Landon Donovan and Bill Simmons chop it up on the boston sportsguy’s website. They talk PKs and corners(which I loved because I ask Beans and Dunny these exact same ?s), they cover the lights going out at HDC and what its going to take to get US Soccer to the “Brazil level”. They close it up with talking about the MLS Cup, the World Cup and the soccer movement that is going on in the US. Check it out here

Casey Wasserman is on ESPNs Bill Simmons Podcast today. You may not know who he is, but he is BIG in sports and entertainment. How big you say.. .. big like his company WMG, The Wasserman Media Group, by his estimation represents about 45% of MLS players! He has an interesting take on sports and the economy and its a good listen. The second half of the conversation is mostly about getting an NFL team to LA, but before that he dabbles in what the MLS needs to do to become huge in the US, his thoughts on owning an MLS team, what the effect of increased international league (La Liga, EPL, etc.) viewership in America could mean and how some interesting partnerships could be on the horizon. Check it out here

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It’s official, Bill Simmons over at espn has the soccer fever.  Today he welcomes Alexi Lalas as a guest on his popular podcast to talk about a myriad of topics:

Bill Simmons and ESPN soccer analyst Alexi Lalas build the perfect U.S. soccer player. Plus, the guys discuss the nuances of the game, the U.S.-Mexico match at Estadio Azteca and the 2010 World Cup.

Hop on over to the sports guy world and his podcast section and give it a listen.

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Steve Nash is on the Bill Simmons podcast today. Simmons is our new favorite sports columnist(not so new actually, but people are now taking notice) and Steve Nash is one of our favorite guys too. They discuss everything from the obvious (the NBA), to Hollywood, soccer and  more… Here is the link to his page and the podcast.

In case you were wondering, the soccer-ish talk is at about the 30m mark

People in soccer circles are always talking about how our sport gets bashed by the sporting media and traditional media outlets. For a long time US soccer fans have been frustrated by by the negative and biased views that sports writers have taken when writing about soccer. Personally, I have never cared too much because these writers have never represented anything that I cared about and their views on the game were so off basis that to pay too much attention to them would serve me no purpose and only make me upset. But the sport has needed the media to get behind it, cover it and show it in the way that it should be covered. That is starting to happen more, and now, it looks like Bill Simmons, quite possibly the most popular sports writer in the US, might be an official soccer fan. (more…)