A Brief History of Soccer—and American apathy towards it
Italy's 1982 World Cup victory. Not that I noticed at the time. Every four years, thousands of Americans put on the strangest collective theater in history. They pack local bars, mainly Irish pubs, at...
View ArticleSummer Reading for Teachers: Brilliant Orange
Now that we know the two finalists for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, let’s get to know one of them a little better. Of the two (Spain being the other), the Netherlands is probably less known to many...
View ArticleVideos for The Classroom: John Cleese on Soccer vs. Football
I found this on my friend Mark Himmelsbach’s blog–titled, oddly enough, the Himmelsblog. It shows British comic actor John Cleese from “Monty Python” fame in a clip from the documentary The Art of...
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