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Landon Donovan's USL team forfeits second straight match due to racial and homophobic slurs

Last night, the USL’s San Diego Loyal walked off the field and forfeited their match against the Phoenix Rising when one of their players, Collin Martin, who is openly gay, had a homophobic slur directed at him on the pitch by another player. At first, the referee had red-carded Martin for his react...

Sergino Dest’s move to Barcelona continues the Yanks’ storming of the castle

It wasn’t that many years ago that the push from a large swath of US Men’s National Team observers was to get more players out of MLS and to Europe. ...

Future Florida Man Luis Suárez Allegedly Cheated On Italian Citizenship Exam

Luis Suárez is destined to play for Inter Miami. It might not be happening now, even though there were reports of talks last month to make it happen, but the universe eventually needs Suárez to assume his final form as a Florida Man....

Gareth Bale and Tottenham Deserve Each Other

It can be startling to remember that Gareth Bale has only been something of a punchline for two seasons. And we should all be so lucky to be considered a joke when making over $37 million per year to live in Madrid and not do a whole bunch. We’d all accept a pretty healthy share of laughs at our exp...

Premier League Preview: Can Liverpool Fight Off the Metrics Dragon?

Every metric-follower of any sport has an imaginary dragon lurking to torment, if not slay, their favorite player and/or team. In baseball it’s the BABIP Dragon, causing your pitcher to give up hits on soft contact simply because he hasn’t in a while. Or your favorite hitter to hit screamers right a...

Christen Press and Tobin Heath are the Latest to Head for Blighty

It might seem like an exodus, and it sort of is. If reports are true, then Christen Press and Tobin Heath will become the third and fourth members of the World Cup-winning US Women’s squad to head for England’s WSL this season. ...

Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now: Messi Flip-Flops

All that drama about Lionel Messi telling Barcelona he wanted to leave? Yeah, he’s not leaving....

U.S. Soccer Could Learn Something from England and [Checks Notes] Brazil (!) on Equal Pay

Weston McKennie’s Move To Juventus Could Be Huge Boon To USMNT...If He Plays

It kind of came out of nowhere. While rumors of Weston McKennie wanting to move on from Schalke in the Bundesliga were running pretty wild, the mentioned destinations were more mid-tier Premier League clubs. Southampton was the main one, which made all the sense in the world. Certainly McKennie woul...

Dell Loy Hansen Selling Teams, Hopefully Door Hits Him in the Ass

If MLS and NWSL have a lot of things to catch up on to be considered a “major league,” one thing we can cross off the list is the speed at which they eject a shithead racist owner from their ranks....

MLS Owner Allegedly Wanted Opposing Player Lynched, Used N-Word

Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen is facing new allegations of racist behavior, and is being compared to former racist Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. ...

Messi Wants Out Of Barcelona Disaster

Last month, we wondered if Barcelona had finally broken Lionel Messi. Turns out, the superstar wants out of the famed Spanish club....

Qatar's Blood Money Will Definitely Win the Champions League Final

Sunday’s Champions League Final will be the first that is between Europe’s “Old Money” and “New Money.” ...

Barcelona Respond to Ultimate Humiliation with Ultimate Confusion

Perhaps there’s no coming back from getting utterly shamed 8-2 in a Champions League quarterfinal. Even if this is something of a makeshift Champions League tournament, 8-2 is 8-2. Barcelona have their own “Belo Horizonte” now, and cleaning up after it is going to be a massive undertaking....

Pep Guardiola Overthought It Again and City Are Out on Their Ass

We’ve all had to deal with a lot of our rites of spring being moved to another location on the calendar or lost to the pandemic altogether. Opening Day, Memorial Day blockbuster movies, Derby parties, all of these and more were lost or moved to an unfamiliar spot in life’s routine. Oh, and Pep Guard...

Sarri’s Not Enough: Juventus Boots Manager as Champions League Drought Continues

It is strange for a club to fire its manager after winning the league. It’s not unheard of, as Real Madrid once fired Vicente Del Bosque after he’d won both the Champions League and La Liga twice, but it’s still strange. To do it in two consecutive years however suggests a nutty desperation, a flail...

Lionel Messi Sees Connor McDavid's Ridiculous Goal And Raises ... As He Falls (SEE IT!)

The greatest players in their sport doing things no one else can do is … getting really old....

Stan Kroenke Takes His Evil International as FA Cup Champ Arsenal Gives FU to 55 Axed Workers

Putting that in present tense is a mistake, of course. Stan Kroenke has been the shithead owner of Arsenal FC for a long while now, along with his other teams. Today was perhaps his coup de asshole, though. ...

Fulham Return To Premier League With a Goal From Narnia

The Championship Playoff Final is often labeled “The Richest Match In The World.” Because it is. The winner gets promoted to the Premier League, and along with it the aircraft carrier of TV money, increased ticket prices, uptick in merchandise, and everything else. It is estimated that winning the g...

Is Arsenal’s FA Cup Win a Harbinger of Something New, or the Same?

Whatever Arsenal actually accomplished, and whatever they actually promise after yesterday’s FA Cup triumph over Chelsea, there’s hope. Hope that new manager Mikel Arteta is ready to take the club beyond where Unai Emery did, beyond where legend Arsene Wenger left them before that, and hope that he ...