Socer, er, Futbol

BREAKING NEWS: Dallas Has a Soccer Team, and It's Quite Decent on the Pitch

By Justin Bitner
Sep 16, 2011

Editor's note: Observer.com contributor Justin Bitner got drunk and admitted to being a soccer fan, so we made him attend Wednesday's FC Dallas match against Tauro FC of Panama, FCD's fifth game of CONCACAF Champions League play. Yes, soccer still has ties. After a battle that sportscasters would definitely call...
Wait, the U.S. Women's Soccer Team Did Lose, Right?

By Richie Whitt
Jul 19, 2011

Just looked up on TV to see the CBS trumpets proudly announcing that tonight on David Letterman the guests will be ... Abby Wambach and Hope Solo. Wow, this is going to be tense. Because surely Letterman will ask the obvious question, right: "How did you girls choke away a...
Sad Sports Sunday For Your Good Ol' Red, White and Boo

By Richie Whitt
Jul 18, 2011

Woke up rooting for America Sunday morning. Phil Mickelson made a charge, Dustin Johnson was in the hunt and it looked like a U.S. golfer would steal the Claret Jug at the British Open. I was rooting for America after lunch, too. Abby Wambach scored late and it looked like...
American Women: Fun to Watch Running Around in Soccer Shorts

By Richie Whitt
Jul 11, 2011

You know what I think of women's sports. Why watch them when you can see men run faster, jump higher or hit the ball longer? And you know what I think of soccer. A potentially entertaining game is ruined by archaic offsides rules, ridiculous fake injuries and the worst officiating of...
A Football Lockout ... In Wylie?

By Richie Whitt
Mar 22, 2011

It's not exactly the same as NFL owners shutting down its $9 billion business, but unless outraged parents in Wylie are successful in lobbying city officials to find their children a suitable venue and ample playing fields there may be no 20011 youth football in this Collin County town next...
Hi Soccer or Bye Sucker?

By Richie Whitt
Jun 29, 2010

The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world's most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking lots every weekend. But with...
Zzzzzzzz ... Top 10 Most Boring Sports on the Planet?

By Richie Whitt
Jun 21, 2010

Spent Father's Day between the grill and the couch. OK, mostly the couch. Instead of another tacky tie for a gift, I let dear ol' dad man the remote control. Went something like this: U.S. Open ... Rangers ... U.S. Open ... World Cup ... Rangers ... U.S. Open ... zzzzzzz...
Texas Chile

By Richie Whitt
Jun 16, 2010

One has a lone white star on a blue background, flanked by large swaths of white and red. It represents a state whose football conference was saved yesterday. One has a lone white star on a blue background, flanked by large swaths of white and red. It represents a country...
England 1, USA 1: My Top 10 Observations

By Richie Whitt
Jun 14, 2010

10. When the doors opened at 6 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station, there were already 20 people lined up for a day of World Cup watching. We can rip soccer (and we will), but it's hard to criticize its fans' passion. 9. In a sport where you...
Copa de Mundial: You Give a Rat's Ass?

By Richie Whitt
Jun 10, 2010

Yeah, it's the world's biggest sporting event. But we're not in the world, we're in Texas. Dallas, more precisely, where football is king, spring football is queen, basketball is a part-time curiousity, hockey is a memory, baseball is foreplay to more football and soccer is ... Stupid? A game played by...
So, What Were You Doing 21 Years Ago Today?

By Richie Whitt
Nov 21, 2008

Ah, the good ol' days. When Dallas actually lifted sports trophies. Can’t say that I have a vivid memory of it, but apparently I was trying to trick Fort Worth Star-Telegram readers into thinking I knew a little something about indoor soccer and the defending MISL champion Dallas Sidekicks. Back...
Can You Imagine If Bear Stearns Sponsored the Dallas Cowboys?

By Richie Whitt
Sep 18, 2008

Reminds me of when Ameriquest sponsored the Rangers' ballpark. Except Man U doesn't suck. While yesterday pondering what it’s going to be like during next week's dawning of this century's Great Depression, I stumbled upon a Champions League footie match on ESPN2 featuring Manchester United and some team in horrid...