Subject: Soccer

• Not Unless They's Nekkid

  January 25, 2007

• Geezer Butler Rules

  September 20, 2007

• The Onion Exposes St. Louis Hipsters, Thankfully

  Any drive down Arsenal on Sunday afternoon might result in spotting a group of grown-ups taking advantage of Tower Grove Park's many baseball diamonds, but the players on the field aren't throwing around a baseball or softball, or even using the dirt infield for game of soccer. Nope, it's kickball. Thanks to a sharp-witted reader, someone noticed this and sent it to folks at The Onion. Full article here.

  June 2, 2009

• Where to Watch the Champions League Final Today

  May 21, 2008

• Now Open: Emack & Bolio's

  June 27, 2008

• St. Louis' Homeless Soccer Team Nets Trophy

  July 7, 2008

• We're Now a Four-Sport Town

  April 1, 2009

• St. Louis Going Balls Out for Soccer Team

  October 16, 2008

• FoodWire: St. Louis Community Farmers' Market This Saturday

  This Saturday St. John's Episcopal Church (3664 Arsenal Street) hosts the second St. Louis Community Farmers' Market of the season. The market runs from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The market's Web site includes a list of confirmed and likely vendors.The St. Louis Community Farmers' Market meets on the first Saturday of each month through April.- Ian Froeb

  January 8, 2009

• International Coach Meltdown!

  Recently, I put together some of my very favorite coaching meltdowns of all time. I was pretty happy with the list, even though there were a few that I simply couldn't include; I wanted to keep it to five, and I am a man of my word. So overall, I thought it was a pretty good list. In the comments section of that post, though, a man by the name of Steve opened my eyes to something I knew absolutely nothing about. International coaching meltdowns. Now, don't get me wrong here, I'm perfectly well a

  February 27, 2009

• Thursday, March 12: Morning's Newz

  Police in Maryland Heights are on the lookout for the "feces bandit" -- a suspect accused of spreading human excrement in Wesport Plaza bathrooms. The bandit has also been leaving his (or her) "trail" on vending machines on college campuses. Terry Sedlacek, the man charged with gunning down the Rev. Fred Winters during a church service Sunday in Maryville, pleaded "not guilty" yesterday to charges of murder and aggravated battery. Radio station KTRS reports that St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob M

  March 12, 2009

• The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 4.7

  Georgia rallies around its beloved peanut, salmonella outbreak be damned. (New York Times)The stark realities facing chain restaurants during the recession. (New York Times)From the You Can't Make This Stuff Up Dept.: North Korea accuses South Korea of food poisoning its soccer team prior to a World Cup qualifier. (AP)

  April 7, 2009

• Everybody Wins

  November 26, 2008

• Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?

  November 19, 2008

• The Old Switcheroo: UMSL follows its usual playbook in reassigning a controversial administrator

  October 29, 2008

• Just for Kicks: St. Louis will field a new professional women's soccer team next spring

  October 1, 2008

• League of Nations: Immigrant soccer players from across the globe go balls out at a tiny park in north St. Louis

  July 23, 2008

• Home Sweet Soccer: St. Louis has become part of an international phenomenon

  June 11, 2008

• It's a Frame-Up

  May 28, 2008

• That Blue Was Revolting

  December 26, 2007

• The Spirit of St. Louis

  Two of the Lou's famous rockers fill us in on their favorites of 2007 — and what the next year holds.

  December 26, 2007

• Nearer to Tea

  December 5, 2007

• World Cup o' Beer!

  June 28, 2006

• Fungus Among Us

  May 9, 2007

• Nuts to You

  She's the Man fits the bill for teenage drag-king fans

  March 15, 2006

• The Futureheads

  News and Tributes (Vagrant)

  July 5, 2006

• Golazo!

  This World Cup game will make you shout like Andrés Cantor.

  June 7, 2006

• Unamerican Dream

  Goal! follows an immigrant's pursuit of a European fantasy

  May 10, 2006

• Beer Nazis

  A vomiting A-B eagle and tales of AA misconduct are almost enough to put Unreal off the sauce (almost). Plus, two local kids kick Pokémon butt.

