- Here’s a list of reasons to get drunk while watching soccer on New Year’s Day
- Why a former senator just joined the marijuana business
- New Year’s resolution: give up dieting
- Here’s what it looks like when a club like Besiktas offers a contract to a player like Miguel Layún
- Lionel Messi lets his kid draw on his terrible tattoo
- Fernando Torres repeatedly can’t score from like four feet away in training
- An antidote to the media’s 2014 year-end mania
- England’s minority manager rate skyrockets after Chris Hughton’s hiring at Brighton
- Adam Lallana’s old MySpace is still active, so of course we went through all of his photos
- A timeline of Iggy Azalea’s world domination in 2014
- Lionel Messi’s vacation photo is completely oblivious of his war with Cristiano Ronaldo
- Quiz Time: Back-turning NYPD edition
- Why kissing is good for your health
- ‘New Cuba’ fails first protest attempt, organizer goes missing
- Remembering 2014: American soccer’s deafening silence in the face of sports’ new activism
- OJO! Here are 8 stories to watch in Latin America in 2015
- Michael Owen: Get your dog’s balls off our Twitter!
- Neymar wants you to buy some Japanese shampoo
- Jorge Ramos: The party’s over for Peña Nieto
- An Uber and Lyft driver explains how to avoid getting gouged on New Year’s Eve
- Why driver’s licenses are a huge deal for California’s undocumented immigrants
- Workers find 11 unexploded bombs under new Russian World Cup stadium
- Cue the Premier League’s managerial merry-go-round, another December tradition in England
- Is there a Curse of Brad Friedel, and does Tim Howard have it?
- Despite Barcelona’s legal hissy fit, it still can’t buy players in 2015
- Eric Garner prosecutor is a short-list favorite to win a Staten Island congressional race
- Release the bald eagles! Gedion Zelalem is becoming a citizen, baby!
- One swashbuckling American burger chain already has its sights on Cuba
- 10 photos that will forever remind you of 2014
- How to have a New Year’s Eve that doesn’t suck, according to science
- David Duke: Focus on me and House GOP leader is ‘insane’
- Liverpool 4-1 Swansea City: One-word review
- Zlatan Ibrahimović shoots moose, angers confused Swedish animal rights activists
- #ManCrushMonday: Tottenham’s Hugo Lloris
- Two players on loan to Blackpool kept it a little too real on Snapchat
- How Jeb Bush handled one of the biggest lightning-rod issues of his governorship
- There’s an 83-year-old Rose Parade Queen this year
- Soccer players are using LinkedIn to find new clubs
- Baby dolls are not just for girls
- The original Shake Shack was actually an art installation
- Hopefully Russia won’t pay Capello’s back wages in blood or refugees
- Four more years! Four more years! (Of Platini’s silly ideas for UEFA)
- There’s no stopping Tim Howard. Ever.
- Crystal Palace to appoint most obvious candidate to managerial post
- Creepin’ on the ‘Gram: Atlético Madrid striker Fernando Torres
- Obama: ‘Nativist trend’ could hurt Republicans in 2016
- Police chief writes epic letter on why he supports ‘I can’t breathe’ protesters
- Chicago crime reporter blasts Obama’s response to a teen’s letter about feeling unsafe in Chicago
- L.A. braces for autopsy report of unarmed black man shot by police
- Robots are starting to break the law and nobody knows what to do about it
- Manuel Pellegini plays the blame game, says Burnley’s two balls were better than Manchester City’s balls
- José Mourinho’s no Sony, stands up for Fàbregas and freedom with post-match comments
- Royston Drenthe shows glimpse of “used to play for Real Madrid”
- Louis van Gaal spins tale of struggle and survival after Manchester United and Tottenham draw
- Another missing plane: What we know about AirAsia Flight QZ8501
- Tread lightly on that old Harkes-Wynalda drama lest Eric jump into a comment thread near you
- Bluemercury CEO on being a woman at the top: ‘I was never afraid to try’
- Let’s count all the ways Cristiano Ronaldo’s life is ridiculous – the ‘I’m on a yacht for Christmas’ edition
- Nearly Naked Neymar made an appearance in Brazil, also picked up Robinho in a golf cart
- Crystal Palace doesn’t have to recycle old blood after firing Neil Warnock
- Javier Aguirre wants to talk Asian Cup; everybody else is asking about match-fixing
- The people and places that ruled Instagram in 2014, by the numbers
- Sandinistas ‘bare claws’ to defend Chinese canal in Nicaragua
- Mexico’s push to secure Acapulco for tourism shows signs of progress
- Beyond the Emile Heskey jokes is a player worth admiring
- Olivier Giroud weaponized his beauty against QPR
- Simon Mignolet gets another shot for Liverpool and it doesn’t go well
- Lionel Messi’s new tattoo is terrible
- Emile Ivanhoe Heskey scores for Bolton, deserves an England call-up
- Roque Santa Cruz is joining Cruz Azul so we made a Cruz XI
- Somebody named Captain Football is sitting on a statue to raise awareness for adoption
- Burnley 0-1 Liverpool: One-word review
- The terrifying rise of intentional catastrophes
- West Ham travels to Stamford Bridge in a 19th century tweet
- Louis van Gaal brings in a chef to save Luke Shaw and Adnan Januzaj
- Tech companies are banding together to bring more girls into their world
- 2014: ‘Mexico’s Moment’ ends, leads to new social awakening
- Inboxing Day, a holiday for helping loved ones e-mail better
- Twelve glimpses of soccer Christmas
- Diego Simeone gets his wish: a chance to resurrect Torres at Atlético
- Gianfranco Zola got hired by Cagliari, so we’re posting his great FA Cup goal
- Both Ronaldinho and Riquelme may be looking for new homes
- It’s becoming harder and harder to ignore West Ham United
- Brendan Rodgers concedes Liverpool’s current approach leaves no room for Mario Balotelli
- L.A. Metro riders can now charge their cell phones without fear of arrest
- The very best of Snoop Dogg’s #ThrowbackThursday photos from 2014
- Atlético may give Simeone a chance to salvage soccer’s worst asset
- Emile Ivanhoe Heskey signs for Bolton, presumably to create more vines of awful misses
- Houston announces Cubo Torres, “a monumental signing,” at 9:35 p.m. on Dec. 23
- Madridistas would be happy to see Manchester United overpay for Gareth Bale
- Alex Song prepares to return for Cameroon, Cameroon says ‘No thanks’
- Matić and Fábregas show why we should stop asking players about their teams’ futures
- Alexis Sánchez turns to classic Richard Marx to express his love, probably for Lukas Podolski
- Xavi turned his back on NYCFC, but he’s not starting regularly at Barcelona
- Let’s be outraged about The Guardian putting soccer players in order
- For Latin America, U.S. shift on Cuba heals old wounds
- St. Louis Police quick to release security tape in Antonio Martin shooting
- The biggest moments of 2014, according to your Facebook Newsfeed
- Shortcake v0.1.0: Live previews, Fieldmanager integration
- Remembering 2014: When San Lorenzo became more than “the Pope’s club”