Category Archives: Travel

“I’m glad somebody remembers I was . . . a player.”

There’s a danger in posting and linking to another post, especially when that links to and refers to yet someone else’s post. However, this Wall Street Journal blog post “The Truth About Soccer Moms”

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Is There Any Logic to In-State Recruiting?

Someday soon I’m going to corner Doyle and make him show me how to plot a scattergraph (or is it scattergram?) on his brother’s programmable calculator. I would love to see the trends spelled out as to where soccer players go to play college soccer. If you kick out the obvious, like community colleges tend [...]

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Mrs. Oudin (mom of Melanie Oudin): I Feel Your Pain

“. . . It is so difficult to know for how long to reserve hotels at sudden-death tournaments, and how to buy return airline tickets for such trips. . . “

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