It's the final week of the season and Sir Drew is still out there spreading the gospel like it was
week one. You don't have to love the Sounders but you've gotta love his passion.
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Reason #243 why Soccer A.M. is amazing: you get to see Ari Gold become a Hamilton Academic
supporter while seated on a couch next to Peter "I used to own the world's greatest dance club (and
I kicked Ryan Giggs out of it" Hook from New Order/Joy Division.
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Last night Stephen Colbert addressed the Confederations Cup run and it's impact on the game in this
country on The Colbert Report. Of course this being Colbert means it was 50% piss-take, 100% funny.
He even had His Ginger Majesty
™ along for the ride talking Azteca. It's madness I tell
you, madness.
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Now you may not get to see Paris Hilton's No-No Special Place like CR7 did the other night, but for
just a few dollars you can see CR7, Kaka and whatever other ridiculous signings Real Madrid pulls
off when they come to Maryland this summer. Individual tickets go on sale today at 10am for their
match against DC United so get your credit cards at the ready.
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Who won't Kobe play soccer with? (If I had to guess I would say the Rapids...Colorado prolly isn't
his thing anymore.)
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If you read my dudes at The Original Winger you probably heard about the benefit game that
Hollywood United put on for the victims of the recent Australian wildfires. And if you watch the
clip above close enough you may even see TOW's Dunny in the lineup for the yellow shirts. And even
if you're not trying to watch too closely, you may also get an eyeful of Sex Pistol Steve Jones'
impressive beer gut.
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Reason number 256 for you to petition Fox Soccer Channel to purchase the North American broadcast
rights for Soccer A.M.: Mr. T comes to visit.
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Question: Which of these individuals makes a totally incongruous appearance in the new music video
by comedian-turnt-actor-turnt-singer Jamie Foxx?
A) Career bad MF Samuel L. Jackson
B) SNL legend Garret Morris
C) Vocorder O.G. T-Pain
D) Actor Jake Gyllenhaal
E) Actor/Comedian Bill Bellamy
F) Tatiana Ali aka lil' Ashley Banks for Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
G) Acclaimed director Ron "Richie Cunningham" Howard
H) Music legend Quincy Jones
I) Grey's Anatomy star Kathryn Heigl
J) Queen of all things indie Chloe Sevigny
K) Cedric the Entertainer
L) Oscar-winning actor Forrest Whitaker
M) A Panda
N) All of the above
If ever there was a lesson in not doing things just because you can, this is it.
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He plays as bad as I do. Whatever you do Sounders fans, don't let Sir Drew near the field; just
because he owns the team doesn't mean that he should be allowed a vanity run-out with the first
team.
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It seems like we hadn't heard anything from the Soccer-Basketball Mutual Appreciation
Society™ in quite a while. I was starting to get concerned that all the hoopsters had made a
jailbreak back to the NFL or something but then Kobe made his now-annual declaration of faith, this
time for ESPN The Mag.
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To continue today's inexplicable/despicable stream of soccer-related Lil Wayne news, my man PH just
pointed out to me that Weezy has been giving the ESPN nation some non-coke-dealing, gun-toting,
fishbowling, womanizing and stuntin' like my daddy advice. For once I find myself agreeing with the
guy and I feel so conflicted; one one hand I agree with what he's saying, but on the other hand
he's an idiot.
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There are two people in this photo who get paid to travel around, see the world and play music;
those people are Chris Martin (sitting) and Will Champion (short hair, beard, best name ever) out
of Coldplay. I'm sure you've heard of them as your missus and your mother listen to them when they
need a good cry about how you're not doing what they want you to do.
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Now I don't like to slag anybody who's out there grindin' and whatnot to promote their team's
playoff push and whatnot but...Tommy LaSorda? That's your lead-off celebrity endorsement? C'mon
now. What, was Dom Deluise too busy baking lasagna for Sigi Schmid's Crew? You couldn't get Richard
Simmons out from under the hair dryer at his salon?
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I thought about getting GolTV again when Jozy got picked up by Villarreal but decided against it.
And since he's not getting any playing time I'm OK with that decision. But now that they have
picked up John Cleese's The Art of Football for the U.S. market I just might break down and get it.
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I just read this article in some old UK rag --The Sun to be precise-- about how "Morrissey is
"obsessed with Millwall and it's culture." He's even alleged to have been spotted
swanning around Los Angeles in replica kit with "Mobster" written where a name should
be.
