One dream is that it never ends. The cartilage never recedes and the synapses fire as fast as ever, and you just…
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Josh Tucker
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Josh Tucker is a freelance writer who was proud to have written here and is sad about what happened. Email: HugeMantis @ gmail dot com
The idea, which is not an unreasonable one on its face, is to “get it right.” The less inspiring extension of that…
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Ideally, this would be a story about the best saves of the group stage from the group stage of the 2019 World Cup. Th…
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History will show that Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld’s 90th minute own goal was responsible for gifting…
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You can not read the book on goalkeeping because the book does not exist, and that is for the better. A book might…
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Zack Steffen, an American soccer player who currently plies his trade on U.S. soil, is set to join the English…
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If parody is still possible, the opening montage is beyond parody. You’ve got your orchestral strings. An American…
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Penalty kicks are bad. They’re dramatic and can be a fascinating experience out of context, but we don’t get to…
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CARY, N.C. — How are we not talking about this team all the time? Sustained dominance is easy to take for granted,…
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It’s not really surprising that an eccentric position played by only one-tenth of a sport’s population and operating…
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Goalkeepers have no business existing in soccer. Maintaining an entire class of players whose job is to snuff the…
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SANDUSKY, Ohio — There is more than one enormous rubber duck. I did not know this when I decided to travel to…
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When the fight was over, in the short lull before the selling of the next fight began, Daniel Cormier was alone in…
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Eight years ago, Games Done Quick started as a handful of sleep-deprived speedrunners unexpectedly crammed into…
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StarCraft is reportedly dead, though for a corpse the exact time and cause of death are proving difficult to pin…
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All the old knocks still apply. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is a corrupt, exploitative brand in a corrupt,…
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Fedor Emelianenko will be 39 years old when he returns to Japan to fight on New Year’s Eve. His comeback will be…
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There is an Ultimate Fighting Championship card scheduled for this Saturday, like many—probably too many—other…
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The Nevada State Athletic Commission is a bumbling, soulless government agency, and so a strange agent for the…
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On Thursday, UFC 177 was positioned to be a terrible pay-per-view event, just really bad by any objective…
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