What's THAT Supposed to Mean?: Blondie, "Long Time"
Some people get crankier when they get older. They drift off and sit in front of whatever TV shows best reinforce their stereotypes and validate...
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Podcast, Ep. 7 — Smarter soccer parents with Skye Eddy Bruce
With all due respect to DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (now known as Will Smith), sometimes parents DO understand.
Podcast: Ep. 6 — The Big Questions with Bobby Warshaw
“If you let your kid play sports, she’ll grow up to be a productive member of society! If you don’t, what’s wrong with you?”
What's THAT Supposed to Mean?: "The Green Fields of France"
This month’s entry is being dictated by the times. We’re still marking the 100-year anniversary of the most ghoulish, pointless war the world has seen...
Podcast: Ep 5 — Promotion/relegation with Peter Wilt
For more than a decade, promotion/relegation talk has been the bane of the U.S. soccer community’s existence. It wasn’t going to happen any…
Ranting Soccer Dad » Blog Archive » Ranting Soccer Dad, Episode 4: Are women’s soccer players role models? With guest Jen Cooper
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Ranting Soccer Dad » Blog Archive » Ranting Soccer Dad, Episode 3: Gwendolyn Oxenham
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ALBUM REVIEW: NICOLE ATKINS, "Goodnight Rhonda Lee"
An angry letter to Nashville. You can't take all the East Coast's talented singer-songwriters.
Ranting Soccer Dad » Blog Archive » Ranting Soccer Dad, Episode 2: Yael Averbuch
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What’s THAT Supposed to Mean?: Green Day, "Jesus of Suburbia"
And there’s nothing wrong with me, this how I’m supposed to be, in a land of make-believe that don’t believe in me. What’s THAT supposed...
Ranting Soccer Dad » Blog Archive » Ranting Soccer Dad, Episode 1: Mike Woitalla
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Ranting Soccer Dad » Blog Archive » Ranting Soccer Dad, Episode 0
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High school basketball: The return of "Nine Toes."
Star-News, Feb. 23, 1994. A player returns from a hunting accident to spark his team to an upset.
NBA: Laettner needs to let his game do the talking
Women's sports: Silver Bullets speeding on a train to nowhere
Predictions: Brazil will take home World Cup title
Soccer league can survive in baseball's shadow
High school soccer: Hoggard 5, Laney 3 (OT)
Women's college basketball: UNCW's diminishing roster not sign of progress
Star-News, Sept. 21, 1994. The coach had driven away many of the players, leaving a team that had little chance of competing.
Disc golfer puts his clubs away for good
Forget shoulder pads, try tackling a band uniform
Arenas seek just the right music for the masses
College basketball: Get rid of conference tournaments? No way
1999 Women's World Cup: USA learns the game
Knight Ridder Tribune, July 1999. How the dramatic final of an event that surprisingly captured the nation's interest taught many of us how to be soccer fans. Next up: a women's league.
Kindersoccer and other oxymorons
Soccer Journal, Jan-Feb 2016. A look at how to train (and how not to train) the littlest players.
Duke vs. Clemson, men's basketball preview
Duke Chronicle, Jan. 1991. A look at Duke's upcoming opponent, which loooovvvved to shoot the 3.
10 Myths About Women's Soccer Journalists
Our Game magazine, Summer 2014. No, it's not as glamorous as you think.
Physicality in women's soccer
Our Game magazine, Sept 2013. Skills are great, but the physical side of the game is never going away.
Political correctness fad will fade
Duke Chronicle, March 1991. The PC debate came back with a vengeance in the 2010s, but at least we accept recycling and some of the other things the "PC critics" fought back then.
Down with academicese
Duke Chronicle, April 1991: A rant on academic language so persuasive that at least one professor (not mine) shortened the page requirement for an upcoming paper.