FINALLY. A Cross the Universe has been released. Download it now, freak out to it later. Click to continue reading...

If you haven't added Douglas Gordon's stunning film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait to your Netflix cue, I'd highly recommend you get on that. With all of it's wide-screen shots it's probably a film best seen in the cinema but if you didn't get the chance to experience that you should still get stuck in on the widest, flattest, most HD television you can get yourself in front of. Click to continue reading...

Those French freaks at La Blogotheque don't play. They spotted Bloc Party inside a Parisian watering hole a few days ago, put them on the spot and basically forced them to play a song for them so they wouldn't look like D-bags on camera. It's a guerrilla move for sure, but hey it's hard out there for the content-starved blogger. Click to continue reading...

If you've been dipping into TOR for a while you know I have a thing for the heavy-metal house music of Justice. Dudes kill it on wax and on stage in a way that only another notorious French dance duo can. Sh*t, I still have blisters on my feet from the VMA after party they threw at Beauty Bar in Vegas last year. Click to continue reading...

See that illustrated thigh above? It belongs to Frank LeBoeuf and was snapped at Ethan Zohn's Grassroots Soccer celebrity game this afternoon. I asked him what it was and he said it was Archimedes or something like that but I just kept staring at it thinking "that looks like an Alien".



Then I noticed that Alexi Lalas had some ink on his ankle. Click to continue reading...

Hello new soccer nation. I'm just back from a long lunch down in NYC's Chinatown and it wasn't for the dim sum. Ethan Zohn's Grassroots Soccer held it's inaugural celebrity game at Sara D. Rooseveldt park on Grand St. this afternoon and it was such a good time. All manner of soccerati were there to play ball, shoot the shit (read:trash talk) and eat tacos (more on that later). Click to continue reading...

Ok. Bring it. I think you'd make a bang up replacement for Donovan in LA if there is anything to all the Landycakes-to-Europe talk. Or you can come to New York and be French with Youri Djorkaeff on your days off. Or perhaps you are feeling adventurous...I bet Seattle could use someone like you. Click to continue reading...

Everyone has a blog now. Everyone from The Don to disreputable folks like me has there own platform with which they can be heard and I'm pretty down with it. Whether that is due to the fact that we just watched "Pump Up The Volume" in the office and I'm jacked up on pirate radio DJ-envy & the closing scene's egalitarian overtones, I can't say. Click to continue reading...

Kid looks good in red right? Loads of sponsors on that jersey though; I know they are found of their auto racing in Monaco so perhaps the completely-out-of-control-sponsorship mentality has made the jump to the soccer world over there. I'm all for making that paper, but five logo's on the front of the kit is just a bit cluttered. Click to continue reading...

A few days ago Metrofanatic mentioned that in addition to a Panamanian prospect and USL bad ass Macoumba Kandji, Juan Carlos Osorio was also looking at a mystery striker. Could the former Arsenal man with some of the worst taste in eyewear and 92 caps for France be headed to The Swamp? Perhaps. Click to continue reading...

New York, New York! If you work in Manhattan you should start feigning illness right now. Barcelona, who are in town to play against RBNY on Wednesday, will be holding a training session in Central Park today so I can;t think of a better excuse to skate out of work early today but your boss may think otherwise. Click to continue reading...

A tinted-out late model Mercedes. An exotic European capital. D&G shades as black as coal at midnight. And Weezy on blast the whole damn time. Even though he spent most of his 07/08 Benfica campaign on the bench, don't feel sorry for The Biggest Midget in the Game™. ESPN The Magazine caught up with our kid and found that 1) he's out to win some Mr. Click to continue reading...

The French Riviera. A glamorous royal family. James Bond's favorite casinos. One of Europes most unique stadiums. The possibility of 2 American hot-shots running the midfield. My new favorite vacation destination. Click to continue reading...

Nice right? Unlike some of the Nike adverts from a few years ago, all of this is actually supposed to be real, un-altered footage. And if that is the case someone needs to sign Frenchman Remi Gaillard ASAFP. Just let stand at the edge of the 18 and have at it...with his accuracy he's gotta hit at least 20% of his tries. Click to continue reading...

We gotta put a call in to Thierry Henry's people. First Disney then Seaworld; for a deep-pocketed man of means he's got crap taste in vacation spots. Maybe he's taking his daughter on holiday or something, I dunno. If he's not though I'm pretty sure the next stop on his vacation is a trip to Sandals with Michael and Jan. Click to continue reading...

A notion so completely out there that I just have to acknowledge it (but not address it). Click to continue reading...

How bad is playing for Derby County? So bad that former French International Laurent Robert has left there for potential repeat cellar dwellars Toronto FC. Canuckistan be warned: if he''l get down to his sweaty underwear in the grim, damp Newcastle air, he's most likely not afraid to do it during an Ontario cold front. Click to continue reading...

Head of the International Federation of Football Underdogs While many football fanaticos have heard of the G-14, the former home of elite soccer clubs across Europe, it takes a true fan to have heard of the International Federation of Football Underdogs. Here to clear up any misconceptions and give us some basic history of the organization [. Click to continue reading...