Exciting news and a meditation on the mercy rule

I’ve been lucky in recent years to write for a publication I’ve long loved, The Guardian.

Now I’m lucky again to write for a second publication that sustained the small U.S. soccer community in the pre-Internet era and continues to be a vital source of news and perspective … Soccer America.

My debut piece is about the mercy rule in youth soccer. It’s often essential but also often misapplied.