A-Rod Juiced?

so says Jose Canseco

it will be interesting to see how this is perceived. Everyone hated Bonds and was looking for a way to justify and along came steroids. Everyone loves Alex Rodriguez not to mention he's on the east coast, therefore everyone sees him, and if he gets dragged into the steroids talks, well, i think the media will be split.

everyone loves A-Rod, he can do no wrong.

wait and see

Thanks Guys!! - mls

Could the timing of Beckham arriving in America be any better? Here's the recent headlines in case you missed them:

NFL: Michael Vick Indicted on dog fighting charges

NBA: NBA referee being investigated for affecting outcomes

MLBA: Bud Selig not present as Barry Continues chase (not to mention steroids)

If soccer was really going to catch on in America you couldn't plan a better setting around you in terms of other sports. Don't get me wrong, i'm not rooting against other sports, but i am rooting for soccer.

Not to mention, David Beckham is one of the most stand-up guys in sports. A true family-man who takes prides in representing his country, (96 appearances for the England National Team not to mention he was captain for over 50 of those games), seems to have a strong marriage and is just a great ambassador for to the sport. He reminds me of Tiger Woods more than Jordan.

Yea, go Soccer!

We're the Best in the World!

well not quite

On Thursday we got to go to the MLS All Star game, a game in which the All Stars from MLS played FC Celtic from Glasgow, Scotland. FC Celtic is a great team they've been a force since their inception and are constantly on top of the Scottish Premier League as well as playing in the Champions League.

But they were not match for Juan Pablo Angel and the MLS All Stars who came away with a 2-0 victory.

Not to mention the MLS is halfway through their season playing on their home turf while Celtic just started pre-season training about a week ago, are on Scottish time, not able to handle the heat very well and playing without a few of their big names.

either way it was a blast, we got to see David Beckham up close along with most of the all stars Landon Donovan, Dwayne DeRosario, Juan Pablo Angel, Pablo Mastroeni, Marcelo Balboa, Cobi Jones and more.

Great times, here are some blurry pics from my cell phone.














Dwayne DeRosario being interviewed















Game Action















the Mercers















Landon Donovan and company















and David Beckham, yea, right there next to the flag

Brazil shows us how it is done

I know many of you aren't following soccer, but maybe you should

If you're one of the people that says that the reason USA Basketball has been failing the last few years in the Olympics and whatnot because of lack of chemistry and not enough practice, Brazil Soccer shows you that you're wrong.

The common excuse given when the US Mens BBall team loses to Argentina or some Euro team is that we don't have enough practice together as a team and these other nations spend hours a day just practicing to beat the US. Well, i don't think that true at all, in fact, i think its a cop-out.

This past week in soccer, South America held their Copa America tournament with teams from the North, South and Central Americas competing to win a place another important tournament to be played in 2009. The tournament is important, but not as important as the World Cup so some teams elect to use the tournament to scout talent for their official national team (like the US did going 0-3 and getting killed with a terrible roster).

The big names in this tournament besides the USA team were Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. Brazil was like the US and brought essentially a "B" team (no Ronaldo, Ronaldhino...) while both Mexico and Argentina fielded the best team possible, and both of their rosters were world class.

Here's the parallel to US Basketball. Brazil won this tournament against Argentina in the Final. Argentina is a top 5 team in the world as is Brazil. The players on the Brazil squad rarely play together since most of em play somewhere in Europe, and don't travel back to Brazil for friendlies. So this team won solely on talent and the way they're taught to play soccer.

So this begs the question on why US Basketball, clearly the top in the world for talent pool and athleticism, can't win the Olympics.

I think its because our players don't care and they don't take the tournament seriously enough which would be a coaching problem as well

They are a lot of parallels between world soccer and the NBA/US Basketball. All the best soccer players play in Europe, specifically the English Premier League whereas all of the best BBall players play in the NBA. You'd think that this would mean that America is the best in basketball and England is the best in soccer but it never ends up that way.

The other hilarious aspect to Copa America and Brazil winning is that Argentina lost with their most stacked team in the last 15 years.

Joe Buck is an Idiot!

