Here is the third and final article on the examination and analysis on building the uber U.S. Men’s National Team if we lived in a perfect soccer world and there was only one sport for all our athletes to play.

We’re covering Defense & Goalies in this installment.  Check out the Intro & Forwards and the Midfield. [Read Column]

Here is the second article on the examination and analysis on building the uber U.S. Men’s National Team if we lived in a perfect soccer world and there was only one sport for all our athletes to play.

We’re covering the Midfield in this installment.  Check out the Intro & Forwards and the Defense. [Read Column]

In a perfect soccer world, the only sport of prominence in the United States would be soccer.  All of the great athletes that we lose to basketball, football, baseball, track & field, and … NASCAR … would instead be die-hard soccer lovers with a domestic league that would rival the big leagues of Europe in a combination of peerless athleticism, huge amounts of sporting dollars, and incessant media coverage.

So then in a perfect soccer world – who would compose our U.S. Men’s National Team?  Our players would be plucked from under the lights of Friday nights, from the bricktop courts of the ghettoes, and from the fresh cut grass of smoldering summers.  Here then is one man’s dream of what American soccer could look like. [Read Column]

I love crossovers.  For the uninitiated, crossovers are when one series or fictional universe intersects with another one.  Like when Freddy Krueger fought Jason Vorhees in Freddy vs. Jason or even something as innocuous as the cast of Vegas showing up in Crossing Jordan. [Read Column]

On a whim, my wife and I rented Dragon Wars last night.  The review on the cover, written by Andy Webster of the NY Times, wrote, “it’s impossible not to be entertained”.

We took that challenge.

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