Offside Remarks
OFFSIDE REMARKS: It’s good to have good mentors, really good mentors
In his latest installment of celebrating his 45th anniversary covering soccer, FrontRowSoccer.com editor Michael Lewis talks about the importance of having mentors and working on a sports desk, especially during the formative years of a young writer’s career.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Birth of a sportswriting career many years ago
On Monday, June 24, FrontRowSoccer.com editor Michael Lewis celebrates his 45th anniversary in the newspaper business. That was the day Lewis joined the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in 1974.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: The elite six: Sweden is another in a short list of USWNT rivals it has tussled with the WWC and Olympics
Through the years the U.S. women’s national team has taken on many foes — 52 women’s national sides, to be exact.
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FRENCH FRIED (6/17/19): Mon Dieu! You don’t have mail
Outside of losing one’s passport, wallet, keys (hotel or house) and misplacing one’s glasses, there is one horror you don’t want to experience while on a trip, particularly a business trip — not having email.
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FRENCH FRIED (6/15/19): Michael’s not always excellent adventure
I am convinced that we really rely on our smart phones so much that we have become dumber.
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FRENCH FRIED (6/13/19): Finding a perfect match in a boutique hotel
One of the best things when traveling is staying at a boutique hotel that has its own unique ambiance.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Will karma come back to haunt the USWNT down the road due to late goal celebrations?
As I watched the final 15 minutes or so of the United States’ 13-0 thrashing of Thailand in astonishment in the mixed zone (don’t ask why, will explain in another column) with many members of the American media corps Tuesday night, I could not help but wonder what the rest of the world was thinking as the USA tacked on goal after goal after goal.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: The Lewis rankings of Women’s World Cup teams
With the Women’s World Cup kicking off today (or tonight, depending where you are on this planet), here are the rankings of the top 10 squads in the 24-team competition.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Commisso deal: Almost signed, sealed and delivered
It’s easy to put the pieces together.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Celebrating soccer‘s favorite octogenarian curmudgeon’s birthday
For a young soccer writer living and making his living in Rochester, N.Y in the mid-1970’s — in the land before time as we know it — BTI (before the internet) — it was difficult to find a soccer book, any good soccer book, that would explain the game to me beyond the usual X’s and O’s.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: A day this writer will never forget
It’s funny how we remember some of the most tumultuous things in our life although we can’t remember what we ate for lunch today or yesterday. We remember where we were for assassinations, 911 and other great tragedies.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: When a teenager began his path to become a writer, though he didn’t know it at the time
Sometimes we don’t give our teachers, coaches and mentors thanks or credit, or enough credit, especially when they help put us on the right path or open a door.
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