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Serie A Returns to Plague-Ravaged Italy, Possibly With an Uncomfortable Champion<em></em>
It’ll be everyone into the pool at the weekend, as Serie A returns to the soccer scene as the last of the major European leagues to play behind closed doors. It’ll come back with a very tight title race, but one possible champion that would lead to a lot of collar-tugging around the world. The other...
Premier League Soccer Returns, Goal-Line Technology Apparently Still in the John
The Premier League returned to action this afternoon at Villa Park with Aston Villa hosting Sheffield United. While VAR has been riling fans and media alike most of the season, today it was goal-line technology’s turn to provide confusion, mystery, and vitriol. ...
Champions League Will Return, in a Can
The multiple and concurrent method of competitions in world soccer was always going to be a challenge to restart after the coronavirus shutdown. European competitions, i.e. the Champions League and Europa League, had the added challenge of dealing with multiple restrictions on safety and travel acro...
Premier League Returns: How to Watch, and Everything Else You Need To Know
If it feels like the sporting world is at that point where all the people who were really excited to drink for free are showing up too early to the party, that’s because it kind of is. A month after the German Bundesliga kicked things off by helping to set up the food and arrange the furniture, and ...
Spanish Weeks in my Disco Casino: What to Expect When Liga Returns
The Bundesliga in Germany will no longer have the stage to itself (with all apologies to Poland’s Ekstraklasa). Thursday afternoon, the Seville Derby between Sevilla and Real Betis will announce La Liga’s return to the soccer and sporting scene. So let’s catch you up on where we are in Spain and whe...
MLS Got Its Orlando Tournament! It Will Likely Suck
MLB owners have sucked up almost all of the oxygen for those trying to be greedy shits, so you might not have known MLS owners attempted a lot of the same stuff. They went even one step further than their MLB counterparts, threatening to lockout MLS players during a pandemic, which would have had th...
FIFA Calls For 'Common Sense' Without Addressing Soccer's Ugly Racist Past and Present
It’s a bit overwhelming when you consider the scale of protests against police brutality and institutional and societal racism across the globe we’re seeing. There have been massive demonstrations in London, Brussels, Rome, Paris, Tokyo, New Zealand Ghana, South Africa,, and many other places....
Take a Hike, Morons: West Brom Tells Ignorant Slob To Bugger Off
West Bromwich Albion was in fourth place in the Championship, the second tier of English soccer, and with the season there set to resume later this month, they’ll be doing all they can down the stretch to earn promotion back to the Premier League, where they were relegated from last year....
The Justice For George Floyd Campaign Spreads To Europe
There have been protests across the world today against police brutality to echo those in this country the past couple of days and players in the German Bundesliga have taken up the cause as well over the weekend. Three players had public displays of protest in matches. ...
Morning Drinkers Rejoice: Premier League And Serie A Announce Return Dates
In give-it-a-name fashion, both the Premier League In England and Italy’s Serie A announced today the dates they will resume. The Premier League will restart on June 17, behind closed doors (no fans), with two matches and then a full-slate the following weekend. Serie A will return on June 20....
NWSL Will Be America's First Team Sports League To Resume Play In Pandemic's Wake
Today, The NWSL announced their “2020 Challenge Cup,” which follows the tournament guidelines we outlined last week. ...
Bayern Munich Are Inevitable, Time Marches On, Bells Toll, The Whole Thing
While the return of the Bundesliga has provided something to watch and discuss (and something of a roadmap for how other leagues could get back on the field), what it couldn’t promise was actual drama, especially in its title race. This afternoon, as is their way, Bayern Munich eliminated any chance...
More Blowback From 'Women Are Inferior' Argument — U.S. Soccer's Chief Legal Officer Resigns
When taking on the best soccer team in U.S. history in the battle for equal pay for equal work, “men are inherently physically superior to women” is probably not the tack one wants to take. At the very least, it has the potential to be a PR nightmare, in addition to violating the spirit of the notio...
Your Guide To The Return Of Bundesliga
Following in Korean baseball’s footsteps, at least in our eyes, another sports league on foreign shores is set to return this weekend. That’s the German Bundesliga, which will attempt to finish out its season, behind closed doors, in the coming weeks. “Attempt” is important here, as much like the KB...
Soccer Superstar Alex Morgan Successfully Makes Human Being — Baby Girl Charlie Elena
Happy Mother’s Day, Alex. ...
Is It A Guten Idea To Restart Soccer In Germany?
I’ll give you all a bit of a glimpse behind the scenes here. We’ve soured on “possible reopening plan” stories. We’re pretty much against running them until something is concrete. You’re probably sick of them, too. They’re just trial balloons or fingers in the wind. They all follow the same formula,...
Legal Setback Or Not, Equality For Women’s Soccer Is Inevitable
Don’t be fooled....
Baseball Isn’t The Only Sport With Lower Division Problems
The landscape of the world’s most popular game is about to change severely....
Italian Football Club Uses 6-Year-Old Boy's Uniform Design And It Is All The Joy We Need
Perhaps no country could use a smile more than Italy considering how it’s been ravaged by the coronavirus. We could probably all use a smile, to be honest. So let’s thank a 6-year-old and Serie B club Pescara Calcio 1936 for this....
Does Liga MX’s Axing Of Promotion/Relegation Pave The Way To MLS-MX?
Logic would dictate that in a world crisis like the one we’re currently in, major business decisions in any industry would be put on hold. But of course, that’s ignoring the cloak of darkness that something like this can provide the powerful and rich only looking to become more so. So it went this w...