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USA vs Ghana Today – Watch For Us on ESPN!

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Just got done trading emails with Paul Molin, an ESPN producer. They now have the original iPhone video I shot of our celebration at Farmer’s Gastropub as Landon Donovan scored the game-winner against Algeria. The plan is to include it as part of the pre-game show today.

We will continue our support of the USA, and the world’s game, at Farmer’s Gastropub. First come first served, there will be extra seating and fewer tables today, including a family section for parents with children. We’ll also be charging a nominal $1 entry fee today, all proceeds will be donated to the Springfield soccer community.

Bill has also been working on improving the viewing experience and in addition to adjusting the large screen and bringing in extra seating and removing some tables, he’s added a TV outside along with a pair of fans and misters to add an outside viewing option.

Farmer’s Gastropub is located at 413 S Jefferson Avenue, in the Wilhoit Building. The Wilhoit Building is directly South of the YMCA on Jefferson Avenue. Parking is available in a lot with entrance on Elm. You’ll see the Pub directly ahead of you when you pull into the lot.

ESPN Announces World Cup 2010 Schedule, All In HD

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CHICAGO (Jan. 27, 2009) – The U.S. Men’s National Team’s highly anticipated match against England in their opening game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup will be broadcast live on ABC HD on Saturday, June 12 at 2 p.m. ET from the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in Rustenburg, kicking off coverage of the USA’s campaign in South Africa. Details of the Spanish language broadcast schedule will be available in the near future.

The schedule continues with USA-Slovenia on June 18 from Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, with the U.S. closing out Group C action against Algeria on June 23 from Ellis Park in Johannesburg. Both matches will be broadcast live on ESPN/ESPN360.com at 9:30 a.m. ET.

ESPN will present comprehensive coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup June 11-July 11 from 10 stadiums in nine cities across South Africa. All 64 matches will be aired live and in high definition on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, and extensive coverage on ESPN360.com and ESPN Mobile TV. In addition, 2010 FIFA World Cup studio programs, including pre-match, halftime and post-match segments, will be presented in high definition.

ESPN will air 44 FIFA World Cup matches from South Africa – the most ever for the network in one tournament. ABC will broadcast 10, concluding with the title match Sunday, July 11, at 1:30 p.m. ET from Soccer City in Johannesburg.

U.S. Men’s National Team Television Schedule – Group Phase

Date Opponent Kickoff/TV City
June 12 England 2 p.m. ET/ABC HD Rustenburg
June 18 Slovenia 9:30 a.m. ET/ ESPN/ESPN360.com Tshwane/Pretoria
June 23 Algeria 9:30 a.m. ET/ ESPN/ESPN360.com Johannesburg

The United States will face El Salvador on Feb. 24 in Tampa, Fla., in their second match of the 2010 campaign. Kickoff at Raymond James Stadium is set for 7 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on ESPN Classic and TeleFutura. Fans can also follow the match live online via ussoccer.com’s MatchTracker or twitter.com/ussoccer. Click here for tickets.

Following the match against El Salvador, the U.S. will travel to face the third-ranked Netherlands on March 3 in Amsterdam. Kickoff at the Amsterdam ArenA is set for 8:30 p.m. local time (2:30 p.m. ET), and the match will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and TeleFutura. The match falls on the only international fixture date before the start of the tournament in South Africa, and will be the USA’s final game before naming the World Cup roster in early May.

ESPN Will Launch 3D with World Cup Match

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espn x-large 3d“ESPN is going 3D,” Edward C. Baig writes, adding that the network “will launch ESPN 3D on June 11 with a World Cup soccer match, creating what it says will be the first all three-dimensional television network to the home. ESPN 3D expects to showcase at least 85 live sporting events during the first year. There’ll be no reruns initially, so the network will be dark when there’s no 3D event. Among other events planned for 3D broadcast: the Summer X Games (extreme sports), NBA games, college basketball and college football.”

Hat tip to the National Sports Journalism Center.

ESPN Adds Two Saturday EPL Games To Its Weekly US Broadcast Schedule

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According to EPLtalk website

ESPN has acquired the TV rights to two of the weekly Premier League slots on US television for the 2009-2010 season. Beginning on August 15, 2009, each week ESPN will feature the 7:45am ET Saturday game and the 3pm ET Monday game.

Those two weekly time slots were previously held by Setanta Sports who in the past had sub-licensed those games from Fox Soccer Channel. Despite Setanta losing the two timeslots to ESPN, Setanta US will continue showing the two 10am ET Saturday slots (one game on Setanta US, and the other on Setanta Xtra), as well as the early Sunday morning ET kickoffs and the Tuesday and Wednesday midweek Premier League matches. The games shown by Setanta will also be available on its broadband package at http://www.setanta-i.com

The article also offers some games you can expect to see, including Chelsea v Hull City on August 15th at 6:45am on ESPN2, Liverpool v Aston Villa at 2pm August 24th and Chelsea v Burnley on August 29th at 6:45am.

So to cover your bases, it looks like satellite is still the best viewing path since Mediacom hasn’t added Sentata to their Sports package, at least not to my knowledge.

US MNT Advances To First Ever Men’s Final In A FIFA Competition

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confed cup logoWow, the hyperbole overflows…

In one of the greatest matches in U.S. Soccer history, the U.S. Men’s National Team got goals by Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey to stun No. 1-ranked Spain 2-0 and advance to the finals of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa. The U.S. will face Brazil/ South Africa in their first ever men’s final in a major international competition on any level on Sunday, June 28 in Johannesburg.

Game time Sunday is 1:00 pm, live on ESPN. I’ll probably watch it in St Louis before heading back to Springfield from St Louis later that afternoon. Where will you watch it?

I very much enjoyed the game on Wednesday but all I can think is what team is it that showed up for the first two games? And if the planets hadn’t aligned in the final group game when the US scored 3 and Brazil shut out Italy 3-0, where would we be now? So I’m not going to get to excited at this stage, although I am more excited than I was down after watching the previous 4 games the US has played (including Honduras and Costa Rica). And if we don’t get to see more of Charlie Davies, Conor Casey, Jay Demerit and even Jonathan Spector and Benny Feilhaber, then what goes down?

English Premier League, La Liga and ESPN

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Barclays Premier League trophySome of you may have seen a few items related to the English Premier League broadcast rights. Sentanta has gone into receivership and their UK broadcast rights have been pulled. ESPN has won the rights to broadcast 46 live Premier League matches in the United Kingdom for the 2009-10 season, and has also been awarded a contract for the 2010-13 seasons.

For those who read the notice closely, you will have noticed that they are UK rights, not USA rights. As Ive’s notes

What it might mean is better coverage of the EPL on programs like Sportscenter, and improved soccer coverage on ESPN as it handles covering the EPL in England.

In related news, ESPN struck a deal with GolTV to partner in multimedia broadcast coverage of the Spanish League, which includes FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The new deal will allow ESPN to show La Liga matches on ESPN, ESPN Deportes as well as ESPN360.com. More than 95 matches will be shown on Deportes, with at least 114 matches set to be streamed on ESPN360.com. ESPN2 will televise select matches (‘Super Clasico anybody?) while ESPN Mobile TV will also air matches. GolTV will continue to air its 120 La Liga matches throughout the year.

By the way, I’ve been contacted by both Fox & Hound as well as Boomer’s, the place taking over the old Coester’s space, regarding the possibility of broadcasting soccer and attracting our community. So we’re keeping a close eye on how we’ll get our fix. Look for updates right here!