Podcast 12: 2008-9 Worksheet: Kick Out Racism Pre-Listening / Background information This week's show focuses on the Kick It Out campaign which battles against racism in football. The organisation's website can be found here. A. Main Idea - timeline Listen to the report and fill in the table below with appropriate information. Click to continue reading...

On this week's show languagecaster reports on Kick It Out and the background to this anti-racism campaign in England. Both Damon and Damian are happy to review the footballing week as their teams recorded some good results, and... We also: Review the football news in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Introduce a new football expression in [. Click to continue reading...

L.A. Sol holding midfielder Shannon Boxx, a former South (Torrance) High star, was today named one of the 10 finalists for the annual FIFA honor. The U.S. Women's National Team player finished third in balloting for the award in 2005.

Also named to the list: her (hopefully) soon to be Sol teammate Marta.

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A few items this morning:
*The impending David Beckham loan deal to AC Milan has prompted the Galaxy to postpone its scheduled Dec. 11 game against the Queensland Roar due to the uncertainty of his availability, according to the BBC. Hmmm, it's the Beckham tail clearly wagging the Galaxy dog.

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The L.A. Women's Professional Soccer team will be called the Sol (the lasses of LAS!).

Check out the logo and team colors (guess we should have figured a team owned in part by the owner of the W-League Pali Blues would stick with a primarily blue - dark and light - color scheme with accents of yellow and black).

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Champions League surprises, Brazilian brawls and the troubles at Tottenham feature in this week's good, the bad and the ugly. Click on the links after each story below to find out more. Good Yet again Romanian side Cluj and Cypriot team Famagusta feature as their Champions League dreams stay alive. Cluj drew at home to fancied Chelsea [. Click to continue reading...