The Ladies of ESC on the U.S. World Cup Draw

If the women are pleased, then everyone is pleased. If the women are not pleased, then no one is pleased. NO. ONE. It's one of life's rules.

Should I Start My Own Fashion Line?

Just left Niketown where LD was demoing the new NIKE ID custom boot room. So hot. You can basically create a one of a kind signature boot for the price of an off-the-shelf shoe. So you know I had to have a go and create the TOR designer original. What'chall think? Was the "SF" on the tongue too much?

Video: Bradley & Gulati on the Luck of the World Cup Draw

Bobby Blue Eyes & co. have no expectations for the draw. Which is funny because after the last three games I have no expectations for the tournament. Hopefully a bit of good luck will come our way in both to balance out the bad-juju double-whammy of the Davies and Gooch injuries.

The Don Takes South Africa

The Don will be in Cape Town tomorrow for the draw. I will be in New York because I do not have the kind of juice that gets you business class seats on intercontinental flights. But if I did I would send you all back pictures and notes from abroad just like The Don. Instead you'll be getting a bunch of New York noise from me tomorrow as I hang with Lando, hit up Nike Town & ESPN Zone for draw parties and rock out at Nevada Smith's. Happy Draw-day!

Video: Behind the Scenes of MLS Cup

So y'all know that I was all over Seattle like Tiger Woods on a Vegas cocktail waitress (what, too soon?) during MLS Cup and filmed a bunch of fly-on-the-wall ghetto-cam footage. Obviously I wasn't alone in documenting the event; amongst the myriad of soccer folk that were running around filming were my boys (& girl) Scott from Chivas USA, Troy from LA Galaxy, Dan & Kate from MLSnet and a few other people more handy than I with a camera.

In the days that followed the final bits of celebratory confetti falling on the Qwest Field turf, life began to look in the direction of the 2010 season and Scott began to edit together loads of the better bits and pieces from the days leading up to and including the final. The clip above is the result and I'm kind of into it; as a fan it's great to see some of the things that we usually only get to read about and as an employee of The Corporation it's the kind of thing that I would like to see us create more often.

Video: Xango Congratulates Real Salt Lake

The title of this clip is somewhat misleading as RSL seem to be bigging-up their sponsor as much as Xango is feting the 2009 MLS Cup champs. But that's how it is in business I guess, one hand washes the other and all of that. It's a well-produced clip though and the sponsors seem genuinely excited about the team's title. Hell, the one guy almost seems more excited than some of the guys on the team.

Lando on His Transfer Chances: "It's 50-50"

Our Landon was on ESPN earlier this afternoon chatting with Bob Ley about money, boats, ladies the Yanks, the cup and transfers. Expect to see a lot of Donovan in the next 48-72 hours as everyone from ESPN to Visa to Nike is going to be pimping him out the World Cup draw on Friday...so start getting used to seeing him speak from behind a desk now.

FIFA Held Very Special Meetings Today

The honchos at FIFA got into a cipher this morning on all of the big issues that people are currently sweating them about: the Henry handball, fan violence, match-fixing etc. What was big Sepp's response to all the drama? Heeeeeeeeeeeeee shall not be moved. ESPN's Jeremy Schaap comes through with the not very sexy results from today's sit-down direct from South Africa.

NSR: Editors Coming Stateside

Finally! In This Light & On This Evening has been out since October but Editors are just now announcing U.S. tour dates. About damn time too...I was this close to listening to listening to Interpol again. Buy yourself some tickets and go get dancey.

Editors - 2010 Tour Dates
Feb 05 || Seattle, WA || Showbox at the Market
Feb 06 || Vancouver, BC || Commodore Ballroom
Feb 08 || San Francisco, CA || The Warfield Theatre
Feb 09 || San Diego, CA || House of Blues
Feb 11 || Los Angeles, CA || The Wiltern
Feb 13 || Denver, CO || Ogden Theatre
Feb 15 || Chicago, IL || Victoria Theatre
Feb 16 || Toronto, ON || Phoenix Concert Theatre
Feb 18 || Boston, MA || House of Blues
Feb 19 || New York, NY || Terminal 5
Feb 20 || Philadelphia, PA || Trocadero
Feb 21 || Washington, DC || 9:30 Club

The Robbie Findley Mixtape

If I had to hear Rihanna while watching this I would have preferred to hear "Umbrella, ella, ella, ay ay ay" or her "Paper Planes" cover. But it's not really her song it's a Jay-Z song. But if I had to hear a Jay-Z song I would have preferred the Chester French mix of "Excuse Me Miss" or the joint he did with Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun. And if I'm taking it this far I would have just preferred Empire of the Sun. So remind me to put together a remix for this later.