My girlfriend works for a beauty company. She doesn’t hate soccer. She’s far more ambivalent than that. I dragged her to the US soccer game. She actually enjoyed it but the next time I try to drag her, I think she’s going to dig in…

The World Cup is really the only time I consistently talk to non-soccer watching friends about soccer. Before the tournament even started I had a friend ask me “so, what’s got to happen for the US to advance?” I said, “I don’t know, man, but if they’re…

I remember when Bastian Schweinsteiger missed a penalty in the shootout of the Champions League final for Bayern in 2012. I really needed Bayern to win that year. If Chelsea lost, there would have been an extra spot in the Champions League for Tottenham Hostpur….

I didn’t even watch England’s final game. I was too busy watching Luis Suarez bite someone again. (Seriously, FIFA needs to do something about this guy.) Before Italy vs. Uruguay, I flipped over to the England game at the introductions and I could have sworn I…

On the bright side, we’re not England or Spain. If we had been offered a tie at the beginning of the match, we would have taken it. It was that the tie happened the way it did that stings. But it shouldn’t take away from…

I think our judgement has been clouded by the Ghana win. Going into that game, I was feeling guarded. Coming out of that game, I, like every other American fan who watched, was elated. I made temporary friends on the train ride home because of the…

Germany vs. Portugal Ostensibly I hate both of these teams but if I had to choose which team to hate, I’d choose Portugal. Both of these teams are part of the United States’s “group of death” so I was just happy that neither was playing…

This was the first day for games in Group E and the first time I heard the phrase “group of life”. How insulting is that? I can understand “group of death”. You’re saying that these teams are all so good that only two can make…

That one hurt. I should have kept my damn mouth shut. Anybody but Luis Suarez. It was like I was directly tempting the fates. Sterling was handled quite well by Uruguay. Wellbeck and Sturridge were ineffective. When England went forward, I didn’t sense any danger…

Let me be clear: I love to hate Christiano Ronaldo but I hate Luis Suarez. This is all that is on my mind before today’s game. God, I hate that guy. I’ve hated him from the start and by “the start” I mean the Uruguay…