To answer that question, Szymanski counted the frequency with which the words "football" and soccer" appeared in American and British news outlets as far back as 1900.

Since they can’t turn the football pyramid into a science fair project, researchers have to come at the question in more creative ways. The simplest is the case laid out by Szymanski and Simon ...

Szymanski dismissed the entire football-soccer debate as silly. “In countries where you have other versions of football, the word soccer is just the most sensible word to use,” he said.

In England, Szymanski writes, aristocratic boys came up with the shortened terms “rugger” and “soccer” to differentiate between Rugby Football and Association Football.

SZYMANSKI: You start to see scare quotes being put around it as in the phrase, it's football or, as the Americans say, soccer. KELTO: So to all my British friends out there, remember this - that ...

The FIFA World Cup is underway so this is a timely reminder of why Americans say soccer rather than football — it ... according to a 2014 paper by University of Michigan professor Stefan Szymanski.

Or something like that. The NCAA has just announced that will introduce a playoff system for the top four teams to determine who will be the national champion. Since arriving in the US I have very ...

A friend pointed out to me an interesting article in LA Times by Kevin Baxter about the financial woes of European football. The story has a familiar plotline: A European football club (Manchester ...

Should football fans care? Quite possibly. In 2010 Uli Hoeness, Bayern Munich president, predicted that English clubs would struggle in Europe because of the financial crisis.

Dick Szymanski, who played both center and middle linebacker for the Colts and would later become the team's General Manager, has died at the age of 89. ... Szymanski played his college football at ...