UEFA Euro 2008, the latest recycling of code base from EA Sports, is your typical soccer game. (In fact, it’s basically FIFA ‘08 with a few minor additions and new players.) However, the nationalistic aspect has been played up. You can fight for the opportunity to captain your country’s team. You […]

The MLS’s Kansas City Wizards is getting treated with a sexual harassment lawsuit by former employee Kathryn Carver, the KANSAS CITY STAR reports.

Carver cites two of the team’s vice presidents, Greg Cotton and Robert Thomson, Jr. for, among other things, “[holding] “drafts” of young female employees with whom they would want to have sex.”

Rannord A. Jones definitely has some anger management issues. The Delaware man who was accused of biting a soccer referee in the face is in trouble again after reportedly stabbing a man during a restaurant fight.

The WILMINGTON NEWS JOURNAL reports that Jones turned himself into the police on Monday after the incident that occurred in […]

Just when the Euro 2008 had finally finished, another European soccer tournament is getting ready to kick off - the UEFA Cup (not to be confused with the UEFA Champions League, we think). And Manchester City (not to be confused with Manchester United) gets an interesting first-round draw.

The English club will travel to the Faeroe […]

Now that Euro 2008 is finally finished, English soccer can return to being relevant again. And INHABITAT welcomes British balling back into the news by showing sketches of a proposed stadium for the city of Portsmouth.

Swiss architects Herzog & De Mueron have released renderings of the pitch planned for the Portsmouth waterfront. The 36,000-seat stadium […]

Congratulations once again to the Spanish national soccer team, or “La Furia Roja,” as they’re known in their home country, for shaking off the years of frustration, failure, and choking since their last Euro win in 1964.

But that success took its toll in parts back home: the International Erotic Film Festival of Barcelona reported a […]

So remember when we told you that today offered some of the best spectacle an American soccer fan could hope for and that you should drop everything and tune in for the day? We remember it like it was this morning. Yeah. We’ve discussed this before, but we’re kind of an idiot.
In the […]

The DAILY MAIL documented the funeral of two British children killed in a car crash earlier this month, allegedly by a drunken goalkeeper for a Championship (the second-highest league in England) team. The player, Luke McCormick, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol.

The boys […]

Billy Beane, Oakland Athletics general manager and winner of… let’s check… zero World Series rings since taking over in 1997, has been rumored to be leaving the post for the last few months in search of greener pastures. Those pastures, however, are likely to still have leftover football markings or deflated pitching mounds on […]

UPDATE: Groin pounding from the MLS game after the jump.
In a few hours, the Euro 2008 final will commence in Vienna with Germany and Spain renewing a rivalry that… okay, has never really existed. Both teams will be missing perhaps their best player (Michael Ballack for Germany; David Villa for Spain), leaving the outcome of […]