How did a sport codified in England end up with a nickname that divides the Anglophone world? The surprising history of ...

World Cup brings forward the planet’s most popular sport and teaches Browns, NFL fans about futbol/soccer connections ...

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup gets underway across North America, President Donald Trump has revived a long-standing debate: which sport should truly be called “football” in the United States. Trump ...

Cozmo, the LA Galaxy mascot, trolls José Mourinho during a summer 2017 friendly between Man United and the MLS side in California Courtesy of the LA Galaxy / Robert Mora In Gianni Infantino’s Swiss ...

Soccer purists have long feared the “Americanization” of the game. But in one key respect, it is already happening: ownership. U.S. sports ownership norms and rules differ greatly from the traditional ...

Imagine if the Founding Fathers were dropped into a Pittsburgh tavern on a fall Sunday afternoon with a Steelers game on. What in the name of the Constitutional Congress would they think? You’d expect ...

It's time for the United States to fall in line with the rest of the world and stop calling "football" soccer, according to President Donald Trump. "When you look at what has happened to the sport, ...

Fans were fired up at Sunday night's NFC divisional playoff game between the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams at Soldier Field. Michael Reaves / Getty Images George Plimpton is credited with the ...

As Northwestern, fresh off a bowl win, wraps up its second season of playing football at a small lakefront field shared with the lacrosse and soccer teams, workers are busy building out a new $862 ...

The notion that football is the biggest force in American culture and entertainment is so ingrained and obvious that it almost seems like something not worth mentioning. Chuck Klosterman feels ...

This is an opinion column. President Donald Trump wants to change the name of football to something more appropriate. Naturally, me being an arbiter of sports, I have some ideas. Let’s be perfectly ...