Tag Archives: Soccer

In Soccer, MAGA Rooted against Casey

By Robin Bates | Published: August 20, 2023

When it comes to American women’s soccer, the American right has been rooting for Casey to strike out.

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French Team Resembles a Skunk Cabbage

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2022

How is the French soccer team like a skunk cabbage? I show how using a Mary Oliver poem.

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France and England’s Titanic Match

By Robin Bates | Published: December 11, 2022

To capture France-England’s titanic World Cup struggle, I turn to Ralph Ellison and Christina Rossetti.

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A Poem To Console the Losers

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2018

As if losing to France weren’t bad enough, Croatia had to receive its second-place medals in the rain, bringing to mind Laforgue’s poem “Sad, Sad.”

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Deutschland über Alles

By Robin Bates | Published: July 14, 2014

In honor of Germany’s World Cup victory, here is the poem that serves as the foundation of their national anthem

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World Cup: Some Said It Couldn’t Be Done

By Robin Bates | Published: July 5, 2014

The hackneyed poems of Edgar Guest actually capture the effort put forth by the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team.

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Bram Stoker’s Cure for Biting

By Robin Bates | Published: June 28, 2014

Soccer star Luis Suarez has a problem with biting. Bram Stoker had advice for dealing with biters.

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Spain No Longer a Soccer Colossus

By Robin Bates | Published: June 21, 2014

Spain, which once did bestride the soccer world like a colossus, has been ousted from the World Cup.

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U. S. as Prey in Most Dangerous Game?

By Robin Bates | Published: June 14, 2014

America’s soccer squad has an unsettling resemblance to the human prey in “The Most Dangerous Game.”

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