Yahoo! LAUNCH - News: Third Eye Blind To Play Soccer All-Star Game



7/23/03, 1 p.m. ET) -- Third Eye Blind has signed on to be the halftime entertainment at the upcoming Major League Soccer All-Star Game. The event takes place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on August 2, and will be televised on ABC. The band will playing its latest single "Crystal Baller."



Third Eye Blind will be set up on the field of the Rose Bowl, a safe distance from any over-excited fans--which may be a good thing. Lead singer Stephan Jenkins tells LAUNCH he was once accosted on stage by a rabid fan.



"I've been tackled by a naked girl,” Jenkins said. “I would describe her body as plush and voluptuous. She got on top of me, on stage, in front of 8,000 people, and she, well, she grinded on me. And as this strange girl was about to be pulled off of me and she was grinding on me and I was singing away, I thought, 'This is so f--king rock!'"



The MLS All-Star Game is unique in professional sports in that it pits the best players from the league against a team from Mexico. Other professional sports' all-star games have members of the league playing against each other.