You know, remaining scoreless at the end of a game is pretty embarrassing. But, there is something far, far more humiliating: living with the knowledge that one of your own players scored a goal for the opposing team by kicking the ball off his teammate’s face.

As unbelievable as that sounds, it happened just a week and half ago during a game ...

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This was the scene in Berlin during the Germany-England World Cup match on June 27th: five-hundred thousand fans cheering, jeering and, undoubtedly, shouting profane things in unison.

To put things into perspective: that’s more people than the entire population of Iceland and fifty other countries.

Fortunately for everyone involved, Germany t...

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Arjen Robben Dancing His Way Across the Field

Over the weekend, the United States suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Ghana, effectively ending their bid for the World Cup and killing any remaining interest in the sport for many Americans. However, for the rest of us, the show goes on with eight teams still battling for World Cup suprem...

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The former Redmen men's soccer team beat the current Orangemen men's soccer team last Thursday and with that come the post game analysis.  This win adds to their 9-1-2 record this season. This means they have nine wins, one loss and two draws. More importantly, St. John's soccer is 5-0-0 at home. Why? Maybe it's because of technique, defense, of...

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I've really been trying to get into soccer--after all, there isn't anything on during the day besides Euro 2008 anyways.  My plan to enjoy the sport is semi-working (today I chose Turkey vs. Croatia over re-runs of MTV's Made, good choice), but I'm finding it difficult to really become a soccer fan for a few reasons:

1.  I feel stupid saying f...

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