“It must be great coaching a no-responsibility sport,” the college baseball coach snidely remarked.

Growing up in Wauwatosa, a snow-white suburb of Milwaukee, I had no black friends, teachers, coaches or neighbors.

Tom recently received a call from Bob Wood, our college soccer coach, and learned Coach was dying. Tom was organizing a reunion – a farewell of sorts to Coach Wood.

When the season ended, I asked Craig the number one question on my mind, “Will I have to coach Goalkeepers next season?”

On this occasion John was bewildered by a meeting with a client that just ended. John is the President or CEO or CFO or COO or COD or CUD or the Big Honcho of Keeper Goals.

I was in eighth grade now and I finished with puberty’s delightful journey. I was the first one in my grade to grow armpit hair.

Someday, forensic soccer scholars will find this, read it and begin a lengthy dissertation of it with the simple sentence, “This man’s a moron.”

It’s about respect, calling it a rivalry means you’re respected as a formidable opponent.

Originally written in 2018 - still relevant today.

As the result of a stunning cataclysmic confluence of wins and losses among soccer teams on October 10, 2017, the US Men’s National Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup for the first time since 1986.

The oldest of three brothers, Doug comes from a no-nonsense family or a complete nonsense family.

So here it is, in their words, and on behalf of everyone who reads my blog (all 17 people including immediate family and editors) and says, “What do they say about you Rob?”

He’s got no personality and wears his socks over his knees.

The teenage years are magical, myth-making, Molotov cocktails of misery and majesty muddled into a confusing mix of dendrite growth, hyperactive hormones and impaired inhibitions.

“David, do you have any questions about your position for your coach?” She nodded her head while looking at him.

With about 25 minutes remaining in the contest he shot me a look, a look I knew meant one thing, “Warm up and then change the game.”

For the kids, it’s an opportunity to choose between a variety of exciting interests like Taekwondo, baking, blood transfusions, painting, oral surgery, coin collecting, taxidermy, soccer, and Go-Karting.

My mom is proud of her and my dad’s parenting and DNA contribution.

From 2006 through 2008 five days a week, Tim Harrington walked into the room and was introduced to people he didn’t know, and he loved it.

I was nervous. We’re talking Peter Knezic, local soccer legend, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee All American and Milwaukee Wave superstar.

“Their ball?! That’s impossible,” I yelled. “That defies the laws of physics.”