A brand new ad from Nike perhaps the best one they've ever done.
When I first saw this video I feared the worst having seen similar scenes last year when gunshots
erupted outside a stadium in Mexico. But alas, this was nothing more than a bunch of grown men
humping the ground and praying to avoid the wrath of one of the fiercest and most intimidating
predators in the insect kingdom.
This past weekend, football was secondary. Seeing 25 year-old Livorno midfielder Piermario
Morosini collapse on the pitch put everything in perspective once again for the football world just
weeks after Fabrice Muamba's similar heart attack on the field against Tottenham. Only on Saturday,
Morosini wasn't as lucky and died en route to the hospital.
The 2012-13 Arsenal home shirt was leaked yesterday and no matter how you look at it, you cannot
avoid the obvious fact: it looks like it belongs to Manchester United. More specifically the
2010-11 away jersey.
Perhaps this is a new strategy for Arsenal seeking a bit of luck in claiming their first piece
of silverware since 2005.
It's never easy refereeing young kids playing sports uncoordinated, sloppy, and that one
overweight kid who makes a fool of himself tripping over his own calf. Not to mention the parents
who often treat such outings as a hall pass to act like immature college students looking for
fights.
Another quality moment from America's leading soccer network...
I've always thought that being a supporter meant wearing your team's colors, traveling to
home/away matches, and cheering on your club during the best of times and more importantly during
the worst. But never in a million years did I ever expect to see this.
FC Magdeburg, wallowing in last place of the German Fourth Division, have had a slight problem
scoring goals this season.
Nobody enjoys losing, especially a paying customer at a sporting event. A sense of time wasted
sets in, a stomach in knots thinking about what could have been, and in extreme cases of stupidity
the need to commit an act of violence. Sometimes defiance substitutes nicely for flailing fists and
in the case of one lonely Millwall supporter, standing up to the thousands of traveling Leeds
fans was an acceptable alternative.
Young, promising, athletic, versatile, a salary of £50,000 a week, and an integral part of
Manchester United's present and future. What more could Chris Smalling ask for? How about Sam
Cooke. Seems only logical that such an up-and-coming talent would attract a bombshell like Cooke,
right?
Valencia vs Barcelona – 9.21.11
"Beautifully released by Lionel Messi. Mathieu is all over Lionel but he can still measure it to
split millimeter perfection on the run under pressure – means nothing to him. Still another red
carpet pass."
"Pep Guardiola keeping the ex-Valencia man, David Villa, sat on the bench twitching like a
greyhound to get out of the traps.
Men are pigs. Bullish, impatient, mindless, and above all selfish. It is why I only love women.
And apparently, so do the Turks. In an effort to punish clubs for crowd trouble while acknowledging
that such trouble comes from a small percentage of individuals, the Turkish Football Federation
proposed barring all males over the age of 12 from the stands as punishment.
Friday, September 16
2:30pm Freiburg vs Stuttgart (ESPN Deportes)
Saturday, September 17
7:30am Blackburn vs Arsenal (ESPN2)
9:45am Bayer Leverkusen vs Cologne (ESPN Deportes)
10:00am Aston Villa vs Newcastle (FSC)
10:00am Wolverhampton vs Queens Park Rangers (Fox Soccer Plus)
12:00pm Bolton vs Norwich City Tape Delay (FSC)
12:00pm Cagliari vs Novara (Fox Soccer Plus)
12:30pm Kaiserlautern vs Mainz (GolTV)
2:00pm Barcelona vs Osasuna (ESPN Deportes)
2:00pm Swansea vs West Bromwich Albion Tape Delay (Fox Soccer Plus)
2:30pm Inter Milan vs Roma (FSC)
4:00pm Sevilla vs Real Sociedad (GolTV)
5:00pm Everton vs Wigan Tape Delay (FSC)
Sunday, September 18
6:30am PSV Eindhoven vs Ajax (ESPN Deportes)
6:30am Atalanta vs Palermo (Fox Soccer Plus)
8:30am Tottenham vs Liverpool (Fox Soccer Plus)
9:00am Siena vs Juventus (FSC)
10:00am Zaragoza vs Espanyol (ESPN Deportes)
10:30am Fulham vs Manchester City Tape Delay (Fox Soccer Plus)
11:00am Manchester United vs Chelsea (FSC)
11:30am Schalke vs Bayern Munich (GolTV)
12:00pm Atletico Madrid vs Racing Santander (ESPN Deportes)
12:30pm Sunderland vs Stoke City Tape Delay (Fox Soccer Plus)
2:00pm Levante vs Real Madrid (GolTV)
2:30pm Napoli vs AC Milan (FSC)
3:00pm Lyon vs Marseilles (Fox Soccer Plus)
4:00pm Athletic Bilbao vs Real Betis (GolTV)
This year's Champions League group stage features a number of mouth-watering match ups,
highlighted by the ideological battle between three English Premier League and Bundesliga clubs.
The debt-ridden, price gauging, heavy spending English vs the financially sound, responsible
Germans. While Manchester City are made to wait until the end of the month to face Bayern, Arsenal
and Chelsea face stiff competition this afternoon and their opponents have approached the
encounters in differently.
For those of you who do not know Ray Hudson, he is the color man on GolTV's American broadcast
of La Liga matches. To put it bluntly he is out of control, bat-shit crazy. A Geordie by blood,
Hudson plied his trade with Newcastle in the 1970′s before moving to the NASL for the rest of his
career.
Friday, September 9
2:30pm AC Milan vs Lazio (FSC)
Saturday, September 10
9:30am Borussia Dortmund vs Hertha Berlin (GolTV)
10:00am Arsenal vs Swansea City (FSC)
10:00am Stoke City vs Liverpool (Fox Soccer Plus)
10:00am Sunderland vs Chelsea (ESPN2)
12:00pm Villarreal vs Sevilla (GolTV)
12:00pm Real Sociedad vs Barcelona (ESPN Deportes)
12:30pm Bolton vs Manchester United (FSC)
2:00pm Real Madrid vs Getafe (GolTV)
2:30pm Cesena vs Napoli (FSC)
2:30pm Wolverhampton vs Tottenham tape delay (Fox Soccer Plus)
4:00pm Valencia vs Atletico Madrid (ESPN Deportes)
4:30pm Everton vs Aston Villa tape delay (Fox Soccer Plus)
5:00pm Manchester City vs Wigan tape delay (FSC)
Sunday, September 11
6:30am Juventus vs Parma (Fox Soccer Plus)
7:30am Roda JC vs FC Twente (ESPN Deportes)
8:30am Norwich City vs West Brom (Fox Soccer Plus)
9:00am Roma vs Cagliari (FSC)
9:30am Cologne vs Nuremburg (ESPN Deportes)
11:00am Fulham vs Blackburn (FSC)
11:30am Wolfsburg vs Schalke (GolTV)
12:00pm Rayo Vallecano vs Zaragoza (ESPN Deportes)
2:30pm Palermo vs Inter Milan (FSC)
3:00pm PSG vs Brest (Fox Soccer Plus)
4:00pm Espanyol vs Athletic Bilbao (GolTV)
