As Congress mucks around in the federal business of college football rankings, President Obama is making a pitch for the United States to host soccer’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022. Maybe it’s part of his master plan to Europeanize the country, in everything from health care to athletics. (Actually, I kind of like soccer and would love to see Americans become better at it.) Obama is also pushing Chicago as the site of the Summer Olympics in 2016 — perhaps out of hometown pride, perhaps to mute Mitt Romney’s boasts about the Winter Olympics, and perhaps because he would like Google searches of “Obama and Olympics” to lead people away from stories such as this. But as with so many of Obama’s ambitions, this one easily could lead to buyer’s remorse.