I’ve lined up to criticize US Soccer here on many occasions and I still am of the opinion that literally everyone at US Soccer should be fired for gross incompetence if not out and out indifference to being a successful organization beyond any metric other than monetary related ones. HOWEVER, I have to admit US Soccer…

Frankly the whole game had been so awful I was almost indifferent by the time this kick missed. 

The second takes a pretty wicked bounce so let’s say that’s a nice break. The third is terrible marking in the box. The first one though? That’s a class goal. 

Yep. Finally. After a little more than nine long hard games, he FINALLY scored. 

The great joy for literally everyone here is that the Chargers at some pint are going to have to pack it up and head somewhere else. Someone somewhere would take them, but LA is simply never going to. And this will get worse, SO MUCH WORSE, in the larger stadium. 

Yes my mistake regarding Efrain Alvarez. Jonathan Gonzalez was a tough loss for the US. Probably the biggest since whiffing entirely on Giuseppe Rossi. And man would I love to see a guy like Jonathan David working up front for us but as you said we were never really in on him. I would say that debating the quality of…

In no particular order (and I will keep this limited to players who played for the US youth teams only to switch at the senior level) Jonathan Gonzalez (Mexico), Tony Taylor (Panama), Gerson Mayen (El Salvador), Ariel Lassiter (Costa Rica), Niko Hamalainen (Finland),Brendan Hines-Ike (soon to be Ireland), Elvir…

U.S. Soccer gets, rightfully, very rightfully, a lot of shit for being an absolute mess from top to bottom. The number of dual nationals we’ve lost because of indifference or lack of effort is insulting and would be comical if it didn’t result in the incredible pile of shit that is the current USMNT.

Five years ago I was in a Santa Cruz, CA hotel bar when my Dad and I looked around and realized we were clearly surrounded by a basketball team. I jumped on my phone and figured out the Bakersfield D- League team was in town and that the guy my Dad was talking to was Jerel McNeal. Jerel McNeal is the all-time leading…

How many of the 30 have died on the main track vs. the training track? The rumor I had heard (and of course it’s a rumor, but a somewhat sourced rumor) is that there was an issue with the feed in the barns. If the number of deaths is spread across multiple tracks it would send me a tad further down the road that the…

So on a very low level I spent time working in sports media relations and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why more leagues/organizations didn’t do more for the media (to the degree that is described here). Treating the media as well as possible seemed like a no brainier. They are providing free publicity to…

You’ll never guess where it was filmed at....

The American Wonderteen Identification Department’s task is made all the easier by the ever increasing amount of ink on our wonderteens arms. By the time he reaches full sleeve status Sargent will be starting for a Champions League club.

This is a beautiful love note to a city that is so hard to understand at times. This paragraph in particular I think resonates with anyone who returns to where they grew up:

The best thing that could ever happen to Josh Rosen’s career would be to never see the field this year and pray to god he is traded for spare parts for an organization that actually knows what the fuck it’s doing.

So interesting enough this could actually really help out Canada if some version of this format is carried over to another cycle (it’s probably too late to manipulate for this cycle because FIFA rankings are based on the previous two years’ worth of performances and therefore cannot be significantly altered with a…

So are we just going to spend the next 5 years undoing all the garbage re-alignment of the previous decade? Because I would be perfectly happy with that.

Is there another local reporter in the United States people in the area just simply dislike collectively as much as Kawakami? I don’t know a single Northern California sports fan who thinks highly of the guy. If you go through his timeline it is relentless sarcastic deadpanning with Twitter users. I’m an outsider to…

I think the biggest omission is the post with tape or paint on it to mark how high the floods got in the great flood of ______. Every Midwest town has this.

Loved watching the batter. She knew right away they were done for.