As millennials move to cities and have kids, will soccer become popular in the U.S.?
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Sorry, Montell Jordan (dated reference, eh?), but this is how you do it: get put on camera at the World Cup and parlay that into a modeling contract with L’Oreal. It happened for Axelle Despiegelaere of Belgium, even though Belgium lost in the… Continue Reading
Microsoft added a World Cup prediction engine to the Cortana virtual assistant program on June 28th (about two weeks after the World Cup actually began). Since then, it’s 12-for-12 at predicting winners. That’s absurd, because those 12 games involve Costa Rica’s… Continue Reading
I’d like to say this is a sign that I’m older and more mature, but it’s probably not: I haven’t watched a lot of this World Cup in bars. Most of it has been in my living room, with the… Continue Reading
One of my good friends is Dutch, so I’m biased in some ways here — but consider this to begin: The Netherlands have appeared in 10 World Cups so far, holding the record of losing the most finals without managing… Continue Reading
There were no shortage of things written before the World Cup began about the marketing efforts therein, especially as relates to NIKE vs. Adidas. Here’s one I read on a plane in May, and here’s a recent goal-tracker for their… Continue Reading
This is all pretty much a moot point, since assuming the United States will beat Belgium and Argentina in its next two games is a wide stretch. But … think about it. Anything is possible. There’s a lot of consternation around legitimate… Continue Reading
Conventional logic says Messi 1, Ronaldo 2 … so is Suarez 3? Twitter seems to think so. The only consolation from last night is that the magician #LuisSuarez is ours. The third best player in the world. #LFC — Sam… Continue Reading