The worst yellow card in the history of soccer was issued on Wednesday to Sam Kerr late in the second half of the particular Chelsea Women’s match against Juventus in the UEFA Champions League. If anything, Kerr deserves a raise for also doing security’s job. Read more…
I wish I could write stuff like this as fiction. But unless you wrote it as Mel Brooks-ian farce, I don’t know how you’d make it believable. And I have to say that I really want to see the city of Glendale actually chain up the doors to Gila River Arena when Coyotes players attempt […]
Every fandom has their cult heroes who seemingly drop in out of the sky and provide a lifelong memory. Phillies fans have Matt Stairs. Bulls fans have Steve Kerr, to an extent (Kerr was a fine player but he does seem an odd choice from the gods to hit a title-clinching shot, no? Then again, […]
Tragic and shocking news for the Columbia community. Davide Giri , a graduate student studying at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University , and another victim were stabbed near the school’s New York City campus on Thursday, according to ABC News . Giri was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly […]
The G League celebrated its 20th season of competition this season but is only on the second of genuine interest to NBA fans. Instead of the occasional player who makes the leap from AAA to a rotation gamer or a raw draft pick trying to hone their skills, there wasn’t too much to get amped […]
Sedona Prince started it this year with an uncomfortable truth. The Oregon basketball player, famous for a TikTok video earlier this year that pointed out the discrepancy between the workout palace provided at the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and the meager triangle of dumbbells for the women, has made it safe to… Read more…
I can’t tell you why I and other soccer fans (which might just be my one friend) love it when the orange ball makes an appearance. Probably because it’s just so rare. Or maybe because it kind of looks like a tiny alien vessel has landed on the field and the players just decided to […]
I had a feeling, obviously due to recency bias, as soon as I saw the news about Chicago Red Stars coach Rory Dames resigning yesterday morning. It was two days after he had guided the Red Stars to the championship game, even though they were without at least half of their first-choice 11. Sure, he’d […]
Rarely do finals turn out to be great games. When it all comes down to one game, teams tend to prioritize no mistakes over getting truly brave, and wait for their chance. Obviously, nerves play their own part, too, as the stakes become impossible to ignore. Read more…
There are a lot of very grateful families today thanks to Kim Kardashian. Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team and their families — around 130 people in total — arrived in Britain early Thursday morning with the help of a New York rabbi, soccer club Leeds United, and the Keeping Up With The […]