Is the sky falling? Well, the times are changing. At least in the world of sports media. After a delicious scoop on USMNT angst, AOL fired Brian Straus. In another corner of the internet, CNN axed its relationship with Sports Illustrated and now links to Bleacher Report. Other sites have taken aim at Bleacher Report, criticizing the obvious SEO tactics and abundance of slideshows.
Get around. Most of you don't know about the short-lived but excellent soccer blog Footsmoke. Like Pinpoint me, Pirlo, the site offered keen observations, uncanny wit, and some amusing pop culture references. Like Pinpoint me, Pirlo, both sites ended too early. Posts stopped appearing. Google Readers felt empty.
On Wednesday Commissioner Garber gave his annual pre-First Kick address to the media. Unlike prior years, the address was conducted via Google+ and in a venue at Google's New York headquarters. Journalists asked questions either from the venue or via video hookup. The questions touched on expansion to New York (going strong but timeline not indefinite), the Cosmos (they chose the lower division) and the Cascadia trademark dispute (league could have handled it better).
Once again not a lot of information available for the Timbers Academy's matches against the Los
Angeles Galaxy, but here's a little info from LA Galaxy Insider Adam Serrano.
(I was an English major so I didn't take astronomy so based on a quick Google search – let's call
the Galaxy Academy squads the ‘Red Dwarfs'.
Do a Google search for ‘Daniel Sturridge Bad Attitude' and you'll find over 13,000 search results. Ever since Sturridge signed with Manchester City as a reserve he somehow was labeled as having a poor attitude. In 2009 Sturridge left City...
Jozy Altidore with 2 more goals for AZ, thi time against Heracles. Giving him 4 in 2 games to start
the season.
-Video of the whole shebang right here.
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With Everton beginning the new season on a Monday night under the lights at home against Manchester
United (and WINNING!
It appears that Kosuke Kimura wasted no time in getting back into the game during the MLS off season and perhaps in part because he knew a huge shake up was coming for the Portland Timbers. Regardless, according to Wisla Krakow's website, the current Portland Timbers right back defender is on trial with the club, which plays in the first division football league: Ekstraklasa.
Yesterday Major League Soccer hosted a Google+ hangout with this former JMU Alum, 2011 MLS Rookie of the Year, and Manassas Virginia native C.J. Sapong of Sporting Kansas City.
For more about the 24 Under 24, visit: http://www.mlssoccer.com/24under24
If you found yourself wondering why in the hell would Sergio Ramos be tweeting links to the song
"Heaven" by Bryan Adams before going to bed last night, wonder no more. Take it away Google
Translate! Time to go to sleep. Tomorrow match against Saudi. I leave this topic of Bryan Adams
dedicated to a [.
"Ar har, har, har, har!"It's been too long since there's been news on Das Bizarre, and now,
here it is (late-breaking news breaking later): Inka Grings is hanging up her boots for the German
women's national football team, and Linda Bresonik has signed with the ladies side of Paris St.
Germain.
The Saturday Skills #11 Ronaldinho lives is a post from: Just Football
Week 19 of the Campeonato Brasileiro. Cruzeiro v Atlético Mineiro. The Belo
Horizonte derby. Maybe not as internationally renowned as a Fla-Flu or a Corinthians v Sao Paulo,
but in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais this is the big one.
Who do you think will win the Premier League 2012/2013? [Poll] is a post from: Just Football
The new Barclays Premier League season 2012/2013 kicks off this weekend in
England. Champions Manchester City will look to defend their crown but there has been a lot of
transfer activity over the summer, with the market only really just kicking into gear now on the
back of some lucrative deals (including Robin van Persie's move to Manchester United).
Manchester City 3-2 Chelsea Community Shield Goals and Highlights is a post from: Just
Football
Although overshadowed by the Olympics, the Premier League's traditional curtain raiser took
place this weekend between champions Manchester City and FA Cup winners
Chelsea.
Reims v Marseille follow it Live with Just Football! is a post from: Just Football
The start of the new season in France's Ligue 1 has been met with a lot of excitement, perhaps
more so than usual. Paris Saint-Germain's lavish summer spending has undoubtedly helped raise the
profile of France's top flight, with an increasing number of observers keen to see how PSG's bid
for European domination gets on.
Another day, another Fredy Montero interview. It's like he's the hottest player in MLS or
something. In this case he did an interview with El Pais of Colombia. The most revealing news to
Seattle Sounders fans is that despite all the rumors of clubs interested in Montero, none have made
an offer to buy.
Nothing quite like watching your team score six goals is there? No, it wasn't an entirely stress
free experience for the Seattle Sounders, but that 6-2 win over Chivas USA sure was fun to watch.
Fredy Montero scoring his first-career MLS hat trick wasn't bad either.
Aaron and I spend quite a lot of time going through the many highlights involved in that
one.
Coming off a rather horrible week, the Seattle Sounders got just what they needed with a win
over Cascadia Cup rivals the Vancouver Whitecaps. The winning goal was provided by none other than
Fredy Montero, who made a bit of a surprise appearance off the bench. A surprise only because he
figured to be starting.
This is probably not something to get too worked up about at this point, but reports out of
Italy are claiming that Chievo Verona is interested in acquiring Fredy Montero from the Seattle
Sounders. I'm relying on Google translate to explain the article, so it's not entirely clear if
there's anything close to a reliable source on this, but numerous outlets have run with the story
that seems to have originated in L'Arena.
