‘Before funny things started’: A World Cup monologue by Tapuwa Moore


Friday, July 30th, 2010 3:44 pm

Football coach, actress and polyglot rapper, Tapuwa Moore offers Soweto-tinged reflections on how Pulpo Paul, vuvuzela hymns and "vagina-bodied people" helped her survive FIFA's World Cup.

Taking a turn ‘in the woods,’ confronting the goalkeeper’s choice


Sunday, July 11th, 2010 11:51 pm

Goalkeepers—as 20th-century existentialists knew—provide football's paradigm for action in the face of uncertainty.

Koman Coulibaly, refereeing and the electronic scrum over ‘truth’


Saturday, June 19th, 2010 5:17 pm

Malian referee Koman Coulibaly is scapegoated in the U.S. draw with Slovenia Jun 18, launching a vicious Wikipedia war that sacrifices his humanity and ours.

Excavating American soccer fields, uncovering buried layers of sport


Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 12:48 am

Martha Saavedra conducts a virtual excavation of youth soccer fields, showing that all sporting terrain leaves a legacy in sediment and memory.

From Johannesburg, lesbian footballers chosen to play, choosing to live


Monday, June 14th, 2010 5:54 am

Life in the FIFA-free zone, pt. 1 | Chosen Few Lesbian Soccer Club in its witness to the healing powers of eros and sport outdoes FIFA in promoting football's influence on self and society.

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Saturday, June 12th, 2010 12:14 am

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Notes from Babel: ‘To win a World Cup you must be at your most virtuous’


Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 2:17 am

In football, does Man the Player reject Man the Maker by having devised a game played with the feet? So asks sportsBabel's Sean Smith before the World Cup.

When Kanoute scored and Iraq exploded—a Spurs’ supporter’s prison diary


Monday, May 24th, 2010 2:16 am

Held captive for 3,080 days during the Iran-Iraq war, Emad Nimah's "grief was made worse due to total ignorance of how Tottenham were getting on."

Palestinian soccer drama—‘Team’ building for social change


Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 1:51 am

Looking beyond imbroglios in the changing room, Palestinian media group Ma'an in The Team creates a football-based "soap opera for social change."

In places without a name, ‘Pelada’ films the football we never knew


Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 9:53 pm

Pelada debuts at the South by Southwest Film Festival as the ultimate expression of football's capacity for communion.
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