There are myriad annual sporting events: Wimbledon, The Six Nations, The British Open Championships and of course the Barclays Premier League. Internally, The Premier League has it's own idiosyncratic, yearly occurrences and every Arsenal fan's personal favourite is the Gunners 4th place prediction. Click to continue reading...

The sporting security authorities suffered a blow on Tuesday, when it was announced that Javier Castrilli, 'El Sheriff', Subsecretary of Sporting Events Security, had resigned from his post. Disagreements with Aníbal Fernández, the Minister of Justice and Security, led Castrilli to feel that, 'the most healthy and least traumatic option [for me] was to resign. Click to continue reading...

Only Time Time Will Tell went on line Nov. 4, 2006 at 9:58 p.m. blasting Mark Jones for the way called a football game. Almost two years later, the Only Time Will Tell Crew has attended countless sporting events and watched millions of hours of events on television, the crew has decided to go mobile. Click to continue reading...

Scott Wolf looks at the adjustments overseas players have to make in MLS from the perspective of the Galaxy's foreign contingent.

Dunno about you, but Abel Xavier's criticism of the tactical awareness of U.S. players might hold more water if he could still, y'know, play defense.

In a related story the L.

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*The U.S. Women's National Team is playing Norway right now. The truly fanatical can follow along on MatchTracker here.

*The Revolution plays the Galaxy Friday marking the first time former Los Angeles defender Chris Albright has played his old team since his trade to New England.

"I was kind of hurt by it.

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ESPN Deportes' exclusive Spanish-language coverage of the Germany-Spain EURO 2008 Final on Sunday, June 29 was one of the highest-rated sporting events on Spanish-language television so far this year.  The EURO2008 final delivered a 10.08 Hispanic household coverage rating (357,000 households) and delivered 647,000 Hispanic viewers. Click to continue reading...

Nice right? Unlike some of the Nike adverts from a few years ago, all of this is actually supposed to be real, un-altered footage. And if that is the case someone needs to sign Frenchman Remi Gaillard ASAFP. Just let stand at the edge of the 18 and have at it...with his accuracy he's gotta hit at least 20% of his tries. Click to continue reading...

1:0

I think that they were better over the 90 minutes and they
fully deserved the win. I think they played better.
- NEW YORK RED BULLS FORWARD
JUAN PABLO ANGEL

After losing 4-0 in East Rutherford last month no one expected Columbus to dominate this match like they did for the full 90. Click to continue reading...

1:0

I think that they were better over the 90 minutes and they
fully deserved the win. I think they played better.
- NEW YORK RED BULLS FORWARD
JUAN PABLO ANGEL

After losing 4-0 in East Rutherford last month no one expected Columbus to dominate this match like they did for the full 90. Click to continue reading...

Stefani Miglioranzi scored the game-winner. (Greg Bartram/MLS/WireImage.com )

2:1

"I don't care how we played. I don't care what
it looked like. A win is a win, and we are very
happy." - Crew coach Sigi Schmid.

I could agree with Sigi more, after playing a lot of beautiful football we finally have a down game and end up getting the result.

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Looking at the Big Soccer pregame thread 48% of Crew Nation thinks we're going to win this one:

Win by two or more goals - 16.30%
Win by one goal - 31.52%
Tie - 19.57%
Lose by one goal - 18.48%
Lose by two or more goals - 14.13%

I personally voted for win by two or more goals as I think we're a stronger club than the team that visited KC last month not to mention that the Wizards are with out MLS leading scorer Eddie Johnson. Click to continue reading...