It’s a bunch of guys from Mormon country who got into the playoffs on a wing and a prayer. First they deposed the reigning champions, beating them twice, and then they took out the number two team. Now they’re in the national championship, going against a big-money team laden with international stars.
And you’ve [...]

Baghdad is generally a real safe place to have fun and play sports.  Even the country of Iraq for the most part.  So, you’ll be very surprised to hear that an Iraqi soccer player was shot dead during an amateur match over this past weekend.
Police Maj. Muthanna Khalid says a striker from the Buhairat amateur team [...]

We think this still counts as sports. Pretty embarrassing to be showing off on the computer cam only to have your dad come in scantily clad to shut down the show.
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Michael Bradley of the Unites States scored twice to knock off the Mexicans 2-0 on Wednesday evening in Columbus, OH. The 21-year old nailed his second goal in extra time in the second half.
So yeah, it looks like the United States will qualify for the World Cup so that they can disappoint [...]

This is great.
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This is why white football players should be banned from trying to celebrate after a touchdown:
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A round ball will never fit into a square goal:
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Sources close to OTR have told OTR that OTR will be no more. It’s just not the same anymore and it wouldn’t fair to our loyal readers to continue to just go through the motions. We did have a great run though. We broke the Asante Samuel signing. We were the [...]

Wow. Another report on Michael Vick’s illegal dog activities.

This past Sunday in an Italian league soccer match-up between Catania and Torino, three players from the Catania team dropped their shorts.  This is the newest, creative strategy that is used to block the goaltender’s vision of the ball.  Nothing better than to confuse the keeper with a pair of balls in order to block his site of the soccer ball.
And [...]

Thanks to loyal OTR reader Pavlovic, more incredible information has been discovered about the Fernando Torres pose.  Torres, a member of the Spain National team, strikes his pose out of respect to Francisco Miguel Narváez Machón, also known as ‘Kiko.’
Kiko is a former legendary striker for the Spain National team whom he played for from 1992 to [...]

Thanks to OTR reader Kev, we have discovered it’s possible Fernando Torres started the pose that is now associated with Usain Bolt.  This is huge news.
However, it does look like there is a slight difference in techniques.  Usain Bolt points diagonally to the sky with his index fingers (see post below).  Torres points with all fingers [...]

Antonio Gaspar, the physiotherapist for the Portuguese national soccer team, says that left winger Cristiano Ronaldo will be out for another three months after having surgery on his bum ankle.
“We are going to use everything that is possible to us and that will help him recover as quickly as possible,” Gaspar told the Spanish sports [...]

Fernando Torres finally decided to stop pissing away chances on Sunday and torched crap-ass back Philipp Lahm (sorry Sebastian, he’s just terrible in the back), chipping the ball just over Jens Lehman to give Spain a 1-0 victory over the Germans.
I’ll be offering more thoughts on the whole Euro Cup during the early part of [...]

Germany found a way to beat the Turks at their own game when Phillip Lahm scored in the 90th minute to give them the 3-2 win. Even for these Turks, there wasn’t enough time to come back.

We know most Americans (including half of the writers for this blog) don’t care about soccer, which means they probably don’t know the rules. The do’s and don’t’s, shall we say. Well there are some major don’t’s in the sport, like you can’t touch the ball with your hands.
Another big don’t is: [...]

Euro Cup has been pretty damn good so far. Here are my thoughts on some things I’ve seen so far. If you care about soccer AND my thoughts (two big, big stretches), you can find those here.

Cristiano Ronaldo, whose Portuguese team recently got bounced from the Euro Cup, reiterated his desire to leave Manchester United following the loss to Germany.
“I will talk with Manchester and we will try to reach a deal,” said the Portugal winger, who will have surgery on his right foot. “The possibilities to go to Madrid are [...]

France is screwed. Eric Abidal just got sent off about 22 minutes into the match for a foul in the box that gave Italy a penalty kick and a goal. They are down a man for the rest of the match, Ribery already got hurt and carted off, and they’ve used two subs.

What a game that was. The United States mopped Barbados the hell up on Sunday 8-0. You know where to find more info. Doubt you will, but don’t say I didn’t point you to it.

Petr Cech is among the best goal keepers in the world, but his mistake Sunday was unbelievably costly. The Czech Republic was up 2-1 in the final minutes of their game against Turkey, and it looked like the Turks were done.
That is, until Cech put his signature on the game. He went out [...]

Portuguese bitch soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, reportedly has told friends that he plans to leave Manchester United, a soccer team, next year.
He reportedly told his close circle: “If I don’t leave Manchester United now, I certainly will in a year.”
99% of this blog audience couldn’t give two sh*ts, but this is still big news in [...]

This one still pisses me off. Zidane made the dumbest decision at the worst time and he should have known better. He should know! Trezeguet, filling in for Zidane, missed his penalty shot and that was the nail in the coffin. Fun to watch this though:
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I’m waiting to get picked up to go to lunch, so I thought I’d post some sports bloopers. We can’t understand a single lyric of the song, but we imagine it has “sports bloopers” or “whoopsy daisy” in the chorus. Because then it would be relevant. Eat lunch at your desk and [...]

We can’t ignore the overwhelming support we are receiving from our biggest fan ‘barry.’ He is one of the main reasons that OTR is able to keep it going. His brilliant posting on comments and the respect he gives Micah and I is second to none. Furthermore, without hesitation we are giving [...]

I found this very interesting article on Bloomberg.com that is a must read. Before you click over and read it, let me provide an excerpt:
“Discoveries in genetics, physiology and nanotechnology are creating new challenges to definitions of cheating. Sports executives including Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay and former World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound [...]

In case you didn’t notice, and judging by the attendance at MLS games you haven’t, world soccer star Ronaldo got into a scuffle with some transvestites the other day. He picked three of them up, thinking they were women, and surprise…he got upset when he found out there was junk between their legs. [...]

PHOTO CAPTION: The pin used to inflate the soccer ball somehow got inside and Javier took a peek to see if he could find it.

An odd thing happened over the past couple weeks. Famous people affiliated with sports (players, coaches, and analysts), started emailing me with questions and comments. It seems our fan base has spread across this great nation. I know all of you are pretty anxious to see exactly who emailed me, so let’s [...]

We’ve received a bunch of emails complaining that OTR wasn’t long enough and didn’t display enough stories. People were upset that they had to click the “Archives” button to see the stuff they missed. Well, your whiny complaints have been heard! We expanded our home page of the blog to include the [...]

I want to apologize for not getting Perry’s Mailbag up last Friday, especially to one of OTR’s dearest fans Lindsey. As most of you know, I was following the Asante Samuel story in Boston on Thursday night and continued my hot pursuit all day Friday until the early evening press conference around 5:00pm EST that [...]

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