The second round of the MLS Cup Playoffs has the two higher seeds in each conference hosting their opponents from last week's match-ups. In the four matches from last week, the home teams either tied or won leaving the seeded favorites with work to do if they hope to advance to the conference finals.

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With the much anticipated Keizer game rescheduled until Spring, the fall season has come to a close for Sodium. It did end on a high note with the decisive defeat of the Sherwood squad. Remember, the Spring league will be the one that counts towards State Cup standings and placement!
Starting 11/7/09 with a doubleheader, OPL League! Click to continue reading...

Houston visits Seattle in MLS Cup playoffs

Our reward for enduring through 32 weeks of regular season matches is a fascinating final four in the Western Conference playoffs. While the Chivas USA versus Galaxy doubleheader in Los Angeles stacks up to be a tough defensive struggle for both squads, expect fireworks from the Houston Dynamo and the Seattle Sounders FC.

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Major League Soccer's regular season wrapped up yesterday and here are the final attendance figures:

Team G Total Avg Med Hi Lo Change Seattle 15 463,455 30,897 32,404 33,108 28,548 NA Los Angeles 15 306,240 20,416 19,718 27,000 16,649 -21.5% Toronto 15 305,167 20,344 20,384 20,902 19,843 1. Click to continue reading...

Sophomore midfielder Riley Gallagher scored his first goal of the season and junior goalkeeper Adam Liszewski increased his shutout string to 276-plus minutes as the Colorado-Colorado Springs men's soccer team claimed a 1-0 victory over visiting Adams State College on Tuesday night at Mountain Lion Stadium.

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Here are Matt's photos from the second half of the Cotton Bowl doubleheader.

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When: Today, 5pm
Where: University Field, St Leo
This game is the first half of a Lions-Panthers doubleheader at St Leo today. The men from the two schools will kick off at 7:30pm.
The Lions (3-1-1) have had a long layoff since pounding non-conference Clearwater Christian College 13-0 on September 25th. Click to continue reading...

With the impending addition of franchises in Philly, Vancouver and Portland, I thought it would be interesting to see how much of a "sophomore slump" expansion franchises experienced in regards to attendance.
Here are the numbers for the recent expansion teams, as well as Houston who moved from San Jose in 2006. Click to continue reading...

Mexico has released their roster for the upcoming doubleheader at the Cotton Bowl with FC Dallas. Mexico will be taking on Colombia in the 2nd game after FC Dallas faces the New England Revolution at 6 pm. Highlighting the Mexico roster is Barcelona's Jonathan Dos Santos, the 19 year old younger brother of Giovani Dos Santos. Click to continue reading...

When: Today, 5pm Where: University Field, St Leo Campus
In the first match of a doubleheader with the Lions women team, the St Leo men (3-2-0) host Flagler College (2-3-1) this afternoon. The Lions are coming off their first home loss of the season last Friday against Palm Beach Atlantic. Click to continue reading...

Can there ever be too much soccer to watch? Okay, probably not, but this weekend's slate of soccer on TV is about as loaded as any weekend a soccer fan could hope for.

The list is enormous, with marquee tilts in England, Italy, France and MLS. Want rivalries? How about Manchester United vs.

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Can there ever be too much soccer to watch? Okay, probably not, but this weekend's slate of soccer on TV is about as loaded as any weekend a soccer fan could hope for.

The list is enormous, with marquee tilts in England, Italy, France and MLS. Want rivalries? How about Manchester United vs.

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When: Today, Noon
Where: USF Soccer Stadium
South Florida will host LSU today and both schools enter the match with identical 1-1-1 records and both are short on goals scored. The Tigers have scored three on the season and the Bulls have netted just two.
Good goalkeeping from senior Mallori Lofton-Malachi has kept the Bulls season on track. Click to continue reading...

The St Leo men's (2-1-0) soccer team lost to the University of West Florida 2-1 Friday night despite scoring the first goal of the match. The Argos (2-0-0), ranked number seventeen in the country, came back to score two second half goals to end the Lions' upset bid.
Two hundred seventy-three spectators came out to see St Leo match the highly ranked Argos almost shot for shot in the first half. Click to continue reading...

SUMmer of Soccer Continues

The 'Summer of Soccer' which began on June 20, rolls on. As of now, over 1,455,000 have attended SuperLiga, the Gold Cup, the World Football Challenge and a variety of club and international friendlies.

Since my last post on the SUMmer of Soccer, an International Friendly doubleheader was played and a few more friendlies were scheduled .

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When: Tonight 7:30pm
Where: USF Soccer Stadium
After you catch the UT women take on North Georgia downtown, hop on the Interstate and head up to the north side of town for the second part of Friday's college doubleheader. This will be USF's season opener after finishing their preseason schedule 2-0-0. Click to continue reading...

That's a little bit underhanded on my part. Yes, Mexico will play in the Cotton Bowl on Sept. 30. And, yes, FC Dallas will go back to the future to play in the old Fair Park home, also on Sept. 30. Details are still being ironed out, but it will be part of a doubleheader, and it's likely [...] Click to continue reading...

With J Hutcherson -- Tonight at Giants Stadium, Jamaica gets the CONCACAF slot in an international friendly doubleheader, the odd man out treatment for a team that should be factoring in the Hexagonal round of World Cup Qualifying. Instead, Jamaica is rebuilding. There's a point that Trinidad & Tobago are doing the same thing as they play through the final round of qualifying. Click to continue reading...

