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In Soccer, Size is Not Everything

  • August 28th, 2009
  • Posted in Football . Soccer . Sports

Alexi Lalas told The Big Lead yesterday, he believed Landon Donovan was “one of the Top 20 players in the world.”  That’s nutty.  But, so were comments he made on The B.S. Report.  Lalas told Simmons “height” was becoming a more prevalent issue in soccer and that diminutive talents like Leo Messi were “a dying [ READ MORE ]

International Soccer is Ready to Take Off! So Sayeth Bill Simmons and Colin Cowherd

  • July 12th, 2009
  • Posted in Football . Media . Soccer . Sports

If any man in our modern times could raise his own army, it would be Bill Simmons.  If the world were to descend into a Water World-like anarchy, he would have his own floating city, and no shortage of lunatics with pitchforks.  His mere mention of our website on the B.S. Report nearly caused our [ READ MORE ]

Outliers in Sports: Do Players Receive Too Much Credit For Being “Great?”

  • May 14th, 2009
  • Posted in Sports

Outliers in Sports: Do Players Receive Too Much Credit For Being “Great?”. Gladwell’s Outliers premise applied to sports.  How much of being a great athlete or being perceived as one is dictated by the individual and how much is dictated by environment? [ READ MORE ]

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