[TELEVISION WATCH] Sunday afternoon’s broadcast of the Mexico-Argentina match was the most-watched program ever on Spanish-language television. Almost 9.4million viewers watched the game on Univision. Coverage of the game was the No. 1 program of the week in any language in such key markets as Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Dallas amongtotal viewers 2+, adults […]
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Kobe Bryant seeks soccer's … Kobe Bryant
Among the disappointed fans at Saturday’s USA-Ghana match was Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, who flew in the day of the game and was helicopteredto match in Rustenburg. Against Ghana, the USA could have used an NBA athlete like Bryant, who spent seven years as a child in Italy. “All it takes is one […]
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The celebrities come out …
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the honorary chairman of the USA Bid Committee seeking to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, was back to watch his secondU.S. World Cup game. Early in the USA-Ghana game in Johannesburg, Clinton was joined by Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and former DemocraticNational Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe […]
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FIFA isn't deaf to complaints about Jabulani
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said Saturday that the issue of adidas’ Jabulani match ball and complaints about the ball being unpredictable will beaddressed after the tournament. “We’re not deaf,” Valcke said. “FIFA is not unreceptive about what has been said about the ball. This is a very different ballperhaps.” Players and coaches, mostly from […]
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How many folks were watching?
[MY VIEW] Just how many folks were watching USA-Algeria Wednesday morning? Let’s do the math … Totaling the number of the viewers isn’t easy inthis age of multiple platforms, but here’s a start: 6.2 million (ESPN) 2.2million (Univision) 1.1 million (ESPN3.com) 650,000 (ESPN Mobile) That totals almost 10.2million viewers (and doesn’t include those who watched […]
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Viewership records set by USA-Algeria
[TELEVISION WATCH] Wednesday’s broadcast of the USA-Algeria game on ESPN was the the highest-rated and most-watched soccer game in the history of ESPNnetworks, delivering a 4.6 rating (4.0 household U.S. rating), 4,582,000 households and 6,161,000 viewers. Significantly, the broadcast was the highest-rated program of the day on anynetwork among two key demographic groups, males 18-34 […]
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Quinn leaves SUM for FC Dallas
[MLS] FC Dallas named MLS executive Doug Quinn as its president and chief executive officer. Quinn, who will begin histenure with the club Aug. 2, served as president of MLS affiliate Soccer United Marketing, the leading commercial soccer company in North America. The move is intended to turn around one of the mostunder performing teams […]
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World Cup party skips Cape Town
Cape Town is South Africa’s favorite tourist destination, but it has been passed over in favor of Johannnesburg as the center of World Cup activity. Some of Cape Town’s hotels reportthey are only 50 percent full and local bars and restaurants hardly have the party atmosphere that can be found in Johannesburg. “There are more […]
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Beckham and Donovan among only five millionaires
[MLS] David Beckham, the injured Los Angeles Galaxy star, remains the highest-paid player in Major League Soccer with$6.5 million in guaranteed compensation. MLS Salaries: Club byclub Beckham’s Galaxy teammate, Landon Donovan, is second at $2.13 million — almost six times the combined salaries of the other three MLSplayers on the U.S. World Cup team: Galaxy’s […]
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Dailies devour most-hyped game ever
Pitch Invasion examines the newspaper coverage for the most-hyped (men’s) soccer match ever: Saturday’s USA-England game. It was a front-page story, not just in dailies in majormetropolitan cities like New York, where the Post proclaimed “It’s War!”but also states like Alabama, where papers like the Anniston Star, Tuscaloosa News and Montgomery Advertiser all took local […]