Category Archives: Extras

We couldn’t finish our coverage of the USMNT’s game against Russia without also giving you a squad full of the best Russian names and faces an oil oligarch can buy. We’ve lined them up in the kind of 4-3-3 where … Continue reading →

This week’s Tuesday XI recognizes that there are far more important things to discuss than today’s U.S. presidential election: This Friday’s impending stateside release of Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond movie. Bond films are big deals here at our site, … Continue reading →

Being Americans, we’ve been hearing a lot recently, albeit tangentially, about some kinds of debates or something that have been going on around these parts. Here at The Other 87, we’re not much for talking out our differences. It sounds … Continue reading →

If you’ve been on the Internet at any point in the last month, you probably already know that this year marks the 25th anniversary of The Princess Bride. To mark the occasion, we’re joining all the other websites out there … Continue reading →

In honor of Zinedine Zidane’s new monument outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris, we bring you ten more somewhat less-than-glorious images from the beautiful game that need to be cast in bronze.  1. I’d love for future civilizations to dig … Continue reading →

We forgot to run this squad of 80’s action heroes last month when the Expendables sequel hit theaters. Luckily, if the movie proves one thing, it’s that it’s never too late to get these has-beens out on the field of … Continue reading →

We here at The Other 87 like to fancy ourselves a collection of tactical whiz kids, and so when we say that this week’s Tuesday Ten is a collection of ten possible scenarios Jurgen Klinsmann is considering as he looks … Continue reading →

Today we celebrate the return of the school year by thinking of the children. Not just any children, but badass ones – the kids we all wanted to be when we grew up. Some of them might have aged and … Continue reading →

It’s the most wonderful time of year: transfer season! Here at The Other 87, we don’t peddle in rumors or speculation. If we say it’s going to happen in the two and a half weeks before the window closes, then … Continue reading →

In honor of that other worldwide sporting event, (The Winter Olympics don’t count. Just don’t get me started on it.) here’s a squad made up of athletes who have left their mark on the 2012 Olympics. (We’ve left off actual soccer players; … Continue reading →