There will be two new schools playing soccer next year in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC).

The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) announced on Wednesday that Maryville University and the University of Illinois at Springfield have been admitted to the Conference bringing the league's membership to 15 institutions.

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 The Time Finder posted information about some great computer shortcuts this morning - along with a link to the NY Times article by David Pogue.  Who knew, for example, that you can use Google like a calculator?  And here's a cool tip that I found in the "Comments" - A little less known one I enjoy [. Click to continue reading...

THE KICKAPOO HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB PRESENTS

AN EVENING WITH ORIGINAL OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVIL, RANDLE CHOWNING
AND HIS BAND, "THE GREAT NOTIONS"

The concert will benefit the Kickapoo High School Girls Soccer Program and will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm in the Kickapoo High School Auditorium.

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THE KICKAPOO HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB PRESENTS

AN EVENING WITH ORIGINAL OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVIL, RANDLE CHOWNING
AND HIS BAND, ???THE GREAT NOTIONS???

The concert will benefit the Kickapoo High School Girls Soccer Program and will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm in the Kickapoo High School Auditorium.

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A reader* wrote in with the suggestion that I post something about the U.S. government's takeover of AIG, since AIG sponsors Manchester United. I originally didn't want to because I don't really understand the whole AIG/giant economic meltdown. But Kevin Drum doesn't understand soccer and still posted on it, so I suppose I will write something. Click to continue reading...

Work, and The Magazine, are requiring plenty of my time these days folks so I apologize for the lack of diversity on the site the past week or so. I love the High School game but there's more to be aware of and enjoy out there. I'll be back to normal programming next week, including a number of College Player updates.

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Work, and The Magazine, are requiring plenty of my time these days folks so I apologize for the lack of diversity on the site the past week or so. I love the High School game but there's more to be aware of and enjoy out there. I'll be back to normal programming next week, including a number of College Player updates.

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Folks, I'm working with the Ozark Tigers and Nixa Eagles on their weekend tournament, the Christian County Men's Soccer Tournament. In an effort to make the updating and publishing of the Tournament results more effective (and easier), I've created a simple spreadsheet that can be edited by several people and automatically published.

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Folks, I'm working with the Ozark Tigers and Nixa Eagles on their weekend tournament, the Christian County Men's Soccer Tournament. In an effort to make the updating and publishing of the Tournament results more effective (and easier), I've created a simple spreadsheet that can be edited by several people and automatically published.

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On what would have been his 83rd birthday today, I'd happy to announce that SGFsoccer.com is establishing the "Frank Dinka Developmental College Scholarship" in conjunction with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks.

Frank, who is pictured on the left, is the person I consider The Godfather of soccer in the Ozarks.

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On what would have been his 83rd birthday today, I'd happy to announce that SGFsoccer.com is establishing the "Frank Dinka Developmental College Scholarship" in conjunction with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks.

Frank, who is pictured on the left, is the person I consider The Godfather of soccer in the Ozarks.

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Part two of Adam Spangler's extended 12-inch mix of an interview with Clint Dempsey is available now for your reading pleasure. This is kind of the heavy portion of the show with economics and death playing an integral part of the story. I really hope that once Clint made some money he did the cliche thing and bought his Momma a house; it can't be said that the man's family has not held him down since the jump. Click to continue reading...

Jean Baudrillard: "...the modern is prey to a systematic delirium."

Jean Baudrillard: "The economy exhibits, in the most striking fashion, the domination of the imaginary at all levels."

Jean Baudrillard: "Your rights, your destitution, your freedom, interest us!"

The Silly Season has slipped into September this year. Click to continue reading...

The St Joseph News has done an excellent job of looking at the escalating cost of competing in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA). It's primarily a football discussion but it points to the role of Athletics on campus and as part of the process of differentiating a school and a program.

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Folks - I want to share with you the cover of the newest issue of The Magazine that will be available in early September. I'm deep in production and I'm happy to announce I've got an actual designer working with me this time around. He's completed the cover and is now waiting on me to provide the content.

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Consider this story about Mary Phyl Dwight from the KC Star today:

Dwight attended Raytown South before Title IX, and there were no organized sports teams for girls at most high schools then. Still, she played sports at every opportunity, including what used to be called "sports days" for girls, where they could compete against other schools.

