FIFA World Cup

My sister-in-law called me up last week, all stressed out. Her youngest kid is absolutely hooked on soccer, specifically the U-17 Women’s team. She was trying to plan a short little trip to get the kid down to the Dominican...

Everybody on earth thinks finding the 2006 FIFA World Cup schedule is a five-minute job. You just punch the name into a search engine, grab a PDF or a nice HTML table, and you’re done. Man, I was dead wrong....

Man, let me tell you, working on this 2006 Brazil team ranking was a massive headache, but in the best way possible. I had a debate with my old college roommate a few weeks ago, the kind of dumb argument...

Man, I was just chilling the other day, maybe two nights ago, and I stumbled into a rabbit hole of nostalgia. I was flicking through some old soccer clips, and I landed on that crazy Brazil team from the 2006...

The Random Text Message That Started This Mess You wouldn’t believe what sent me down this particular rabbit hole. It was a Tuesday night, maybe 10 PM. I was just trying to relax, watching some totally forgettable cable soccer game,...

The Final That Messed Up My Life for a Week You know how it is. You start off just trying to settle a simple little pub argument, right? The title today, the 1974 Final, it sounds all fancy and historical,...

A typical Saturday afternoon. I was just chilling out, trying to watch some old footie highlights on the telly, you know, the classic stuff. My nephew, Jake, he walks in, sees the highlights of the 1958 World Cup. Pelé pops...

I started this whole thing last week because my neighbor, Bob, was boasting about some fancy new stats API he was paying a chunk of money for. He kept yapping about “validated data streams” and “seamless integration.” I told him...

The Accidental Start and My Dumb Idea You know how sometimes you get an idea so stupidly ambitious at 2 AM that you just have to chase it? Yeah, that was me. I was laid up for a few weeks...

I get asked this all the time: “Who’s winning the World of Warcraft Cup?” People think it’s easy, you just check the last tournament results or look at the bracket, right? Nah. That’s beginner stuff. You gotta know the gossip,...