Recent Philip Hersh Articles
U.S. Beats Honduras In World Cup Qualifier, 2-1
by Philip Hersh (Result | Chicago Tribune - June 7)
All night long, Landon Donovan delivered one fine pass after another, only to have his teammates do nothing with them. more details | go to article

Team USA Finds Itself In Tough World Cup Spot
by Philip Hersh (Preview | Chicago Tribune - June 5)
Even over the past decade, when the United States became the dominant team in its World Cup qualifying zone, it has remained a given that road games in Costa Rica are no-win propositions. more details | go to article

U.S. Captures 3rd Place At Women's World Cup
by Philip Hersh (Result | Chicago Tribune - September 30)
There were a couple good reasons why Sunday's third-place finish, achieved with an impressive 4-1 win over Norway, meant something to a U.S. soccer team whose overall World Cup performance was a disappointment. more details | go to article

Criticism Could Leave Solo Alone
by Philip Hersh (Profile/Interview | Chicago Tribune - September 29)
Ripping a teammate puts goalkeeper's status in doubt more details | go to article

U.S. Team Dumps Solo
by Philip Hersh (Preview | Chicago Tribune - September 29)
Goalkeeper banished after ripping teammate more details | go to article

Controversy Surrounding World Cup Loss
by Philip Hersh (Analysis | Chicago Tribune - September 28)
In barely 30 seconds, Hope Solo said enough to take the heat off the coach whose decision to replace her as starting goalie for the U.S. women's soccer team had looked more wrongheaded with every passing minute. more details | go to article

Brazil Whips U.S. Women's Soccer Team
by Philip Hersh (Result | Chicago Tribune - September 27)
As they left the stadium, two Brazilian players were banging out samba rhythms on drums, a third was slapping a tambourine and the rest of their teammates were singing. more details | go to article

U.S. Women Advance But Raise Questions
by Philip Hersh (Commentary | Chicago Tribune - September 19)
Talk about winning ugly. The best thing that can be said about how the U.S. is playing in the Women's World Cup is that it still is playing in the Women's World Cup. more details | go to article

A Love Letter To ESPN
by Philip Hersh (Commentary | Chicago Tribune - September 17)
This is going to be short and sweet. Emphasis on sweet. We in the print biz are supposed to be sour on the colossus that ESPN has become, the Bigfoot that tramples all other sports media beneath its mass and scope. But I want to thank the folks who run ESPN for showing every match of the soccer Women’s World Cup. more details | go to article

Wambach A Soccer Giant In More Than Size
by Philip Hersh (Profile/Interview | Chicago Tribune - September 15)
Tribune Olympic sports reporter Philip Hersh explains why Abby Wambach leading the U.S. women to victory over Sweden on Friday was so important. more details | go to article

The Bloom Never Fades From Lilly
by Philip Hersh (Profile/Interview | Chicago Tribune - September 9)
World Cup veteran, 36, is playing the best soccer of her long career more details | go to article

Their Bad? Women's Soccer Team Not Bad Enough
by Philip Hersh (Commentary | Chicago Tribune - September 7)
They are billing themselves as "The Greatest Team You've Never Heard Of." That's too bad, because they are very, very good -- maybe too good, having lost only once in their past 47 games, and that by the artificial means of penalty kicks. more details | go to article

Bringing `The Sun Of California To Germany'
by Philip Hersh (Profile/Interview | Chicago Tribune - May 27)
The coach of Germany's national soccer team was having lunch in the stadium club at the Home Depot Center. Juergen Klinsmann agreed to meet a visitor there because it isn't far from his home in Newport Beach and he needed to get home in time to pick up his son Jonathan at school. more details | go to article

Leaving A Large Legacy
by Philip Hersh (Profile/Interview | Chicago Tribune - October 19)
With Mia Hamm playing in Chicago for the last time as a member of the U.S. team, the Tribune's Philip Hersh reflects on the icon. By the time I began covering women's soccer on a semi-regular basis in 1999, Mia Hamm was no longer the player who consistently scored highlight-reel goals, left defenders flat-footed with her feints and footwork and usually was called the best player in the world. more details | go to article

Hamm Atop Special Class
by Philip Hersh (Profile/Interview | Chicago Tribune - October 19)
Five other athletes who have made a lasting impact on women's sports during the era since Title IX. (includes Julie Foudy). more details | go to article

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