At 2:30 PM EST, the U.S. Men’s National Team is going to kick off in South Africa against the Spanish National Team. I still haven’t warmed up to the idea that the U.S. actually advanced out of group play after watching their first two games, but somehow they’re now in a position to redeem themselves. [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Things I Want To See Today
Posted in Confederations Cup, USMNT, tagged Confederations Cup, Spanish National Team, USMNT on June 24, 2009 | 17 Comments »
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Atlético de Madrid, Blackburn, Chelsea, Denilson, Flamethrower Parties, Hai Phong Cement FC, Matt Derbyshire, Michael Essien, Olympiakos, Sergio Agüero, Vidal Sassoon on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you missed while wondering why you weren’t invited to the latest Morgan Jones flamethrower party…
Manchester United to Unveil 09/10 Shirt on July 1st
Posted in Football Shirts, tagged Manchester United on June 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Perhaps one of the most speculated upon shirts this season has been the Manchester United 2009/2010 home shirt. We’ve seen quite a few sample shirts and speculative shirts, but this is the best image yet as its official (Credit to reader White Speed Reciever for passing along the image.) But this image doesn’t show anything [...]
Newcastle United Updates
Posted in The Championship, tagged Newcastle United on June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s hard to imagine that a club could be run as inefficiently as Mike Ashley has been running Newcastle United. Barring some kind of “Springtime for Hitler” scheme, Mike Ashley has lost hundreds of millions of pounds on the club, managed to make every single supporter hate him, has gotten them relegated, and yet still [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged AFC Champions League, David Villa, Egyptian National Team, Joan Capdevila, Jozy Altidore, Liverpool, Newcastle Jets, Pohang Steelers, Prostitutes, Real Madrid, Universitario, USMNT, Valencia, Worst Movie Idea Ever, Xabi Alonso on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you missed while trying to figure out why no director was attached to the movie where Britney Spears travels in time and falls in love with a concentration camp prisoner…
More Television News
Posted in Television Rights, tagged English Premier League, ESPN, Setanta on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In addition to the news about GolTV and ESPN, there has also been an ongoing situation with the fall of Ireland based Setanta sports. Setanta had 46 of their EPL rights in the UK taken away and given to ESPN after they failed to make their payment to the Premier League. They also failed to [...]
ESPN and GolTV: Screwing Up La Liga Together
Posted in Television Rights, tagged ESPN Deportes, ESPN2, Gol TV, La Liga on June 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Last week, we talked about how GolTV was sitting pretty following their acquisition of the U.S. La Liga distribution rights back in March. Today, they cashed in on those rights, selling some 114 games to ESPN. Rather than use La Liga as a platform to launch soccer as a viable sport into the American market, [...]
The Michael Owen Brochure
Posted in Whimsy, tagged Michael Owen on June 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
That’s the cover page of the advertising brochure that Michael Owen’s representation is sending out to Premier League teams in England, Spain, and Italy (or anywhere else that English, Spanish, or Italian is spoken). Courtesy of The Daily Mail, you’ll find the remaining 31 pages of the document after the jump. Enjoy!
The U.S. National Team: What Happened Yesterday?
Posted in USMNT on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, through some skill, some good play, and a lot of luck, the U.S. Men’s National Team went on to the semifinals of the Confederations Cup with a pair of 3-0 wins (US over Egypt, Brazil over Italy). For anyone who’d watched the U.S. play over the last four or five games, this result was [...]
MLS Pick’em: Week 14 Results
Posted in MLS Pick'em, tagged MLS Pick'em on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With four teams competing in the CONCACAF SuperLiga, the margin for error in our little Pick’em has gotten thinner than usual. There were only six games to pick from this week, and some of those games featured teams with rosters weakened by the Confederations Cup. In short, it was a random, random weekend in the [...]
