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Via U.S. Soccer - "U.S. Head Coach Bob Bradley Names 23 Players to Represent the United States at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley has named the 23-man
roster that will travel to South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The team departs for South Africa on May 30, and will play their opening
match of the tournament against England on June 12 in Rustenburg live
on ABC at 2 p.m. ET.
May 26, 2010
U.S. Opens World Cup Against England Live on ABC on June 12 at
2 p.m. ET
CHICAGO (May 26, 2010) — U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob
Bradley has named the 23-man roster that will travel to South Africa
for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The team departs for South Africa on May
30, and will play its opening match of the tournament against England on
June 12 in Rustenburg live on ABC at 2 p.m. ET."
U.S.
ROSTER BY POSITION (All-Time World Cup Roster Appearances)
GOALKEEPERS
(3): Brad Guzan (2010), Marcus Hahnemann (2006, 2010), Tim Howard
(2006, 2010)
DEFENDERS (7): Carlos Bocanegra (2006, 2010),
Jonathan Bornstein (2010), Steve Cherundolo (2002, 2006, 2010), Jay
DeMerit (2010), Clarence Goodson (2010), Oguchi Onyewu (2006, 2010),
Jonathan Spector (2010)
MIDFIELDERS (9): DaMarcus Beasley
(2002, 2006, 2010), Michael Bradley (2010), Ricardo Clark (2010), Clint
Dempsey (2006, 2010), Landon Donovan (2002, 2006, 2010), Maurice Edu
(2010), Benny Feilhaber (2010), Stuart Holden (2010), José Torres (2010)
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." ~ Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee was the 1960 and early '70's global superstar icon, martial artist, Hollywood actor, movie producer, teacher, businessman, philosopher, husband, father, and founder of "Jeet Kune Do". From 1971 - 1973, Bruce Lee was the world's biggest celebrity and most famous person on Earth surpassing Brazil's Pele and the U.S.'s Muhammad Ali.
Snowboarding Olympic Champion Shaun White bust out his new "Double McTwist 1260" trick at the final Grand Prix practice session under the lights at Park City, Utah!
Congratulations Shaun for winning the Gold Medal again yesterday for the USA!!!
Ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the gold medal favorite in alpine skiing, Lindsey Vonn, hit the slopes with the reporter Bill Pennington from the New York Times. She spoke about crashing, recovery and being the fastest woman on the mountain.
Lindsey Vonn is not only hot, she is a skiing athletic beast!!! What a champion. A couple days ago she revealed to the world press that is currently injured from a bad training fall a couple weeks ago, but I think she will "shake it off" and win at least one gold medal for the U.S Ski Team at the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 Games.
Here is the sexy Sports Illustrated video of hot 25 year old American ski racer Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey Vonn is not only a pretty face but she is also a champion. Vonn is in fact the 2008 and current 2009 Overall World Cup Ski Racing Champion - the best female skier in the world! She is like the Michael Phelps of ski racing but a lot better looking and she actually has a personality (Phelps doesn't). Baring any last minute injuries, Vonn is favorite to win 3 gold medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 Games in British Colombia, Canada. She is overwhelming favorite to win the Women's Downhill - "Queen of the Mountain".
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Here is a video of the Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes 1973 classic "The Love I Lost" featuring Teddy Pendergrass. According to Billboard Magazine, "The Love I Lost" is considered the first "real" Disco song from an R&B artist. The 1963 Beatles hit "I Want Hold Your Hand" is the first Disco song ever.
Teddy Pendergrass, seductive American rhythm-and-blues singer of the 1970s who continued his recording career after he was paralyzed in a 1982 car accident, has died at the age of 59, media reports said on Thursday.
With the much anticipated 2010 Winter Olympics in British Colombia, Canada just a few weeks away. The eternal question pops up again but with a twist in last month's DVD release of docu-drama classic Downhill Racer. The film asks those of us with some talent and ability - "How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?"
The 1969 sports classic movie "Downhill Racer" starting a very young Robert Redfordtries to answer this pondering question that all of us with a crumb of talent and ability ask ourselves everyday. How much ambition to you have in you to take your talent and ability to the next level? Can you take it to the highest level in your chosen field or career? At what cost?
What if you get to the top and you find out you never really left from where you started?
What gets me about this classic sports/love movie is that Gene Hackman has hair!!!
According to Hollywood critics, Downhill Racer is the best sports movie ever produced with some of the most spectacular ski scenes ever filmed. It is not really a sports movie par se (Olympic downhill ski racing is just the setting), but more of a romantic drama told in documentary style in exotic ski locations like the Lauberhorn at Wengen, Switzerland and the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbuhel, Austria. Also included were Megeve, France and St. Anton, Austria.
25 year old former Swedish glamour beauty and actress of the 60's Camilla Sparv in 1965.
Here is what Image Entertainment wrote about the movie:
"Astonishing Alpine location photography and a young Robert Redford in one of his earliest starring roles are just two of the visual splendors of Michael Ritchie's visceral debut feature, DOWNHILL RACER. In a beautifully understated performance, Redford is David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing with an underdog American team in Europe for Olympic gold, and Gene Hackman provides tough support as the coach who tries to temper the upstart's narcissistic drive for glory. With a subtle screenplay by acclaimed novelist James Salter, DOWNHILL RACER is a vivid character portrait buoyed by breathtakingly fast and furious imagery that brings the viewer directly into the mind of the competitor."
Very Short List wrote last month of the new DVD release of Downhill Racer:
"Just weeks after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
made Robert Redford into a megastar in 1969, the actor turned up in a
very different kind of picture—a documentary-style movie about a
fearless skier with an all-consuming desire for Olympic gold. Downhill Racer
(available from Criterion 11/17) shows Redford at his early best:
outrageously charming, naturally physical and unrelentingly sexy.
Much of Downhill Racer—which was directed by Michael Ritchie, who reteamed with Redford in 1972 for The Candidate—is
a sort of thrill ride: Cameras mounted to actual skiers provided
bird’s-eye footage of what it’s like to careen down slopes at what
looks like a million miles an hour. Sure, there’s a love interest, and
a rival or two, but the film focuses mostly on the development of one
great undisciplined athlete into a bona fide star. Plus, Redford’s
coach is played by a young Gene Hackman, who gives us a peek at the guy
we love so much in Hoosiers."
32 year old Robert Redford on location in the Swiss Alps for Downhill Racer in 1969.
A young 40 year old Gene Hackman with hair - Un joven de 40 años Gene Hackman con pelo!
