Despite a lackluster 17-65 farewell season with the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant capped off a stunning NBA career with authority on Wednesday April 14th. In front of a sold-out Staple Center crowd against the Utah Jazz, the Black Mamba ended the 1,346th and final game of his 20 year career (1) with 60 points on 50… Read More »
This summer the Brazilian national team will compete in two major tournaments: the 2016 Rio Olympics in August and the Copa America Centenario in June. Brazil’s star forward Neymar, however, may only compete in one. Neymar’s club team, Barcelona, has publically stated that they will only release Neymar for one of the two tournaments this… Read More »
With an FC Barcelona team that had gone 39 games without losing and a Real Madrid side that had already gone through a change in manager and lost 4-0 in the reverse fixture, Saturday’s El Clasico seemed to have already been decided before the match began. In fact, the game started out poorly for Real… Read More »
Posted: April 1, 5:45PM; Author: Nicholas Vega Recently, I was on Twitter and came across a Tweet that compared the dominance of two different teams, from two different sports: the Golden State Warriors (NBA basketball) and Barcelona (soccer). Initially, I thought the comparison was as much as a stretch as it was trivial: how could two… Read More »
March 28, 2016 2:39 PM – Kobi Theiler El Clásico is this Saturday, and with both Real Madrid and Barcelona looking to take a set of points off their most fierce rival, fans on both sides are all but guaranteed an emotional game. This is a legendary matchup, a clash of titans in the sporting… Read More »
FC Barcelona is one of the most successful football clubs of all time and arguably currently the best team in the world. Although they bring in some of their best players like Neymar or Ronaldhino from other professional teams, the club credits its success to its prolific youth development academy, affectionately called “La Masia” (The… Read More »
This past week we read the first few chapters of The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt. The discussion of corner kick strategy caught my attention. According to Goldblatt, “English Premier League clubs score a goal from a corner once every ten games” (Goldblatt 67). More specifically, only 11.1 percent of goals came from… Read More »
A brief disclaimer. This is a work of memory, it is my best recollections of two particular games I had the good fortune to attend. Therefore I cannot guarantee the full accuracy of this due to the nature of memory. It is simply my own remembrances of these games as best I can. The first… Read More »
October 3, 2015. That’s the last time it happened. The last time the Catalans felt the sting of defeat, the pain of loss, the misery of falling short after 90 minutes. In a match at Sevilla, FC Barcelona dropped a 2-1 heartbreaker on the road in La Liga play with the world’s best player, Lionel… Read More »
Como hace tres años, el FC Barcelona enfrentará al Athletic Club de Bilbao en la final de la Copa del Rey este sábado 30 de mayo. Ambos equipos son los que más finales de esta competición han jugado (ambos con 36) y los que tienen la mayor cantidad de títulos (26 para el Barça; 23… Read More »
