Brendan Bernhard

Oblivious, “the game show you don‘t even know you’re on,” as it bills itself, is a sneakily funny look at middle-class American life, where what counts as general knowledge is being able to put a name to a supermodel‘s face and identifying the Stephen King movie in which “a car......

In one of the early episodes of The Shield, FX‘s seething, testosterone-fueled cop show, there’s a bit in which stodgy Lieutenant Wagenbach is taken off a serial-killer case he‘s been obsessing over and ordered to go question a psychic charged with embezzlement. The idea is to give him something lightweight......

FIFA BROUGHT OUT ITS WORLD CUP ALL-STAR list, and France's Zinedine Zidane was nowhere to be found on it. Nor were Argentina's Juan-Sebastian Veron, Italy's Francesco Totti and England's David Beckham -- all of whom had been expected to demonstrate their greatness in Japan and South Korea. Instead, alongside Brazil's......

Chalk it up to soccer’s perversity that the game in which the U.S. best displayed its newfound mastery of World Cup soccer was the game in which it got knocked out of the tournament. I‘ve never seen such an exhausted bunch of Germans as the ones who squeaked through 1-0......

NICK HORNBY SAID THAT GOALS ARE EVEN BETTER than orgasms. You know when you're about to have an orgasm, he wrote in Fever Pitch, his memoir of life as an Arsenal fan, but a goal is always a surprise. He may be onto something. You won't see any post-coital sadness......

At exactly 3:30 a.m. on June 5th, I punched the “mute” button on my remote and listened to the sound of America sleeping. The U.S. had just beaten Portugal 3-2 in one of the World Cup’s biggest upsets, but there wasn‘t a shout of joy to be heard. In Portugal,......

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN LONDON, THE WORLD Cup was a time when I felt sorry for people who didn't like soccer. How boring to have to listen to everyone go on about free kicks and dribbles and offside traps and "brilliant" this and "useless" that for an entire......