Changing How We View the Game: ESPN's Euro 2012 Coverage

Soccer fans are expecting a major event this summer: the final tournament for the biggest European soccer championship, Euro 2012. For the first time UEFA is having the tournament in a land that for decades has been behind the Iron Curtain: Poland and Ukraine. For co-hosting countries, the preparation for the tournament brought positive developments ...

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Yes, it's coming! The all new (well, actually it's somewhat similar to last year's) 2013 Econbrowser NCAA tournament challenge. Here we once again invite all Econbrowser readers to test your skill (or luck) at predicting the outcomes of the U.S. college mens' basketball tournament.

Enough on oil prices and the Fed. I know what you've all really been waiting for is the 2012 Econbrowser NCAA tournament challenge, where you can test your skills (and luck) at predicting the outcomes of the U.S. college men's basketball tournament. All you have to do is go to the Econbrowser group at ESPN, do some minor registering to create a free ESPN account if you haven't used that site before, and make your picks for the winners of each game.

If you're both a very faithful and a very passive Econbrowser reader, for two years now you've sat on the sidelines while you watched other, equally faithful but less passive readers participate in the world-famous Econbrowser NCAA Tournament Challenge, in which brave souls pretend they can predict a significant number of the winners of the games of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. If so, here's your third chance to sit on the sidelines again, or maybe even to participate this time.

With the UEFA Euro 2012 wrapped up with Spain's 4-0 win over Italy on Sunday and excitement still fresh, avid soccer fans ask: Can soccer thrive in the United States? While Major League Soccer (MLS) has taken steps to promote it, what's still missing from the equation? What does MLS need to do to grow ...

Russian soccer fans clashed with police and Poland supporters in separate incidents in Warsaw hours before the two teams were to meet at Euro 2012.