I think one thing that has surprised me about the fans and visitors to the US during FIFA is their sheer delight in the littlest things that we take for granted. Yellow school buses: They spot one and act like they’ve just found the last unicorn. Bus drivers let them look at our yellow school…
I bought a subscription to something to watch the USA game against Bosnia/Herzegovina. Now I have to try and remember who I subscribed to so I can cancel it. It was the first full soccer game I’ve watched and it was good. I disagreed with some of the calls. That’s natural. Here’s my main take…
I couldn’t decide what to cover next. Since I’m playing catch up, I decided to give a recap of which teams have been eliminated and cover some of those before people forget about them and they shouldn’t be. Some of them were memorable in terms of fans. If you’re here for witty sports analysis, oh,…
Norway hasn’t been to the World Cup for twenty-eight years. It’s been a year for miracles, it seems. They qualified for the finals in 1938, 1994, 1998, and 2026. Ironically, Italy was their nemesis prior to 2026. Their World Cup record prior to this year was:1938: 1 match – Loss to Italy (2-1 a.e.t.) 1994:…
I’m not an athletic person. As a kid I played basketball and baseball, and I still have the bat with my name engraved on it. These days it lives beside my bed—ready to “konk” anyone who wanders into my room unannounced. For three years I rode bareback bucking horses. I was the first woman to…