Despite the English Premier League’s threat to come down hard this season on managers who don’t speak to media after games, Manchester United manager AlexFerguson continued his boycott of the BBC. Fergie has not spoken to the BBC since a 2004 documentary about his son Jason‘s work as an agent,and United is prepared to pay […]
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Eight women's games to air on NSCAA College Game of the Week
[TELEVISION] Eight women’s games, beginning with the “Battle of the Bluegrass” between Louisville and Kentucky on Sept. 9, will be shown on FoxSoccer Channel as part of the NSCAA College Game of the Week. This will be the sixth season of NSCAA College Game of the Week telecasts on FSC. The schedule will also feature […]
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The buzz has faded
[TELEVISION WATCH] How fast has the soccer buzz faded since the end of the World Cup? The USA-Brazil game on ESPN2 drew 783,000 viewers, only a quarter of theaverage television audience for 2010 World Cup games on the ESPN networks. And only a fraction of last Tuesday’s top draws, a pair of cooking shows … […]
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'Many Hearts One Goal'
[TELEVISION WATCH] On Tuesday at 7 pm ET, ESPN’s newsmagazine E:60 recounts the story of Haiti’s U-17girls national team in the wake of the nation’s devastating earthquake and how its players made a connection with their U.S. counterparts after their meeting in U-17 World Cup qualifying. The earthquake hit last January. In March, Haiti’s U-17s […]
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U.S. U-20 Milk Cup game live online
[TELEVISION WATCH] The U.S. under-20 national team, which opened the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland with a 1-0 win over China, faces Denmark on Wednesday 3 pm ETin a game that will be streamed live on BBC Blast Northern Ireland Against China, theU.S. U-20s, coached by Thomas Rongen, got the winner from Omar Salgado, the […]
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FSC's 'Journey for Glory' to feature U.S. stars
[TELEVISION WATCH] Fox Soccer Channel will air “Team USA: Journey for Glory” — a 30-minute program on the USA’s 2010 World Cup performance — Aug. 7 at 9:30 pmET, preceding its broadcast of the Los Angeles Galaxy-Real Madrid friendly. “Team USA: Journey for Glory” will include interviews and commentary from Landon Donovan, Tim Howard, JayDeMerit, […]
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Not a good week for anti-MLS snobbos
By Paul Gardner The worst has happened, we are now deprived of World Cup soccer. The European leagues haven’t started yet, and all we’re going to get forthe next few weeks is, basically, MLS. Yikes! Can you imagine? No more of the magnificent Super-S teams — come on, you remember them, the ones you canceled […]
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Henry's arrival stirs memories — but scarves in summer?
By Paul Gardner After the upheavals to personal lives and routines imposed by the World Cup, things are getting back to normal. What a relief that must be to those poorguys up at ESPN — Chris Fowler, Mike Tirico and Bob Ley, the studio hosts who had to spend a whole month pretending they were […]
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USA outdraws England for World Cup final
[TELEVISION WATCH] The combined audience for Sunday’s World Cup final on ABC and Univision was 24.3 million viewers, the largest U.S. audience for a soccermatch — and almost 6 million more than the combined audience in England. ABC had 15.5 million viewers, while Univision drew 8.8 million viewers. In England, theSpain-Netherlands game drew an average […]
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Soccer America's 25 Winners
[BEST OF THE WORLD CUP] Soccer America continues its look at the best of the World Cup with its 25 winners, the best of the tournament on and off the field. Tomorrow: Soccer America’s 25 Losers. 25. New Zealand. Who would have imagined the All Whites would be the onlyunbeaten team at the World Cup? […]