Um, you should probably read this, especially if you have any interest in US Soccer or Major League Soccer. Basically, former USMNT player and Fox Soccer analyst Eric Wynalda gets all out of character and speaks his mind and pulls his punches at the recent NSCAA Convention in a lecture cleverly titled “Why Not US.” Go ahead. Don’t be embarrassed. As you’ll soon see, he isn’t.
If you love perms or Didier Drogba, you’ll love the Les Éléphants shirt …
Spain is trying to conquer the world again. This time, they might succeed.
Ah, here we go. Classic match ups, slick trash-talking, no-look dishing, draining, national schedules across varied climates with little time to rest in between contests, and a slew of rabid partisans.
That’s right. Buckle up, ladies and gentlemen, it’s primary season again.
Romney! Whoa! Mitt Romney! Whoaaa!
He comes from New England.
He’s got more cash than sin.
Romney! Whoa! Mitt Romney! Whoooaa!
Two teams. Arch-rivals. Democrats vs. Republicans. A historic rivalry capable of matching up against any of the world’s great derbies. Think AC Milan-Inter Milan at the San Siro. A shared stadium, but it’s war. Each team, both sets of fans protecting the party line with a Daglishian zeal. No retreat. Hold the line. Never surrender.
But then a funny thing happens. Each side voluntarily agrees to turn their swords inward to batter and bruise their respective selves until submission or knockout. All, of course, for the greater good, or so they say.
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Bonsoir, tout le monde.
Yasiin Bey, the man formerly known as Mos Def, breaks it down on a J Dilla track. Sunshine Screwface is the name; Parisian station Radio Nova is the place. As you can tell by the red mic, the man still has the swag. Turn down your Ryan Babel freestyles, kick back, and let it marinate on the ear.
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The Portland Timbers had a contest. No, it wasn’t a contest to see which eight year old can score from outside the stadium on the Timbers’ rugged mascot, the chainsaw-wielding Timber Joey. Nor was it a contest to see which fan could answer some archaic, lumber-related trivia question from the 1640s. It was a contest for the new millennium; a tattoo contest, ladies and gentlemen.
Only a decade ago, imagining overly child-friendly MLS teams sanctioning such a competition would be unimaginable. Back then, “cutting-edge” and “MLS marketing” weren’t exactly terms to be used in the same sentence. And it wasn’t just MLS. It’s hard imagining teams from any of the other major, American sports leagues sanctioning an ink competition a decade ago. But times sure have changed, at least in MLS.
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The 2012 African Cup of Nations is over. Sad, I know. But Zambia might see things a bit differently.
Until this past Sunday, only eight nations -- Egypt, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Algeria and Ghana -- have won Africa’s premier continental tournament since 1980. That’s sixteen tournaments won by eight teams, which only tells part of the story since Egypt has won five of the titles, Cameroon close behind with four, followed by Nigeria with two. This concentrated group largely represents the African powerhouses over the last three decades. Amazingly, five of these eight nations failed to qualify for the 2012 tournament.
Enter Zambia.
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Shane Smith doesn’t usually take the easy route. Kind of a hipster Richard Engel-Christiane Amanpour hybrid, the co-founder of VICE Magazine can easily get you nodding, laughing or dropping your jaw at his audacious attempts to uncover stories off the beaten path. Once you start watching his VICE Guides to places the State Department probably suggests you should avoid, it’s hard to stop watching.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that listening to Smith recount tales from his adventures is fascinating. But a recent, relatively innocuous-seeming comment made me flinch. Waxing lyrical about the various levels of hell he’s visited, Smith said that there are no cell phones or internet in the Congo, which is mind blowing if you think about it – a massive country, the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River, cut off from all modern forms of communication, internally and with the rest of the world. That’s eerie. Continue Reading »
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