It was high time for a rebrand. The old ASN logo had nothing discernible about soccer and wasn’t really ours to begin with (a leftover from a bygone era, if you will). The new design, with its old school soccer ball and “electricity bolts” goes much further in communicating both soccer and “news-ness.” With its [...]

Tom Hopper’s The Damned United is a fun British sports drama based on David Pearce’s novel of the same name. Starring Michael Sheen as Clough, the film opens in select U.S. theaters today (it already ran in the U.K. and Ireland). It tells the story of Brian Clough’s tumultuous 44 days in charge of Leeds United in 1974. Or does it?

‘The Beckham Experiment,’ the highly-anticipated book by Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl hit bookstores this week. It provides an in-depth look at David Beckham’s two-year stint with the LA Galaxy, recapping a tumultuous period for the player, his team and Major League Soccer. Beckham was introduced by the Galaxy to much fanfare in 2007. [...]

Not this again. We thought we had addressed these “soccer is un-American” myths last year. Apparently not…

Soccer as ‘un-American’ arguments are nothing new and rely on the same myths. Here they are, de-bunked hopefully once and for all (though likely not).