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MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A man in Fruitport Township has turned himself in to police after an argument following a kids' soccer game went too far. Fruitport Township police say James Sherrill has turned himself in after pulling a gun on a player's parent. One of the coaches says Sherrill was provoked, but some parents say that even if that's true, he went too far. Parents are not happy about what happened in the park over the weekend. Police say a gun was pulled and pointed, all because of what happened on a soccer field. It's supposed to...

Flopping, Diving, and Timewasting: The World Cup Way Mis amis footballeurs: How do we stop the madness? (In my best French accent...) In this World Cup, especially in the group phase and 2nd round, huge numbers of the fittest athletes known in team sports have apparently suffered more life-threatening injuries than in an entire season of ER. In an amazing coincidence, many of these mortal wounds occur near their opponents penalty area; the rest seem to occur to players (victims, really) on teams holding a one-goal lead. In fact, it seems every one of Italy's opponents was tought Pai Mei...

mods-If this isn't in the right place please move or cut it. Why do most Americans hate soccer? It's not just that they don't like it. They are actively against it. Soccer takes more skill and endurance than the other sports. In middle and high school you take a beating.(Elbowed, tripped, kicked, tackled- All done fairly or behind the ref's back and without body armor) There are many tactics decided by the players(unlike football and baseball). It's a sport many different people can do. Not just people who are huge or work out daily at the gym. Fast people, skilled...

For those of us who began avidly following the United States before 1990, Wednesday's 2-1 victory away to Trinidad & Tobago seems like something of a dream. It wasn't just that the U.S. won their opening match in the Final Round of CONCACAF World Cup Qualification, it's that they did it with such poise, confidence, and relative ease, in a pretty difficult place to gain a result. [snip] I'm actually bracing myself for the columns and comments of the soccer media who will proclaim that the U.S. wasn't dominate enough in that match; that the scoreline should have been more...