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Soccer Capital USA – Sounder FC Fans Get Their Own Beer!
Redhook fans and Emerald City Supporters now have their very own beer: No Equal Amber Lager. Redhook, the official craft beer sponsor of the Seattle Sounders, teamed up with the loudest and proudest of Seattle Sounders fans to express their mutual adoration of sport, beer and the Emerald City. Available in 22-ounce bottles and on tap throughout the Pacific Northwest beginning March 2, No Equal Amber Lager is a seasonable beer brewed specifically for Seattle Sounders fans.
Released under Redhook’s Blueline series, a limited release series brewed specifically for local distribution, No Equal Amber Lager, which comes in at 5.2% ABV and 30 IBUs, is a well-balanced beer with the perfect combination of rich malts and hop bitterness. The beer’s color comes from the generous use of Munich and Caramel malt, while its medium bitterness comes from the addition of noble hops. Read More >>
Sounders Prepare For Chance To Be First MLS Team To Reach FIFA Club World Cup
Before their fourth Major League Soccer season even kicks off, the Seattle Sounders might play the most important match in the franchise’s young history.
While the CONCACAF Champions League doesn’t create the same interest as its counterpart in Europe, the Sounders understand just how vital success in the competition is to raising the MLS’ international profile.
“This is huge. This is what people are turning on their TV on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons to watch the Champions League from Europe, and this is the same thing. This is from our area, our confederation,” Seattle coach Sigi Schmid said. Read More >>
NBC ‘versus’ ESPN
As of Jan. 2, 2012 Versus, a channel known for broadcasting NHL games and a number of outdoor and combat sports, became the NBC Sports Network. The transition and rebrand weren’t completely unexpected. When Comcast, the original owner of Versus, bought the majority stake of NBC February 2011 it started merging NBC’s own sports content into the channel, and started relaunching Versus as a sort of extension to NBC normal sport’s broadcasting. As the months progressed the executive decision made sense to rebrand Versus as NBC Sports Network.
The rebrand is expected to make Versus into a more creditable channel that would appeal to a more mainstream sport’s audience; essentially, a channel that could compete with ESPN’s sports monopoly. An advantage of the new NBC Sports Network is NBC Universal’s recent procurements of lengthy contract extensions of viewership rights with the NHL and Olympic Games, helping Versus with its initial step towards its vision.
Brightening for the future expansion of the channel was the announcement of a new TV deal next year with the growing MLS over its original broadcaster partner, Fox Sports Channel. The deal was even announced for less money than Fox was offering, because executives were convinced on the future direction of the sports network. With soccer gaining ground each year in the US, the MLS has been thriving more than ever, and should be able to continue growing exponentially if NBC Sports Network can continue growing along with it. Read More >>
Politics, Sports and Egypt’s Unrest
Politics has no place in sports. Recent news of the 74 reported dead and 150 injured soccer fans after a Premier League Egyptian Soccer match has been blowing shockwaves throughout the world. The violence that ensued after opposing fans rushed the field with the intent to riot was so terrifying and gut-wrenching that it caused three high-profile Egyptian soccer players from the nation’s most successful club, the Egypt Pharaoh’s, to re-think their careers, and for the time-being retire from the world of Egyptian soccer.
Egyptian soccer fans are known as passionate fans; some circles even considering them the most violent of all soccer fans. What went on last Wednesday though, went beyond the traditional world of soccer hooliganism. A certain inner circle of fans of the Masry Green Eagles soccer team, known as “Ultras”, were also known be a major presence during the Tahrir Square demonstrations that lead to the fleeing and resignation of Egypt’s former dictator, Hosni Mubarak.
Wednesday’s soccer match coincidentally occured on the anniversy of the start of the Tahrir demonstrations, and speculation abounds about an appearing lack of stadium security and presence being purposefully subdued by officials to justify the need to repeal the emergency laws the government partially lifted days prior to the match.
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