Josh Tucker's posts

One dream is that it never ends. The cartilage never recedes and the synapses fire as fast as ever, and you just…

The idea, which is not an unreasonable one on its face, is to “get it right.” The less inspiring extension of that…

Ideally, this would be a story about the best saves of the group stage from the group stage of the 2019 World Cup. Th…

History will show that Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld’s 90th minute own goal was responsible for gifting…

You can not read the book on goalkeeping because the book does not exist, and that is for the better. A book might…

Zack Steffen, an American soccer player who currently plies his trade on U.S. soil, is set to join the English…

If parody is still possible, the opening montage is beyond parody. You’ve got your orchestral strings. An American…

Penalty kicks are bad. They’re dramatic and can be a fascinating experience out of context, but we don’t get to…

CARY, N.C. — How are we not talking about this team all the time? Sustained dominance is easy to take for granted,…

It’s not really surprising that an eccentric position played by only one-tenth of a sport’s population and operating…

Goalkeepers have no business existing in soccer. Maintaining an entire class of players whose job is to snuff the…

SANDUSKY, Ohio — There is more than one enormous rubber duck. I did not know this when I decided to travel to…

When the fight was over, in the short lull before the selling of the next fight began, Daniel Cormier was alone in…

Eight years ago, Games Done Quick started as a handful of sleep-deprived speedrunners unexpectedly crammed into…

StarCraft is reportedly dead, though for a corpse the exact time and cause of death are proving difficult to pin…

All the old knocks still apply. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is a corrupt, exploitative brand in a corrupt,…

Fedor Emelianenko will be 39 years old when he returns to Japan to fight on New Year’s Eve. His comeback will be…

There is an Ultimate Fighting Championship card scheduled for this Saturday, like many—probably too many—other…

The Nevada State Athletic Commission is a bumbling, soulless government agency, and so a strange agent for the…

On Thursday, UFC 177 was positioned to be a terrible pay-per-view event, just really bad by any objective…