Soccer

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Fired Up

The Red Bulls take on Kansas City

Don't Count Your Cosmos Before They've Hatched: Queens MLS Franchise Still Faces Multiple Obstacles

Ever since the Post's Albany columnist Fred Dicker reported on Monday -- based solely on two unnamed sources -- that a deal for an MLS stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is "close to being wrapped up" and that construction "could begin early next year," the story has bounced around the journove ... More >>

Is New York City Getting a New Team?

New York city and state officials are close to finalizing a deal with Major League Soccer that would allow the league owners build a $300 million soccer-specific stadium and complex in Flushing Meadows, Queens, the New York Post reports. The complex would sit on nine acres located near Citi Field ... More >>

Five Questions To Ask About An MLS Soccer Stadium In Flushing Meadows Park

The week before last, rumors began cropping up that Major League Soccer's long-running search for a place to put a new New York City team -- a search that had circumnavigated the boroughs from Pier 40 in the West Village to Randall's Island and Willets Point -- had settled on a site: the northeast c ... More >>

GOOOOAAALLL!

Red Bulls host New England Revolution

Live: Buraka Som Sistema Impart Sweaty Joy At The Bowery Ballroom

Buraka Som Sistema Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, January 11 Better Than: A Tae-Bo workout. Confetti shooting party-poppers, mega-blasting Super Soakers, sexually charged underagers, and plenty of ass-shaking set the tone for Buraka Som Sistema's New York tour stop at Bowery Ballroom last night. The P ... More >>

Live: Slick Rick Discusses The Great Adventures Then Performs At The Paradise

Slick Rick Paradise Theater Tuesday, September 27 Better than: Date night at the movies. Last time I caught up with Slick Rick, it was a family affair. Performing at a Crotona Park Summerstage event with DJ Brucie B (some 20 blocks south from last night's venue, the magnificent Paradise Theater), ... More >>

Londoners See a Disaster, But Scientology Sees an Opportunity!

​Some (mostly annoying) Scientology updates today while we wait for tomorrow's big reveal in our countdown: In the suburbs of London (and in nearby Birmingham), where rioting has reached end-times proportions, Scientology's "Volunteer Ministers" have been spotted in their yellow jackets, hand ... More >>

Alex Benepe, Quidditch Commissioner, On the Upcoming Quidditch World Cup

​Alex Benepe is not a wizard, but the 25 year-old is nonetheless the first ever Commissioner of Quidditch and the founder of the International Quidditch Association. The Muggle version of Quidditch is an adaptation of the game played in the Harry Potter novels where players fly around on broom ... More >>

Special Soccer Edition: Why do Mexicans in the United States Root for Mexico Against the U.S. in Soccer?

And why are they so rude?

SHOOT OUT

New York Red Bulls host Chivas USA

Is Red Bull & Vodka as Dangerous as Four Loko?; Donald Trump Sues Over Trump Vodka

​Guest bartending is popular among high-profile bartenders like Philip Ward of Mayahuel. Apparently, it's about "the cross-pollinating dynamic of the cocktail scene." [NY Times] New research suggests that mixing booze with energy drinks like Red Bull might be just as dangerous as drinking Fou ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Hot Restaurant Clients; Charlie Sheen's Zagat Rating

This week in food blogs... Eater mapped out the 12 New York restaurants with the hottest clientele. Grub Street discovered what comedian Reggie Watts likes to eat. And drink. Hemp milk, anyone? Diner's Journal test-drove the epic new cookbook, Modernist Cuisine. Atlantic Food revealed that cupca ... More >>

The 5 Most Awkward Interactions Between Kanye West and Rihanna in the New Interview

​Alright, alright, we know, but it's Kanye's Week, or Kanye's World, even, and we're just living it, so forgive us if our mind is a bit preoccupied with the guy right now. (We are far from the only ones.) And, when not tearing down the Bowery Ballroom, invoking the ire of the Twittersphere, do ... More >>

Paul the Octopus Chooses Spain as World Cup Champion, Faces Death Threats (Videos!)

