bunch of new subscribers to this newsletter—a thing I created as an outlet for the extra flotsam of soccer thoughts floating around in my Star Wars garbage level excuse for a b...

Full disclosure: My brain is not 100% fit. That's mostly because I was up until 1 AM hosting the postgame show for the USMNT debacle against Belgium on SiriusXM FC with Eric Wynalda on Monday night. ...

These things can all be true (and are, in my estimation): 1. Folarin Balogun's red card was an extremely harsh adjudgement of a relatively normal challenge and should have never been given, particul...

I don't like Memo Ochoa, but I respect him. I don't like Mexico (the national team) but me alegra que la gente haya tenido ese momento con su héroe, San Memo. I'm not even a little bit jealous.

World Cup Day 1 gave us a colorful opening ceremony that even too much of Gianni Infantino's bald pate couldn't ruin, a not-so-convincing Mexico win marked by three dismissals, and as South Korea triu...

There's nothing quite like the feeling of roiling internal turmoil brought on by the most exciting sporting event in the world arriving in your country against the backdrop of a war being waged by one...