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TYLER, Texas - Thursday night's clash between Tyler Junior College and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College at Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium was one giant game of "Can you top this?" If TJC did something, NEO had to do something better. The...

Blog | September 28, 2012

Division I recruits from Elyria, Ohio, fall off the tongue easily. In the last few years, Greg Davison has gone to Ohio University, Isaiah Byler to Bowling Green, Chase Farris to Ohio State and Tad France to Kent State. With Tracy Sprinkle headed ...

Blog | September 24, 2012

We can nitpick Team USA -- it lacks a dominant interior presence, its small lineup could use some work -- but as Bradford Doolittle writes, it probably doesn't matter. USA's sheer talent will overwhelm most teams like it did to France.

Story | Conversation | July 29, 2012

Fran Fraschilla ranks the six teams most likely to pull an upset against Team USA in London and keep it from winning a gold medal.

Story | Conversation | July 24, 2012

Brent Latham recaps the main takeaways from the Toulon tournamnet for El Tri, including that offense shouldn't be a problem for the team but that the defense needs work.

Blog | Conversation | May 31, 2012

The U.S. under-17 squad went undefeated in recent friendlies against France, Turkey and Brazil, and looked very good in the process.

Blog | Conversation | December 05, 2011

Luke Cyphers provides excerpts from his interview with U.S. men's national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann that didn't make it into ESPN The Magazine.

Blog | Conversation | December 02, 2011

Timothy Chandler was a bright spot at left back in the U.S. 1-0 loss to France.

Blog | Conversation | November 11, 2011

Jozy Altidore is having success across the pond in the Netherlands. Luke Cyphers and Doug McIntyre examine why and provide news and notes from around the soccer world.

Blog | Conversation | November 10, 2011

PARIS -- One of Jurgen Klinsmann's projects for his U.S. national team is to lengthen the MLS season. His reasoning: Young MLS players simply can't compete with the rest of the world if they have three months off every year while their peers overseas...

Blog | Conversation | November 09, 2011

Brent Latham analyzes the importance of the upcoming U-20 and Olympic camp in Germany.

Blog | Conversation | October 31, 2011

Jorge Arangure tells the tale of Liverpool Football Club executive Damien Comolli, whose friendship with Billy Beane has had a major impact on his view of statistics and soccer.

Story | Conversation | September 23, 2011

With qualifying starting up again this weekend, Voros McCracken projects the field for Euro 2012. Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are virtual locks. After that, it gets interesting.

Story | Conversation | August 31, 2011

Critics say the series needs to return to its Southern roots. We've got solutions, not criticism, to help get NASCAR back on an upward trend.

Story | Conversation | July 16, 2010

Advanced metrics have often been unwieldy when it comes to the soccer pitch. But after this World Cup, Peter Keating has found several that appear to correlate well with soccer success.

Blog | Conversation | July 15, 2010

Luke Cyphers takes a look back at this year's World Cup and finds that its effects will be felt far beyond the The Beautiful Game.

Story | Conversation | July 13, 2010