TRS Book Club: “The Language of the Game”
“I’ve finally come to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good soccer. I go around the world, hand outstretched, and in the...
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TRS Book Club | “The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports”
Nothing frustrates a football apologist more than a match bogged down in the midfield. This dismal occurrence, usually brought about by turgid formations and a...
TRS Book Club: “Red Card”
As America prepares itself for a broad domestic debate on institutional corruption, editorials in all the nation’s major papers-of-record speculate on the extent to which...
TRS Book Club: “Das Reboot”
Organized association football didn’t exist when Samuel Johnson took down James Boswell with one of history’s greatest intellectual counterpunches. Everyone knows the quote and the...
TRS Book Club: “Soccernomics” Revisited
Revisiting Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski’s revamped version of their 2009 publication “Why England Loses” feels like a trip back a long-lost epoch. It seems...
TRS Book Club: “Playing The Enemy” - Bigger Than A Game
We try to make the childhood games we love and play feel bigger than they are at times. And while sports does a great job...
TRS Book Club: Lucky Bastard Review
I suppose I owe Joe Buck a bit of appreciation. After all, it was after my reading of his debut novel Lucky Bastard that the...
Introducing TRS Book Club
In our never-ending pursuit to bring you all things sports related, we’re excited to introduce our newest addition to the website. Starting this week we’ll...