Why the World Cup is Outrageously Disappointing
by Chris Ippolito
During my years at Marist College, I came across very few true hockey fans. As a die hard Rangers fan and ardent supporter of USA 
hockey, I felt obligated to push hockey on my housemates, who fortunately, were extremely open-minded about it from the beginning. Two years after their introduction, I would consider three of the four of them good Rangers fans and all of them huge supporters of USA hockey (not a hard feat after Team USA’s Olympic performance).
With this in mind, all of my housemates were soccer supporters. Realizing the strides that they took in their hockey fandom, they tried pushing “the beautiful game” on me. Selfishly, I was not as open minded about watching soccer as they were to watching hockey. To be blunt, I can’t stand watching the sport. I played for about six years as an adolescent, even captaining my travel team for my final two years. However, once I discovered football, I left soccer for good, never to return. Every time one of my housemates would put soccer on the tube, I would go upstairs to my room to watch Mike Francesa or ESPN’s Around the Horn. One afternoon, as I was about to do just this for approximately the 50th time, I was called out by all of them. After insisting that I just simply couldn’t sit there watching a million inconsequential passes and a trillion dives a game, they made one simple request of me: “At least watch the World Cup and support the USA.” So, wanting to placate my now fellow hockey supporters, I obliged. Continue reading »
The View from the Cheap Seats: Pro Athletes Just Don't Get It
Rays’ Price Latest to Mistake His Talent for Intelligence
by Eddie Mayrose
Ya gotta love social networking. As if athletes didn’t already have enough opportunities to
reveal themselves as arrogant, insensitive and selfish, any dolt with a Twitter account can now make a fool of himself at all hours of the day and night. The latest genius to fall down the rabbit hole is Tampa Bay Rays’ lefty, David Price, who criticized Rays’ fans for not turning out to fawn over his team as they closed in on a playoff berth Monday night. “Had a chance to clinch a post season spot tonight with about 10,000 fans in the stands….embarassing” was Price’s Tweet after the contest, as the Tampa ace gave himself a mouthful of shoe leather.
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