The penultimate night of the 2013 International Champions Cup is underway with Inter Milan against Juventus playing to determine the seventh and eighth place finish, which is followed by Everton against Valencia for the fourth and fifth place spots. For viewers in the United States, the games kicked off at 6:30pm ET on FOX Soccer. […]

FOX Sports has made the decision that Sky Sports News, the 24/7 news channel that used to be simulcast on FOX Soccer at hourly periods throughout the day, will not return to US television in its current form. Despite initial reports that Sky Sports News would air in the early morning hours on FOX Sports […]

NBC Sports yesterday replaced their Gareth Bale billboard in New York Times Square with a brand-new advertisement to promote its coverage of the Premier League on US television and Internet. The new billboard features a "Don't call it soccer" design by English street artist D*Face. While the new artwork is certainly newsworthy, the bigger story […]

NBC Sports has been incredibly busy in recent weeks with their promotion campaign leading up to the launch of their Premier League matches beginning August 17. In addition to all of the advertising on subway cars, billboards and television, the network will be launching three new shows. Two of them were mentioned last week — […]

Only 27 days remain in the summer transfer window in England, and teams are getting close to wrapping up their pre-season friendlies ahead of the August 17 kick-off to the Premier League season. Based on the transfer signings so far in the summer window, here's my ratings on how each club in the Premier League […]

NBC's promo video featuring former SNL comedian Jason Sudeikis has been a massive hit on the Internet. The video to promote NBC's coverage of the Premier League has already surpassed 2 million views, and it was only released four days ago. Although tragedy struck Coach Ted Lasso when he was fired as the American coach […]

With World Cup 2022 dominating opinion columns and threatening to destabilize a competition still nine years away from us, the World Cup has never faced such an uncertain future. With the embers still warm from the fires that accompanied the Brazilian riots this summer, even the once untarnishable brand of the franchise is looking weathered, […]

US international striker Juan Agudelo has signed a pre-contract with Stoke City, and will formally join the club in January, according to a report by SBI. Sources confirmed to SBI that Agudelo will join Stoke City in January after his current MLS contract expires on December 31. The report adds that Stoke City and Agudelo […]

Is it any coincidence that the three Premier League clubs who have players involved in the biggest EPL transfer stories this summer have ruled their players out from important friendlies due to "injury problems"? Yesterday, Manchester United ruled out Wayne Rooney from today's friendly in Sweden because they said the striker had suffered a "shoulder […]

With Tottenham's spending having reached £49million so far this summer on Roberto Soldado, Paulinho and Nacer Chadli, Arsenal supporters are becoming more frustrated by the day with the club’s lack of activity in this transfer window. The Gunners narrowly edged out their North London rivals Tottenham last season for the final Champions League spot, with […]

Tottenham Hotspur Director Keith Mills has accepted that Tottenham Hotspur cannot hold on to Gareth Bale if the Welsh attacking midfielder wants to leave the club. In an interview with the Evening Standard newspaper, Sir Keith Mills said: “We very much want Bale to stay. “If a player is desperate to leave, it’s very difficult to […]

Manchester City defender Matija Nastasic has been ruled out for four to six weeks after suffering an ankle injury in the Barclays Asia Trophy competition against Sunderland last month. The Serb, who was one of Manchester City's most consistent players last season, was carried off on a stretcher during the game against Sunderland. The 20-year […]

Wayne Rooney is prepared to submit a transfer request at Manchester United to force his way out of the club, according to The Guardian newspaper. Reporter Daniel Taylor writes that "there is a strong possibility that he will have formalized his position at Old Trafford with a transfer request" and "Rooney is increasingly thinking he will have […]

Everton have unveiled their new away shirt for the 2013-14 season. Designed by Nike, Everton's away shirt is a unique style and color combination for them. The shirt fuses together the famous blue from the Everton home with yellow, which has often been a change color for Everton as recent as the 2011-12 season. For […]

Nottingham Forest have unveiled their new away shirt for the 2013-14 season. Forest's gray and black away shirt with red trim is straight out of the adidas template catalog offering few surprises. What's confusing, though, is that the away shirt looks more like a two-tone mix of gray and black (with red trim) in the […]