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Entries Tagged ‘television’

Gives A New Meaning To ‘Soccer TV’

I stumbled across this in an ad on LDSM’s Blog. Gives a whole new meaning to Soccer TV. A 10″ LCD TV in the shape of a soccer ball. The speakers are hidden in two of the black patches. Now if only it was widescreen!

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 [...]

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?

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. [...]

US Youth Soccer Show on FSC

Sorry for the lack of posts – been up to my eyeballs in practices, matches, league registration, etc. Things are calming down a bit so I hope to polish off a few posts I’ve been working on and get back into the swing of things. Until then, a public service announcement:

The US Youth Soccer Show [...]

UNCG v. Coastal Carolina on Fox Soccer Channel

Triangle Soccer Fanatics recently noted that a few area ACC collegiate soccer matches that will be aired on Fox Soccer Channel as part of their expanded collegiate soccer coverage. Duke v. Maryland should be a great match again this year, among others.
As I was reading that post on TriSoccerFan, I received a press release via [...]

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 [...]

The Cleats of Imminent Doom – On IFC in October!

This little short film generates more Google hits to my site than anything else and its FINALLY coming on IFC again!

The Cleats of Imminent Doom

This short film us supposed to be hilarious – has anyone seen it? Can it be viewed online anywhere?