Congratulations to Real Salt Lake, who enjoyed their first ever practice at their brand new stadium. Hopefully that distracts them from their upcoming road trip to face the Earthquakes at Buck Shaw. At least they'll have something nice to go... Click to continue reading...

From Joe Cannon's humorus blog on the 'Quakes website:

"Beating the best team in MLS by four goals, along with a full moon created a weird night out at Buck Shaw. (We really should rename the new stadium when we play there...the house that Joe Cannon built sounds wonderful huh? Click to continue reading...

Ground: King's Park (2nd visit) Date: Wednesday 20th August 2008, 7.45 pm Competition: FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round Replay Match:   Meir KA    4    Goodrich    4 AET FT: 3-3 5-4 on pens 2 HT: 1-1 Att: 76               Wright 25            Hughes 35               Maszkiel 87        Morgan 65 (Pen),80,97                                Chin-Shaw 90, 105 Additional: Entrance: £4 Programme: £1 Hot drinks: Coffee 75p Tea 50p This match is what the FA Cup is all about. Click to continue reading...

Time for Seattle to beat down another MLS team.

This time in a September 2nd friendly at Buck Shaw Stadium.

And yes, this is the start of a rivalry. Maybe not a blood, sweat and tears one, but one nonetheless.

"We are excited to welcome Seattle to MLS next season," said Earthquakes Executive Vice President David Alioto.

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If you need a translation from the Bay Area hyphy-speak that rap legend E-40 is throwing out in the image above to English, I would start with having a look at Wikipedia. The next --and most crucial step-- is to check out the rotund rapper's "Slang of the Day". Once you have a handle on the basics I'd suggest you check the video for his NorCal anthem with Keak Da Sneak"Tell Me When to Go". Click to continue reading...

"It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work."

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
George Bernard Shaw

Sorry to start with deep thoughts tonight, but I think my faith in TFC 2008 took an earthquake shake tonight and I went off the Google deep end looking for quotes to reflect my state of my mind. Click to continue reading...

In the all MLS / all Primera División SuperLiga derbies tonight, the Houston Dynamo will take on the all but eliminated DC United at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C at 8:00PM Eastern.

On the other side of the country Atlante will play CD Guadalajara at Buck Shaw in Santa Clara (beware of all the damned vampires) at 10:00PM Eastern, with all four teams in the group looking at chances to advance. Click to continue reading...

All interested parties are most likely already at Buck Shaw (or at least in transit), but I fight on to bring you a mini-preview before today's match. Preview: We will win. Now that that's over, let me rant a little bit (because what else are blogs for?) about Comcast. With the All-Star game 12 [. Click to continue reading...

If you have a questions for Heather Reid all things Capital Football, Anthony Hatton all things Ateam4Canberra and Adem Poric all things Small Sided Games and I'm not sure he's a believer, please email me. Details of tonights show below.


Nationally Terry Henry joins us as host, Former Sheff Wed and Aussie Youth Team Representative and Total Football Academy entrepreneur Adem Poric is live in the studio. Click to continue reading...

The Sutherland Sharks prevailed 2-1 over Sydney FC in an upset result as the amateurs got one over the professionals. The game was played in front of a packed Seymour Shaw stadium (a crowd of around 4,000-5,000 while others had to be turned away) which really shows the kind of interest that the A-League is [. Click to continue reading...

The San Jose Earthquakes announced today the club has named Santa Clara University's Buck Shaw Stadium as their temporary venue for the majority of the home games during the 2008 and 2009 seasons, with an option for 2010. Of course their 'big' games with the LA Galaxy will still be at Oakland's McAfee Stadium or Stanford [...] Click to continue reading...

Buddy of mine with Shaw digital here in Victoria just told me that over the weekend Shaw added Setanta to their digital lineup on channel 154. And I came across this posting at The Voyageurs site by someone who works at Shaw confirming it. Here is the post from a guy named Bill Currie: While most [...] Click to continue reading...