World Cup Update from the Trump Front
Always one to push the limits of his power, Donald Trump has just announced the arrest and imprisonment of Belgian soccer superstar Lukaku. Found among his luggage, claimed Kash Patel...
G-O-O-O-A-A-A-L!!!!
Watching the World Cup the other day, I winced as the American star was given what I believed to an overly harsh red card. Folarin Balogun was lost not only...
Trump, Iran, & The World Cup: Connecting the Dots
World Cup? People around the globe are obsessed with it, but many Americans just don’t understand why anyone would be interested in a foreign game involving a round ball that...
Women’s Soccer and The Kiss: Mountain or Molehill?
On August 20, Spain won the Women’s World Cup Soccer, and during the post-victory celebration Luis Rubiales, President of the Royal Spanish Football Association, planted a kiss on the lips...
Praising & Shaming Simone Biles: Is There No Middle Ground?
A brief note as a preface to this post. I had a ball writing Kruscontrol when Donald Trump was President, even though all was wrong with this country. I loved...
Patriots Defeat LA Chargers 45-0; Chargers Demand a Recount
As soon as the game was over, New England Patriots fans began to celebrate their 45-0 win over the Los Angles Chargers, but wait, the outcome of the game has...
Sox, Celts, Pats: Mixed Reviews, Mixed Expectations
During an apparent lull in the Trump-storm (if precedent is any guide, it won’t be for long), let me toss in my two cents on the Boston sports scene. I...
Boston Sports Are Returning: Some Predictions, Guaranteed to be Right (!?)
Can it possibly be that soon all four of Boston’s major pro sports teams will be in action? Could the Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins actually begin to produce real...
The True Story (My Story) about Bill Belichick and Tom Brady
Sports. There’s not much to report. Given the definition of news as “noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events,” these days the terms “sports” and “news” seem oxymoronic (or...
COVID-19 Musings
So here I am sitting at home, social distancing (who could have predicted that “distance” would ever become a verb), with all the time in the world to write my...