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 had planned on having this up earlier, but I got summoned to help a friend and then the kids went to the lake and I was babysitting Huskies. I don’t mind either. The dogs are always happy to see me and who doesn’t like to be loved? I want to start out by saying…
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,…
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…