Tag: Soccer
In something of a great moment for corporate-public partnerships, Nike is in the process of repairing the deteriorated soccer field (or “pitch,” which is what you call the field if you say “football”) in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, which the company originally paid for back in 2006. Bowery Boogie reports that new turf has been […]
On Tuesday, Bowery Boogie posted a rumor that retired NBA great Steve Nash offered to pay to repair a decrepit soccer field in the Lower East Side’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park, but the city turned down his offer due to “bureaucratic bullshit,” according to Bowery Boogie’s inside source. The soccer field on Stanton Street was […]
After a month of FIFA festivities, the 2014 World Cup soccer championship finally ended with the German team kicking a ball into the big ground basket. And now, to savor the tail-end of those sweet, sweet World Cup metrics, here’s a list of the most important things that happened on the internet, by the internet, […]
Mario Tama, a staff photographer for Getty Images, first caught my eye a few months ago with this disturbing photo above taken in what the caption calls Rio de Janeiro’s “Cracolandia” (Read: “Crackland” or “Dope City”). In addition to the complexity of his layered compositions, the ‘daily life’ photos he’s been filing from Brazil ever […]
Meanwhile, in Japan, Barack Obama is playing soccer with a robot. The president received a pass from Honda’s vaguely creepy humanoid bot ASIMO today as part of a technology- and security-focused visit to the country, according to the AP. After leaving Japan, he’ll visit South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. […]
To promote its coverage of a bunch of upcoming soccer games in the UK known as the Premier League to New Yorkers and tourists alike, NBC Sports enlisted UK street artist D*Face to create a massive Times Square billboard. “Don’t call it soccer. It’s football… just not as you know it,” reads the ad, portions […]
Adidas’s Fanatic Premier soccer league pits a host of New York businesses against one other, once a week at Grand and Chrystie streets on the Lower East Side. Teams involved include the Ace Hotel, Miss Lily’s, the Chinatown Soccer Club, and a bunch of others. Why do you care? Because Mother, our sugar momma, has a team, […]
