We'll educate you about Lionel Messi, who probably enters 2010 South Africa as "world's best soccer player

In This Issue: Lionel Messi

...cover story, then go behind the scenes on hunting down Messi, and you can even read how soccer can improve itself with a hard look at numbers. Should be enough to get you to the...

China, as the capital of mini golf

The game sets up shop in a golf-rich region

In this issue: Champions League Final resources

...then this 'Behind the Story' on Messi as a person, then this piece on the stats of soccer, and finally, we'd encourage you to watch this video, this video, this video and this video...

The Hull City Project: Lived to see another day

What is "The Hull City Project?" What a difference a year makes. Or does it? A year ago, I sat in a hotel room outside London watching on televisio...

Lionel Messi is truly a king of the soccer world these days

Outtakes with Tim Howard

U.S. ex-pat, and current Everton keeper, Tim Howard talks to Kenny Mayne about playing soccer abroad.

Lunch Links

Daily Rec's: (1) Soccer playing robots are getting better and better; (2) Wow, the Warriors are desperate for positive publicity; (3...

The Morning According to Us

...A 14-year-old English goalkeeper scores twice in one game from her own penalty box. Turkish soccer ref banned from officiating because he's gay. Vancouver prostitutes receive media training for 2010 Games. A...

The Hull City Project: Free Fallin'

"I don't know what the Hull City Project is." If that sounds like you, click here. I was forewarned. Get attached to a football team like Hull City,...

Lunch Links

...on Twitter. Doug Glanville's take on A-Rod's pitch tipping. Get well soon, Jerry Remy. Soccer fans are tragically intense. The Coyotes are out of coin. Sir Charles really, really likes Ovechkin

The World's Game (According to Us)

More than fans of most other sports, soccer fans tend to distinguish between the final score of a match (the result) and the story of...

The Morning According to Us

...the South Pole on foot and you don't make time to Tweet? Elsewhere… That Mexican soccer player we wrote about yesterday has been banned for blowing snot in an opponent's face. Islamic...

The Morning According to Us

It's all fun and games until a Mexican soccer player intentionally coughs and blows snot in an opponent's face. Then no one wants to play...

Soccer in Mexico has been ghostly of late