Video :: the New York City FC Announcement Behind the Scenes

Filed under: Behind the Scenes, Culture & Lifestyle, EPL News, Highlights, Videos, and Scores | English Premier League Highlights, Manchester City, MLS News, Highlights, Videos, and Scores | Major League Soccer Highlights, New York, NYC FC

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Earlier today, Manchester City Football Club and Major League soccer announced that in partnership with the New York Yankees, Man City has aquired Major League Soccer’s 20th expansion club. The new team will be named New York City Football Club (NYCFC) and expects to begin play in 2015.

Principles from all parties including Manchester City, the New York Yankees and MLS Commissioner Don Garber talk about the impact of this collaboration and how much potential a partnership between MLS, Man City, the city of New York and an organization like the Yankees will mean going forward…

Am I wrong for being a little bit upset that they didnt have some gear ready, already?

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Trailer :: ‘Carragher: The Documentary’

Filed under: Documentary, Legends, Liverpool

Carragher The Documentary

via Liverpool FC on youtube:

Enjoy a preview of LFC TV’s forthcoming ‘Carragher: The Documentary’ show, which will air on Friday, May 24 at 7pm BST for the first time.

LFC TV Online subscribers will also be able to watch it on demand on www.liverpoolfc.com/video from Friday.

James Lee Duncan “Jamie” Carragher is an English former footballer who played as a defender for Premier League side Liverpool for 17 years. A one-club man, he was Liverpool’s vice-captain for 10 years, and is the club’s second-longest ever serving player, who on May 19th of this year, made his 737th appearance in all competitions for Liverpool, a 1–0 win over Queens Park Rangers, his final game.

Carragher also holds the record for the most appearances in European competition for Liverpool with 150. On February 7 of 2013, Carragher announced that he would be retiring at the end of this Premier League season.

* We’ll be on the look out for this on the internets since us folks here in America wont be able to see it….

Check out the trailer after the jump…..

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New Music / Video :: “Wavy” by Mélat starring @Swiffa aka New ISPS Crush alert and its @beholdmelat

Filed under: Beautiful Women, Music, Videos

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** NEW CRUSH ALERT ** NEW CRUSH ALERT ** NEW CRUSH ALERT **

Mélat Kay bka Mélat is an Ethiopian singer/songwriter out of Austin, Texas who is going to be something else once she gets a lot more exposure. I’m a huge fan of hers already just based on this one song and I’m excited to see her progress and what she has in store. This song Wavy is everything right now, but its just one of the 6 songs available on her debut EP called, Canon Aphaea thats available for download on her website www.BeholdMelat.com.

Check it out and check her out on twitter and IG (Behold). She’s fire and this song is a f*cking heater!!!

I need to know more about her…

* Shouts out to my girl Janice Llamoca for posted another song of hers on LA Leakers

Check out the video after the jump…..

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Stoke City Confirms Manager Tony Pulis Has Left The Club

Filed under: EPL News, Highlights, Videos, and Scores | English Premier League Highlights, Soccer News, Stoke City

Stoke City

~~ Gotta wonder out loud what type of effect this is going to have on #USMNT’ers Geoff Cameron (who’s by far settled the most), Brek Shea (who hasn’t played much at all) and Maurice Edu (who spent the second part of the season on loan at Bursaspor in Turkey)….

vis StokeCityFC

Stoke City and Tony Pulis confirm that they have mutually agreed that Tony will leave the Club with immediate effect.

More details to follow.

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West Ham Complete Signing Of Romania Captain Razvan Rat

Filed under: EPL News, Highlights, Videos, and Scores | English Premier League Highlights, Soccer News

Razvan Rat

via WHUFC

The experienced left-back, who has 88 caps to his name, will join the Hammers on a one-year deal, with the Club having an option to extend to two or three years, on 1 July following the expiry of his contract with Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk.

Rat, 31, has spent the past decade with Shakhtar, winning seven Ukrainian Premier League titles, four Ukrainian Cups and lifting the UEFA Cup in 2009. He has made 248 appearances for the club, including 57 in the UEFA Champions League.

