When I was a college student in Montpellier, France back in 1981-82, the 1982
World Cup was taking place at several different venues in Spain.

Prior to 1982, most of the soccer/football world had kind of a paternalistic,
condescending view of African Football. You have to remember at that time, that
there were no African players who were [...]

In a busy last day of matches to qualify for the FIFA World Cup, to be played in South Africa in 2010, it would have been nice to discuss the upsets by Greece, Algeria and Slovenia against Ukraine, Egypt and Russia, respectively.
However most soccer fans have been talking about France’s qualifying tie against Ireland at [...]

My daughter Rachel has been with a friend near Antwerp, Belgium for the past couple of weeks. She has had an overall great time-but hey, if you can’t have fun in a country where they are magicians with beer and chocolate, you might want to switch to de-caf…or you just are not trying hard enough.

Rachel [...]

Wow, there is just a ton of stuff that is rugby-related to comment on
from this past weekend. It’s tough to decide where to begin.

I will start close to home-well, in the Americas, anyway, since the USA
Eagles were able to beat Uruguay 27-22
http://planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,9817_5696007,00.html in the
first leg of their two leg playoff in Montevideo. On the [...]

For those of you who have been regular visitors to my blog, the subject of concussions has become a very near and dear subject to my heart after my wife’s travails since suffering a concussion in late September during a car accident. She missed a month of work, and has still be noticing all manners [...]

There is a lot to comment on from this past weekend’s rugby: The All Blacks beating Wales,  England losing at home to Australia and Leicester’s shock win against the Springboks as the November Internationals got started on European soil. It would also be very easy to talk about my club, The Metropolis RFC of Minneapolis [...]

The beat just goes on for South African Springbok and Blue Bull fly half Morné Steyn. This past weekend he took part in his fourth major win of the 2009 season, a veritable rugby grand slam: Super 14 title, a series victory against the touring British Lions, a Springbok victory in the Tri-Nations, and this [...]