​Today, Paul the Octopus, who has accurately predicted every outcome of Germany's World Cup matches, has picked Spain over the Netherlands to win the July 11 final game. This is the first time the eight-legged creature, who lives at Sea Life in Oberhausen, Germany, chose between two non-German ... More >>

Answers to the Annoying Questions Your Indecisive Friends Will Ask About the First Jelly NYC Pool Party. (Yes, You Can Probably Watch the World Cup Final There.)

On Sunday afternoon, FIFA will crown the 2010 World Cup winner. At that very same time, Jelly NYC will be hosting its first Pool Party of 2010. To immerse yourself locally in the World Cup final experience, all you need is a football-friendly liquor-licensed establishment, a large-screen TV, and t ... More >>

Brooklyn Man's Plan to Unleash Suffering Upon BP by Way of Vuvuzela Is Actually Happening (Q&A!)

via Vuvuzelas for BP​Last week, we alerted you to a man with a plan. A bizarre, maybe totally brilliant plan to punish the bigwigs at BP for their negligence leading to the oil spill in the Gulf via a band of voracious vuvuzela players stationed outside of their headquarters in London. We mana ... More >>

Brooklyn Man to Unleash Ultimate Suffering Upon BP by Way of Vuvuzela

via Vuvuzelas for BP​A Brooklyn man who is no stranger to revenge (just guessing) has a diabolical plan to get BP where it hurts. Right in the oh-my-God-please-make-it-stop-SWARM-OF-BEES! SWARM OF BEES! Buoyed by recent World-Cup-inferred knowledge of the vast powers of the vuvuzela, Adam Qu ... More >>

Vuvuzela Finally Drives Reasonable Person to Threshold of Insanity, Murder

​Yes, the single dumbest musical instrument and temporary obsession of people who are hellbent on annoying you into going all Jack Nicholson in The Shining since dudes were playing the "Star Wars" theme on the nose flute, the Vuvuzela -- that stupid South African horn people can't stop blowing ... More >>

Why Mexicans Hate Soccer

The American version of fútbol, that is

World Cup Fever Isn't Over

Who are you cheering for?

World Cup Prediction: The Same Old Thing, Like Always

​Here's my World Cup prediction: every game will be 1-1, 1-0, or 2-1. (There was once a game between, I think it was, Cameroon and New Zealand where the final score was 3-1, but that's only because the Cameroon's team was involved in a bus accident before the game and could only field two play ... More >>

International Perspectives From a LES Soccer Club

​We thought all soccer enthusiasts huddled around a big-screen TV during the World Cup, but the soccer club at Manhattan Comprehensive, an international high school, played right through the games today at Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side.

World Cup 2010 Bluffer's Guide

What you need to sound like you understand fútbol

GOAALLLL!

Party like you’re in Johannesburg

World Cup: U.S. vs England

OUT OF AFRICA

A festival explores what's new in African cinema

OUT OF AFRICA

A festival explores what's new in African cinema

Red Bull Arena Opens, Provides Jolt to Frozen Fans

​The metro area's soccer team named after an energy drink (the franchise is Red Bull New York, the team is the New York Red Bulls — if you think this is confusing, don't even try to wrap your brain around the two competing Manchester Uniteds) held their first official league game at thei ... More >>

JUST FOR KICKS

Check out the new home of New York’s soccer team

¡Ask a Mexican! ¡Special Soccer Edition!

U.S. vs. Mexico: Borderline insanity

A Rookie Sports Bar Comes to Fort Greene

Spirits of the ordinary kind

Sports

Warming Up to Soccer

The U.S. Finally Shakes Off Its Cold War Prejudices

Foot Soldiers

The Launch of the WUSA Opens a New Front in Women’s Pro Sports

Alleged Soccer Team Thrives In Swamp

News Flash!

Sports

They Teams They Are A-Changing

Kicking and Screening

Hooligans, punters, murder, romance, and the existential crisis of the goalie

A League In Need of a Miracle

New MLS Commissioner Don Garber looks to deliver fans from their soccer hell

American Pie in the Sky

International Imbalance of Power

Taking on the World

The U.S. Team Begins Another Hard Road To Glory

Among The Thugs

Who Are the Real Soccer Hooligans at Giants Stadium?

Kiss of the Spiderwoman

The Long Way Home

Women's World Cup '99: the latest stop on the U.S.'s road to glory

The Chemical Brothers

Looking for the right mix with the 1999 Metrostars

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