The Game of Life

Soccer Decides to Swap Mellow Fatalism for a Review of Goal-Line Calls

So much for the idea of the summer doldrums. July has instead been a month to reevaluate our most basic assumptions and beliefs. Higgs boson explains the universe! TomKat over! Fatalism and serendipity torpedoed globally!

Wait, you say, what’s that about fatalism and serendipity taking a hit? No, I’m not talking about the Libor scandal. Didn’t you see? FIFA, soccer’s global ruling body, announced that at long last it will allow the deployment of goal-line monitoring technologies. International soccer has taken the whistle out of the referee’s hands and entered the …

by Andrés Martinez | July 15, 2012

Euro Woes

Forget about the German-Greek Showdown; Root for the Brits

by Charles Kenny | June 20, 2012

Germany meets Greece in soccer’s European Championship on Friday, and–given the crisis that ties together their two star-crossed economies–life once more will become the metaphor for sports, and sports for …

My Euro Obsession

Soccer’s Steady March out of the Shadows and onto our TV Screens

by Greg Lockwood | June 12, 2012

For years I’ve heard the joke that soccer has been America’s sport of the future since 1972. But unlike Dippin’ Dots, which remains the ice cream of the future, soccer …

Our Dream Cup

For Three Weeks, Poland is the Center of Europe

by Mateusz Kornacki | June 12, 2012

We’re soccer crazy here in Wroclaw, where our city government has done nothing but “get ready for the Euro Cup” for years. Even the colleges let out a month early …

Level Playing Field?

Women's Soccer Conquers Nation, But Interest Will Likely Fade

by Susan Ware | July 20, 2011

Boston has a reputation – well-deserved – as a sports town whose residents are notorious for organizing their lives around the schedules of the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Patriots, …

Washington-Lee High School (Arlington, Va.)

Sweating through the Guilt

by Andrés Martinez | July 7, 2011

I couldn’t resist. I tried, I really did. I stayed away for more than a year, but in the end I succumbed. I pledged in The Washington Post that I …

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