****EDIT**** If you’re bored and want to play around with some what-if scenarios, check out the link after the list of games. We came up with a spreadsheet that calculates total points, winners, losers, and all that good stuff. Just make sure when your using it to use the same abbreviation for the team as [...]
Archive for the ‘Soccer’ Category
Total Consciousness College Football Picks: Bowl Edition
Posted in Soccer, Total Consciousness College Football Picks on December 14, 2008 | 34 Comments »
Thank You Bob Bradley
Posted in Soccer on August 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After the US soccer team failed to advance out of the group stages of the Olympics I was going to write a post about how US soccer is held back by poor coaching. Briefly, my thesis was that the US has solid players but since the overall talent pool is shallower than other soccer crazy [...]
EPL Predictions
Posted in Soccer on August 17, 2008 | 13 Comments »
When I was in England for grad school one of the things I learned about the English people is that they gamble on soccer like champs. I mean they bet on things like who will score the first goal. You’ve got a 1 in 22 chance of that happening without factoring in the odds that [...]
Secretly Watching the Olympics for a Soccer Fix
Posted in Soccer on August 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There are two reasons why I shouldn’t write a post about the U.S. Men’s Soccer team playing in the Olympics. The first is that everyone is too jacked up about the imminent arrival of football to care about soccer. The second reason is that a while ago I wrote some good stuff about how the [...]
Oh Canada
Posted in Soccer on July 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In the NBA and MLB, Canada is where sports go to die. Chris Bosh is one of the best players in the NBA and seems extremely personable and marketable, but because he plays in Toronto he isn’t in any commercials and we hardly ever get to see him play. Similarly, Roy Halladay is one of [...]
The War in Europe
Posted in Soccer on June 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Sports reporters and broadcasters in the U.S. and abroad love to poke fun at the fact that our country doesn’t care about soccer; and while that may be true to a degree (there is in fact a portion of the population that is passionate about soccer) there are valid reasons for this general disinterest. As [...]
Where MLS Teams Should Be
Posted in Commentary & Analysis, Soccer on July 22, 2008 | 13 Comments »
A couple days ago I wrote a post about how impressed I was with how Toronto supported its MLS team and opined about how the MLS needs to recognize that it should not try to drag new fans into soccer, but rather just focus on the ones that will come to it willingly (scroll down [...]
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