First of all, I am getting to this dreadfully late. I've been just hammered at work and with travel
and thus have been terribly behind on writing here on the site. I am reminded by the saying my old
Ohio State journalism professor Rose Hume used to bat dated story ideas down.
"This is a newspaper, not and oldspaper.
By force of an interesting coincidence, two MLS players of note unfortunately connected because
they are each out of action due to brain-related injuries have updates posted to major newspaper
websites. Though concussions are rarer in soccer than in American football, the cases of these two
players and their ability to bring attention to the seriousness of the issue is an important part
of the continuing growth in awareness of brain injuries in sports.
Union
Goal.com's head-to-head preview of Saturday's match against Chivas USA has the Philly guy
predicting a 2–0 Union win and the Chivas guy a 3–1 Union win. Our preview predicts a 2–1 win
if Jonathan Bornstein plays, a 3–1 win if he doesn't.
The Daily News takes a closer look at what the Union will be doing with the $50K it won for high
school soccer in Chester.
STARTERSIn this day and age of soccer on TV seemingly everywhere isn't it sad that tonight we have the
SuperLiga final and both US Open Cup semifinals, and none of the 3 games are on English language
television. As a matter of fact, the Open Cup games aren't on television at all.
STARTERSPhiladelphia brought in 15 year old defender Zach Pfeffer for the final 10 minutes of their
friendly with Chivas of Guadalajara last night. He is on their acadamy team. Wow.
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Chicago says they have a major player announcement for Friday at high noon.
STARTERSThierry Henry will NOT play on Friday night when New York goes to LA due to a sprained knee he has
been nursing, and now needs to rest.
STORY OF THE DAYGeoffrey Arnold of the Oregonian does a Q & A with MLS commissioner Donald L Garber on the progress
in Portland, and the rumors surrounding changes in the near future for the league.
