Off the Ball had no sooner been daydreaming about an oft-delayed trip to Barcelona than an e-mail from U.S. Soccer popped into her inbox as a holiday weekend beckoned, jolting her back into a unexpectedly blissful reality: U.S. men set...

This only took several months to do what some ought to think should have happened from the start: Bob Bradley's been named men's U.S. national team coach. As in, no longer interim. SI's Grant Wahl thinks USSF major domo Sunil...

Sorry for the long pause in this blog, Kickball Kids, but matters have been rather rowdy in Off the Ball's tight little corner of the world in recent weeks. Some very tight space indeed. Her employer is in the process...