Söccer Röcker

Tomorrow night down in the Hardware City (a.k.a. New Britain, New Britski, and some combination of those two prefaced with “hard hittin’”) your New England Revolution begin their first title defense in their history. In the hometown of Lamar Odom and Tebucky Jones the Revs will meet the Richmond Kickers of USL Division 2 at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium. Fun fact, the stadium’s Wikipedia page cites last year’s victory over the Carolina RailHawks as the most famous thing to happen in the stadium. Apparently the late Connecticut Wolves’ nine years there … Continue Reading

The U.S. Open Cup is a rarity in the soccer scene in this country. It’s a tournament with rich history (something we’re short on with soccer here) that goes all the way back to 1912 when Sir Thomas Dewar bequeathed a trophy to spur interest in the sport on this side of The Pond. The tournament has survived leagues coming and going. It is one of the oldest knock-out domestic cups in all of world soccer. New England, in particular, has a big role in the history of the Cup with legendary teams like the Fall River … Continue Reading

Have you folks seen the Dish Network commercials with John Michael Higgins (Marty from “Evan Almighty” or the voice of Mentok The Mindtaker on “Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law” for my Adult Swim friends) as the stupid cable company executive? The one who addresses problems like angry customers with ideas like just getting new customers or distracting customers with cheerleaders? They’re funny to a degree. Oh, har har, nobody’s company is run by people that disconnected right?

Uhm, right. Except this year we’ve discovered that the Revolution are being run by people who’s proclamations scarily … Continue Reading

author’s note: This piece originally appeared as part of Mr. Fran Harrington’s final for his art school degree and is reprinted here with his kind permission. Also because I wanted more people than just his professors to read it.

In the middle of the seventh decade of the 20th century, those vaunted Seventies, young people in the Western World rose up against the established cocaine-and-caviar cruise control rock and roll was set on and began a movement later known worldwide as punk rock. In it’s heyday “punks” were scoffed at, attacked in the street, their records banned, their … Continue Reading