By "The Other 87 Minutes" / Senior Unemployed English Major CorrespondentsFor today's entry, we bring you the top ten things Ricardo Clark's 97th-minute winner against Venezuela made us completely forget. 1. The entire 2010 World Cup, obviously. Welcome back Rico, all is forgiven.

FOX Soccer has a new face. Rob Stone, who began at ESPN in 1992 and returned to the network in 1997, will be the new lead studio host for FOX Soccer, as well as the face for soccer coverage on ...
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This is our last installment in a series of post setting out the top business stories in American soccer from 2011. We have looked at Portland and Kansas City while also discussing NBC's entry as a soccer broadcaster and FOX's big play for World Cup television rights. We will set up a vote to select the top story early next week.

Changeover at ESPN and Arlo White being hired to be the new voice NBC Sports soccer coverage has raised some interesting discussions on just what exactly makes for a good television announcer in Major League Soccer coverage. Debates over what matters, how credibility is earned and why an accent can make a difference have all been waged.

Photo of Taylor Twellman at Union's 2011 home opener by Earl Gardner.

Philadelphia Union

Deportivo Saprissa president Juan Carlos Rojas has confirmed in an interview with a Costa Rican radio station that the Union has been in contact with the club about Josue Martinez, saying "I would not go into much detail but there has been interest from Philadelphia [in Martinez].

Today, NBC confirmed reports that they have hired Arlo White as their primary play-by-play voice for their brand-new Major League Soccer and U.S. Soccer coverage. As many of you know, White has been the voice of Seattle Sounders FC, and ...
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By "The Other 87 Minutes" / Senior Unemployed English Major CorrespondentsCorruption. Injustice. Obscene profits. In this week's list, we're assembling a crew of famous footballing names to Occupy FIFA. They won't rest until they bring down the soccer juggernaut (and Sharpie a moustache on Blatter while he's sleeping).

Arlo White has taken a job with NBC Sports to become their national soccer announcer, according to a report from KING5, the Seattle Sounders broadcast partner. This would be a considerable loss for Sounders fans, who have grown to almost universally love the British broadcaster.

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This just in from Kerith Gabriel at the Daily News:

Tweet No. 1: According to French pub L'Equipe, @PhilaUnion is said to be vying for the services of @chelseafc forward Nicolas Anelka.

Tweet No. 2: Source within @PhilaUnion camp just confirmed there IS interest but said it's a stretch given other offers Anelka has received.

As power is starting to make its return to the Greater Hartford area, we thought it would make sense to recognize the successful front office in Kansas City. As we said last week, Sporting is our PR Department of the year. In 2010, we interviewed Rob Thomson, the team's VP of Communications. At the time of that interview, the Wizards were still the KC franchise and Community America was still the team's home.

While we wait for the power and heat to return to Hartford County, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the soccer coverage in mainstream media outlets around the country. We'll start in New England, where the Boston Globe, via Revs beat reporter Frank Dell'Apa, takes a look at the current state of the Revolution.

With this piece by new contributor Matthew Pentz, TSG kicks off it's African soccer coverage.

The Forgotten Footie Continent

The African Champions League exists mostly, if not completely, on the periphery of the soccer world. The tournament blends a strong history, passionate fans, and an up-and-coming class of young players, however, and its semifinalists each have a bit of the underdog in them.

Tomorrow marks the 42nd anniversary of the debut of Monty Python's Flying Circus on the BBC. To celebrate, we've slapped together a side of our favorite Python characters in an old-fashioned 4-2-4.GK -- Black Knight -- Like all great keepers, he allows nothing, not even dismemberment, to stop him from triumphing.

I don't watch ESPN really outside of soccer coverage but apparently they had TT on there the other day to talk about the scourge that is concussions, which is not to be confused with the issue of cons cussin'. The former is a big issue on soccer fields the world over while the latter is largely an issue within penitentiaries.

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Editor's Note: We continue a great new feature on the Free Beer Movement site. In collaboration with the quality soccer site, "The Other 87 Minutes" we present the "Tuesday XI" (and sometimes the "Tuesday Ten") a thoughtful list on a variety of topics in the world of soccer.
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Ooops. Our bad.Last night, the FBM posted some criticisms of ESPN's soccer coverage from Wednesday's U.S. match versus Mexico. In that article we drew a connection to a local bar, Cuatro's (that was unnamed in the article), and tried to highlight the difficulty in satisfying the demands of "mainstream" sports fans and soccer fans.

The Seattle Sounders are at home this weekend after a week's worth of well needed rest. They play an improving Chivas USA team at the CLink on Saturday. Hopefully, they can build on last weekend's win at Sporting KC. Also, for those of you who are interested, Pat Noonan talks about the foul and the flop from Omar Bravo.

Editor's Note: We've published several op-eds on the Free Beer Movement site, but with no real distinction between what is news and what is opinion. Our editorials are now going to come with the feature tag "Making the Case", well, because its an awesome beer pun, and we love those.

NBC Sports Network has replaced FOX Soccer for the TV rights to MLS beginning in 2012.

