sportingnews.com - 6/29/2009
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The best thing to come out of the success of the U.S. men's national soccer team is that, finally, soccer isn't a four-letter word in the American sports vernacular. American soccer is exciting and, most importantly, American soccer is competitive. People in America like to win, and on an ...
soccernet.espn.go.com - 6/28/2009
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soccernet.espn.go.com —
June 28 --- ESPN: Lucio scored a late
goal to give Brazil a 3-2 win over the...
United States for their 2nd straight Confederations Cup title (and third overall). --- A spirited American team - in their 1st-ever FIFA final - had taken a 2-0 lead at halftime on goals by Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan.
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Match Recap: USA v BRAZIL --- FIFA Confederations Cup ...
epltalk.com - 6/29/2009
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epltalk.com —
On the heels of successful coverage of the
Confederations Cup, ESPN has announced more details regarding its...
coverage of the 2010 World Cup. The 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa on June 11 and ends on July 11. Here’s what we can ...
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ESPN Announces Plans For World Cup 2010 TV Coverage
soccernet.espn.go.com - 6/29/2009
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soccernet.espn.go.com —
JOHANNESBURG -- When Clint Dempsey stepped onto the
podium of honor after the final match of the...
Confederations Cup to accept the bronze ball as the tournament's third-best player, he was brushing elbows with soccer royalty. Following Dempsey was the ...
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Landon Donovan proves his talent on the world stage - ...
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ESPN World Cup Coverage
Hillcrest Road —
... Just a few hours after The Sporting Blog (blog on the Sporting News' website) called out ESPN for not sending announcers to the Confed Cup, ESPN responded (well, probably more like announced on their own without regard for being called out) by ...
Monday's Links, Finally
Fang's Bites —
... to Christopher Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media for being on a regional Emmy Award winning crew. Chris has the TV schedule for this year's Southland Conference football season. And Chris says big events aired on or produced by ESPN don't have that special feel. Dan Lamonthe of the Red Sox Monster blog has video of someone at Sunday's Red Sox-Nationals game getting arrested for hopping the fence. Dan Levy writing for the Sporting News has some suggestions for ESPN for next year's World Cup. That's going to do it for tonight. ...
Crashing Out
mgoblog —
... While we're at it, Dan Levy has an excellent article at TSB on ESPN's impact on the Future we're trying so hard not to consider at the moment. ...
Monday Afternoon Linkage
Fang's Bites —
... Also in the Sporting News, Dan Levy of On The DL writes that NBC Sports just doesn't hate tennis fans, but perhaps all sports fans in general. ...
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awfulannouncing.blogspot.com 7/7/2009 — Saw this interesting tidbit in the NY Times today, and thought I'd share. As you know, ESPN is taking over one of the many EPL international packages, and are considering devoting an entire channel to the Soccer league. Well, EPL fans are some of ...