Hooray for the start of the Frauen Bundesliga season!
Pitch romps for all!I love German girls who do this, especially ones wearing a kit from the Frauen
Bundesliga (I like to pretend a goal hasn't been scored). Okay, I tend to notice German girls in
general, because they do amazing things with their tongues when they talk (the same thing goes
for the French, but since this isn't about the French, trust that I'll come to them later).
Not bad for Brazil's Amanda, who scored what could arguably be considered one of the best goals of
the tournament thus far. And then I learn that the game versus Italy was her second time on the
pitch representing Brazil. And then she and FIFA gets all cute in their interview, with "'Well,
it's the kind of goal that just comes naturally," joked the 19-year-old, smiling from ear to ear.
This is vintage Sylvie, Kickettes. Big hair, radioactive tan, leopard dress, bling. It just feels
right, doesn't it? Mrs. VDV attended the Global Gift Gala in Marbella, Spain Saturday night. Google
tells us that GGG is an international fundraising scheme that supports charities involving
children, women, and families.
In which, during what Google Translate reliably informs us was a 'trivial test match' between
Israel and Hungary on Wednesday night, Israeli 'keeper Dudu Aouate goes up and over the top of
Hungary striker Adam Szalai, only to crash back down to terra firma face first and in sickening
fashion.
With United's season kicking off later than everyone else, we have one more day to sneak in a
quick player preview. And yes, for once my article does not feature Arsenal! Well, at least I'll
try my best not to mention them. It is hard to do that but I think it's safe to say when you're
talking about Anderson, there are plenty of easy jokes to go around without having to resort to a
trip to the Emirates or Anfield for easy ones.
Yes, for once my article does not feature Arsenal! Well, at least I'll try my best not to
mention them. It is hard to do that but I think it's safe to say when you're talking about
Anderson, there are plenty of easy jokes to go around without having to resort to a trip to the
Emirates or Anfield for easy ones.
The Munich Philharmonic penned this little aria for their boys heading to England for the grandest match of the year on Saturday. Bounding around Google has surfaced nothing in the way of an English translation for the lyrics, but it's worth it simply to watch someone work 'Heynckes' into a song.
(It is entirely possible some of this was 'sampled'.
Join Free Beer Movement's Dan Wiersema and The Denver Post's beer writer Eric Gorski as we discuss the Colorado craft beer scene and American soccer.
Denver is often the center of the craft beer universe (home to the Great American Beer Festival, including Colorado Craft Beer Week this week) and this week will be the center of American soccer with Friday's U.
Arsenal legend Ian Wright will be participating in a live Google Hangout today alongside soccer bloggers from EPL Talk, Football Ramble, In Bed With Maradona, The 12th Man and A Football Report. Wrighty and the football bloggers — including EPL...
It's been quite a while since we've done one of these and since we've probably got new people checking out the site, especially with all the hub-bub coming out yesterday, I figured it was time to offer a refresher on where everybody can find us across the web, if you so prefer. I mean, you don't want to have to come back here every half hour to see if we've updated right?
Yes, Ronaldo has been downgraded to chubby, because at least he's trying. And yes, Gangnam is now officially a verb, which took a fraction of the time even 'Google' needed to earn such lofty status. And through this, we've learned one very unsurprising fact:
He was a hell of a lot more mobile twenty years ago.
Are you taking good advantage of YouTube? As an active Google user I'm in the process of throwing off the shackles of the closed Apple environment. I even gave my niece who attends College of the Ozarks my iPad2 while picking up a Google Nexus 7 which I love. If you want to know more, send me a message.
Filter Brahim Abdelkader through Google News right about now. Kid is thirteen years old. There is no way he should be popping up on this many websites. And yet he is, because that dreaded word is being used: Next. Next who?* Well Messi, of course. The post-Messi landscape is to be a bleak one for Barcelona, [.
Image: Google. First Adelaide Kingson was a witch who used black magic to sabotage her goalkeeping husband's time in the Prem, then she wasn't, then it was the false spirits' faults and now she can't even recall going TV to explain how she used her "evil powers to trouble" her husband. Other important points of [.
The "Premio Principe de Asturias" , is the equivalent of the "Nobel Prize" for Spanish speaking
Nations. There are many categories - Social Sciences, Medicine, Literatura, Arts etc - & it is
not shut to only Spanish speaking persons or organizations, as many non-Spaniards have been awarded
like Woody Allen, Norman Foster, Google, Al Gore, Paul Krugman & Bob Dylan, just to mention a few.
ATT: circa 45
Additional: Entrance FREE, Programme £1.00
Brookburn Road in pictures
Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40)
Character 6, Structures/Terracing 5, Hospitality 7, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger
stadiums 5 Total 23
My Top 40, a list of all non league grounds at step 6 or above, within 40 miles of
where I live, had a new entry this season straight in at number 25 (duh-duh duh-duh DUH) at 32.
Ready for the Cup? Oh, come on! I'm certain it'll be an entertaining way to end the summer. Plus,
it's always good to see who will be destroying the team from your home country in a few years or
so. Remember? Two years ago in Germany, we got to see early renditions of Sydney Leroux, Germany's
Alexandra Popp and Kim Kulig, and Sweden's Sofia Jakobsson.
I gotta give it to Google today. Their search engine is offering a shootout game.
https://www.google.com/doodles/soccer-2012 Give it a try if you get some time. All you need is
your left and right arrow keys and the space bar. Good luck. Link: Google
