The newly re-tooled Yanks are heading down to T&T for Wednesday's next WCQ match. Hear what a bald man with an accent and a man with crazy eyes and an accent have to say about it. Do you want to know what I have to say about it? Who cares, I'm a nobody on Blogspot. Click to continue reading...

Feel free to agree or disagree with Johnny Harkes on the following:

D.C. United 2008 = A Bust
U.S. v. Cuba = 80's Babies on parade
Rio Tinto field = "almost Wembley condition"
Designated Players = It could go either way
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As I watch this clip of last night's broadcast from the ABC's news affiliate in Salt Lake City, all I can really hear in my head is Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan straining out the chorus from his 1996 hit "Tonight, Tonight". Click to continue reading...

How messed up will it be if Landon Donovan breaks 20 goals and snags the Golden Boot this year while not making the playoffs? Click to continue reading...

Alguna vez has escuchado los nombres de Carlos Hurtado o Guillermo Lara, supuestos promotores que proveen jugadores a distintos clubes de México y que en algunos casos están inmiscuidos en hacer negocios a la hora de hacer transferencia de algún jugador. Ciertamente sería muy injusto estar cuestionando cosas que no me constan, pero con el [. Click to continue reading...

Alguna vez has escuchado los nombres de Carlos Hurtado o Guillermo Lara, supuestos promotores que proveen jugadores a distintos clubes de México y que en algunos casos están inmiscuidos en hacer negocios a la hora de hacer transferencia de algún jugador. Ciertamente sería muy injusto estar cuestionando cosas que no me constan, pero con el [. Click to continue reading...

I love watching Premier League teams on television just as much as anyone, but I must admit that I'm a bit sick of EPL teams monopolizing ESPN's Champions League coverage in their Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon timeslots. This has been happening for a couple of years. I'm sure ESPN thinks that the more often they show [. Click to continue reading...

Allez Lyon!!!

Lyon:

Lloris
Reveillere - Cris - Bodmer - Kallstrom
Juninho - Toulalan - Makoun
Govou - Fred - Benzema

Bench: Vercoutre, Boumsong, Kallstrom, Ederson, Piquionne, Mounier

Bayern:

Rensing
Oddo - Breno - Lucio - Lahm
Schweinsteiger - Demichelis - Ze Roberto - Ribery
Klose - Toni

Bench: Butt, Van Buyten, Podolski, Ottl, Van Bommel, Sosa, Borowski

Feel free to post commentary, frustrations, and thoughts here during and after the game.

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Plenty to read while you're waiting to see Manchester United play ... who's that again? And then we've got CONCACAF.

Times ET; home teams first

Europe

Live:
- Zenit St. Petersburg-Real Madrid, 12:25 p.m., ESPN Deportes
- Aalborg-Manchester United, 2:30 p.

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Sin duda ha sido una decisión acertada loq ue ha hecho la cadena deprotiva ESPN en Latinoamérica con su proyecto ESPN Cine, donde conovocaron a realizar cortometrajes deportivos. Hay seis finalistas, dos chilenos, dos mexicanos, un colombiano y un venezolano. La verdad, todos están bien realizados, son buenas historias,  así que lo mejor es verlas todas [. Click to continue reading...

Forget questions 1,2,4 & 5. While they are valid, it's question #3 that is the juiciest, most-debatable one of the bunch. Have at it in the comments. Click to continue reading...

I'm 5'9". Am I shorter than my dude Al Hopkins? He's definitely in better shape than me but I think I have an inch or two on him. Click to continue reading...

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The 2008 season isn't over, but with just a few games remaining in the regular season, I don't think it's too early to start looking at some of the bigger trades in MLS and how they have shaken out.

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The 2008 season isn't over, but with just a few games remaining in the regular season, I don't think it's too early to start looking at some of the bigger trades in MLS and how they have shaken out.

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CONCACAF Champions League News

Official CCL website
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Matchday 2 Matches & Scores:
-Tue Sep 23
San Francisco 0-0 Houston Dynamo
Puerto Rico Islanders 3-1 Santos Laguna - PRI goals by Osei Telesford, Noah Delgado & Edwin Miranda. Click to continue reading...

ESPN: The Magazine weighs in on the portfolio-enhancing pull owning an English soccer team has on wealthy American sports baron's. It's nothing we haven't read before, but worth 5 minutes of your time if you have it. And I know you do because you're reading this blog instead of spending another minute in Excel hell. Click to continue reading...

ESPN2 will be all Chi-town down tonight when the Galaxy comes to town to finally give us the Becks-Landon-Lewis vs. Blanco-McBride-Mapp match that we missed out on a few weeks back. Even though both teams haven't exactly been pissing excellence as of late (LA's result against D.C. aside) I'm more excited to watch this than any of the CONCACAF Champions League games/ass-whippings that were on this week. Click to continue reading...

Look at the happy couple. Cheryl said the wedding is back on and she has forgiven Ashley for his sins.

Not only that, she's gonna let him party and hang with the boys without bother.

Sounds fishy to me.

• Remembering soccer at Yankee Stadium. [Goal!]
  
• Kahn snubs return from retirement.

