Fox Sports Net (FSN), the regional Fox TV sports affiliates around the United States, will play
more of a pivotal role during the 2009-2010 season in broadcasting not only the recently acquired
Champions League coverage but also Premier League football, according to a unnamed source.
In fact, you'll be able to enjoy five hours of continuous soccer coverage on Tuesdays when
Champions League matches are scheduled.
We first encountered this sad saga a year and a half ago when veteran BigSoccer maven
Matrim55 POSTED THIS PIECE about the rape prosecution of former UCSB midfielder and 2007 Kansas
City draftee Eric Frimpong, a native of Ghana.
The alledged victim, known only as Jane Doe, was a freshman at UC Santa Barbara in 2006 when the
Gauchos won the NCAA Championship due in large part to Frimpong's contributions.
It seems that ever since FIFA decided that the 2010 World Cup was to be held in
South Africa, they have worried about every possible problem. They have had to prepare a back-up
plans for everything, from stadium construction to hotel accommodation and now even electrical
consumption.
2 Blackouts. Stuttgart continued to show signs of life in their game against
Sevilla and they continued to produce stupid defensive lapses, which continually cost them the
games. Two such mistakes, coupled with the referee missing an offside position helped Sevilla to a
comfortable 3-1 victory.
All you who criticized Bruce Arena, said the game had passed him by, said he relied too much on old
veterans...all you who said Dema Kovalenko was a one-dimensional hack...all you who said there was
no way Ricketts or Berhalter would make it through the whole season...all you who said that Beckham
and Donovan couldn't work together.
Kyle Beckerman and RSL are going to MLS Cup 2009. (Getty Images)
Looking back on this past weekend that was the conference finals I must say the result isn't as
shocking as it initially was. The thought of a LA Galaxy-Real Salt Lake MLS Cup final was something
no one would have called back in March, hell or even back at the beginning of this very month.
