Portugal hosted Euro 2004, a fantastic tournament with a surprise winner in Greece. But as the financial crisis unfolds, some Portugese feel a tinge of regret over the expense involved. ...

Most readers are aware that Barcelona are now the best soccer club in the world, and that they, more than most, rely on their youth system to develop talent for the ...

Barcelona or Real Madrid?  Barcelona makes them.  Real Madrid buys them.  It's a matter of degree of course, but I think the distinction holds.  Rob Hughes reports, in anticipation of ...

A couple of weeks ago, my undergraduate seminar engaged in a discussion of Michael Allen Gillespie's excellent essay "Players and Spectators:  Sports and Ethical Training in the American University".  As ...

Tonight (this afternoon in North America) is the final of the Champions League.  The match between Bayern Munich and Inter Milan will take place in Madrid.  Bayern beat Lyon in ...

How is the sports business faring in the Great Recession?  Here are two contrasting stories out today.  First, a study sponsored by the Los Angeles Sports Council reports significant declines ...

Psychology matters in sport, at least in soccer.  That's the unambiguous implication of a new paper by Jose Apesteguia and Ignacio Palacios-Huerta.  I watch more than my fair share of European ...

Here's Arsene Wenger, via Duncan White  in the Telgraph: “What the statistics have done, is that they have kicked out of the game all the players who cannot run. Suddenly ...

No, not the NFL. Two European football leagues, the Bundesliga in Germany and Ligue 1 in France get started this weekend. In the Bundesliga, Wolfsburg came out in fine form ...

It's been a week of interesting contrasts in North American and European soccer, particularly with regard to issues of control and ownership in the game.  In MLS, an attempt to ...