During the late 1980s — when super powers went mono, mullets were fashionable, and iconic walls came crashing down — it was easy to miss the internationalization of American team sport. Yet this phenomenon took shape all through the first Bush Era, step by step, forever changing big hunks of the U.S. sporting landscape. The Mainstreaming of U.S. Soccer first took cultural hold in 1989; two years later the modern U.S.-Mexico rivalry was officially joined. The Global Era of American [...]