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MLS All-Stars take a 3-2 victory over West Ham United!

BUT, more importantly, there was a jersey swap at the end of the game. A big thank you to ESPN for capturing it! Hey MLS, if you wanna increase your female fan base, start promoting the traditional jersey swap at the end of a match!

Ahhh, poor guy.

Seriously, it was a great game, great crowd, great Nash announcement. Yes, I mean Steve Nash of the NBA. And no, he’s not pulling a Michael Jordan and playing another professional sport, but he’ll be involved with the MLS expansion team out of Vancouver…in three years!

Now only if people had known the game was on, then there’d be some buzz at the water cooler tomorrow!

Annie

Am I the only one that would suddenly love to become a “high class escort” after watching the season of “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” online?

OK… maybe not, but that would be an amazing role to play.  Many of you will, ahem, disagree with me but the esteeming/feminist power Billie Piper portrays is so enchanting you can’t help but fall in love with her.  And like I always say boys, your paying for it one way or another!

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I just saw the new Pineapple Express trailer and am feeling this song.

All throughout Los Angeles are Pineapple Express billboards that at the very top have a giant pineapple stem with smoke billowing out.  Genius.

Hops just had a sideline interview with a man that could be the “Designated Player” of franchise ownership after it’s all said and done, Canadian and Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash.

Remember not too long ago when Seattle announced that Drew Carey was involved and how much press that got, this will be even bigger.

Having a guy that is a BIG TIME athlete and is known worldwide legitimizes MLS just a little bit more and will continue to strengthen the foundation of this league.

Steve Nash gets it. Not only does he get it, he’s breaking down barriers that we and MLS can’t.  He’s a unifier and has the ability to do it at a completely different level.

Of course Vancouver will get an MLS team within the next three seasons. And they should, because they’ve proven that they have a solid product already on the field and already has amazing support in the stands that are there week in and week out for the Whitecaps (and don’t forget the two LA Galaxy friendlies).

And Steve said it best, “We hope to replicate what Toronto FC has done.”

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Nope, no Kanye, but The Commish just announced that B. McBride’s situation has been sorted. Announcement to come tomorrow.

And could someone tell this ref that it’s an All-Star Game and NOT a World Cup?  Take a breath, there’s a reason why you don’t have your name on the back of your red jersey.

43rd minute and Estelle’s about to hit the stage, but will Kanye join?

PS - Blanco’s assist on Christian Gomez’ goal and his far post bender at that angle to beat West Ham’s Robert Green??? Seriously??

This is one of the coolest, behind the scenes videos I think I’ve ever seen.

Always wondered how my favorite cleat of all time, the Copa Mundial’s were made from start to finish.

From the Rosenborg website

According to VG, Cooper will soon be joining up with Rosenborg. Negotiations with Major League Soccer - who owns the transfer rights for the FC Dallas striker - have been going on all July, and looks set to be resolved soon.

“I never comment on transfers before they’re done,” Erik Hoftun says.

Speculations mount on the exact size of the bid. Rumours have suggested that the initial bid was around $1 million, or 5 million NOK, but the price has probably been pushed up considerably.

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Sitting on the couch, watching my boy Rob Stone and the MLS All-Star pre-game show on ESPN when this commercial came on.

Pretty dope spot from Adidas and their Dream MLS campaign.  This is what we need more of, but on a bigger scale.

And Stone just confirmed a 7 figure offer for Edson Buddle and multi-European offers in for Kenny Cooper.

Here’s a longer version of Michael Parkhurst’s spot. Great player and it’s good to see him get some press for all the stuff he’s been doing off the field since he’s started in the league.

Interesting article from the Washington Post.

BEIJING — My country is about to host the world’s greatest sporting event and, we hope, claim a truckload of Olympic gold. But to hundreds of millions of Chinese, our widely anticipated bonanza of medals will mean very little. The real metric by which China judges itself against the rest of the world isn’t the discus or the decathlon. It’s not even our record-beating economic growth rate or our postmodern skylines.   It’s soccer. And when it comes to our beloved sport, China is not just the sick man of Asia. It’s the sick man of the world…(more)…

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