This blog is going to go through, as Shelley Duvall said to Woody Allen in Annie Hall, a Kafka-esque experience.
(Are we still allowed to cite Annie Hall? Can we separate the comedy from the comedian? Note for future episode …)
Anyway — yes, we’re going through a metamorphosis. This…
In 2019, FIFA paid World Cup winner France $38 million.
Players got about $500,000, so that’s a total of $11.5 million. That’s a little more than 30.2%, a number that would make the U.S. men overturn tables in the boardroom. Under their old CBA, which is still in effect even…
Adapted from some Twitter messages …
When you say MNT athletes and coaches make 10x more, you would’ve had a point during the Klinsmann era. His hiring and salary were big mistakes. And they paid him a lot of severance.
I wrote about 2,400 words explaining why I feel compelled to write pieces like the one I just did for Soccer America on the women’s team and the pay dispute.
I did some editing and whittling to try to make this digestible.
Look, I’ve covered all this before. So many…
When last we left the story of Shelby Garigen, the upstate New York soccer trainer facing “child pornography” charges because a 17-year-old boy sent her some pictures as a prelude to a planned, legally consensual sexual encounter, she had been harshly sentenced to 37 months in prison.
Not surprisingly…
Because doing taxes this time of year isn’t enough, it’s also time to take a look at the U.S. Soccer budget — a particularly harrowing exercise this year because the national teams have been idled or playing in front of empty houses due to COVID-19. …
Several things to wrap up here, from Fairfax County to the world at large.
Fairfax County vaccination progress: A new county dashboard is useful not just for stat-keeping but for checking where you stand on the waitlist. Roughly half of the people who’ve registered are still on that waitlist.
Fairfax…
The Boston Globe reported Friday on the latest charges in the fallout from Global Premier Soccer’s demise, and as expected by those of us who’ve been following the story, the Boston Breakers and Sky Blue (previous management) were wrapped into the saga.
Disclaimer: This does not mean Breakers and Sky…
“Black culture is hip-hop culture.”
That’s a controversial statement that opens either a can of worms or a contentious set of discourses — the latter being academicese for “can of worms.” …
In 1987, I used a four-track recorder, a borrowed drum machine, a Casio synthesizer, some old microphone, a Peavey amp and an Ibanez guitar to record music. Record four tracks, mix them down to one, record three more, mix those down to one, and that’s probably about it.
Today, I…
