United States National Team alum, Olympian, National Soccer Hall of Famer, and National Soccer Coaches Association of America Hall of Famer Harry Keough passed away on Tuesday morning. Keough was 84, a member of the 1950 USA World Cup team that beat England. He was also the architect of the St. Louis University soccer dynasty, leading them to five NCAA championships starting in 1967.

Cesc goal helps Barcelona past Real Madrid 1-3 (Photo: REUTERS/Sergio Perez)

Barcelona recovered from conceding the quickest goal in El Clasico history to defeat Real Madrid 3-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu, delivering a decisive blow in the race for the La Liga title.

The victory snaps Madrid's 15 game winning streak and sees Barcelona leapfrog their bitter rivals to reclaim first place in the provisional Primera Division standings.

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CARSON, Calif. -- A game of word association to quantify David Beckham's five years in Major League Soccer certainly arouses a wide range of responses depending on which part of the Beckham Era is being discussed.

This is it, the finale to the 2011 season, the game in which the Galaxy underline a three-year climb from worst to first in MLS with a championship or fall to the Houston Dynasty, um, Dynamo, and retool once again.

The rain that has lashed the South bay all day appears to be easing up, but they're not going to need to water the field beforehand (and they just canceled the pre-game concert with Young the Giant due to the weather, too).

Danny Welbeck set to sign new Manchester United deal What the papers say

Danny Welbeck has been offered a treble-your-money pay rise as Sir Alex Ferguson looks to nail down the key players in his next Old Trafford dynasty.

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As something of a footnote to Daily Mail sports news this morning, the newspaper reports that David Pleat is lined up to return to the club for a fifth stint in a new role as scout for ‘young and overseas players'.

Tottenham have been linked with a whole host of young talent in recent weeks and during the summer, the club picked up some exciting prospects in the shape of Cristian Ceballos and Soulemayne Coulibaly.

Southampton may be an unlikely breeding ground for top Premiership talent but as all Spurs fans will know, they gave us PFA player of the year Gareth Bale while apparently there are some ex-saints plying their trade up the road.

With that track record, it's no surprise that the top sides are keeping tabs on the south coast's biggest club and Spurs are believed to be preparing a move for Luke Shaw, a 16 year old who has just broken into the first team squad at St Mary's.

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Shrouded in a cloak of despondency as I was yesterday, to say nothing of a virus that will almost certainly condemn me to time in intensive care, I retired to bed last night with several bottles of stimulants lapping within, only to awake this morning with the thought that the only way forward was to adopt a siege mentality.

The Dalglish dynasty weighs in on Fergie's team selection Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson hit out at the daughter of rival Kenny Dalglish in a post-match interview following last night's 1-1 draw with Benfica. Reporter Kelly Cates (nee Dalglish) questioned Fergie's decision to leave keeper David De Gea out of the side in favour [.

If you are over the age of 4o there is a good chance that you had to surrender control of your television to the resident drama queen of your household between 1981 and 1989 when Dynasty came on. If you are between the age of 40 and 25 this was the show that made your mom go snob and start wearing pearls while rocking one of these haircuts.

Football hardly seems important in N17 today. Regards to the families and good people of Tottenham.

Here's part 1 of the season preview an overview. More on Tuesday, earlier if i pull my finger out the best of the rest, tactics and off the field

Season 2011-12 represents a watershed in the modern history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Lawrence Frank is the new head coach of the Detroit Pistons. Frank will get a chance to turn around a franchise that was a near dynasty not too long ago. However, in the last few years, Detroit has fallen on rough times.

Enter Lawrence Frank.

Frank is the former head coach of the New Jersey Nets.

The Houston Dynamo used to be a team bordering on dynasty. They had a couple titles, many more playoff appearances, several good players and a coach that was once mentioned as a potential future US National Team coach. When the Seattle Sounders play them Saturday only one of those things will be true.

