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    <entry>
        <title>MLS Looks Toward the Playoffs</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/204214/"/>
        <published>2008-10-09T22:00:22+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-09T22:00:22+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/204214/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Offside</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[We're into the last few weeks of the season for MLS. And since MLS is The League That Does Not Recognize International Breaks, this makes it one of the few leagues still playing this weekend. This makes it a good time to look at what's happening. First, I'd like to point everybody toward our [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>MLS Breaks Crystal Balls With Random Results</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/198901/"/>
        <published>2008-09-22T21:12:22+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-09-22T21:12:22+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/198901/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Soccer Tickets Online</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[There are only five weeks left in the MLS regular season, and no team has been statistically eliminated from competing in the playoffs. Parity, it seems, has been delivered by the league as promised. Unlike in the EPL where results are relatively easily to predict (or Serie A, where they are sometimes predetermined), MLS results seem to be almost [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>RailHawks finish 8th as 2008 season comes to close</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/198710/"/>
        <published>2008-09-22T12:26:22+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-09-22T12:26:22+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/198710/</id>
        <author>
            <name>TriSoccerFan</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[With the final results of the USL-1 season coming in Sunday night, Carolina is now officially the sole owner of 8th place in the USL-1 table. Atlanta did indeed lose on Sunday night, the result that the RailHawks would have needed to make the playoffs, if only Montreal could have drawn with Minnesota on Saturday, we would have secured a playoff spot.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>MLS Table Talk - Watch Out For the Godzilla-Quakes!</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/195128/"/>
        <published>2008-09-10T18:15:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-09-10T18:15:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/195128/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Fullback Files</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome back. So here we are with less than a quarter of the season to go, and still very little has been decided. Say what you will about the dreaded Parity Pox, but you've got to admit that it sure makes for a more entertaining spectacle than a league where you know that one of 4-5 teams is going to win the league, and do so in relative comfort compared to the rest of the field.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>The Set: Seven Reasons the Bundesliga Is Better Than the EPL</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/194785/"/>
        <published>2008-09-09T17:11:05+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-09-09T17:11:05+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/194785/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Bundesliga Talk</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[1. Parity Okay, let's not kid ourselves.  Not any team can win the Bundesliga.  But since the inception of the EPL in 1991, four teams have won the title: United, Blackburn, Chelsea and Arsenal, but United has won 11 of those titles.  In that same span, five teams have won the title in Germany: Kaiserslautern, BVB, [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Things To Learn From CCL Matchday Uno</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/191060/"/>
        <published>2008-08-27T03:52:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-27T03:52:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/191060/</id>
        <author>
            <name>CONCACAF Club Rankings</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[For all practical purposes the first matchday of the CONCACAF Champions League is over (Cruz Azul hasn't finished their game yet), but there are several things we can learn.<br> <br> 1. Never bet on a Belizian (I have no idea of that's right) team, especially if they play Cruz Azul. The game is not over yet, but Cruz Azul should advance from this night with a considerable aggregate lead, they currently lead 5-0.]]></summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>WVH Power Rankings: Sorting Out The Mess</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/189886/"/>
        <published>2008-08-26T10:51:37+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-26T10:51:37+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/189886/</id>
        <author>
            <name>WVHooligan</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A lot can change in one week. You can go from sitting on top of the world to forth or fifth place. It doesn't take much to change you place in line, just ask any Olympian. It's no different in the world of soccer, especially in a parity driven MLS. We've gotten 21 games in the [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Weekend Dose: 08.24.08</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/189427/"/>
        <published>2008-08-24T23:32:29+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-24T23:32:29+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/189427/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Offside</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Stuff to read while you get arrested for not paying your library fines....... An interview with Cesc. (Guardian) Perhaps Africa's talent doesn't begin and end on the pitch. (Reuters Soccer Blogs) Two weekends on, parity ahead in the prem? (EPL Talk) &quot;Don't Hassle the Hoff-enheim&quot;. (The Bundesliga Blog) Sheva heads back home to Milan.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>MLS Table Talk - A Sure Sign of Parity-Pox</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/187633/"/>
