Offside Remarks
OFFSIDE REMARKS: In the ultimate ugly soccer parents scenario, Reynas disgraced themselves and brought the game into disrepute
When I joined Soccer Week way back in 1987, I came on as youth editor and jumped into the sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly world of youth soccer.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Covering a tragic football death
A little more than four years ago, Oct. 1, 2014, I covered the Shoreham-Wading River football game at Elwood/John Glenn High School for the Riverhead News-Review. The game was played on a Wednesday because of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur that weekend.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Some personal memories of the great Pele
In some respects, the teachers at P.S. 95 in the Riverdale section of the Bronx were acting like the students that they taught, one November afternoon in 1987.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Remembering a great football coach, man from back in the day
I opened up Monday’s edition of Newsday and read the sad news.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: There shouldn’t be a debate: Pele is the greatest
Since Sunday, since Argentina captured the World Cup on Sunday, a debate has raged online.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Syracuse men: They’ve come a long way in 50 years
On Monday night, the Syracuse University men won their first College Cup, defeating eight-time champion Indiana University in a shootout.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Grant Wahl pushed boundaries and then some
The last time I saw Grant Wahl was during the mixed zone at the U.S. men’s national team World Cup roster reveal in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Nov. 9.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Things at the World Cup that are driving me crazy
Watching my first World Cup that involves the U.S. men’s national team from the states instead of covering it live has allowed me to view the tournament in a much different perspective.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Can the USA beat the Dutch? Yes, they can, but the Americans need to play a near perfect game
In this, one of the most surprising and topsy-turvy World Cups, it seems that anything is possible.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS B.W. Gottschee: An appreciation
Now, this is something not many American soccer clubs – youth, amateur or pro – can say:
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: It’s time to give Berhalter his due
Congratulations, America, you have become a soccer, or as they say in some far-off lands, a football nation.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: USMNT impresses, but draws won’t matter unless there are wins
For good stretches of the match, the U.S. men’s national team looked good, pretty damn good against England in its scoreless draw on Black Friday.
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