Patt Morrison: Throw the Game, Save the World
Patt Morrison
Yesterday, 09:50 AM
It's the big game -- their last game, if the United States team can't pull it out.
Lose today, and it's pack and go home. The fact that the United States is still in the World Cup competition, after playing Italy to a tie, is because an Italian guy scored the Americans' only goal.
Win today, and the U.S. could advance in the championship. It would do so by beating Ghana. Ghana, from whose dungeons so many thousands of Africans were sent off to slavery in the New World.
In the U.S., soccer ranks somewhere behind golf and shopping as grownups' favorite pursuits. If the U.S. were to take home the World Cup, the trophy might wind up as a doorstop in some gym..........