So everyone should know who Joe Buck is by now. If you don't know who he is, he's the announcer for Fox that was announcing the game where Randy Moss rightfully fake-mooned the Packers fans in Lambeau Field. Joe Buck about died in the booth from being offended.

Anyway, Joe Buck was announcing the MLB All Star game on Tuesday and i decided to tune in to see my boy Matt Holliday. I should have known that it wouldn't even take an inning for Joe Buck to go off about Barry Bonds and steroids.

who cares anymore?

really? he spent 3 innings talking about steroids and baseball. this is why no one watches baseball anymore, no one cares about listening to some stupid announcer spout off about steroids, they can't do anything about the record, so give it up.

Let me tell you what is really going to happen. Americans tend to root for underdogs. Now I'm not saying the Barry Bonds is an underdog, but, but so much of the media against him, Bud Selig against him, other players against him and most of naive sports fans against him, the gang-up mentality is starting to build.

eventually sports fans will actually begin to feel sorry for him and all of the crap he deals with from the media like Joe Buck, Mike Greenberg, PTI,...

Face it, he's going to break the homerun record, no one can stop him. Bud Selig is showing his immaturity by whining about how he has to go watch the game when he should be supporting Bonds and everything Bonds has brought to baseball lately. you can't tell me people are interesting in the Bonds chase for the record.

either way, i've always supported Bonds. why not? its easy to go with the crowd and rip Bonds for supposedly using steroids, and so what if he did. So what is our best American skier smokes pot before he ski's, so what if Romanowski was on crack, did you not enjoy watching those guy play? what matters here?

Breaking the homerun record is remarkable, drugs or not, and people should be excited to actually witness it while they're alive, just like we're witnessing the best golfer ever in Tiger Woods, the greatest basketball player in Michael Jordan (soon to be Kobe Bryant) and the rest of these impactful players.

So Joe Buck - Shut up! no one is going to remember you or care that you were an announcer, just like refs, they're better when they're not noticed.

Does anyone enjoy this:

Ski-Ta Go Home

So the Rocky Mountain is reporting that Skita wants to "come home" and play for the Nuggets again. For those of you not following the Summer Leagues,( i have no idea why you aren't) Skita is on the Nuggets summer league roster.

Currently there are only 2 open roster spots and with the Nuggets in need of some 3-pt shooting you can guarantee that at least one spot is going to someone like Lamond Murray or Von Wafer.

Anyway, i would love to have Skita back, he's beefed up and well, i love watching him play, he's hilarious.

Oh, and here's the current roster for the Nuggets summer league team

Someone had to do it!

What goes around comes around, 'Toine has been robbing the league for years.

Antoine Walker Robbed at Gunpoint

Where was deputy Shaq when you need him?

Fallling off the face...

So i have to confess as to why i haven't been updating as often as usual.

I have been following US Men's Soccer and their trip to South America in Copa America

I know I know, most of you could care less about soccer, and especially don't want to read about it, and thats fine. I don't plan on writing too much about it so i won't bore you.

This combined with the lack of NFL stories, NBA offseason and the offseason for European soccer has left me searching for worthy stories. Baseball never cuts it. NBA offseason moves are all hype unless you're stoked about Jason Kapono signing with the Raptors. NFL training camp doesn't start until the end of the month.

So in the meantime, thanks to good soccer friends Noah and Damilola, my pops, and my little brother, i've thrown myself into the soccer world head first, and i'm enjoying it.

As for the Mens Soccer team, they're not that bad, they just won the Gold Cup which is a small tournament with teams from North America, US brought their A team and beat Mexico in the final in a great game.

We brought our B team to South America for a much bigger tournament, Copa America (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico...) and basically have shown up as the worse team in the tournament, and its embarrassing. It'll be over after tonite, thankfully.

Either way, i'm enjoying these games on the splendid Uni-vision with the mute on.

"gol - gol - gol - gol - gol - gol - gol - gol - gol"

so if ya wanna talk soccer, or you have question about US soccer, David Beckham, EPL, Champions League, Colorado Rapids or anything else, hit me up!