Josh over at ThroughBall linked in to a fantastic interview that Christian Franek recently did with Eric Wynalda before the USMNT v. Ecuador match. I know I normally quote a bit here and there, but the entire article is quotable. Go read the entire thing if you haven’t already.
I have to say I really enjoyed [...]
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Eric Wynalda Tells It Like It Is
Oh No… He’s Baaaaaack
I get home from playing some pickup, turn on ESPN2, and that voice. THAT VOICE. I thought we were safe. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. What is ESPN doing to us?
Separate Corners
Man it has been a LONG wait for some USMNT action. HAHAHAHA Notice that Rob Stone is sitting between Eric and Bruce? Something tells me that wasn’t an accident
If you aren’t near a TV, you can follow the US – Denmark match via The Soccer Daily’s LiveBlog of the match.
UPDATE: Kali at [...]
Dave O’Brien is OUTTA HERE. But…
Over at ThroughBall, Josh notes that ESPN announced their broadcast team for the upcoming USMNT matches and Dave O’Brien is NOT part of it. But wait. Bruce Arena is. Given The Bruce’s obnoxious tendencies when talking about soccer to the press, this is an improvement how? Well, look who else is on the team:
Former U.S. [...]
Help Design The Dave O’Brien Training Program
The World Cup was clearly a success in the US. The final match between France and Italy drew over 17 million viewers (more than Game 6 of the NBA finals) The only downside to this is we’re still likely to be stuck with Dave O’Brien for a LONG time (2014). With John Harkes heading to [...]
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.
World Cup vs NBA Finals – Guess Who Wins?
Over at the Footcer Socblog, incendiarymind notes that ESPN is running an online poll asking what is the most interesting event: US in the World Cup, NBA Finals, or US Open. They even break it down by state (GeoIP is so cool) and the blue states, World Cup, is winning big.
I went and voted (have [...]
Commentator 101 – ESPN Are You Listening?
John over at Keeper Skool found the highlights from the recent South Korea-Iraq shootout (kicks from the mark for you purists). You really need to watch this, not for the shootout itself, but for the announcer’s enthusiasm. Watch the whole way through and once Noor Sabri makes the first save for Iraq, he really gets [...]