Results tagged “worldcup”

It's been quite a month for women's soccer. The U.S. national team came agonizingly close to capturing the World Cup with some outstanding team play. Now, Bay State soccer fans can experience soccer and support a good cause this Sunday at Harvard Stadium when the Boston Breakers host the Western New York Flash in a Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) match to benefit the 2011 PUMA Project Pink to fight breast cancer. more ›

Soccer fans got quite a treat this weekend in Foxboro as the 2010 FIFA World Cup Champion Spanish National Soccer team visited Patriot Place and Gillette Stadium on Friday and Saturday for a chance to meet young soccer players at the WeGotSoccer shop and to play Team USA in an international friendly match, respectively. more ›

The World Cup ended more than a week ago. We still have soccer on the brain, though. more ›

It wasn't just us. A friend of Bostonist, who knows and cares more about soccer than we ever will, told us afterwards, "That was a terrible game." Sometimes we can't tell, but it's nice to have our suspicions confirmed. But nobody in Spain cares about style points today, since Andrés Iniesta scored in the final minutes of overtime, breaking a scoreless graceless tie and giving Spain their first ever World Cup win. more ›

Lester, Bats Bury Blue Jays; Francona wins 900th After four straight losses, the Red Sox got plenty of runs and run prevention en route to a 14-3 drubbing of the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday. The Sox led by a 10-0 margin after a seven-run barrage in the third. Mike Cameron and Bill Hall combined to go 6-8 with seven RBI from the seventh and eighth spots in the order. Marco Scutaro and Kevin Youkilis each added two RBI. The Red Sox finished with 14 hits and four home runs. Jon Lester (11-3) kept Toronto checked with a two-run, four-hit game. Lester has started 13 games, according to NESN, in which he has held the opposition to two runs or less, which leads the league. Based on nothing but timing, Lester could be in line for an All-Star game start on Tuesday. more ›

Felix Doubront? Niuman Romero? Mitchell Friedman*?! These are now the 2010 Red Sox, and 25-year-old Niuman Romero became the latest man on the spot when Kevin Youkilis left last night's game early with ankle pain. (He's OK! Really! He says so.) That meant the rookie had to bat in Youk's cleanup spot for the rest of the game, which meant Tampa Bay could and would walk David Ortiz with abandon, challenging the kid to deliver the big hit. more ›

The Baltimore Orioles come to Boston just as the Red Sox appear to be coming apart at the seams. Despite Dustin Pedroia, Victor Martinez and Clay Buchholz getting injured against the Giants, and Jason Varitek and Manny Delcarmen joining an already crowded and talented disabled list, the Sox can still beat the O's, 3-2, in a remarkably quick (2:07) game. Bostonist wonders if the DL Sox would beat Baltimore, or the regular Sox. more ›

Before the Red Sox even took the field against the San Francisco Giants, they managed to move up in the standings. Edwin Jackson and the Arizona Diamondbacks no-hit the Tampa Bay Rays, 1-0, which puts the Sox into the wild card spot for the first time since April 6. And then they went out and lost a game in San Francisco that they could have won and gained nothing. Actually, they could have lost a lot more than one interleague game as Dustin Pedroia left the game with a possible foot injury. Don't think about it. more ›

Timing is everything. One second, you're looking at a long plane ride home, a long period of soul-searching, and months and months of talking about referees. A second later, you're in ecstasy, shocked and delighted, on your way to the elimination rounds of the World Cup. And as gravy, you send Slovenia packing. more ›

What are the chances that the Red Sox just realized people actually would be watching last night so they gave us a performance worth watching? Or, maybe we simply needed to see a team from Los Angeles lose because of, well, you saw it Thursday. Perhaps it was Manny Ramirez finally coming to see us. It really makes no difference to us because Friday's 10-6 (it wasn't that close) rout gave us a lot to discuss, like... more ›

The bad news is, if there's one guy in the NBA who could win a game singlehandedly while his teammates stand around like mopes, it's probably Kobe Bryant (yeah, yeah, LeBron, we know you're a regular reader, but still). And Kobe pretty much had to do it all himself last night. But even as he was going on a legendary run - 19 straight LA points, including some shots that cause MIT physics faculty to stay up all night - the Celtics were matching buckets at the other end. Kobe cooled off, as human beings do. The C's...not so much. more ›

While the Washington Post struggles to understand why Americans don't like soccer (because we didn't invent it, basically), and Boston bids to help host a future World Cup (sign up to bring the Cup back to the U.S.), most soccer-crazy Bostonians are focused on one thing: the current World Cup, which started June 11. But where's a good place to watch in town? more ›

