Remember that New Mexico womens soccer player Elizabeth Lambert that displayed some 'roid rage a couple weeks ago against BYU?
Well she got all dolled up for a New York Times story in response to that game.
Pretty interesting stuff.
Now the links:

• Don't fart in the refs face.

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Right about now is a probably good time to start another serious discussion of finding a better way to determine a winner in a soccer match of enormous magnitude besides the dreaded PK shootout.
Someplace else.
Not that I'm a fan of the thing - far from it. It's just that the gut punch delivered to the Fire and their fans last night after 120 minutes of emotion, drama and desire seems worthy of something more than just another tedious discussion of the rules of the game. Click to continue reading...

He's a long and difficult name to spell but it is something we will have to get use to with Anthony Ampaipitakwong.

We're back for more 2010 MLS SuperDraft talk. I had meant to get to this yesterday but lost track of time in updating some of my lists for this. So far the response from everyone has been very good, so keep it up everyone.

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Preki is leaving Chivas USA...so where will he go next? (Getty Images)

Some news that I'd like to say we've been calling here for the last couple weeks has finally come down. Chivas USA and Preki have decided to go their own ways as they mutually agree to Preki stepping down as the club's manager, this according to a press release just sent out by the club.

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I know this news came down yesterday but I just never got the time to talk about it until this morning. Funny how only a couple days before RSL's big conference final in Chicago the big news surrounding the club isn't an injury to a key player or anything like that but the pending sale of 49% of the team to a local businessman from current owner Dave Checketts.

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At least Barca drew with Rubin Kazan this time, but in no way did they impress. Something about Champion's League play has the boys from the shore playing snake-bitten...and I think I know what it is.

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Take a look at the crew from Barcelona and answer me one question. Even though they are the reigning European Champions (and have a huge bullseye on their backs) do you think they kind of expect to be in the Final 16?

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Will we see more of Conor Casey with the US National Team? (Getty Images)

Good evening folks, I hope everyone is having a good day. Now that we are in the evening it is time once again for some links and thoughts. I only have two items tonight and really only one link.

My first thought of the night centers around the US Men's National team and their upcoming friendlies this month in Europe.

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The Reds of Liverpool showed great promise early in the season going on a 6 match winning streak after dropping their first match to Tottenham. Then, over the last 4 matches...they've lost 3. Liverpool was so UPthat I considered doing a long interest piece on the team, then I got distracted with all the other mayhem and foolishness going on in the Premier League and now I look up and they've lost 3 of 4 matches.

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I haven't been paying much attention to the Premiership action these last couple weeks, but one glance at the table shows my pick Chelsea still leading the way.
Liverpool has a gastly 6-5-0 record, so I can only imagine that Reds fans and the English press are putting the pressure on Rafa Benitez (above). Click to continue reading...

Bethke-to-Kallman Beats Northwestern in OT

Courtesy: University of Minnesota 10/30/2009

St. Paul, Minn. It took an extra session, but the University of Minnesota soccer team worked their way back into the win column this evening (Oct. 30) with a 1-0 win in overtime over Northwestern.

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Bethke-to-Kallman Beats Northwestern in OT

Courtesy: University of Minnesota 10/30/2009

St. Paul, Minn. It took an extra session, but the University of Minnesota soccer team worked their way back into the win column this evening (Oct. 30) with a 1-0 win in overtime over Northwestern.

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Don't you just love it when you begin something and think you are close to finishing when you realize you are better off starting all over again? I've had that happen here with what I thought was going to be a new look for this place. I had spent a couple weeks on a new design when I just basically hit a wall with it and couldn't get myself to go any further with it.

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IT WAS bound to happen sooner or later. North Queensland Fury, with the wily Robbie Fowler, were always going to get a win at home after weeks of impressive fighting football.
But without taking anything away from the Fury, Perth Glory will feel that they let a golden chance for a win away from home went begging. Click to continue reading...

After a couple weeks of wondering when Toronto FC would get their home opener announced for next season, the club came out today and announced the date and their opponent. The Reds will open the home portion of the 2010 MLS season on Saturday, April 17 against the expansion Philadelphia Union on their new natural grass field at BMO Field.

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Darrius Barnes is currently leading the way for the rookies. (Getty Images)

Its finally Friday, though I will admit this week has flown by for me due to it being a four-day work week and things being fairly steady on both the regular job front and this place. I had planned to do more than what had been posted today but I blame the weird rainy weather here in Dallas for me not getting around to some of it.

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While the day seems to be lost on everyone's Twitter feeds being down, I figured it was a good time to get back in the award discussion once again here. Instead of waiting for putting this in the evening links and thoughts I figured I would break this discussion off into it's own post for the day.

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Seattle beat Columbus, New England drew with Colorado, Dallas won and Chivas beat D.C. Man, I LOVE being right.

The last time I talked about the playoff shuffle I said that Seattle could jump up to around Chicago and Colorado's level with some good wins...boy did I hit that one on the head!

