SMU Freshman hits 95-yard Soccer Goal @ Yahoo! Video
I live in America where soccer is still a second-string sport, but even the most controversial but popular American sports blogs can't ignore this fluke goal from a college soccer player at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Click to continue reading...

We all know the dangers of drunken text messaging but I think as we move deeper into the age of connectivity we need to pause for a moment to acknowledge the dangers of drunken Facebook status updates.
My man KK noticed via Deadspin that Eric Wynalda had something of a late-night, 3 martini meltdown after watching the Yanks lose to Italy and felt it was best that he share it with America. Click to continue reading...

I'm not seeing the likeness, but whatever.
Check out the other pics at the Barca Offside.
The other links:

• Buy naming rights to the Rochester stadium. [Deadspin]
  
• Ribery talks up Bayern Munich. [ESPN]
  
• Red Bulls deny they're selling. [Goal.com]
  
• San Lorenzo's new coach is Simeone.

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I saw this story over at Deadspin, but the video tells the whole story.
Ear surgery is no excuse to miss a game I guess. Click to continue reading...

... if the press releases written upon your departure read like Deadspin postings. This is the actual release the Sun-Times sent out to staff after Mariotti quit.  Topic: Miscellaneous items Date/Time: 8/27/2008 1:19:18 PM Title: Sun-Times' statement regarding Jay Mariotti Posted By: Jim Romenesko Release from the Sun-Times August 27, 2008 Chicago Sun-Times Editor in Chief Michael Cooke issued the following [. Click to continue reading...

This has nothing to do with football, but anyway. Buzz. Buzz Bissinger. Those who frequent the intellectual red light district known as the Blogosphere will know Buzz, the Certified Author who went bananas on Bob Costa's HBO chat show, getting all up in the grill of Deadspin's Will Leitch, accusing Leitch and his fellow bloggers of dragging the English language into the dirt, destroying the elevated tone of American sporting discourse (? Click to continue reading...

Warning, non-soccer related:
My post isn't very good. I couldn't really pin down what I was trying to say but did feel like posting a comment on the issue.
I just read an article which was posted less than 1/2 an hour ago on deadspin, in which ESPN's Jemele Hill compared cheering for the Celtics to cheering for Hitler. Click to continue reading...

Around the soccer blogosphere, Euro 2008 & more.

• HEGS Argentinian awards - vote now! (Hasta El Gol Siempre)
• Barbadas national team accepting applications (Deadspin)
• Which is better: football on TV or in person? (Soccerlens)
• Euro 2008: parade of passion (Don Rodriguez)
• Iran's President & their World Cup campaign (So Many Balls)
• Leigh Genesis?

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Whilst some might say that ESPN's Bill Simmons epitomises the typical American sports fan-writer today, the keyboard of Will Leitch has provided a different but vastly popular take on sports over the past two years. Will is probably the most influential sports blogger around: the site he edits, Deadspin, now attracts over seven million page [...] Click to continue reading...