        <published>2008-08-19T15:19:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-19T15:19:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/187633/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Fullback Files</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's that time again--time to confront the almighty train-wreck that is the Major League Soccer table. Rather than stratifying as the season progresses, the dreaded specter of parity seems to be condensing everything into a giant ectoplasmic ooze. While it's true that 13 points separate first from worst, it's also true that no team has more than a three point lead over the team directly]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>WVH Power Rankings: New Top Dog</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/187547/"/>
        <published>2008-08-19T10:55:45+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-19T10:55:45+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/187547/</id>
        <author>
            <name>WVHooligan</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Two-third of the way through the season and things are still a complete mess in Major League Soccer. This may be the closest season we have seen in a long time, if ever. Mainly because of parity and because from week to week we just never know what will exactly happen like we think we [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Bayern Munich 2-2 HSV- Bundesliga 2008/09 opener</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/186514/"/>
        <published>2008-08-16T13:05:22+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-16T13:05:22+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/186514/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Soccer Blog|Football News, Reviews, Quizzes</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Jurgen Klinsmann had to do with a draw in his Bundesliga debut as FC Bayern Munich were held to a 2-2 draw by Hamburger SV. Bastian Schweinsteiger and Lukas Podolski gave the defending champions a 2-0 lead in the first half, but Paolo Guerrero and Pietr Trochowski restored parity for Hamburg as both teams walked [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Big Four Soon to Except New Members</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/194564/"/>
        <published>2008-08-12T20:25:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-12T20:25:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/194564/</id>
        <author>
            <name>In the End the Germans Win</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[No, not this year. Not yet. In a couple years time though Villa, Pompey, City or Spurs fans will rejoice as they look forward to a couple of matches against Sparta Prague, before being outclassed by some Spaniards and crashing out in the group stages. Still, it will be a better crusade than that experienced by Everton in 2005.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>WVH Power Rankings: Closing The Gap</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/184898/"/>
        <published>2008-08-12T10:32:04+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-12T10:32:04+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/184898/</id>
        <author>
            <name>WVHooligan</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Boy things sure are getting tight in the MLS standings. In a year full of parity, some clubs could be staring at no playoffs then to only win a single game and then jump five or six spots up the standings in a given week. We keep seeing that time and time again with how [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>How Did The Germans Get So Darn Good At Soccer?</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/184689/"/>
        <published>2008-08-11T17:56:22+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-08-11T17:56:22+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/184689/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Soccer Science</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Emma Hayes, the Head Coach of the Chicago Red Stars, is in China at the Olympic Games. Today, she blogged about the growing parity among teams at the world level. This post is my response to that blog. Here, I will look at the growth of women's world soccer, the German development of the game in their home country, and what this means to the American market.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>&quot;I went to a fight, and a soccer match broke out&quot;</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/181153/"/>
        <published>2008-07-31T12:55:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-07-31T12:55:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/181153/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Gruffgoat's Football Blog</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Did you ever think that old hockey joke would make its way to the soccer fields of America?<br> <br> If the two SuperLiga semi final matches are any indication of the current emotional state between Mexican and American club football, then I'm afraid unless something is done, the SuperLiga tournament will continue to have this major black eye (and bloody nose, and busted mouth, etc.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>EDITORIAL: Why Promotion/Relegation Will Probably  Never Be A Part of MLS</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/178899/"/>
        <published>2008-07-24T02:55:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-07-24T02:55:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/178899/</id>
        <author>
            <name>MLS Rumors</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[As MLS Expansion Fever continues to sweep the nation, there is a significant minority of American fans who consider this the best time to start calling for a European style Promotion/Relegation system to be imposed if/when MLS hits 24 teams. Let me remind you all why promotion/relegation will never be part of MLS.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Platini and a possible salary cap for Europe</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/175779/"/>
        <published>2008-07-15T02:19:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-07-15T02:19:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/175779/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Pro Soccer Weekly</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This was an interesting piece of news that Michel Platini proposed that Europeans clubs create a salary cap that would limit their wages to somewhere between 55-65% of their income. This is only a beginning and would have a long way to go before it would be adopted, but the potential could have huge ramifications throughout Europe.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Put Down the Canary, and Slowly Back Away</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/174508/"/>
