On November 2nd, 2012, in Richmond, Va., just 10 miles from St. John's Church where Patrick Henry famously declared, "Give me liberty or give me death," 25 student-athletes representing the University of Richmond's men's soccer team took the field -- possibly for the final time. Six weeks earlier, following a...

The college basketball season officially kicked off at the University of Missouri on Saturday. Hordes of students dressed in black and gold left Harpo's Bar and Grill on the corner of 10th and Cherry Streets in downtown Columbia and made their way through campus.

Passing the six stone columns...

Esther Vergeer is, without hyperbole, the most dominant athlete living today -- and you've probably never heard of her.

In 1989, Esther, an active girl who loved to play outside, was lying on her stomach in a hospital bed at the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. She had just...

Friendly: (adj) showing kindly interest and goodwill; not hostile

In a hotel parking lot just outside of downtown Mexico City, the roads have been blocked off. The police are here, lights flashing and sirens blaring. The local middle-aged bus driver in a blue uniform, black Reeboks and slightly graying hair,...

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." -Bill Shankly

Off the Post sits down with U.S. Soccer Federation President and economics faculty member at Columbia University, Sunil...

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." -Bill Shankly

In its inaugural interview, my blog series "Off the Post" met up with former U.S. Men's National Team...

While the cava settles in Madrid, and with the Community Shield still close to a month away, the North American soccer community is left to mull over what has been a tremendously entertaining year of international football. While we wait for the European seasons to begin again, we are afforded...