BrokenClaw | June 27, 2010
The FIFA World Cup is just a plain un-American sporting event. I’m not talking about it being anti-American, and I’m not talking about it’s participants having an anti-American sentiment. I just mean that there are so many aspects of the tournament that are antithetical to what we as Americans expect of our professional sports. I [...]
BrokenClaw | September 18, 2007
In case you hadn’t noticed, the FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament is in full swing in China. We all know that football is the most popular sport in the world. That’s soccer to those of us in the USA, and since this article is about the USA, I will call it soccer. Last month I [...]
BrokenClaw | August 13, 2007
For thirty years now we’ve been hearing how soccer is growing in popularity in the US. Soccer aficionados believe that youth soccer is the answer — that if kids are exposed to soccer at an early age, they’ll learn to love the game, which will carry on to adulthood. But that just isn’t the case. [...]