Last week, the balloting closed for the Honda Player of the Year award, given to the best U.S. national team player for the calendar year. While choosing a winner has been tough in recent years, voters shouldn't need much time deciding who to vote for in 2008. Click to continue reading...

The LB/Sideline View Readers vote for the 2008 Honda Player of the Year is in. I just sent my vote over, about 11 hours before the polls close.

If our readers' opinions are any indications, a certain English-based player will win in a landslide.

There were 26 first-place votes submitted - 18 of them were for Tim Howard. Click to continue reading...

Ballots are due very soon for the Honda Player of the Year award, given to the top U.S. men's player. That's a tough call considering that we're halfway through the games that count (qualifiers).

My ballot went as follows:

1st: Tim Howard. Bob Bradley's defense-first approach relies heavily on him to be perfect.

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It's that time to vote again, and no I don't mean in the presidential election.

No, this concerns US Soccer and the annual Honda Player of the Year award.

Now, our readers have done well in the past to help me fill out my ballot so I wanted to continue that trend. Help me fill out my ballot! Click to continue reading...

Pretty sure it's Ryu, but it could be Ken. Oh man, great game.

This guy puts up a good effort but I don't think it holds up to my E. Honda thousand-hand clap celebration of '97. Click to continue reading...

If you are surfing to this blog, you probably saw the USA squeak by Japan 1-0 to open up the Olympic tournament for the Stars and Stripes. A fair result could have been 2-1 for Japan, which created more dangerous chances than our boys and demonstrated more fluid passing and coherent defense.

I'll delve into this more later but here are a few quick bits:

Brian McBride - Battled hard as always but there was seldom anyone available for the second ball. Click to continue reading...

The Olympic Men's Football tournament starts on Thursday, 7 August. The 16 qualified countries named their squads last week and most of the players play their club football in the Netherlands. The Dutch squad contains 13 players from the Netherlands, while Belgium has selected six players from the Eredivisie. Click to continue reading...

From the sounds of everything last night in the Honda SuperClasico, Chivas USA keeper Brad Guzan seemingly played his last game for the Red-and-White. After the 1-1 tie against the Galaxy, Guzan didn't exactly say anything to dismiss the rumors of a possible transfer to EPL side Aston Villa in his post-match interview with ESPN's [. Click to continue reading...

A 12ft x 12ft x 18ft SuperSlide.. A Honda PSi 125 rental... A batman costume hire... Or an England women's player with enough change for a few pints after the game. Click to continue reading...

A 12ft x 12ft x 18ft SuperSlide.. A Honda PSi 125 rental... A batman costume hire... Or an England women's player with enough change for a few pints after the game. Click to continue reading...

A 12ft x 12ft x 18ft SuperSlide.. A Honda PSi 125 rental... A batman costume hire... Or an England women's player with enough change for a few pints after the game. Click to continue reading...