The 1998 Spuds
For some years, this was the index to the season box score and game reports of The Blazing Spuds, an over-30 men's team in the Southern Idaho Soccer League. I'm sad to say that the Spuds have gone defunct, and over-30 has become over-50 for some of us.
What's left is a small collection of essays on the topic of soccer (mostly) and sports:
The 2011 World Cup
quarterfinal between the USA and Brazil
was one of the most exciting soccer games I've seen.
World Cup '06
A short wrap-up of the quadrennial spectacle.
A Kid's Game
Spectating at the sports book lounge at Harrah's in Reno.
World Cup '99
Observations on the women's 1999 World Cup, and a few suggestions
for ABC Sports on how to cover soccer.
World Cup '98
My short list of what the (men's) World Cup would have been better
without.
Play Ball!
Cuba vs. Baltimore (in baseball) and a visit to Pleasant Valley
for a friendly soccer match.
Prater's Prattle
Mike Prater was (maybe still is, I don't know) a sports columnist for
the local Boise paper, and one of his columns made fun of soccer in that
freely sarcastic style sports columnists get to use. I make fun of
him.
Chawboys
What do you get when you cross America's pastime with a disgusting
drug habit?
Soccer refs attacked after game
An article that ran in the Palo Alto Daily News in
March, 2000, about an incident of Menlo Park players and
fans taking things a little too seriously.