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The Celtics are finding ways to get it done. Period. That insane 2-game losing streak and that week of uncertainty look like they're way in the past - for the moment - as the C's went into San Antonio and stifled a very good Spurs team, 90-83. more ›

-- A woman was robbed at gunpoint today during a daytime invasion of her parents' home in Everett. Michelle Nguyen, 24 of Malden, was babysitting her 2 year-old nephew this morning when a man dressed completely in black entered the house and held a gun to her head. She parted with $500. Both Nguyen and her nephew were left unharmed. [Herald] more ›

Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait will screen at the ICA on Sunday, May 6, at 11:00 am and on Thursday, May 10, at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $10 general / $8 members. Unless good-looking legends move to Los Angeles with their pop-singer wives, many Americans don't think about soccer. If we think about soccer, we'll likely think of retired (or not-so-retired) superstar Zinedine Zidane - but for all the wrong reasons. Zidane broke into American news... more ›

"Enough is enough. I am bitterly disappointed, as I'm sure all Yankee fans are, by the lack of performance by our team," said Yankee owner George Steinbrenner. But in the same statement, he reaffirmed his faith in manager Joe Torre and GM Brian Cashman to right the ship. With rumors of a deathwatch swirling in the Bronx, it will be real interesting (and, from Boston's perspective, joyous) to check the Boss' pulse after the next... more ›

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,... more ›

Being Bostonians, we know that there are two things that the people of this city become passionate about this time of year: politics and sports. Currently, there is a rather competitive race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and, of course, the Sox are in the hunt for the A.L. East title. Surely, there must be a podcast out there that covers both. Well, the gods must be listening, as they have brought us Saint Kermit. more ›

After headbutting its way through the World Cup on Sunday, France seems to be in the spotlight this summer, especially here in Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts is hosting their new Americans in Paris 1860-1900 exhibit, which features painting by James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Mary Cassatt. It seems that American painters all flocked to Paris to attend art school, gain a reputation, and eat lots of crepes during this forty year span. They also happened to produce some great art, which will be on display through September 24th; the most well-known pieces in this exhibit are two portraits of ladies with extremely different styles: Sargent’s portrait of Madame X and Whistler’s portrait of his mother. more ›

Bostonist has decried the tremendous ugliness and lack of utility of City Hall Plaza before, but for once, this Sunday, it served a worthwhile purpose: The World Cup's final match, between France and (hometown favorite) Italy was shown on a massive screen for thousands of people. We watched most of the game there, and can attest that the view of the screen was remarkably good from most everywhere (Toddler Bostonist, who accompanied us, insisted... more ›

The gap week between the celebrations of America's Independence Day and upcoming France's Bastille Day, this is the perfect time to dabble in some French and American wine tasting history. more ›

While the world readies for the final match of the FIFA World Cup, Boston gets ready to watch it. The French and Italians will match up on Sunday afternoon – and everyone has an opinion on where the best place to watch the game will be. Mayor Menino has sanctioned a World Cup Party of sorts on City Hall Plaza this Sunday. A big screen broadcast of the match will have capacity to hold up... more ›

Nearly every digital camera on the market these days comes with a number of pre-programmed settings for aperture and shutter speed. Usually these include a macro setting for taking pictures up close, portrait setting for moderately close and still captures, a sports setting to capture the split-second action image, and fireworks. While most of the settings may find their way into daily photography, last night everyone was turning the dial or scrolling through menus to use the fireworks setting to capture some images of the explosive sky above the Charles River. Of course snapshots weren't the only captures taken. Lots of videos are showing up of the display. If your view was blocked by a tree as you sat on the Esplanade, or the Pru distorted the view from your South End roof deck perch, or Italy's world cup semi-final triumph had you celebrating a little too early in the day and you passed out during the 1812 Overture you can find a little solace in seeing the pyrotechnics in today's video. For full effect you'll need to have someone punch you in the chest every time one of those white "bang!" flashes goes off – or otherwise get some base that will rattle you momentarily. more ›

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this... more ›

The Globe ran a piece in today's edition about tensions in Framingham with some of the locals and their ire towards all the Brazilians making Framingham the spot for those immigrating from Samba-land. These days the Brazilians as a whole are much more conspicuous around Boston thanks to the World Cup. Green and yellow can be seen everywhere as the people from Brazil celebrate their Seleção in hopes that they bring home their record SIXTH World Cup championship. The evident size of the BR population begs the question for some - how many are here legally? The question has been discussed repeatedly for the past few months in national media, and its surely a concern here in Massachusetts. more ›

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. more ›

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