As the World Cup renews the soccer-versus-football debate, University of Michigan professor Stefan Szymanski says the word "soccer" was coined in Oxford in the 1880s and later stuck in countries where "football" already meant another sport.
The World Cup has arrived in North America, and with it comes one of the sports most dependable arguments. Is it soccer? Or is it football? For many fans around the world, the answer is obvious: i…
