The Screaming Eagles and American Outlaws are hosting a couple of get togethers this weekend in DC for the Saturday night game versus Cuba.

Friday Oct 10 - USA Supporters Meet and Greet will be at Momo’s Sports Bar, 5:30 to Closing.

Saturday Oct 11 - Tailgate is at RFK Stadium Lot 8, starting at 3pm until gametime. Lots of food is planned. A key detail is that there will be 10 kegs: including Guinness, Spaten, Sam Adams, plus a couple regional brews Magic Hat from Vermont and Bell’s from Michigan.

PostGame - at Finn macCools.

Definitely go to The Screaming Eagles or The American Outlaws site for more information…this sounds like a blast.

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Lots of great stuff at the USMNT blog, including an interesting pre-game Pedro Gomez video and a couple players talking about the unique circumstances of tonight’s game.

Goff gives a good rundown of the scene in Havana.

Grant Wahl talks about the mesmerizing strangeness of the country.

Did you know the admission price for this game is 4 cents?

Will the player’s exchange jerseys after the game? Unlikely, says Maykel Galindo, “If someone wants to exchange jerseys, like in the Gold Cup, you can’t because otherwise you won’t have anything to wear for the next match.”

Finally, what are the Cuba Cinco risking by travelling to Cuba…? On a related note, Miss Cuba is hot.

Live on ESPN Classic and Galavision tonight, 09/06/2008 8:00 PM ET. BVSC is always good!

I had my itunes on shuffle and one of the greatest dj’s to come out of S.F. was throwing his funky electronic musk my way; Bassnectar. And it got me thinking, Burning man is this week. It started on Monday the 25th, but the big burn isn’t until Sept. 1st.

What is Burning Man you say? It all started back in the day on a small beach in San Francisco. Now, 21 years later, over 48,000+ people assemble a mini-city in the Black Rock Desert, NV for one week out of the year to be part of an experimental community, which challenges its members to express themselves and rely on themselves to a degree that is not normally encountered in one’s day-to-day life.

If anyone has taken part in this yearly festival please comment. I’ve got a couple of co-workers out there and am eagerly awaiting their photos and stories.

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Tomorrow night thousands of young men and women with the most fit, toned bodies in the world will mingle for the last time before they fly home. What might they get up to?

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Over the weekend I took a trip north of the border to visit Toronto and meet a couple friends and go to the FC Dallas-Toronto FC game.

After driving about 6 hours (I live in OH these days) I got to Toronto and checked into the Canadiana Hostel and met the crew. Staying at a hostel was a pretty random idea, but the location was great, there were a ton of Euro backbackers looking to grab a brew at one of the hundreds of local pubs, and of course it was dirt cheap. Hey, who needs air conditioning?

The Texas invasion force does not seem to scare the locals…

We walked over to pre-game a bit with the Red Patch Boys. Meeting the Red Patch Boys was very cool - let’s be honest, it can be strange to meet a bunch of Texans rolling up - but the guys could not have been nicer and we had some good laughs here. Notice the boots with shorts look, Yikes!

A Lot More Pics After The Jump…

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Our boy Adam over at This Is American Soccer has a great feature on New York’s Summer of Soccer program. Head here for the full story.

More and more street art has taken a beating from local politicians and rigid communities scared of what could make them think outside the box.

This simple, yet extremely comical wheatpaste by Scott Van Den Plas and Joe Van Wetering, just goes to show you creative thinking still makes an impression to those witty enough to notice.

Run Kool-Aid Man , RUN!!

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If you listen closely to what Michael Fordham is saying, the word “soccer” can easily be inserted for “surfing”.

Lifestyle, Culture, Most Ever-changing, Endlessly Challenging, Endlessly Unfolding thing you can do with your body and once you’ve done it, it’ll be with you for the rest of your life.

Ever get tired of hearing how the Euro is doubling American currency?  Well here’s your chance to fake it like you make it with  the Martin Margiela Euro Wallet.

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Ever wondered just how much power and influence soccer can have on people’s lives? Well look no further than the Homeless World Cup.  This is a tournament that takes place annually and features close to 50 nations. The teams are comprised of homeless people from nations around the world. For a majority of the people that participate in the tournament, this represents a turning point in their lives. It is reported that 77% of the people that participate in these Homeless world cups go on to get a job, get off drugs, rebuild relationships, etc. With an estimated 1 billion homeless people worldwide, soccer is positively changing people’s lives around the world, and helping to reduce the homeless population. That is the power of soccer.