Over the weekend, Egypt and Algeria were forced into an additional one-game playoff for a World Cup berth when Egypt miraculously scored a very, very late goal to earn a 2-0 win. Keep in mind that Algeria was the team that l...

Just when you thought the U.S. men's national soccer team was headed into a dark oblivion that it would never be able to recover from, it goes out and beats Egypt 3-0, watches Italy lose to Brazil and somehow advances to the...

A word to the wise: If you're going to be a star soccer player in a fashion conscious country like Italy, you might want to actually score a pair of shorts that fit. Just ask Genaro Gattuso, thte Forza Azurri star who lost...

Our beloved Red State Update has finally returned.  This episode is a few days late, but we'll give them love anyway.  These chuckle-hungry knuckle heads never fail to please with their over-the-top right-wing rhetoric (and...

Barack Obama addressed the Muslim and Arab world directly during an hour-long speech in Cairo, a stop on his Middle East tour this week. The well-balanced and moving speech included several about-faces of U.S. policy in the...

From Israeli animator Yoni Goodman, this 90-second short film symbolically depicts life in the Gaza Strip in the form of a small boy chasing a bluebird, only to be blockaded from all roads, corners and seas he tries to cross...

There are angry tantrums, there are coach-undressing screamers, and then there's Egyptian star Mido (the name's a bit too close to Midas for comfort, isn't it?) who was so furious about being subbed off the pitch during an...

Conservative leaders don't want women out of their homes. The women want to play sports. So what happens in vigilantly Islamic nations like Egypt, where the burgeoning soccer culture intersects with Islamist politics? Soccer...