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ESPN – PLEASE Show Dave O’Brien A Red Card!

The complaints started before the first match. Why did ESPN choose a baseball announcer who had no clue about soccer to call the premiere matches in the 2006 World Cup? US Soccer fans, overjoyed that all 64 matches would be broadcast live, were dismayed at the choice of Dave O’Brien. In early March an online [...]

Is It Just Me?

ABC sure seems to be letting in a LOT more crowd noise into the broadcast. Good for them.

USA v. Italy – Good Or Bad For New Fans?

Over at Strategy or Soccer, Yan feels that yesterday was a disaster because new fans who saw the match would be turned off to soccer as a whole. I’m not sure I agree with that – I think it helped … a lot. Yan notes:

[...] with many [...]