World Cup Preview: England World Cup Coach Implementing SEX Surveillance

By: Friday June 11, 2010 12:44 pm

For many athletes, the opportunity to play in the world cup will only come along once in a lifetime. While cunning linguists may have picked up on the pun in that previous sentence, the coach for England World Cup team has banned his team from that activity. Sex, that is, not punning.

You can be great at soccer, or globally dominant – you can’t be both

By: Wednesday July 1, 2009 8:39 am

Cross-posted at River Twice Research.

So the United States lost to Brazil in the final of the FIFA Confederations cup, in that thrilling but painful tale of two halves, with the U.S. up 2-0 only to see Brazil roar back (or rather dance and prance and glide with balletic ferocity) and win 3-2. All I can say is, thank god.

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