Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Some light reading for a Sunday morning

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Here are a few non-law related articles I've come across recently that I found quite interesting... First, you've heard at least o...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Final thoughts on the World Cup

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It's over now and Germany gets to display the world's ugliest championship trophy for the next four years. You would think with the ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

End of the road in the World Cup

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Yesterday the dream of a World Cup trophy died for the United States with a 2-1 loss to Belgium. The US performance has been described as gu...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Thoughts on the World Cup

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Enough about the law for now. Here are a few observations about the group stage of the World Cup. Luis Suarez may very well be the best st...
Friday, June 20, 2014

The two faces of the World Cup

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I had to wait until my girls went to bed before I could finally sit down and watch the Uruguay-England match from the World Cup. Watching...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The beautiful game ain't always so beautiful

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As if the rampant corruption in international soccer isn't enough to get folks to sit up and take notice of how money greases FIFA's...
Monday, June 9, 2014

World cup of corruption

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We are now just days away from the opening match of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil. But attention has been drawn away from t...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Has it really been five years already?

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Today marks a couple of landmarks in the world of The Defense Rests . It was five years ago today that the first post went out across the in...
Friday, March 29, 2013

A lucky night in Mexico City

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Had you done nothing but read accounts of the USA-Mexico soccer game the other night, you would have thought the Yanks made one sustained co...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Another season ends and this time I'm happy

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Ordinarily this is the time of year I write wistfully about the end of another soccer season and the wait for next year to arrive. This year...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Book review: Up Pohnpei - A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the world's ultimate underdogs to glory

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I was minding my own business the other day while driving around in the car. I was listening to a BBC show when they began interviewing Paul...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Innocent unless... yeah right

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John Terry was, up until earlier this month, the captain of England's national soccer team. He was stripped of the captaincy because he...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

This bud's for you, or maybe it isn't

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Outside the United States soccer is the sport of the working class. Tales of violence at soccer matches around the world are legendary. Viol...
Friday, December 30, 2011

From a field of nightmares to a field of dreams

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As we wind down the old year and get ready to crank up the new one, the people in Afghanistan are still trying to extricate themselves f...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Are you ready for some futbol?

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Oh, once again our Saturdays are filling with rushing from field to field across the west side of Houston for soccer. I love the sight ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

I'll take a little cheese with my whine, please

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Now, if I might be permitted the indulgence of a little whine... I coach youth soccer. This is the fifth year I've coached a team of k...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

See ya' next season

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And so it ends. Another soccer season has come and gone. It seems like just yesterday we were gathered together laying out fields and putt...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Let the games begin

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This weekend marked the opening weekend of soccer season for my daughters' league. My oldest is beginning her fourth year of soccer whil...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

A little football on the side?

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Later today it will be the short passing game of the La Furia Roja against the possession oriented attack of the men of Oranje in the Worl...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Problem, what problem?

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For the ordinary sports fan sitting at home, the offsides rule in soccer may very well make no sense. For a soccer fan, the rule is crystal ...