Sanna Nyassi is The Baddest Man in MLS, Today™

Some of you have read the title of this post and now believe I am inexplicalbly more full of sh*t than usual. You're saying to yourself "Sanna Nyassi is the baddest man? C'mon son." I know it sounds crazy but we're talking about today people; after the dirt he did to RBNY last night dude deserves some sort of recognition, even if it comes from an aging manic-depressive with a Blogspot account.

Sorry Caleb Folan, but you have just been styled on in the Conor Casey replacement stakes; get comfy on that bench cousin.

Punks Jump Up to Get Beatdown: Journalists v. Players Edition

Yes, there is a rainbow in the picture. Those things are pretty and happy, right? But there's also a UN truck on the touchline and I can't figure that's a good thing because, let's be honest here, the UN is only called in when things have gotten way too real.

But if the latest news out of Liberia is to believed, that truck might be there for the purpose of keeping players from issuing beatdowns to reporters who portray them in less than flattering lights. Who knew former MLSers Francis "Grandpa" Doe and Luis Crayton were living the thug life?

[H/T to IMS]

CHIVAS USA MIGHT GET GHANAIAN GOAT

ALLEGEDLY CHIVAS USA ARE SIGNING THIS GUY. I DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS BUT HE'S A MEMBER OF THE GHANAIAN NATIONAL TEAM AND HAS A MIXTAPE LONGER THAN THE LAST DROPDEAD ALBUM SO SURELY HE'S SOMEBODY TO SOMEONE. QUESTION IS "IS HE SOMEONE THAT CAN DISPLACE JIMMY CONRAD, HEATH PEARCE OR ZAREK VALENTIN?"

And You Thought Your Team Has Silly Name

Joseph Ngwenya is now D.C. United property but reports out of Africa say he's still in his native Zimbabwe and training with a local club called...Chicken Inn. Suddenly Thailand Tobacco Monopoly doesn't seem that bad.

Things You Don't See Every Day...

...a dedication ceremony for a dirt soccer field. If that doesn't tell you everything (or at least a lot) about how good suburban American kids have it we need to talk. Or at the very least chat via the comments.