It may be the best new park in the city that’s not the High Line, maybe even better, so whenever there is news of expansion at Brooklyn Bridge Park, it is good news. In this case, the good news comes in threes. Read More
Yesterday The Observer trekked down to Sarah D. Roosevelt Park to watch a little football. And we mean real football. Basketballer Steve Nash held his annual soccer match, Showdown in Chinatown, in which fellow kings of the court join forces with international soccer stars to raise money for Nash’s foundation.
The result? A hilarious mélange Read More
It seems as if the French soccer team may not get away from its actions during the World Cup scot-free.
According to the Associated Press, French striker Thierry Henry called for a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy upon the team’s return to France to discuss their disastrous World Cup showing.
Sarkozy, who Read More
For the first half of the 20th century, baseball was New York’s game. Sure, romantics insisted that baseball was a pastoral game, a throwback to the days of yeomen farmers and vast farmlands. But New Yorkers knew that was all hokum-baseball was played in places like Flatbush and the South Bronx and Harlem. And Read More
On the afternoon of Saturday, June 11, the central village of East Hampton was packed with two types: those who were shopping because it was too cold and overcast for the beach, and those who came to one of the casual eateries to watch the highly anticipated United States vs. U.K. soccer match at the Read More
Prominent Soccer Jew and New Republic editor Franklin Foer will be blogging the World Cup for TNR this year, as he did in 2006.
Mr. Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World, will be joined again by Serbian novelist and National Book Award finalist Aleksandar Hemon, among others.
From the release: Read More
In 2009, despite their best efforts at dysfunction, the Knicks were not the worst sports team in New York. Nor were the brittle Giants or the injury-plagued Mets. Not even the Islanders, dead last in the NHL, were as bad as the New York Red Bulls, Major League Soccer’s punching bag of 2009. Last season, Read More
Starting on Saturday, June 7, the 2008 European Championship – co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria – kicks off in Basel, Switzerland with a noon game between the Swiss and the Czech Republic.
The Euro is an international soccer tournament fashioned much like the World Cup, but with half the teams. The field of sixteen is Read More
