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2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup: What US Women Did In Dresden, In A Word: Unforgettable

The Yanks Are Coming 11 July @ 12:36 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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By Neil W. Blackmon Let's just get the disclaimer right out of the way, shall we? What follows won't do today justice. I would hope that's obvious. Some moments in life are too sensory, too "I wish I could have been there or seen that" for the written word. In the age of youtube and [...]

On careerism in the incestuously small Canadian soccer journalism scene

A More Splendid Life 02 July @ 03:00 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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The Canadian soccer writing landscape has exploded over the last few years. It almost feels redundant to write this, but the number of Canadian soccer sources now available on the web is truly remarkable.
I don't want to get in a long-winded breakdown of the "history" of online soccer coverage in Canada, but suffice it to say, before the internet there were one or two newspaper reporters who owned the soccer beat, and even then, coverage was sparse.