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Entries Tagged ‘media’

Thinking Rationally About Acceptable Risk

The media has a tendency to overhype dangers to children that in reality are extremely unlikely to occur. Unfortunately, many parents tend to lose perspective as to what is an acceptable risk and forget how much danger they put their kids in just by driving them to and allowing them to participate in youth soccer.

Dave O’Brien ‘Outta Here?’

Over at Main St. USA, they note with glee:

Confirmed: Dave O’Brien and Eric Wynalda are out as MLS’ #1 broadcast team and will be replaced by JP Dellacamera and John Harkes.

Please, please, please, let them be out as the USSoccer announcers, too. If I ever have to hear Dave O’Brien reveal his sketchy [...]

US Soccer and the SoccerSphere

Josh at Throughball takes US Soccer to task over their disregard for the many soccer blogs out there covering US Soccer on a daily basis. Clearly US Soccer can do more to leverage the SoccerSphere and expand the reach of US Soccer online.

Donovan And Friends Tip The Stanley Cup Over

Yes, I’m still catching up on stuff from June! One reason I haven’t blogged much is I found myself watching soccer almost every night most weeks, between the Gold Cup, the Copa America, U-20 World Cup, USWNT Friendlies, and the MLS. Apparently I wasn’t the only one:

NEW YORK (AP) — The CONCACAF Gold Cup final [...]

Who Says Soccer Can’t Be Popular In The US?

Americans dismissed soccer for a number of reasons – but one of them was beyond parents with kids who played – they never had a chance to SEE soccer. That is changing…