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August 5th, 2008

Ljungberg Walks Away For 6 Million

He just retired from the International scene after Captaining Sweden at the 2008 Euros and Freddie Ljungberg is an even richer man today after accepting a 6 Million Pound payoff from Premiership side West Ham. While he was due to make 8.84 Million Pound just in salary alone over the next two seasons, an extended settlement came about over ...
February 29th, 2008

Next stop, Toronto?

What's up fellow addicts of The Original Winger! I figured since it seems to be the cool thing nowadays to express ones professional thoughts on here, I would give in to the peer pressure and show some love to the TMZ of soccer websites (minus the awkward up-skirt photos of soccer players getting out of the cars!) Anyways, its been an eventful ...
February 14th, 2008

Ronaldo’s done his other knee

All that talk of the original Ronaldo coming to MLS after the Serie A season won't be happening after tonight as reports out of Italy are suggesting that he's torn his ACL on his good knee. If you watch closely (and I know it's not fun), you can see when he pushes off to jump something seems to go wrong.
February 11th, 2008

2008 Lambo Reventon

image via DupontRegistry The guys over at BallerHouse tossed this 2008 Lamborghini Reventon up today after Dupont Registry had it listed for the low, low price of $750k with only 10 miles on it.  I'm a huge fan of gun metal grey (or Grigio as the fine wine people like to refer to it as), especially sinec Rob Dyrdek from Rob & Big threw his SUV ...
February 9th, 2008

That’s no Moccassin Trail

image via HitMen So I just got this E-mail from one of my boys, Hercules Gomez (he's gonna be doing some stories with us very soon) and I had to put this out there because this has been such a huge song, especially for a 17 year old.  He even had Natalie Portman doing his dance on TRL the day after his this song was featured on ...
February 6th, 2008

I’m not the biggest Nike fan, but..

There's no denying that I love snowboarding and I'm addicted to Brighton Ski Resort in Utah.  Yes, I have a season pass and now that Nike has come out with its Air Force 1 inspired snowboarding boot, I need to give them just a bit of love.  Now I'm wondering when we'll see 59 different colors on this one style.
February 5th, 2008

Just relax a little bit would you?

image via BallerHouse I remember it being after a game in Columbus one night, over at Dante Washington's house.  Warm night, legs were heavy, beers were cold, music was playing and a few honies just to top it off.  That night I decided I wanted one of these tubs for myself, but I never had room for one.  After seeing this La-Z-Boy hot tub with ...
January 30th, 2008

F-R-E-S-H, fresh, fresh, fresh

image via Adi If you love Adidas like I do (Ben loves Nike), then you need to know where you can spend $75 and get your monies worth.  The ZXZ Advanced are the updated snake skin version of the runners that I grew up with.