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Cute Boys, Bad Beer and a Point on the Road for Houston

Bobby Boswell bar tends at Geoff Cameron's Celebrity Pour

In support of his current bid for LLS Man of the Year Geoff Cameron has been busy at work. He is hosting a slew of events to raise money for the charity. Cameron’s $20k for #20 campaign supports the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society which raises money for cancer research.

The charity has a personal connection for Geoff who recently had a close friend diagnosed with stage two Hodgkins Lymphoma. Dynamo fans will remember Danny Cruz’s work for the charity last season with his Cruzin’ for a Cure campaign. The first of Geoff’s events was held on the 18th at Bar Münich in Houston. The Celebrity Pour featured a silent auction and tons of free giveaways including team posters and MLS Pub pint glasses.

Local radio station Hot 95.7 provided free Bud Light which the players served up with tons of enthusiasm. I even got tricked into drinking Bud Light (the official beer of colleges the country over) because as soon as Geoff spotted us at the bar he got so excited about serving us that we couldn’t turn him down.

Cameron was joined by teammates Bobby Boswell, Colin Clark and Brian Ching. If every bartender was as cute I’d go out every night. The guys capitalized on this and all tips went to the charity. Midway through the event Dynamo staff announced that the tips already totaled approximately $1200. The event seemed to be a raging success and the bar was packed throughout the event. The next $20k for #20 event will be a FIFA Street tournament in the Houston Galleria on Thursday, April 26th.

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Warning: Anton Hysén Dancing a Samba is Extremely Hot.

Shaking, thrusting, gyrating. Anton Hysén’s “Let’s Dance” performance this past weekend is quite simply put, hot.

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Also this weekend Anton won Gaydar Radio’s Hero of the Year award. Congratulations. Hopefully you’ll be snagging the MLS Newcomer of the Year award very soon.

gay4soccer Poll: The New USA Home Kit

So the new home jersey for the USA Men’s and Women’s team was (officially) revealed this week. What do you think?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Let’s Dance Week 3: A Madonna Pasodoble from Anton Hysén

Out Swedish soccer player Anton Hysén earned a standing ovation and a top score with he and his partner Sigrid Bernson’s pasodoble to Madonna’s “Hung Up.” Anton%20Hys%C3%A9n%20-%20paso%20doble

Anton’s success on this show just shows the kind of exposure having an out star can bring to soccer and we’re all proud of him and rooting for him.

Nostalgia Sponsors

There’s an odd undercurrent in MLS, a background noise. There’s nothing insidious about it, just curious. What do I mean?

Historically, MLS sponsors have been weird and, I’d say, obscure for the most part. Every time I introduce friends to watching MLS games I have to field questions like “What the hell is Herbalife/Xango?” or incredulous statements like “Amway? Seriously?” (Fortunately, that particular pyramid scheme is gone). I have to explain that the New York Red Bulls are actually in New Jersey and that Red Bull is the sponsor not so much the team name and that they own several sporting teams. I have to sigh and say, “Yes, Pizza Hut owns the naming rights” or explain how I don’t care who the sponsor is we’re not drinking any beer that looks like urine.

Which is why I kinda like that this season there are a few throwback sponsors, a sort of old-timey commerce. My own Chicago Fire has taken the Wilford Brimley route with their kit sponsor Quaker ; you can’t get much more curmudgeon-y than that. Given the make-over that Quaker is trying to give its mascot, this may be part of a larger scheme to make oats hip to ‘the young people.’ Not to be outdone, Chicago rivals, the Columbus Crew, threw the anachronistic Barbasol on the table as their raise. Barbasol…it’s a product that I didn’t think still existed or only existed in the handful of Ben Franklin five & dime stores that barely continue to exist in far-flung corners of the American Heartland (take note Philadelphia for future sponsorship). But it’s not just kit sponsorship, MLS itself gives its weekly ten performers’ list to Castrol, that motor oil that your dad & grandpa always had half a can of in the garage .

What we have here is a fantasy of masculinity, one that eats heartily, works on machines, and then goes to clean up by shaving ‘like a man.’ I can almost see the sepia super-8 movie reel of a young son looking admiringly at all the things his father is doing. Soccer in America still has to put up with a lot. Most recently, meat-head CEO Dana White gave voice to the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging masses. So I can see why MLS might be trying to coax this subtle image. I can also see a room full of suits determined to mine the hipster market with its love of retro-kitsch. Whatever it may be, I can chuckle good-naturedly with my new MLS loving friends about it. The fact is, nostalgia is queer and I like it.

Cosmo Picks Major League Soccer’s Hottest Players … (In Some Cases, Poorly)

Cosmo Magazine has done a piece of “Hot Soccer Players We Can’t Resist” and it’s been making the Twitter rounds heavily this week.

While they didn’t explicitly say so, they seemed to go with a one player per team approach, and under this approach some of their choices are somewhat questionable when compared with other options they had on some of their teams.

I can’t argue with some of their picks; after all, some of their favorites also made our top ten draft pick list.

But Freddy Adu? Really? Is that the best you could do for Philadelphia? Way to jump right to the guy who you just know because he shilled for Sierra Mist way back when. Or you couldn’t dig deeper into the Galaxy roster past Golden Balls to introduce your readership to some hot players beyond the guy they already know from Pepsi and Burger King ads?

So what do you think? Which of their hot player picks do you think Cosmo got right? You can pick as many as you think they got right in the poll after the jump…

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Let’s Dance Week 2: Anton Hysén Does a Quickstep

After a top-scoring cha cha in week one, Anton Hysén and his partner Sigrid Bernson survived the first elimination week of Sweden’s “Let’s Dance” with a quickstep to a song from a pop star who hails from the same city as Anton.

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He’s working on a pasodoble to a Madonna hit for this weekend.

Jimmy Conrad Throws Down A Challenge To Dana White

After Dana White called soccer the “least talented sport on Earth” in my town of Calgary (of all places to do that…I guess he didn’t have the balls to do it in Montreal, from which Georges St-Pierre was sitting via a video link during said press conference), here is ally Jimmy Conrad’s response:

And suprisingly, White has accepted! Well, this should be interesting now…

 

“Let’s Dance” Week One: Anton Hysén Moves Like Jagger

Out Swedish pro soccer player Anton Hysén began his night job this past weekend as he became a contestant on the new season of “Let’s Dance,” their version of “Dancing with the Stars.”

His Week One offering is a cha cha to Maroon 5′s “Moves Like Jagger.”

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Rick Santorum Must Really Hate October in MLS

Last week at a bowling alley photo op, former US Senator and current GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum scolded a young man for his choice of bowling balls.

“You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We’re not gonna let you do that. Not on camera. Friends don’t let friends use pink balls.”

Never mind the fact that Santorum is yet again being an ass, saying boys shouldn’t be associated with pink things. He also clearly hasn’t seen what most sports leagues do to acknowledge Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

 

 

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