Offside Remarks
TAKING A PASS (DAY 41): When the Cosmos hit bottom as an indoor team
Like many professional soccer teams, the Cosmos have hit the highest of highs, winning eight league championships and establishing themselves as a well-known world-wide brand.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 40): You had to be there to see it: Stall Ball; actually it was better you weren’t there
There is no known insanity in the Lewis family, at least any I have been aware of — but I have had my bouts with living in the Bizzaro World.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 39): Some indoors soccer lessons for the Blast and a writer
It was late in the first quarter of the San Diego Sockers encounter against the host Baltimore Blast in Game Four of the Major Indoor Soccer League final series on May 25, 1985.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 38): Helping opening up RBA not once, but twice
I had the honor of opening up and closing Giants Stadium.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 37): It was hardly a Bull run of a start for the 2006 team
It was hardly a Bull run.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 36): Some shirt tales through the years
Some soccer players love to give you the shirt of their backs.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 35): Having a (basket)ball covering a Division III team
After soccer and baseball, the sport I really, really love covering is basketball.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 34): Picture this: when your dog winds up ‘getting’ a credential
Yeah, I already know what your first question is with this story.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 33): One stunned witness to the first American soccer riot
One by one, the out-of-town U.S. national soccer press corps left the Orange Bowl press box after finishing their Concacaf Gold Cup stories on Feb. 19, 2000.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 32): Mother Nature rains on the MLS’ star parade
Sometimes even the best laid plans of leagues, commissioners and sportswriters can go awry.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 31): One memorable Garden party back in the day
As all-star games go, the 1981 Major Indoor Soccer League’s certainly was one unique event, to say the least.
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TAKING A PASS (Day 30): When a mighty Quinn made a sportswriter (turned radio analyst) sound like a genius
It is a game that is not even listed as an official game in the U.S. men’s national team media guide.
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