So many times the US soccer community that supports Major League Soccer have screamed and shouted for Fox Soccer Channel to improve their telecasts. It looked like they did so for the last few months with their improved graphics and better coverage showing respect to Major League Soccer coverage.

We felt like this more or less.Editor's Note: We continue a great new feature on the Free Beer Movement site. In collaboration with the quality soccer site, "The Other 87 Minutes" we present the "Tuesday XI" (and sometimes the "Tuesday Ten") a thoughtful list on a variety of topics in the world of soccer.

A big weekend for soccer in the United States. The US Women lost to Japan in the World Cup Final, however there will probably be another of couple days of soccer coverage from the mainstream media. Appearances on morning and late night talk shows are sure to follow. What this means for the WPS remains an open question, but for a weekend, soccer was one of the primary stories in the worlds of both sports and current events.

*U.S. Soccer announced today an 8 p.m. Sept. 2 friendly against Costa Rica at Home Depot Center that will air on ESPN2.

Tickets go on sale July 15 starting at $20.

It's a rare non-January friendly in Southern California against a Latin American team, which U.S. Soccer officials customarily attempt to avoid because of their fan support here.

We continue a great new feature on the Free Beer Movement site. In collaboration with the quality soccer site, "The Other 87 Minutes" we present the "Tuesday XI" (and sometimes the "Tuesday Ten") a thoughtful list on a variety of topics in the world of soccer.
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The Canadian soccer writing landscape has exploded over the last few years. It almost feels redundant to write this, but the number of Canadian soccer sources now available on the web is truly remarkable.
I don't want to get in a long-winded breakdown of the "history" of online soccer coverage in Canada, but suffice it to say, before the internet there were one or two newspaper reporters who owned the soccer beat, and even then, coverage was sparse.

Two weeks ago I wrote an article entitled Why the Gold Cup Final Should Be on FOX, which argued that the chance of a USA against Mexico Gold Cup Final would have been a potential home run ratings bonanza for FOX. However FOX stuck to its guns and decided to keep the final on FOX Soccer instead of putting it on FOX, the broadcast TV network.

We continue to welcome some great new contributors on the Free Beer Movement site. In collaboration with the quality soccer site, "The Other 87 Minutes" we present the "Tuesday Ten" (and sometimes the "Tuesday XI") a thoughtful list on a variety of topics in the world of soccer.
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As recently reported, FSC FOX Soccer is going through an exciting rebrand in time for the new EPL season. As exciting as that sounds, FOX is missing a chance to generate buzz right now with the Gold Cup. The Gold Cup, now in its knockout stages, will have possibly two weekend games for the US men's national team -- which is a source of very good ratings.

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Full power tonight after some downed wires made posting impossible yesterday. Every so often, we take a look at how various media are covering soccer in the United States. We thought now was a good time to take a look at some mainstream sports outlets.

We'll start with Sports Illustrated, where the most recent edition of the magazine to hit the newstands included a four page spread on the Cascadia rivalary.

Grant Wahl is the best-selling author of "The Beckham Experiment" and the head soccer writer for Sport Illustrated. Earlier this year he unsuccessfully ran to be nominated for the FIFA Presidency.
In part two of our conversation with Wahl he talks about that run for FIFA's top job, Sport Illustrated's growing soccer coverage in print and online, beer in Qatar, this summer's Gold Cup, early impact players for Brazil 2014, and the soccer's growth in the United States.

- Jason Davis Another American Soccer Show, another 80's movie reference. This is what we do. As usual, we complement our pop culture inanity with some quality soccer coverage. Since we've avoided bringing up "Mannequin" to this point in the show's history, it looks like we're doing okay. Jared and I start out talking about the Karate Kid and an impromptu "wax on, wax off" dance the Rodius does during the open.

The Union's first appearance on Fox Soccer Channel this season was a rather special one, for the club's first-ever match against the Portland Timbers marked the debut of Soccer Night in America. It appears to be a two-pronged effort for Fox Soccer: one, to give MLS matches the "marquee event" status that have come from CBC's Hockey Night in Canada and NBC's Football Night in America, and two, to give Fox an opportunity to, in a sense, start anew with their MLS coverage.

Leander Schaerlaeckens of ESPN.com writes of how Jason Kreis has made it to the top of the MLS coaches food chain.
It was January 2010 and Jason Kreis had a problem. His Real Salt Lake players had just won the MLS Cup and proved them wrong -- the people who said RSL owner Dave Checketts was nuts for pulling his 34-year-old striker off the field and making him his head coach three years ahead of schedule, without serving an apprenticeship as an assistant.

From the Evansville Courier Press, April 10, 2011

I watched our U.S. national team take on Paraguay in an international "friendly" in Nashville last week. The U.S. lost 1-0 in a game that typifies and frustrates about the game of soccer all at the same time — it probably is the only sport where one team can dominate yet lose.

Arlo White pulled the big upset in the 2nd round of the Brock and Salk's Media Bracket. Our favorite announcer defeated co-host Mike Salk to move to the elite 8 in the bracket challenge. He now faces Rick Rizzs of the Mariners Radio Network.

The Bock and Salk show is one of the more prominent on 710 ESPN radio.