In honor of this day, I’ve decided to re-publish an older slideshow about the most exciting years of Iron Mike’s career.

The best thing to happen to US Soccer this century.

MADRID LONGBOARD from Juan Rayos

(Thanks Audrey!)

Keep it real (annoying) while watching your team from the safety of a bar or living room.

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We’re very sad to hear that one of our favorite Washington Bullets, Manute Bol, passed away over the weekend at the young age of 47.

Manute Bol
October 16, 1962 – June 19, 2010

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By Courtney Boyd Myers

Humans aren’t the only ones playing soccer right now. In just three days, robots from world-renowned universities will compete in Singapore for RoboCup 2010. This is the other World Cup where players range from 6″ inch wheeled Wall-E’s to 5′ foot tall humanoids.

The RoboCup, now in its 14th year, is the world’s largest robotics and artificial intelligence event with more than 400 teams from dozens of countries. Its participants aim to develop autonomous soccer playing robots that will one day be able to play against humans.
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“Refait” is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments.
The soundtrack is made up of the original commentaries mixed with interviews of the audience recorded during the shooting.

A Conceptual Soccer Match

Done in collaboration with the Chinatown Soccer Club and Adidas.

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Popular Mechanics takes a look at the Jabulani but, after reading this write-up from Kempt it seems to be more of a jabroni than anything else.

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Starting today and continuing through Tuesday, BAM! will be showing soccer-themed films.  From Ladybugs to Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, they’ve got you covered.

See the full schedule here

Luckily, ESPN saves the day.  Peep their website

I’ve been kind of obsessed with this column recently

Tight.

Artists in this 17 work portfolio include William Kentridge (above), Marlene Dumas, and Julie Mehretu.

“Limited Edition of 2010 high-quality inkjet prints of each of the 17 works on Watercolor Radiant White Art Paper, approx. 67 x 97cm (39 x 27.5“). Each print comes with a 2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaTM Certificate of Authenticity, numbered from 1/2010 to 2010/2010, signed by the artist (replica), with FIFA Hologram.”

Buy’em up here

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Will someone teach me how to play this game so that I can start a new career playing professional sports internationally?

More on the headline at the NY Times

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