Yes there is a MLS All-Star match! And I’ll be damned, it’s on tonight!

I know, I know, you may have not heard about it either! I’ve been a fan of MLS since 2000 and even as a fan, I really have to be paying attention to get all the gets. Yeah, I get it - the League is still young and has its challenges with budget restrictions, but there needs to be more buzz and promos other than what’s on MLSnet.com, especially when you’ve got Donovan and Becks leading MLS vs. West Ham United.

I do think the international match-up instead of the traditional East vs. West was a good move by the League, showing how MLS talent measures up globally. But, if fans don’t know the match is being played, what does it matter?! So, tune in tonight, especially you ladies! I can’t guarantee the guys will do a jersey exchange when it ends, but how will you know if you don’t tune in?

Watch it live or set your DVRs: 7pm ET on ESPN, Telefutura and ESPN360.com.

Annie

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Getting younger and younger.

I’m a big fan of the Eco-friendly Adidas Grun Superstar 1’s and if you are too, you can pick some up over at Stockholm giants CaliRoots.

Organic cotton.

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The US Women have landed in Beijing (without our girl Leslie Osborne, Cat Whitehill and Abby Wambach who will all miss the Olympics due to injury) to prepare for their 2008 Olympic grouping in Qinhuangdao, the venue for the first two matches.

Now it’s training, passport, paperwork, drug testing and everything else that happens behind the scenes before an Olympic Tournament.

Follow the team’s updates on WNT-USSoccer.BlogSpot.

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Feel like rocking the Eric Bana in ”Munich” look (minus the strange love scene at the end)?  Grab one of these. 

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While Harry Redknapp has long been adamant about holding onto Ghanian Sulley Muntari, selling the 23 year old to Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan might be the move necessary to bring in Chelsea’s Shaun Wright-Phillips.

With capturing Jermain Defoe from Tottenham just into the new year and the summer move of Peter Crouch from Liverpool, selling Muntari for 12.7 Million Pound would be a good return on an initial 7.1 Million Pound purchase from Udinese in 2007.

With Nugent and Nigerians Kanu and Utaka already on the books at Portsmouth, selling Muntari is good business IF you can capture Wright-Phillips, long admired by Redknapp.

Today is Pay Day…Toy Illustrator N8 Van Dyke releases his highly anticipatedPay Day collection at Upper Playground. His Pay Day figurines features a bank-robbing chimp in a detachable walrus mask toting a gun and a bag of money. There are currently three models available with each toy coming in at 5 1/2″ tall.  The glow in the dark version is above. Check out the brown and gray versions after the jump.

Available at Upper Playground

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The fine folks over at Complex are once again showing our game some love. They found these limited edition, golden adidas Predator’s that David Beckham will be rocking in tonight’s All Star Game. Not a bad look for Becks. Definitely one that very few players should ever attempt to pull off, but when your already known as Goldenballs, this is a no brainer. Eurosport has 2,000 pairs available, and apparently Dick’s Sporting Goods will carry a similar, but lower priced point version. Scoop some here. More pics after the jump.

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You know you have a Huka addiction if you make yourself a traveling edition to your collection. Meet the Huka-on-the-go. My friend Jason is everything Huka and is in the starting phases of his Huka table company. I can attest he leads the lifestyle of a true connoisseurs of the Middle-Eastern pastime.

I don’t think he’ll be able to market these in California with the new laws in effect.

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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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