Michael Bradley celebrated his 21st birthday today. If you forgot to get him something, don’t worry — I sent him a stripper in a cake and said it was from all of us (by the way, you don’t have to put air holes in those cakes do you? The trip from Philly to China is [...]

The U.S. team had their first of two ING Cup matches in Hong Kong this morning/tonight/tomorrow night? (China time is already messing with my head). Anyway, they played the Ivory Coast at the mostly empty Hong Kong Stadium (seriously — I think there were more people in my bedroom this morning) and ended up with [...]

We’ve got a little over a week before the first kickoff which, oddly enough, happens two days before the actual ceremonies begin. Details… meh. Anyways, I think what we all need is a little Olympic theme music to take us through the next month. A little somethin’ somethin’ to play on “the [...]

It’s really quite an odd term, but one that absolutely fits… at least in my head.
It came to me as I was viewing this Studio 90 video of the beginning of the men’s Olympic training in China on the official us soccer site. The greatest part about watching American youth teams play in this [...]

If you’ve been reading the USWNT blog, you know the team is up to a lot of traveling and training this week. Hope Solo is trying to figure out which cleats to wear. Heather Mitts is, uh…

And Lori Chalupny is taking up knitting. Thrilling stuff.
NBC recently rolled out their official Olympic website [...]

I have it on good authority that the U.S. team is employing the following training techniques to prepare for the Olympics…

I think the friendship moves will bring us the gold.

The milk cabal has a new ad campaign to go along with the upcoming Olympics and it happens to feature a trio from the men’s and women’s soccer teams…
Sacha Kljestan, who looks like he’s getting high off the fumes from his hair product(s).
Natasha Kai, who looks badass as usual with her sleeve of [...]

I should be working on the huge project… that pays me… that’s due tomorrow, but instead I bring you post number one on our women’s national team. I’ll be with you through the Olympics and hopefully afterwards (can bloggers get fired if they aren’t being paid?) to cover the number one ranked national [...]

Well, Brian McBride is officially coming back to MLS…but not until after the Olympics.
For anyone who hasn’t fully realized how awesome it is to have McBride back on the national team, rocking the red, white and blue one last time, here’s a video that Fulham apparently put on their official site to honor the [...]

A few photo’s of Freddy Adu’s AS Monaco press conference…

If he keeps doing that with his face it’s going to get stuck like that.
Freddy is cheesing because…
a.) At this point his new manager has yet to be fired.
b.) He thinks there is no way they can bench him after they spent a whole [...]