An elegy to the transformative and uplifting nature of the beautiful game. Thank God MLS soccer is back.
About two years ago, my daily drive to work, a calm 45 minutes of listening to NPR, sipping coffee and generally not being responsible for anything but red lights and left turns, started to suck. This was around the time that NPR's news cycle consisted of a congressional shutdown, Ebola ravaging Africa, and ISIS and Boko Haram committing atrocities that ranged from taking women as sex slaves to the committing of systematic genocide of the minority Yazidi people. I know, depressing.