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Adidas Star Wars Commercial

Written by: tyler ransburgh

I am probably slow to the party on this one but I just recently saw the Adidas Star Wars commercial. The video includes David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, and some old time Star Wars characters. Enjoy!!

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Second Annual Kicking & Screening Film Festival

Written by: tyler ransburgh

Second Annual Kicking & Screening Film Festival

If you are in NYC next week you should stop by the 2nd Annual Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival. The festival runs from June 1st through June 5th. The soccer films will be shown at Tribeca Cinemas. Here are some of the soccer films that will be showing: June 1st: Fifteen Minutes that Shook [...]

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IRAQ: NOT AS SAFE AS YOU THOUGHT

Written by: Gabe

Soccer isn’t generally a violent sport, crazed fans notwithstanding. But, as many of us know, all it takes is one such crazed fan to wreck a party. Even so, I’ve never heard of an incident quite as dramatic as what happened in Iraq this week, wherein a player was shot in the head during play [...]

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ESPN, MLS MOVE WORK WEEK GAMES

Written by: tyler ransburgh

Thursday nights are not working for ESPN or MLS. Traditional a night of recorded shows on ESPN, the Thursday night MLS games have seen a continual drop in viewers. The plan is to show MLS games after other live sporting events in hopes that viewers will stick around and watch. The NFL has built Monday [...]

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ESPN AND THE PREM

Written by: tyler ransburgh

ESPN (owned by the Walt Disney Company) is planning to join the bidding for the rights to show English Premiership games between 2010 and 2013. This comes as a great sign for those in Columbus, Ohio as many of us have lost the Fox Soccer Channel because Wide Open West decided to kill that channel. [...]

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DISNEY CONSIDERS PREMIER LEAGUE

Written by: tyler ransburgh

Rumor on the streets (and The Times) is that Disney is looking into buying the rights to air the English Premier League in the United States. Will it be weird to watch an EPL match right after Hanna Montana? Actually Disney owns ESPN. The rights to air the EPL are up for bid in January [...]

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WHERE’S MY DAVID BECKHAM?

Written by: Gabe

This time last year, thousands of people who never had boners over soccer were nationwide achieving said boners over David Beckham’s transfer to the MLS. His face was everywhere, it seemed. Even I thought, wow this is kind of cool. Maybe it’s the weather, then, that inspired my curiosity last night about the status of [...]

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TV STORE THINKS LIKE 11TH GRADER

Written by: Gabe

There’s a new HH Gregg TV spot in which Peyton Manning and a few other people are giving a mock press conference… to encourage a customer to buy Sony HD TVs because they are the best for watching American football. The customer asks, “When you say football, do you mean soccer?” And the press conference [...]

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