Opinion: Room for a Surprise in Scolari World Cup Squad?
May 7th is the day marked for Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari to name his 23-man squad for the upcoming...
April 29, 2014Section
Guest Opinions
Opinion Articles from The Rio Times
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on Housing
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The “Telerj Favela” has now come and gone. Rising in early...
April 15, 2014
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on “Straining out Gnats”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Curmudgeon quotes Matthew 23:23-24: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,...
April 8, 2014Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Coup d’état
The strangeness of having no date on which to celebrate the end of the dictatorship.
April 1, 2014Opinion: The Curmudgeon on Petrobras
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “O Petróleo é Nosso!” (“It’s Our Oil!”) was the joyful cry...
March 25, 2014Opinion: The Curmudgeon Among the Believers
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Wednesday, March 12th, 2014, the Curmudgeon was invited to attend the...
March 18, 2014
Opinion: Scolari Taking a Huge Gamble on Júlio César
Former Internazionale goalkeeper Júlio César made his debut for new club Toronto this past weekend.
March 18, 2014Opinion: The Curmudgeon on GIGO
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The title acronym, short for “Garbage In, Garbage Out”, was once...
March 11, 2014
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Failure of Democracy
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Venezuela is not Ukraine,” quoth Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff recently, and...
March 4, 2014