Soccer

The Danish soccer club FC Copenhagen has an interesting motivational tool for its players — for every win, they get two porn films. One of the club’s sponsors, sex movie distributors BN Agentur, have promised the squad two porn movies every time they win. [The team has] risen to the challenge – winning nine of […]

Spain, the perennial underachievers, shed that label with a 1-0 win over Germany to win the Euro 2008 tournament, its first since 1964. The only goal was scored by Fernando Torres (photo) in the 33rd minute. I watched the last half of the match and was pleased to see that ABC stuck with the post-match […]

Imagine watching this past season’s Super Bowl. Time running out, New England trailing the Giants and trying to score the go-ahead score. The Pats move inside the Giants’ 20 when all of a sudden Fox loses its TV feed and the next 10 minutes of the game is blacked out and you only hear New […]

From the L.A. Land blog on the Los Angeles Times: A quickie: an e-mailer points out the fire-sale price for Bear Stearns — just $236 million on Sunday night — wouldn’t even be enough to buy out soccer star David Beckham, whose five-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy, plus endorsement opportunities, has been valued […]

A fun soccer graphic from the Wall Street Journal. Click here or on image and scroll down a bit: Hat tip to Matt Hennie (check out his Atlanta gay sports blog). A fun soccer graphic from the Wall Street Journal. Click here or on image and scroll down a bit: Hat tip to Matt Hennie […]

Australian soccer player Andre Gumprecht, who was born in Germany, is in hot water after dressing up as Hitler during a celebration. Gumprecht wore his costume as part of a “Mad Monday” celebration to end the season. He will be disciplined after Jewish groups complained. Gumprecht, 33, attended a post-Grand Final ceremony on Monday for […]

Jim Allen does a great job in the post below, summing up what happened in soccer today in England. I always love the English press when their team suffers a major loss at a sports event (there is a great compilation here). The end-of-the-world headlines and braying for blood and heads make U.S. sports media […]

Being stuck at work today, I couldn’t watch the England v. Croatia football match at the new Wembley Stadium that would determine whether England qualified for the Euro 2008 tournament (they needed only a tie). I followed the game on ESPN’s Gametracker, where a running commentary continually updates. I love whoever wrote the one today. […]

In Shanghai, the FIFA Women’s World Cup continues to explode with high-octane fútbol femenino. So far, the most consistent TV coverage I’ve found is on Spanish-language GLVSN. ESPN promised to re-broadcast all 32 matches, but it looks like they’re covering only the U.S. team. SETANTA has vanished out of my Dish package, but I imagine […]

Prognosticators predicted that Shanghai 2007 would be the most hotly fought FIFA Women’s World Cup ever. And they’re looking to be right. Some of the toughest among the 16 teams locked horns in Round 1, and pushed and shoved each other to a draw. The U.S. team — big favorites because of their Cup wins […]

Once again African futbolistas clinched their rise to dominance on the world soccer scene, as Nigeria beat Spain 3-0 on penalty kicks in the finals of the FIFA U-17 Korea 2007 World Cup. It was a hard-fought game, head to head, with close calls and opportunities lost during 120 scoreless minutes…and two spectacular airborne saves […]