Even if you're not interested in the World Cup and hate soccer, you can still appreciate a story that begins the way this one from the BBC does: "Football's governing body has explained why up to 1,000 Dutch fans watched a World Cup tie wearing no trousers." (football=soccer, in those countries living under the shadow of the metric system)
This mass pantslessness has nothing to do with some Low Countries perversion involving attending sporting events in only a euro-thong, and everything to do wi
While most of the country keeps its attention on football, there are those of us who also enjoy the unbridled, over-the-top passion of futbol.
With the Major League Soccer playoffs just around the corner (they start this Thursday), it is only fitting to give props to the OC natives who are representin'. So here's a partial list of some of the talent that will be appearing in the MLS playoffs courtesy of the Orange County soccer scene:
In a way. Long Beach State journalism professor Christopher Karadjov also writes a weekly column for a Bulgarian newspaper about life in the States. In October, he wrote about my ¡Ask a Mexican! column to good feedback from his Bulgarian readership (whom, no doubt, are predisposed to like Mexicans since they upset Mexico in the 1994 FIFA World Cup). He shared this information with me yesterday, when I spoke to his senior seminar on opinion-writing at Long Beach State. As to what Karadjov actual
