Sometimes adversity can be a good thing.  As a child we don’t know how to handle negative situations, but some of us learn how to give ourselves therapy and flip what we witnessed as children, in order to chalk it up as real life experience.  This month’s CMG did just that.  Like many,...

After 2 hours of disastrous subway delays and poor rerouting decisions, I finally hopped off the PATH train in Harrison, Newark, NJ, linked up with my friend Lady K and headed over to IT: Red Bull Arena, looking pretty for it’s opening day debut. ribbed for everyones pleasure We were running...

{note: soccer fandom not required to appreciate the athletic brilliance to follow} Hey hey, The reigning best player in the world, Leo Messi has been absolutely on fire lately…all season really. He put up two, count em, TWO hat tricks in the past week and now has people wondering if they are watching...

Yes sir, this is totally real and exactly what you’re thinking. Launching June 11, ESPN’s new channel is going to show over 85 live sporting events in 3D during its first year. They are starting with the 2010 FIFA World Cup match, and then moving on to sporting events like the 2011 BCS...

In my ongoing mission to make you nuts for footie, I bring you the most watched thing in the world right now: THE WORLD CUP DRAW! GO HERE NOW This is where the 8 groups for this summer’s World Cup are made. Each team will play the other teams once (3 games apiece), and the two teams from each group...

Hey hey, Unhappy mondays to ya! Still groping towards the right format for soccer posts on here….and today we try VIDEO CLIPS! Hooray! *old ladies faint, babies giggle* Big news this weekend was EL CLASSICO! which only means one thing. Argentina’s Boca Juniors v. River Plate? Nah son. That’s...

This has been all over the news, so I’m not exactly bringing the scoop here, but I have to say that of the millions of Youtube videos that I’ve forced my brain to sit through over the last four years, this one is right up there with my faves. This young soccer hooligan is totally brutal....

happy friday to yous alls! fun weekend for footie: club action in the big european leagues is suspended for friendlies and World Cup Qualifiers! the 4 big’uns: France-Ireland (World Cup Qualifier): the first game of a 2-game series takes place tomorrow in Ireland. France’s manager Raymond...

Hey hey, I already violated my promise to post twice a week! Login issues…but im back! Lots going on in the footie world…TO ENGLAND! Portugese winger Nani clearly more playing time (or to be sold to another team), after ranting about Coach Fergie in an interview. I assume he knew the scoop-mad...

ooooWASSSSSSSaaaaaabe, Ronaldinho/Italy Serie A watch: The Dinho continues to look better and better, serving up two sicknasty assists and *le gasp!* running at people! in Milan’s 2-0 win at home over Parma. A mere run of good form, or is He really coming back to magically break ankles, drop dimes...

sweeper: a more versatile type of centre back who "sweeps up" the ball when the defensive line is breached. His or her position is more fluid than other defenders who man-mark their designated opponents. Apologies for not posting all week, other creative stuff bubbled up to occupy my writing time,...

Happy monday. Or not. To make the least popular day of the week more bearable, allow me to reintroduce myself! Or my sport…or something. Just read on! Club play resumed in the big leagues around Europe this weekend, but before we, ahem, DIVE in, a lovingdollop of WORLD CUP news! With Europe’s...

I’ve had it! I mean really, this is it. I am fuming mad and not gonna take it…ANYMORE! “What’s got my goat/my midweek soccer brief/pantie in a bunch” you ask? THIS! Oh really fool, really? So ‘Dinho…they play alot of defense in Italy eh? Like alot, all the time,...