“Soccer and sportswriting at its best” Can the beautiful game survive in the murder capital of the world? Well Robert Andrew Powell transported his life to Juárez, Mexico to find out as he followed the city’s miracle team, the Indios. The club rose to the first division in one of the biggest surprises in Mexican soccer history. They would come to represent hope and goodwill in a place where the body count never seemed to stop. They gave the fans and citizens
The last time I saw Jason Garey in Columbus, he was wearing the Black & Gold of the Crew. He was finishing up his 5th MLS season and unbeknownst to me, he soon would be plying his trade with the Houston Dynamo. The Dynamo would make it to the 2011 MLS Cup Final, but Garey wouldn’t get another championship win as the Dynamo fell to the star-studded LA Galaxy. Major hip surgery would sideline Garey for nearly 5 months. He would miss out on the start of the
As a teenager I was a big fan of American football and the Buffalo Bills. The Bills happened to be on quite a run, making an appearance in four consecutive Super Bowls. Trouble began with one field goal gone wide right as the Bills lost four Super Bowls in a row. Today the team built by the likes of O.J. Simpson, Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, and Bruce Smith is winless in the first 5 games of the 2010 NFL season. What lesson did