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I saw most of the 1-1 draw between Man City and Aston Villa on Monday and I have to say that I am very impressed with Aston Villa. The top of the Premiership Table is getting a little crazy and this should make for some interesting Soccer.

With the draw Man City feel to 5-1-1 and Aston Villa pulled up to 4-1-2.

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RH with a smoke bomb at Arrowhead in '07.
He's had a Facebook...he's posted on Big Soccer...now he's a Tweeter. Wizards President and OnGoal CEO Robb Heineman is now on Twitter. Visit www.Twitter.com/RobbHeineman to see his first few tweet and to follow him for the latest news/updates/info on our President and our team. Click to continue reading...

Here are a few quick notes that are making news in the world of the Fire/MLS today. Better late than never right? Injury Updates: A few Fire players have been struggling with injuries for the past couple weeks and while some of them could return this Saturday against Toronto, the news isn't very good for others.

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By definition, the Richie Award goes to the most underrated player on the United roster. The award's namesake Richie Williams was probably the hardest working player on our championship teams in the 90s, but flew mostly under the radar when compared to the better known players.
Last year's winner by a wide margin was Clyde Simms, earning over 50% of the vote. Click to continue reading...

Before I get started, yes that really is a living albino alligator. Lisa Cole of the Boston Breakers is in San Francisco this weekend watching games, so last night we took a jaunt to the California Academy of Sciences to take in a little NiteLife. This place is AWESOME. Basically, the Academy is a museum/planetarium/aquarium in Golden Gate Park.

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The Philadelphia Union will become the 16th MLS club at the start of next season and will play in the new Chester Stadium. But news came out this morning that their first game could be in another venue.

Philadelphia's front office are keeping their options open as to the site of the first kick in 2010.

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The pressure of Argentina's poor form must be proportional to calorie intake.
Now Maradona is seeking the help from an Italian clinic on his weight issues.
One source said he plans on staying a couple weeks on a strict diet.
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Feels like I just wrote that same headline 2 weeks ago. I don't mean to try to use this as an excuse, but it's worth pointing out that the last match Seattle played was here in DC on 9/2. In the mean time, United played two other matches during that week and a half that the Sounders were resting.
After a terrible start from United, I felt similar to the way that BDR felt earlier this week - like this match could have easily gotten out of hand. Click to continue reading...

What is this, Groundhog Day? Yeah, it was real fun flying back to Seattle . . . then flying out here . . . then we'll fly back to Seattle . . . then a home game against Chivas and three straight away games against Revs, Crew and KC. Yeah, we're going to come out of that alive. Creepy Jose points out that we really can't afford to lose but one of these games, to which my response is, we're going to lose more than one. Click to continue reading...

Postmatch coming. Feel free to leave comments here

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Pedestrian. Lethargic. Boring.

A shade over 15,000 came out to watch 90 minutes of the dullest football I've ever seen at the Dome. It all went wrong about three minutes in when Billy Celeski went down and stayed down. No Celeski. No Hernandez. The only bright spark for me was Matthew Kemp, who was in fine form after a couple weeks away.

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There have been a few surprises after the first couple weeks in the English Premier League 2009-2010 season, such as Tottenham with 12 points after four games, and Manchester United's loss to the newly promoted Burnley.  Another one you can add to the list is Everton's start to the season.

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It's been a pretty good Tuesday around the world of soccer. Jozy Alitdore scored his first goal for Hull City and some young Americans are getting their shot in Germany. I know I've been a bit quiet these last couple of days, just expect more of that in the coming couple weeks as my wedding and honeymoon approach.

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Recall that we mentioned that this player had a very good training day with Chivas USA. (Click here for my original post and update here). Well, it looks like it was good enough to get him a spot on the team.
From the Chivas USA Front Office, the team announced today that it has acquired 25-year-old Brazilian forward Maicon Santos on loan from Bonsucesso Futebol Clube of Brazil. Click to continue reading...

A loss is pretty much what we expected on the road in Honduras, but it's disappointing all the same because it could have been so much more. And we're once again reminded of 2008. If you're unfortunate enough to recall the 2008 Champions' Cup and Superliga, you'll remember that DC United looked to be of fairly equal caliber to most of their opponents, but ultimately flunked out of the tournaments due to several individual mistakes and unlucky breaks. Click to continue reading...

Another week is in the books for Major League Soccer, this time however we have a new number one. Due to Houston's recent form and Columbus' recent stellar play it was only fitting to finally switch the two conference leaders around in the order.

Elsewhere there was plenty of movement. DC fell further down the list after a listless performance in Toronto.

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My favorite soccer league is less than four hours away from kicking off. Before it's too late, I thought I would give my predictions on how I think the final table will look. In nine months, this will either be evidence of my soccer brilliance or it will give readers evidence that this site should be changed to "StupidSoccer.

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I was turned onto the story of old Ronaldo possibly getting weight-reduction surgery a couple weeks ago.
Here's the response from the man himself:

"I don't even know if I did,'' said Ronaldo, speaking to reporters for the first time since the rumors surfaced following his hand surgery on July 29.

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