Erica Woda’s Tenacity Helps To Get Children Off The Couch
by Chuck Culpepper (Profile/Interview | New York Times - February 8)
In spiteful cold on a recent Saturday morning in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, three 27-year-olds stood outside a hushed school, two of them lured uptown by the uncommon inner furnace of the third. more details | go to article

It Could Be A Feather In Beckham's Cap
by Chuck Culpepper (Profile/Interview | Los Angeles Times - March 24)
If he plays Wednesday in a match against France, it'll be his 100th appearance for the England's national team. 'It would be one of the biggest honors that I've ever had in my career,' Beckham says. more details | go to article

Beckham: From Working-Class Boy To Man U
by Chuck Culpepper (Analysis | Los Angeles Times - July 9)
Soccer's megastar may lead a fast-paced lifestyle these days, but residents of the towns where he grew up appreciate that he doesn't act as if he has forgotten his roots. more details | go to article

Bottom-Feeding Frenzy
by Chuck Culpepper (Analysis | Los Angeles Times - May 13)
The tail end of the standings may be of little interest to fans of U.S. pro teams, but it generates all-consuming passion and angst in England, where the worst soccer teams face 'relegation' to lower more details | go to article

U.S. Has Presence In Top English League
by Chuck Culpepper (Profile/Interview | Los Angeles Times - April 22)
There are 12 American players in English Premier League and they are changing perceptions more details | go to article

Get Ready For 'Beckham-Fatigue'
by Chuck Culpepper (Commentary | Los Angeles Times - January 12)
You're getting another beautiful face, Los Angeles. You don't seem to mind those. And you're getting quite the spry haircut, subject to change at any moment. Sometimes it seems every third young male skull in London bears the David Beckham cut that looks like it went along content to stay close to the head until it made a single sweep upward like a wavelet in a pond. more details | go to article

Bringing The Team Down
by Chuck Culpepper (Commentary | Los Angeles Times - July 3)
There's that jet on TV again. ADVERTISEMENT Remember that jet? The spiffy British Airways Airbus A320 painted with the words "Pride of the Nation" and carrying England's World Cup team? The plane some of us with no life whatsoever eyeballed for 90 minutes of live TV over here on June 5 as it turgidly taxied, waited, waited, waited and took off for Germany? more details | go to article

English Go On Ledge Together
by Chuck Culpepper (Commentary | Los Angeles Times - July 1)
LONDON — If you're an American like me, you might notice that our country sometimes seems to lack a certain, I don't know, cohesion. more details | go to article

They've Already Written England Off
by Chuck Culpepper (Analysis | Los Angeles Times - June 30)
LONDON — The England-versus-Portugal melodrama still sits one day off, yet already we have a winner. more details | go to article

Sizing Up Potential Enemies Of The State
by Chuck Culpepper (Commentary | Los Angeles Times - June 29)
LONDON — Sure, England's four World Cup matches thus far have lacked verve, cohesion, intrigue, boldness, quality, stamina and the merest hint of a pulse, but the wondrous national mania over those deficiencies has overshadowed another fault: lack of resentment. more details | go to article