Soccer There Is No Cliff For The USMNT It hasn't been encouraging from the national team of late, but it also isn't all that different. As I've commented before, the US is in a unique position in that most of its fans and media care about the national team first, or more
NFL It Has To Work Is Bears angst higher or lower? One byproduct of the NFL having the longest offseason is that by the time the actual season rolls around, I can't remember what the general emotion was a year ago. I can say that it feels like the shpilkes and agita around
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hockey There's So Much Riding on Connor McDavid's Extension Might the NHL get the same drama as other sports do? Every time we get excited about a possible NHL free agent drama that has potential to grip the wider world, it almost always ends with an extension signed sometime during training camp. Mitch Marner is the exception, but that
Soccer You Have To Listen To The Notes Mauricio Pochettino's Not Playing There's a lot of shpilkes about the US's September roster. There really shouldn't be. I was listening to a podcast not so long ago, and one of the hosts was talking about how European fans find it strange just how much American soccer fans
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Premier League The Weekender - Premier League Round 2: The Crucible, And Whatever Else It's our normal Friday feature. Or Friday Fung! Whatever you guys want to call it. Just do so in the privacy of your own home. Match Of The Weekend - Newcastle vs. Liverpool (Monday, 3pm ET) Technically not on the weekend, but it's certainly the headliner of
Hawks Frankie No Nose Finds A Home The Hawks commit to the first of their ensemble. For the past two summers, as a (small) section of Hawks fans beseeched Kyle Davidson to bring in any kind of top tier NHL winger (ok, basically me), the cry from the Davidson-phants was that the Hawks couldn't