With a looping back-post header well into stoppage time, Branislav Ivanovic turned Benfica goalkeeper Artur into a statued spectator and gave Chelsea ...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Friday, May 17, 2013On the one hand it's hard not to conjure up a little sympathy for Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. Travel south about 15 stops down the CTA Red Line f...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Thursday, May 2, 2013In the seventh minute of stoppage time, Luis Suarez somehow managed to get himself unmarked enough to flick a header past Chelsea keeper Petr Cech. It...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Tuesday, April 23, 2013When this slipped out late last week, it barely picked up much traction because, well, it seemed weird. Plus it surfaced on Friday, and Friday is wher...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Monday, April 8, 2013The man who once stopped a civil war was helpless to stop a ball. It wasn't just Didier Drogba. Everyone in an Ivory Coast shirt was helpless. Nige...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Tuesday, February 5, 2013There were two travesties in Zurich on Monday night. Three if you count Lionel Messi's suit. Although as adjectives become increasingly useless in des...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Tuesday, January 8, 2013On Tuesday, Arsenal lost on penalties to Bradford in the League Cup. This is astonishing because Bradford is in the fourth division of English footbal...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Friday, December 14, 2012Last week, Brazil lost the 2014 World Cup. Not the job of hosting of the event, which they apparently aren't exactly succeeding at right now, thoug...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Thursday, December 6, 2012Despite Alabama's loss to last year's Big 12 also-ran Texas A&M, reports of the SEC's death are greatly exaggerated. And entirely premature. That conf...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Friday, November 16, 2012Marcel Meyer was a 17-year-old kid playing football at Westfield High School in Houston, Texas, when the program got a new head football coach. "It wa...
By Michael Bertin, The Triangle on Friday, November 9, 2012