The Piatra-Olt-born defender played eight times in the UEFA Champions League in 2012/13, helping Shakhtar to defeat Chelsea on their way to the last-16. Domestically, he helped the club to win the Ukrainian Premier League title for the fourth season in succession and reach the Ukrainian Cup final in his last appearance.

Hammers manager Sam Allardyce is delighted to have secured his signature. He said: “I’m hugely happy that we’ve got a player of his experience and his character.

“He’s been playing Champions League football this year and at the highest level for many years. Shakhtar had offered him a very good contract, but his ambition was to come and try his abilities and skills in England.”

More on Razvan Rat Joining West Ham United after the Jump…….

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2012 / 13 Premier League Season x Data Visualization via @kenandavis

Filed under: Cool Ish, EPL News, Highlights, Videos, and Scores | English Premier League Highlights

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Check out this pretty sweet Data Visualization for the 2012 / 13 Premier League season put together by OG Winger Kenan Davis
(@kenandavis), the Digital Media Coordinator at the Columbia Journalism School, out of New York.

At first glance it just looks like just a bunch of squiggly lines, but as soon as you get interactive with the graph, you see how dope the information is. Each line represents a Premier League side and you can do a multitude of things with just a couple of clicks of your mouse. I of course immediately found Chelsea’s line and followed them all the way through until the end of the season.

Along the way you get to see team stats relative to the corresponding date on the calendar. If you want to get fancy you can go over to the right side panel and highlight an individual team or a group of teams and see how they all looked in comparison against the group. I chose the teams that qualified for Champions League and the three sides that are being relegated. I’m just getting started, this is cool.

Get in on the party, head to Kenan’s Webpage and check out the 2012 / 13 Premier League graphic yourself…..

2012 13 PL Data Visualization 2

* The crazy thing about this, is that I was just reading a story last night in FAST COMPANY about Nate Silver and the era of “Big Data” that seems to be upon us and its interesting that we got this forwarded to us today.

Beans and I actually have a ton of conversations at the BP_TOW frathouse about ways and means to measure statistics in the game to better judge players teams and tendencies of things that have happened against what will, potentially, happen, blahhh blah blah. What it MEANS to the game and how to better understand what happened and is whats happening.

TONS of thoughts about this… to the point that its too much to write on this post, but we love all things about data. Well done Kenan!

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Microsoft Announces Xbox One

Filed under: Culture & Lifestyle, Technology, Video Games

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Microsoft have announced its next generation Xbox – the Xbox One. According to Microsft:

A new vision for the future comes to life today as Microsoft Corp. unveils Xbox One , the all-in-one gaming and entertainment system created for today and the next generation. At Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the company showcased how Xbox One puts you at the center of all your games, TV, movies, music, sports and Skype.

“Xbox One is designed to deliver a whole new generation of blockbuster games, television and entertainment in a powerful, all-in-one device,” said Don Mattrick, president, Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. “Our unique, modern architecture brings simplicity to the living room and, for the first time ever, the ability to instantly switch across your games and entertainment.”

You know what else sounds rad about the new Xbox? It responds to your voice. And the more you talk to it the better it gets to know you. So if you hear someone sitting on the couch talking to themselves in the foreseeable future, there is a good chance they are getting to know their new Xbox One.

With Xbox One, games push the boundaries of realism, and TV obeys your commands.[1] Say “Xbox On” to launch your personalized Xbox One Home screen, discover what is popular on TV or see friends’ latest gaming achievements all using the most natural interface — your voice. The more you interact with Xbox One, the more it gets to know you and learns what you like.

Microsoft is changing the game with the new Xbox One.

To create the most advanced Xbox system ever designed for games, TV and entertainment, Microsoft created a state-of-the-art gaming operating system and fused it with an equally amazing entertainment platform, so you will not have to switch inputs to watch TV or play a game. An eight-core, x86 processor and more than 5 billion transistors helps make lag and load times a thing of the past, so you can instantly jump between a game and your entertainment at lightning speed or run a host of apps right alongside your game with no loss in performance.

No exact release date has been announced, but according to Microsoft the Xbox One will release later this year.

Your move Sony Playstation.

 

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Trailer :: The Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman

Filed under: Culture & Lifestyle, Trailers, Videos

Trailer - The Wolverine

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.

Check out the Trailer :: The Wolverine after the Jump………

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