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Ian Cameron (center) celebrates after winning the 2022 USL League One title with members of Tormenta FC Ian Cameron spent nearly seven years with Tormenta FC, starting as the Head Coach for Tormenta 2 in 2018 before taking the reigns of the League One side in 2020. He compiled a 58-77-33 record and led Tormenta to the 2022 USL League One title. He resigned in August 2025 and joined the Charleston Battery of the USL Championship prior to the start of the 2026 season.  I was able to catch up with Cameron following Charleston’s 2-0 victory over Detroit City FC on Saturday. That win moved Charleston to fifth in the Eastern Conference and just two points out of second place. We touched on a number of topics and what follows is a lightly edited transcript of his answers. On what he did following his resignation: “Once you get to professional sports, (with) anybody who has been a head coach, there’s only two parts of your life that remains, right? It’s your professional, and your fam...

It must have been 1994 and the World Cup was in the United States. I was 15 and my soccer team was excited to get together throughout the Summer and watch the games and hang out. I can't say we didn't get bored at times and go out to kick the ball around, but we also watched quite a bit of soccer that Summer. For those too young to remember, it was a huge deal in 1994 that the World Cup would be broadcast commercial free.  Being able to watch an entire half of soccer without commercials was actually news. You kids today don't realize how good you have it. I'll be right back. I need to go yell at some kids to get off my lawn. There'd be five or six sponsors who would have their logo on the screen next to the scorebug for 12 minutes or so each half and because we were a bunch of nerds, we made a game of trying to guess what the next sponsor would be for the next segment of the broadcast. It was a different time in 1994. That was all fun until I figured out the system ...

I promise there's a good reason for this pic. Ok, "good" may be a stretch, but stick with me. This probably won't come as a shock to any of you judging by the lack of posts here, but I've found it hard to want to write anything lately. Every time I want to write, I go through the stages of grief again about not having Tormenta around this season and I lose my motivation. But I could either mope and do nothing, or I could try to shake myself out of my writing funk and get back to doing something that I've always enjoyed and return to the basic premise that I've had since the beginning of this blog. Sports are supposed to be fun. So I'm going to try to have a little fun with this and, hopefully, it's fun for you as well.  Today, we're looking at the top Charles Dickens Sounding Names in USL League One. You know Dickens. The Tale of Two Cities guy. Oliver Twist. Nicholas Nickleby . You know him. He's got fantastic character names, from Anne C...

 We're going to get to what happened with Tormenta and what the plans are for 2026 soon, I promise. But for now, the season starts this weekend and I'm not sure what to do with my time that I'd planned to spend watching games this season. I could work to develop better relationships with my family and friends, or take up a hobby or develop a skill that I've always wanted to learn, but that sounds like a lot of work when, instead, I could kick my feet up on the couch, enjoy a cold beverage and watch some USL1 games like I was going to do anyway.  But who should I watch? And why? I don't know. And if my blog post ended there, this would have been a waste of your time. Fortunately, some kindhearted souls were willing to help me out. I asked some of the people covering USL1 teams not to convince me to become a fan of their team, but why I should follow their team in the upcoming season. You know when there's three games happening at once and you're trying to dec...

I need to write something fun. I make no promises that it'll be good, but it'll be fun for me and you all get to be my therapist who listens to me ramble for a bit and says "well, our time is up, we'll see you next week. I think we made some good progress today" before taking a strong drink and savoring the fact that the minute I leave is the longest possible time before I come back. I'm merely throwing this idea out into the world and I'm not suggesting that a team's social media people get together to make it happen, but I'm saying that if Boise or Madison (the two clubs that I looked at that could make this work the best) wanted to make it happen, I wouldn't be upset. I know ya'll are busy with other events and promotions, but hear me now and believe me later, you're going to want to make this work. So here's what we need. We need a team with three home games in a row, all in close proximity to each other. Boise, you all have fo...

Same, Bolt. Same. So this is hard. My North Star of this blog, my guiding principle, is that sports are supposed to be fun. We can take them seriously and while there's a lot I've learned about how the world works through sports, we start watching and we keep following sports primarily because they're enjoyable. I like watching athletes do incredible things and, I'm assuming that if you're reading this, so do you. On this blog, I've ranked cities based on where I'd like to vacation, I've written preseason game stories like I was writing for a newspaper in 1910 and I annually rank the handsomeness of the USL League One Managers. It's all (hopefully) in good fun because the whole reason we all keep doing this is because we enjoy it. There's a reason I ask my oldest to try to guess the Tormenta starting lineup and gave it the grandiose title of "America's Favorite Game" despite the fact that literally only one person in the country pla...