After stressing the growth of soccer enthusiasts all over the United States - justified by attendance figures and TV ratings over the summer - The San Jose Mercury News' Mark Purdy feels writes how that growth is about soccer...but just not Major League Soccer.
Over the past decade, soccer telecasts from around the globe have found their way onto American television sets through satellite or cable. Click to continue reading...

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The Chicago Fire outplayed UANL Tigres for the better part of 90 minutes on Wednesday night, but could not find the game-winning goal that would have given the Fire the SuperLiga trophy. The SuperLiga final went to penalty kicks, where misses by Mike Banner and Justin Mapp doomed Chicago as Tigres converted four of five penalties to win the 2009 SuperLiga title.

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The Chicago Fire outplayed UANL Tigres for the better part of 90 minutes on Wednesday night, but could not find the game-winning goal that would have given the Fire the SuperLiga trophy. The SuperLiga final went to penalty kicks, where misses by Mike Banner and Justin Mapp doomed Chicago as Tigres converted four of five penalties to win the 2009 SuperLiga title.

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University of Minnesota  07/30/2009

Photo by Jeremy Olson

The Big Ten Conference has announced their 2009 Big Ten Network soccer schedule, and the University of Minnesota will be on display twice.

The first action on Big Ten Network for the Golden Gophers will be on Sunday, September 27Â when they travel to Champaign, Ill.

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University of Minnesota  07/30/2009

Photo by Jeremy Olson

The Big Ten Conference has announced their 2009 Big Ten Network soccer schedule, and the University of Minnesota will be on display twice.

The first action on Big Ten Network for the Golden Gophers will be on Sunday, September 27Â when they travel to Champaign, Ill.

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The United States takes on Honduras in the opener of a CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal doubleheader at Chicago's Soldier Field tonight beginning at 6 p.m. Watch the match on Fox Soccer Channel and TeleFutura. Mexico battles Costa Rica in the...

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The Sol (11-2-4) can clinch the inaugural WPS regular season title with just a point on the road tonight at FC Gold Pride (3-9-3), a team that hasn't won in eight games and are 0-3 against LA this season.

Gold Pride will play on just three days rest after taking the field Sunday, while the Sol have had a considerably longer opportunity to relax, sustaining a rare 1-0 home loss July 8 to St.

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All three of the weekend games ended 1-0 in Women's Professional Soccer. With the idle Sol firmly in control of first-place, Boston moved into second, Saint Louis has third, and Sky Blue FC have the final slot with their win over Chicago. Saint Louis 0 - Washington 1 Homare Sawa got the only goal of the game 74th minute, with Washington part of a WPS/MLS doubleheader at RFK Stadium. Click to continue reading...

1) A new Texas record for soccer attendance was set last night in the Gold Cup doubleheader: 82,252 fans for Costa Rica-Guadeloupe and Mexico-Haiti. I've updated my list of state records.
Also, the friendly between AC Milan and Chelsea in Baltimore this week will set a new Maryland record. Click to continue reading...

FOXSports.com reported the match like this,
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Worn down and undermanned, the United States found a way to rally. Now the Americans remain in position to win their third straight CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Kenny Cooper converted a penalty kick in the 105th minute, giving the two-time defending champions a 2-1 victory over Panama and a semifinal berth against Honduras, which beat Canada 1-0 in the opener of Saturday's doubleheader.

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FOXSports.com reported the match like this,
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Worn down and undermanned, the United States found a way to rally. Now the Americans remain in position to win their third straight CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Kenny Cooper converted a penalty kick in the 105th minute, giving the two-time defending champions a 2-1 victory over Panama and a semifinal berth against Honduras, which beat Canada 1-0 in the opener of Saturday's doubleheader.

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I'm ashamed of myself for not even mentioning this at all in my two prior posts, but the event at RFK today is a doubleheader. As I'm writing this now, I'm wearing an old school, WUSA-era Abby Wambach tee, back from when she was Mia Hamm's understudy.
Freedom takes on St. Louis Athletica at 5pm, in just over an hour. Click to continue reading...

It's time for the annual MLS flunks out again blog for MLS not taking action during MLB's all-star break. Instead of garnering potential sports media headlines for games on Wednesday, the best day of the break to play games, the headlines went to the Tour de Lance, the NHL's Winter Classic and the comings and goings of the sports blotter.

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Another week in MLS, with Super Liga on the schedule tonight, and international over priced friendlies.
The Beckham experiment starts again tonight, can you say failure. David please go back to Europe.
Thursday night on FSC, LA beats NY, NY sucks.
Saturday
Houston at Toronto on ESPN, Toronto wins again, first half of a ESPN doubleheader. Click to continue reading...

A superb strike by Stuart Holden a minute into stoppage time rescued the U.S. Men's National Team from potential embarrassment at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., Saturday night. Holden's stunner gave the U.S. a 2-2 draw with Haiti and first place in Group B.

The USMNT's opponent was not made clear until Sunday night, when Mexico defeated Guadeloupe to win Group C.

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Deplorable. Embarrassing. Shameful. Unacceptable. All these terms apply to a series of events that transpired during Thursday night's CONCACAF Gold Cup doubleheader at Reliant Stadium. More specifically, during Mexico's 1-1 tie with Panama in the nightcap of the doubleheader. Even...

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Official Press Release (Long Island Rough Riders)
South Huntington, N.Y. (July 8, 2009) – The Long Island Rough Riders men's team defeated the Brooklyn Knights 1-0, clinching a playoff berth for the first time since 2003. In the opening game of the doubleheader, the Rough Riders women's team fell to Hudson Valley 4-2. Click to continue reading...