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Peter Vermes chatted with Martin Rogers of Yahoo! Sports last week, and the article came out late last night. Rogers used the chat as a platform for discussing some of the big-money investors to join the League in the last couple of years such as Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig and the rest of OnGoal. Rogers also calls PV the most wanted man in MLS and references job offers from LA and Seattle. Click to continue reading...

Let's not beat around the bush. This thing about Landon Donovan moving to Bavarian titans Bayern Munich has been floating around the Inter-nets for a couple weeks. It gained steam a couple days ago in an ESPN.com story where Donovan basically said he wants to move to Germany, or someplace in Europe to give it another crack after two colossal failures at Bayer Leverkausen where he initially signed Click to continue reading...

Clint Dempsey to ESPN. When asked if he thought he'd get an opportunity soon, Dempsey replied, "No." "What keeps me sane is the national team to go to and play," he said. "Right now I'm playing well for them, and I find confidence in that. Having two different teams to play for and being able to feel [. Click to continue reading...

1. A Good Walk Spoiled

Not that I would ever consider golf to be a sport, but I quite enjoyed replacing my weekly boo with Boo Weekley for a while this weekend.

That said, I'd like the chance to boo Boo Weekley weekly. What a tool.

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Attention MLS fans (ESPECIALLY those in the Washington, DC area still clinging to any residual smugness towards the "Yellow Football Team"): Columbus Crew jokes are officially off the kosher list.

That's a good squad playing over there at the Ohio Fairgrounds and regardless of how "small," "boring," or "middle-America" the city may or may not be, its soccer club has finally assembled a talented, successful team that's also fun to watch. Click to continue reading...

The more I watch ESPN, the more I'm bound to roll over laughing uncontrollably at the sensational headlines it features on its nightly Sportscenter shows. I understand, though hardly agree with, the media's insatiable hunger for hyperbole. But now, it's become painfully obvious that the newtork is desparate for ratings. Click to continue reading...

He's the new World Cup mascot, and clearly way more awesome than those Trix and Flix Euro losers.

Zakumi. I kinda like it. And it's clever too.

The first two letters of Zakumi are the country's initials in Afrikaans - one of South Africa's 11 official languages. "Kumi'' means 10 - for the year of the tournament - in many African languages, World Cup organizers said.

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Adweek has a very interesting article about network and league sites that are getting into online streaming. In it, MLS gets a mention and rightfully so. Since day one of the league, they have always had an online media presence in some way or form. From being the first to stream games, to their partnership with YouTube (something the Premier League would probably never do in our lifetimes), Major League Soccer was always ahead of the curve.

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My Beckham sidebar is on espn.com now.

Now, a few people might be thinking, "Hey! What about the guy that scored the hat trick?"

Not to worry. I've got a piece coming up on him, too.

But this one was about captain Becks, who seemed pretty business-like about the win. Click to continue reading...

Continuing the long-winded look at all the reform ideas people are raising for MLS, here's a hypothetical schedule if MLS had an Apertura-Clausura schedule next year, an overwhelmingly busy international year thanks to World Cup qualifying and a couple of marginally important tournaments.

We'd set it up this way:

- The Apertura and Clausura winners both get automatic berths in the CONCACAF Champions League and MLS Cup berths.

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Good afternoon folks. With another week in the rearview mirror, and another weekend upon us where we can relax and enjoy some soccer, here is a look back at some stories I missed during the week, some hot topics I wanted to touch on and some recommended reading:

The San Jose-Houston Dynamo match set for this weekend has been postponed as Houston recovers from Hurricane Ike.

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Well obviously, you do!

But ever wonder who else reads MLSR? So did we.

So once again we present you a partial picture. Last time we presented some demographics of what type of people read MLSR. This time we give you a geographic breakdown, and even more interesting, a partial list of firms who have been checking us out. Click to continue reading...

Ah, the Home Depot Center - acres of athletic facilities, a number of sporting personalities, and one frazzled me, trying to get stuff for stories.

I ran from the Galaxy's practice field to try to catch Claudio Suarez before he left with his teammates on a bus to the airport. I waited by the front entrance of the complex as various Chivas USA players walked by from the practice field. Click to continue reading...

Just received:

Hey,

Looks like 'Temo may head back south at the end of the season.

I heard Jorge Ramos on the ESPN Deportes Radio show say that Mexican Club San Luis want to buy out Blanco's contract to bring him back to Mexico. They cited the success Chicago has had with sponsors and attendance and San Luis want to copy that for their club.

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The U.S. men's national team's next World Cup qualifier isn't for another three weeks but all U.S. fans want to talk about is which new players Bob Bradley will bring into the World Cup qualifying mix.

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The table never lies: Hamburg are on top. (Bundesliga Talk) That's why Rod Gilmor looks at the mixed fortunes of Martin Jol's current and former club. (Telegraph) Goals Lukas Podolski can actually celebrate become a rare sight. (Ballspiel) New Axis of Evil: you're either with Hoffenheim or against Hoffenheim. Click to continue reading...

See here's the thing. You and I (assuming you have as little access and professional influence amongst the soccerati as I have) can scream "Cap Kenny Cooper now!" as loud we want and no one is going to listen. We're just the crazy, homeless guy with a brown bag of booze standing on the corner of Soccerville Lane & Internet Road talking about how the end is nigh et cetera, et cetera; you pass him off as a nut, walk past and think nothing of him. Click to continue reading...