“There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” ~ Oscar Levant.
The moment the south end video screen began showing the Chicago Red Stars starting XI for last Saturday’s match, the person behind my right shoulder remarked: “Damn. He’s going into the tank.”
“He” was Rory Dames, Chicago’s head coach, and the tank was what I concluded was too risky for Dames to even think about in the final regular season game: “The prospect of sending the team out to deliberately throw a match away and still ending up playing their semifinal in front of a big hostile crowd can’t be appealing for Rory Dames.