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Two Steelers fans found themselves thousands of miles away from home. In fact, both were in Texas during what may or may not have been the most significant game of the season for Pittsburgh. What did they do? Brad sent me ...Read More

Watching the Steelers (without Brad)

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Learning to watch the Steelers has been an exercise in learning to watch football. Not that I didn't know how to watch football—but when you are watching a specific team (and I know how "duh" this is), it means learning ...Read More

Stillers 4th Quarter Blues

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Every now and then, I like to write about sports. Usually, it's soccer, because... I'm a huge fan of watching soccer (does one really need an explanation for this sort of thing?). But I decided to take on a new ...Read More

Watching the Steelers with Brad

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Whenever I write about soccer, I inevitably write about loyalty. Now, I know I'm treading on obvious territory: a childhood in Texas and over three years in Pittsburgh have taught me that all sports are territorial and arbitrary allegiance-based battles ...Read More

The New Soccer Wars

so...during 9/11 there was a bunch of hoopla' made out of sports championships...the documentary about how the yankees fueled the spirit of New York City making it to the world series right after 9/11...then the conspiracy theorists who commented on ...Read More

Disaster Wins: Sports and the Economy

What is there to do in houston for entertainment outside the bar scene? -- Tourista Well, that depends on what you like to do. My friend Rachel goes running with the Kenyan Way for fun and fitness. Pete plays indoor soccer at ...Read More

What to do

Yesterday, after I spent a good twenty minutes looking up the stats of all the games between the US and Mexico (only to discover it's all on Wikipedia fifteen minutes later --That's what I get for using "primary sources" as ...Read More

Landon Donovan is a Wuss