That's cool and all but wasn't it just last year that he was wearing Chivas gear onstage and going
to Chivas USA matches at the HDC?
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Hello new soccer nation. I'm just back from a long lunch down in NYC's Chinatown and it wasn't for
the dim sum. Ethan Zohn's Grassroots Soccer held it's inaugural celebrity game at Sara D.
Rooseveldt park on Grand St. this afternoon and it was such a good time. All manner of soccerati
were there to play ball, shoot the shit (read:trash talk) and eat tacos (more on that later).
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Hey y'all. If you are in the Gotham area and you'd like to aid in helping fight AIDS in Africa,
have a $125 tax write-off in February, and get trollied in the presence of all manner of
Soccerati™ you should really think about coming to Ethan Zohn's blowout at Marquee on
Thursday night.
Please excuse the ghetto Photoshop job I did on the flyer but I thought that I'd mention some of
the names that are expected to be in the house in hopes of enticing you into joining me and a few
of the other DP's for a good night out for a good cause.
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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey, NBA star Tony Parker and Scientologist Tom Cruise were spotted in a
luxury box reportedly discussing a joint venture for a basketball-themed french restaurant. On
Xenu. It'll be the biggest thing since Planet Hollywood.
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Not much to say other than I would suspect the Mike Myers would win the award for Former SNL Cast
Member Most Likely to be Photographed Drunk in a Football Kit.
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I love Will Ferrell. I've enjoyed almost everything he's done from SNL, to Funny or Die, to
Semi-Pro. Shit, I wasn't even mad at him for doing that horrible Bewitched remake. I'm telling you,
I really trust this guy and just like Ron Burgundy will read anything you put on the teleprompter,
I will watch anything that Will Ferrell is in.
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Anna sent me the image of the year and I got nothing. This is how you know I am truly feeling ill.
Who knew Rohan Ricketts had this kind of clout?
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Last week ex-Libertine, current Babyshamble and perpetual drugs vacuum Pete Doherty took part in a
celebrity soccer match at The Den, home of Millwall FC. Now being both a) a suicidal idiot and b) a
die-hard QPR fan he decided to make his way into the club chairman's office and relive himself into
one of the club's cups from the trophy case (he was caught be security).
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The whole of England has gone tits over tail for today's Champions League final between Manchester
United and Chelsea. Every angle in being covered in every paper in the land. Even NME has gotten in
the act by putting out a side for each club made up of it's celebrity fans. Thank God Man City
didn't make it to the final or Damon Albarn out of Blur/Gorillaz (pictured above) might have to but
up with Liam Gallagher all up in his grill again.
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Is it just me or are a lot of musicians secret soccer fans these days? Maybe they aren't but
perhaps someone at their merchandise company is. It seems everyone's discovering their inner
hooligan and have got a terrace-inspired scarf to prove it. Jersey punker Ted Leo does. Indie-preps
Vampire Weekend have one too.
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2 weeks ago I was all hot & bothered about going to see the newly reunited The Verve at MSG. In a
nutshell, their guitarist Nick McCabe reaffirmed my belief that he is the best guitarist of his
generation to come out of the U.K. Better than Bernard Butler for sure. Better than Graham Coxon.
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Some folks may not know it but Kobe grew up in Italy and spent his youth on the pitch emulating the
moves of his boyhood favorites, AC Milan. At a recent press conference he testified as to how
footie saved his life. Well maybe that was a bit of embellishment, but he does say some good things
and I would like to believe that at the very least it helped him avoid be another _________ (insert
crap basketball player here).
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Sorry for all the brief posts today; I'm at home on Daddy duty but I had to share this video though
as it gave me a good laugh at 2 a.m. this morning as I couldn't sleep due to Anton Chigurh
nightmares.
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I have no idea how many people tuned into the Oscar De La Hoya-Steve "I don't sleep in silk
pajamas" Forbes fight at the Home Depot Center this weekend, but assume it was in the
neighborhood of 10 Zillion. And I'd bet a good portion of those folks got to hear the name
"Home Depot Center" for the 1st time, and where then informed that it is the home of
Major League Soccer's LA Galaxy which that guy Beckham plays for.
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Did you know that David Beckham was on Ellen today? With Goldenballs on the dancing lady's show, 60
Minutes, CNN and Leno in the last month in addition to being healthy enough to play well & score
that this is how it was supposed to be. Hopefully he and Landon can either inspire some improvement
in their teammates or get some help and make the post-season this year.
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