Don Revie's Leeds side was built from within. Sprake, Reaney, Charlton, Hunter, Cooper, Lorimer, Giles, Bremner, Gray, Jones, Clarke. The forwards were purchased later on, Giles cost good money but arrived as a young player, but the rest of them were acquired in their teens. They grew up together, learned the game together, won together.

- Maxi Rodriguez

There's a certain attraction most people feel towards the Summer months. The heady smell of a just-lit barbeque, the weekend trips to undiscovered nooks of coastline, the sun dresses. The sun dresses! While I certainly enjoy a freshly grilled hotdog while listening to "Blackbird" in front of a dangerously swelling pit fire, the arrival of Summer always brings a rash of unwanted anxieties into my life.

Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech believes new boss Andre Villas-Boas will be a success at Stamford Bridge and hopes he will end the revolving door of managers to build a dynasty.

Episode 22, Greg and Julian return to talk about the new look Roma under Thomas Di Benedetto. Luis Enrique has been brought in as well as Walter Sabatini, and the two co-hosts spend much time discussing transfers, direction, and the possibilities with the new coach. Is Enrique a gamble or the start of a dynasty?

With Paul Scholes retirement we are invited again to confront the nature of footballing greatness. Over on TiFF someone has made the point that Best and Charlton are legends, not Scholes. But surely this is incorrect.

Footballing history as we know it is based on 120 or so years of competitive play.

A chaotic final day in the Premier League saw Blackpool and Birmingham Carling Cup winners relegated. Manchester United beat Blackpool 4-2 and have finished first or second in the last six seasons. Dynasty. Superb. Respect. Chelsea sacked Carlo ... Continue reading →

In the absence of a post this morning I thought I'd write a short piece and ask this question that has been playing on my mind. It is over to the technically gifted observers to develop the debate and flesh it out with tactical analysis.

We are shortly to see how these two highly successful yet differing footballing cultures match up in the Champion's League final.

• St. Pauli has some soul searching to do. (Twohundredpercent)
• Bundesliga Rewind looks back at one of the most famous 1970's clashes between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich. (Bundesliga Fanatic)
• Nobody cares about Rot-Weiss Oberhausen, except for Patrick. (ESPN Soccernet)
• The former #1 of Lower Saxony finally returns to the 2.

The New York Knicks and their fans thought they hit the lottery when they acquired Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets. However, a funny thing happened on the way to the Knicks dynasty. Instead of getting better, the Knicks have gotten a lot worse. They've lost six straight games and the team looks totally lost.

Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has announced that his next job will be in England. And he is hoping to form a dynasty at whichever club he takes over rather than the shorter stints he has been known for throughout his career. Mourinho also went...
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A while back, I wrote an article about football and homosexuality. Unbeknown to me, an obscure player I blogged about player would announce he was gay via Offside Magazine. His name is Anton Hysen. Before this, he was best known for being a part of what I called the Hysen Dynasty. Now, he is making headlines all his own.

Losing four games in a row is bad. Getting outed as a group of crybabies is even worse. That's where the Miami Heat stand after they lost to the Chicago Bulls on Sunday afternoon. Following their 87-86 loss Miami's fourth consecutive defeat that featured another fourth quarter meltdown, Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra admitted his team is a team of crybabies.

A twitter discussion between the SBN MLS authors broke out last week over how many MLS dynasties have existed. Black & Red United claims that DC United are the only dynasty. While their initial stretch in MLS 1.0 was awesome (6 MLS Cups, Supporters Shields or US Open Cups from 96-99) , and clearly a dynasty, is it really the only one?

The best part of post-draft analysis is that everyone's opinion may be right. Hometown fans are usually very optimistic and begin that glimmer of hope that this coming season might bring them a championship.
Since nobody can prove my opinions wrong (yet), here is my take on the "super" winners , losers and highlights of the day.

During the next two weeks, ussoccer.com - with the help of all the fans on twitter - will be asking questions of the newest fraternity of seven players making their first appearance in a full national team camp. The first contestant is Los Angeles Galaxy defender A.J. DeLaGarza. An NCAA Champion at the University of Maryland along with current Galaxy teammate Omar Gonzalez, A.