Was Zinedine Zidane wrong to throw his World Cup head butt? Yes. Is the response one of sincere concern. Nonsense.

The 2006 World Cup message was the same as its 24-year-old brother.

What Americans most dislike about soccer is not so much its pace but the way fans surrender to it. As Italy's victory showed, the game is its own master.

"Goldfinger" is, well, a cat … A cat, I interrupted. My father was taking me to see a movie about a cat?

An intelligent, consummately decent man of untainted gifts, Claudio Cappon finally (and deservedly) has his old job back — leading RAI.

It’s not easy when your neighbor is the U.S. ambassador. People talk. Isn’t my apartment owned by the government? Isn’t my magazine financed by the CIA?

Death modeled as a sure thing is the most exciting pornography on the planet. Think Mussolini on the meat hook, loathed upside down in Milan.

Violence, for worse, is a national growing pain — just ask the Civil War, or the Apache.

Samantha didn’t have Bravado yet, so we couldn’t ask her — or tell her…

Does that albino monk have a crucifix in his pocket or is he just glad to see me?

The Italian soccer scandal is less about sports justice than about leveling the playing field — literally.