The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team hosts Mexico at 7 p.m. tonight on ESPN2.
Rex Grossman will somehow choke in the second half.
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6 comments:
This is the first time I've seen U.S. men's soccer so heavily promoted on ESPN - I saw a promo run over the weekend - really playing it up as a rivalry b/w Mexico and U.S. Maybe this is a good sign - that some marketing muscle is going behind soccer in this country? (in anticipation of Beckham playing in the MLS maybe?)
The biggest part of it is that ESPN is now one of MLS' national TV partners -- they plan to run a game every Thursday evening during the summer. This is the first year MLS is actually being paid for television rights to their games, rather than paying itself or giving them away for free.
I'll try to post the exact figure later on, but I believe 16 of Beckham's 17 anticipated league games next year will be televised nationally on ESPN2, Univision or HDNet.
I was more interested in the friendly between Portugal and Brazil at Emirates Stadium.
I wish it were easier to get Premiership coverage here. But I think we're going to have to get DirectTV because of the stupid Extra Innings debacle, so maybe that will make like happier, footie-wise.
Enjoy DirecTV putting about 132 pay-per-view channels in between its local programming and most of cable. Scrolling through those is really fun.
It might be worth it for Extra Innings, though.
Anything's worth it to get all the Sox games. And, from what I'm told, we'll also get NESN if we get DirectTV. So, hooray for that. As long as I can ignore Hazel Mae, I'll be happy.
I can ignore commercials, I think. Will I have DVR capabilities with DirectTV or will I have to get TiVo? This is something I must look into.
Best I know, you can get DVR with DirecTV, but, if you're changing anyway, just get Tivo. The boxes are bigger and more functional, and I don't believe they need to run through a phone line (like DirecTV's).
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