FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
From George Vecsey
What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.
Many American players - Paul Caligiuri, Claudio Reyna, Eric Wynalda, Kasey Keller, Tony Sanneh, Michael Bradley and Steve Cherundolo, just a partial list - have sought the income and challenge of Germany.
There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.
Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.
Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious.
Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.
There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.
Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.
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