  May 3, 2006

• Letters

  Week of March 30, 2005

  March 30, 2005

• Kicking+Steaming

  Handwriting experts, Bosnian profanity and televised breakups: all part of Michael Hetelson's revolutionary vision for indoor soccer in St. Louis

  February 9, 2005

• Kickin' It

  The Street Soccer Cup USA is taking it to the, um, streets

  July 14, 2004

• World Cappuccino

  A soccer field the size of a postage stamp

  July 9, 2003

• Un-trucking-believable

  "Big Machines" parks at the Science Center

  June 11, 2003

• Girls With Balls

  Gurinder Chadha scores with a sporty crowd-pleaser

  April 2, 2003

• Best Thoroughfare for Dodging Traffic at Any Hour

  Arsenal Street

  September 25, 2002

• Best Sports Bar

  September 25, 2002

• Penalty Kick

  Faded soccer glory seen in a U.S. World Cup team without St. Louis talent

  June 19, 2002

• A TEAM OF THEIR OWN

  December 8, 1999

• Extreme Tuna

  December 2, 1998

• All-Star Game May Only Be the Beginning; St. Louis In Running For World Cup

  You'd think St. Louis would be happy -- or overwhelmed -- enough with hosting this year's MLB All-Star Game to look forward to a return to global obscurity. Or, at the very least, we should pay closer attention to how Chicago is making a fool of itself in its 2016 Olympic bid.But no. Our fair city, and the Edward Jones Dome, have made a shortlist of 45 venues in 37 cities to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, the St. Louis Business Journal reports.You mean the Edward Jones Dome will still be stand

  June 18, 2009

• Who Is Anyone?

  June 24, 2009

• Homeless Soccer Players to Return to National Tournament This Week

  The Roadies display their "Fair Play Award" at last year's Homeless USA Cup.​Last year we told you about the St. Louis Roadies, a soccer team headed by Keith Deisner, director of development at Peter & Paul Community Services in Soulard. For the most part, The Roadies look like a run-of-the-mill group of recreational soccer players. But one thing makes them different. All the players on the team are homeless. Last July the team traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in the Homeless USA

  July 27, 2009

• Where in St. Louis to Watch the USA-Mexico World Cup Qualifier Today

  www.mouthpiecesports.com/blogmedia​So you may have heard that the United States has never won a soccer match in Mexico. When the gringos visit Estadio Azteca (perhaps the most historic fútbol stadium in the world, not a chain restaurant) they are 0-18-1. Blame the crazy urine-chucking fans, blame the 7,000 feet of elevation, blame the fact that all of America's best athletes play that other type of football -- whatever the culprit the Yanks haven't won nada south of the border.

  August 12, 2009

• Female Athletes Can Be Assholes, Too

  flickr.com/photos/hernanvalenciasSolo goaltending for the U.S. Olympic team.​And that is a good thing, writes Jason Zengerle in a brief profile in The Atlantic of St. Louis Athletica goalie Hope Solo.Solo's polarizing persona is what makes her so crucial to the new league's fortunes. The last professional women's soccer league in the U.S., the Women's United Soccer Association, lasted only three seasons -- largely because it lacked edge. "The WUSA sort of had a focus on preteen, ponytailed gir

  August 13, 2009

• Stray Poem Discovered at Arsenal and Gustine

  Unreal was cruising past Tower Grove Park yesterday when, at Gustine Avenue and Arsenal Street, what should we spy but a large poem along the roadside!A stray poem at Arsenal and Gustine​Poem for South City The birds chirp serenity and every third step I smell her on my breathThe park rangers hate usWe love what we hate so muchWe kill for itCAPITALISM WILL BURNTerrorize PoeticallyI LOVE YOU

  September 1, 2009

• Jeff Cooper, Other Team Owners to Form New Soccer League

  simmonsfirm.comJeff Cooper​Tired of waiting for Major League Soccer (MLS) to grant St. Louis an expansion franchise, Jeff Cooper is joining other soccer team owners to begin -- in the words of Penny Marshall -- a league of their own. Cooper, a well-off Illinois attorney with the Simmons Law Firm, has been attempting to get an MLS franchise in the St. Louis area for a number of years. In a statement today, Simmons announced that he and the owners of soccer franchises formerly of the USL-1 confe

  November 10, 2009

• Q&A: Jeff Cooper Discusses Plans for Professional Soccer Team

  Jeff Cooper​Earlier today Daily RFT shared an announcement about a new professional soccer league that plans to bring a team to St. Louis. This afternoon, we got in touch with the league's spokesperson, Jeff Cooper, the Illinois attorney who's been trying to bring a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise to St. Louis for years. Cooper already owns the professional women's soccer team, St. Louis Athletica, and will also be the principal owner of the men's outdoor team when the new league starts th

  November 10, 2009