How to Make Soccer The New Basketball: Buy Czech Republic

It’s World Cup time, and soccer is coming of age in New York.

Sort of.

“What an ass!” screamed Charles Guder, when the TV at Nathan Hale’s restaurant downtown showed national team coach Bruce Arena. “Look at him, he’s smiling now. He’s gone. He’s got to get fired.”

Whether it was the soccer nerds Read More

How to Make Soccer The New Basketball: Buy Czech Republic

It’s World Cup time, and soccer is coming of age in New York.

Sort of.

“What an ass!” screamed Charles Guder, when the TV at Nathan Hale’s restaurant downtown showed national team coach Bruce Arena. “Look at him, he’s smiling now. He’s gone. He’s got to get fired.”

Whether it was the soccer Read More

If Not the West Side, What About Queens?

If Plan A for the city’s Olympics bid was the West Side stadium, whither Plan B?

Whiffs of a contingency plan, though seldom aired in public, have permeated the local planning process for at least three years. In 2002, after the United States Olympic Committee demanded that U.S. contenders produce stadium-backup strategies, NYC2012 raised the Read More