Tag Archives: World Cup

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.

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.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 11, 2022

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

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.”

By Robin Bates | Published: July 13, 2018

Which World Cup story do we root for? The little engine that could or redemption after humiliation?

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

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.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 28, 2014

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

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.