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 a text message at 1:46PM yesterday from the Dallas airport: “do you know the [...]

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 the ins and outs of all the rules. Even the little ones. Most of the [...]

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 project this semester: the Steelers. You see, I teach creative writing at a large university [...]

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 waged by two sides differentiated by what appears on their shield or banner, as well [...]

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 how the patriots winning the super bowl was a hoax because they were named the [...]

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 Kicks. I like the Miller Outdoor Theater. I know that there are Scrabble [...]

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 opposed to “unreliable” Wikipedia), I thought I’d put the matter to rest. Then I stumbled [...]

What is the record of Mexico vs US the last 5 years? – Tom You have no idea how tedious this was to look up. I ended up at the Federacion Mexican de Futbol Ass. crawling through old stats. Unfortunately, Mexico doesn’t have the best record against the US in the last five years. Here’s [...]

I totally called the Superbowl. Thanks for playing.

I just woke up from a nap and I have to tell you, I had an amazing dream. The Giants won the Superbowl. Don’t ask me how or why, but I firmly believe my dream to be true. So there. I’m calling it. Giants over Pats. Five point spread. I’m sticking my neck out. Who [...]

Hi Adri…. first, I’d like to say hello. If you don’t remember who I am, next time I will try to introduce myself again. Anyway, the question is…. How can I explain to gringos that their national soccer team and league is nowhere near Mexico level of gameplay? The gringos are starting to claim they [...]