Josh Tucker

10/25/19

Nick Rimando Was Never Too Short To Stand Tall

One dream is that it never ends. The cartilage never recedes and the synapses fire as fast as ever, and you just…

6/25/19

Almost Every Penalty Kick Save Ever Is Illegal Now And It's A Mess

The idea, which is not an unreasonable one on its face, is to “get it right.” The less inspiring extension of that…

6/20/19

Too Much Of The World Cup Is Just Soccer Failing To Get Out Of Its Own Way

Ideally, this would be a story about the best saves of the group stage from the group stage of the 2019 World Cup. Th…

4/2/19

Hugo Lloris Reminded Us That There Are Infinite Ways To Craft A Goalkeeping Howler

History will show that Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld’s 90th minute own goal was responsible for gifting…

2/7/19

David De Gea Is Proof That Goalkeepers Should Embrace The Kick Save

You can not read the book on goalkeeping because the book does not exist, and that is for the better. A book might…

12/17/18

American Soccer Is Fine

Zack Steffen, an American soccer player who currently plies his trade on U.S. soil, is set to join the English…

11/20/18

UFC Is Streaming A Bizarre Donald Trump Propaganda Documentary

If parody is still possible, the opening montage is beyond parody. You’ve got your orchestral strings. An American…

10/30/18

Keepers Wield More Than Just Guesswork In The Battle Against Penalty Kicks

Penalty kicks are bad. They’re dramatic and can be a fascinating experience out of context, but we don’t get to…

10/8/18

The USWNT Looks As Good As Ever And Is Rolling Toward The World Cup

CARY, N.C. — How are we not talking about this team all the time? Sustained dominance is easy to take for granted,…

9/7/18

Some Common Goalkeeping Mistakes Aren't Actually Mistakes

It’s not really surprising that an eccentric position played by only one-tenth of a sport’s population and operating…

8/30/18

It's Time For A Better Conversation About Goalkeeping

Goalkeepers have no business existing in soccer. Maintaining an entire class of players whose job is to snuff the…

8/23/18

The Big Ugly Battle Over The World's Largest Rubber Duck

SANDUSKY, Ohio — There is more than one enormous rubber duck. I did not know this when I decided to travel to…

7/9/18

Daniel Cormier Has Waited So Long To Be King

When the fight was over, in the short lull before the selling of the next fight began, Daniel Cormier was alone in…

7/3/18

My Week With The Fastest Gamers On Earth

Eight years ago, Games Done Quick started as a handful of sleep-deprived speedrunners unexpectedly crammed into…

3/8/18

If StarCraft Is Dead, No One Told Scarlett

StarCraft is reportedly dead, though for a corpse the exact time and cause of death are proving difficult to pin…

7/8/16

UFC 200 Is Still The Best Card Of The Year

All the old knocks still apply. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is a corrupt, exploitative brand in a corrupt,…

10/12/15

Is The Fight Game About To Destroy Yet Another Legend?

Fedor Emelianenko will be 39 years old when he returns to Japan to fight on New Year’s Eve. His comeback will be…

9/4/15

Demetrious Johnson And John Dodson Face The Pain, Step To This

There is an Ultimate Fighting Championship card scheduled for this Saturday, like many—probably too many—other…

2/19/15

Even God Cheats: How Anderson Silva Shocked Us By Doing The Expected

The Nevada State Athletic Commission is a bumbling, soulless government agency, and so a strange agent for the…

8/31/14

UFC Runs Disastrous, Embarrassing Card, Blames Fighters And The Media

On Thursday, UFC 177 was positioned to be a terrible pay-per-view event, just really bad by any objective…

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