        <published>2008-07-10T18:17:55+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-07-10T18:17:55+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/174508/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Offside - San Jose</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[So here we are.  Our beloved Quakes are on a sad, sad road that could lead us to a new record in offensive futility, even making the tepid Toronto side of a year ago look like an attacking juggernaut.  The good news is that I've seen encouraging signs during this grueling road trip.  The midfield [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Achtung Chromoxid</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/171592/"/>
        <published>2008-06-30T19:28:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-06-30T19:28:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/171592/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Sideline Views</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[1. New England Revolution - Nicol and Co. rise above the parity of MLS.<br> 2. Columbus Crew - Ekpo adds another weapon to the Crew's arsenal<br> 3. DC United - Unstoppable in June<br> 4. Toronto FC - Still need to show something on the road.<br> 5. New York Red Bulls - Grading on grit instead of style, this team is up there.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/171202/"/>
        <published>2008-06-29T12:51:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-06-29T12:51:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/171202/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Wrighty7</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Joker of the year award has to go to Emmanuel Adebayor. He feels he deserves a contract in parity with what Thierry Henry was earning at Arsenal.<br> <br> I've news for you Ade, Thierry Henry was and is an Arsenal legend who will remembered and revered by Gooners for ever, you my friend have just come off the back of one good season season, and will be forgotten about within six months.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>MLS Table Talk - MLS Scheduling Homunculi &amp; SuperLiga Spanners</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/167957/"/>
        <published>2008-06-18T13:37:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-06-18T13:37:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/167957/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Fullback Files</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[What an almighty mess! Just look at that 7-club pileup around the playoff Mason-Dixon line for evidence of the terrible paw of parity taking its mandatory swipe at the table. Only three points--a one game swing--separate Houston in 6th from Chivas in 14th. While the Revs struggle to detach themselves at the top of the table, and Columbus try to reel them back in, the expansion Quakes are]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>PFC Downed 2-1; League Parity Throughout 2nd Week</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/173885/"/>
        <published>2008-05-20T17:27:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-05-20T17:27:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/173885/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Pistolas F.C.</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[MARKHAM - It was a rigid cold May 18th with temperatures hovering around the 4 degree celcius mark during pregame warmups, and a thin film of rain to start at kickoff.<br> <br> A tussle from the get go, Markham Crush scored two rather early, lucky goals in the first half thanks to the wind and a lucky bounce.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Tickle v. Tackle - Save My Game!</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/151293/"/>
        <published>2008-04-24T12:30:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-04-24T12:30:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/151293/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Fullback Files</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[DC United Tickle Yeah . . . ummmm . . . so, like, not too many injuries, huh? Well, baring a certain hairy ankle that just won't heal. Seriously, not much is going right for the Black-and-Red at the moment, but I think that it's a little too early to start making folks (Soehn, Peralta, Emilio, Wells) walk the plank.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>MLS Nears Closer to True Parity</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/149745/"/>
        <published>2008-04-18T18:38:20+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-04-18T18:38:20+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/149745/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Silly Season</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Getting Closer to Every Team Finishing With 40 Points By Michael Davis With the MLS season underway, and a few perennial winners starting off slowly, it appears MLS is nearing it's true goal of having every team finish with forty points. One may ask the question, why make teams as evenly matched as possible, doesn't that make the [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Tickle v. Tackle - 1789 and Alexi's Vomit-inducing Cake</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/148748/"/>
        <published>2008-04-15T14:46:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-04-15T14:46:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/148748/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Fullback Files</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[MLS Tickle - Oh, the misery! Oh, the hilarity! Woebegone TFC come stumbling to Los Angeles, half-lame, their red rags hanging off win-malnourished frames. And the not-so-Galactico defense spreads its molasses legs wide and begs for more. I can't wait for the heads to start rolling through the smog!]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>MLS Dogpile (Week 17) - Company, Halt!</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/82138/"/>
        <published>2007-07-31T19:48:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2007-07-31T19:48:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/82138/</id>
        <author>
            <name>The Fullback Files</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ALPHA DOG<br> <br> 1. Houston Dynamo - W W W D D - The Dynamo have carried their good form into SuperLiga and will be looking to advance to the semifinals of that competition tomorrow night. The only sour note comes from the consecutive draws that mark their last two MLS appearances. Can they get right back on the trail that leads to the Supporters' Shield?]]></summary>
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