Mike Bianchi: When did American sports fans become the hooligans?

ORLANDO, Fla. — There was a time when Americans looked across the Atlantic and congratulated themselves on the supposed superiority of our sports culture. European soccer fans, we were told, were the unruly ones. They were the hooligans. They were the ones who turned passion into menace, tribal loyalty into street fights and defeat into disorder. In 1994, when the World Cup was held in Central ...