This just in from the land of “Dude, duh!” … Soccer is really popular – especially on Facebook. In fact, a recent run of the numbers shows just how dominant soccer is on Mark Zuckerberg’s creation.
ESPN released the following insightful infographic after the jump.
Because soccer is a team sport and we don’t want to leave anyone out, I realize that I was remiss yesterday when I posted Margo McAuley’s Axe commercial and failed to mention her teammates.
It takes 11, people (or, 5 … but they have to be REALLY HOT). If you’re wondering, the language you see at the end is Turkish.
I’m pretty sure the rest of the commercial needs no translation.
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t spend three months pay on a Powerade if Kate Upton were pouring it.
Granada midfielder Dani Benitez just did after he was banned three months for his little sports drink toss last week.
Benitez will miss his team’s final match at Rayo Vallecano and will serve the rest of the suspension next season.
I had this whole thing planned where I was going to figure out Benitez’s loss in salary and tell you what he could’ve purchased for the same amount, but I got lazy and started playing Words With Friends.
Instead, I’d suggest Benitez launch a new line of apparel called “Ball So Hard” with t-shirts that say things like:
“I just dropped $100,000 on a Powerade.”
Maybe he can partner with Randy Moss (YOU KNEW IT WAS COMING!). Moss might even let Benitez on his game show after the jump.
Hope Solo has sensitive skin. But that’s not all we learn in her new Simple Skincare ad. This, straight from the goalkeeper’s mouth:
“I travel a lot. I’m on airplanes a lot … I go from city to city, from one climate to the next …”
What is this, a Jay-Z record? I kept waiting for the beat to drop and Hope to throw up the ROC sign.
Hope is a boss, even if her skin does get oily sometimes (happens to the best of us, champ).
By the way, Simple Skincare has a Facebook campaign offering the chance to win a trip to L.A. to meet Hope. I know at least one guy who’s interested!
How do you prefer your chicken? Grilled? Fried? Baked?
Me, I prefer mine blackburned. (BADUM-CHING!)
An unidentified chicken crossed the road (wink) then rushed the field yesterday while wearing a full-on Blackburn outfit during the club’s match against Wigan.
The little stunt was apparently orchestrated by a Blackburn fan (you don’t say?) who wanted to send a message to the club’s owners. 
The message: We need more poultry at concession stands! At least, that’s what I got out of it.
Thank goodness for Wigan goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi though, who went all Rocky II Sylvester Stallone and caught the thing before it ended up on a KFC assembly line.
A reenactment of the event after the jump.
Losing makes people do crazy things, like: choke their players, throw things and curse people out … or, all of the above. Real Talk: Where grown men act like babies! Also, was Cisse’s strike the goal of the year? You be the judge.
Check out last week’s episode featuring Barcelona’s crumbling empire.
Margo McAuley was once named the most beautiful soccer player in the country. Then she graduated, and suddenly became … the most beautiful recently graduated soccer player in the country. So, not much has changed in that department.
But McAuley has taken her talent to a bigger stage, recently starring in the above AXE commercial (contain yourself, fellas!). We recently caught up with McAuley (she spoke to us! She spoke to us!), who is looking to transition into broadcasting, and got her to dish the details on her new celebrity and her dating life.
Find out if Margo is single after the jump.
These new sports arenas are just too darn confusing. Take the above fan, for instance. While watching a Denver Nuggets game she had the sudden urge to use the restroom but wasn’t sure where to go. Naturally, she figured she’d ask one of the players (makes sense to me). How was she to know she couldn’t just walk onto the court during the game? (I’m still looking for that part in my NBA fan handbook).
The woman has been identified as 20-year-old Savannah McMillan-Christmas, and in addition to being out of season, she may be a little out of her mind. She is said to have been previously banned from the Nuggets’ arena for stalking a player.
I’m chalking this whole thing up to poor stadium logistics. If they’d built restrooms closer to the seats, this poor girl wouldn’t have felt the need to substitute herself into the game. Hey, when you have to go, you have to go!
Here are some other classic field crashers including a soccer take down or two after the jump.