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Morning all. Not a lot of news following the demolition of Burgenland yesterday. Cesc Fabregas came out and killed off anyone saying that he was going to Real Madrid, in fact saying that he made no statement about Madrid at all. Good work from Cesc yet again. I think he does everything well, football, handling the press, his hair, etc. Click to continue reading...

Real Belgian Heroes Mr Budweiser What, cornering the market on waffles wasn't enough for you!

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The new subscription structure of Football Is Fixed includes provision for a couple of Flashback posts per month, in order that we may either demonstrate our prescience or allow for the continuation of the arguments set out in the original post.

In December, we posted an article about the inevitability of a very deep recession, a Depression. Click to continue reading...

From the West County Journal in St Louis comes Revenue shortfall makes Sportport's future uncertain

The problem with Sportport, city officials said, is that it has failed to draw enough revenue to keep pace with costs. Since the facility opened in 1999, the city has spent about $2.

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I am no Professor of Economics but something does not add up about the Screws of the World's Arsenal story today: "The strategy of the club is to sell every year and to buy less expensive players. We manage at Arsenal to maintain all our football ambitions — national and European —while having to free up - for 17 more years - an annual surplus of £24m to pay for our stadium. Click to continue reading...

I know economics is supposed to be all rational and whatnot, but the just-compiled league table of top-earning footballers calls the dismal science into question. Or, at least, points to a paradox: a striking number of the top boys are totally past their prime as players. I'm not saying D. Becks or old Henry don't still offer some value on the field, because they obviously do. Click to continue reading...

In Boston, no less. It's on the second page of this article. What's funny is that the first part depressed me a little. Economics nearly always does. The second part actually cheered me up, though. Click to continue reading...

When the river spilled across the levee, it filled the St. Louis Youth Soccer Association fields like a bathtub. By Thursday, water had reached the roof of the pavilion in the soccer complex parking lot.

SLYSA President Roger Uphoff said it would take at least six months to regrow the fields from scratch, which would mean the league's 8,000 players might not be able to play on the fields this fall.

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When the river spilled across the levee, it filled the St. Louis Youth Soccer Association fields like a bathtub. By Thursday, water had reached the roof of the pavilion in the soccer complex parking lot.

SLYSA President Roger Uphoff said it would take at least six months to regrow the fields from scratch, which would mean the league's 8,000 players might not be able to play on the fields this fall.

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David Pleat always manages to rise to the occasion, as the above warning to any Spaniards risking a premature exaltation clearly demonstrates.
He surpassed himself during the Semi Final between Spain and Russia.
My personal favourite was when he questioned himself on the (in)validity of his own description of Sergio Ramos as either a "cultivated bull" or a "cultured bull". Click to continue reading...

"How can one not speak of terrorism, how can one find a good use of the media - there is none" - Umberto Eco.
As we recently prompted you, and we like a theme, all markets are functions of economic and psychological mechanisms.
This would necessarily include Political Prediction Markets and, moreover, the hyperrealities that they seek to efficiently price. Click to continue reading...

"The Self-Moving Life Of What Is Dead" - was Hegel's characterisation of money.

Jean Baudrillard: "This fetish money, around which global speculation revolves - far above and beyond the reproduction of capital - has nothing to do with wealth or the production of wealth. It expresses the breakdown of meaning, the impossibility of exchanging the world for its meaning, and at the same time the need to transfigure that impossibility into a sign of some kind". Click to continue reading...

"Respect The Passion" screamed the Half Time advertisement for a particularly shoddy make of vehicle.
And Passion must be respected.
No carefree acknowledgement of a passing Passion, but a firm recognition of the emanation of a Spectacular Passion - the Passion of a Polluting Force.

Passion is no longer a "linking of souls", but merely a part of an inappropriate narrative imposed on the consumer - a linking of a product with an emotion. Click to continue reading...

...but there'll be no new stadium for you. That is, if the powers-that-be listen to these twenty-six economists, there won't. After all, you'd probably only use it 20-30 times a year, according to one University of Alberta economist. He and the rest of them think that the funds would be better spent on schools, [. Click to continue reading...

A police chaplain has blessed the building where Austrian officers will conduct risk assessments regarding the likelihood of a large-scale "terrorist" offensive at the Euro 2008 Finals.
Presumably, any religious "terrorist" worthy of the name will also be calling on divine help in the aid of their cause. Click to continue reading...

"A history without desire, without passion, without tension, without real events, where the problem is no longer one of changing life, which was the maximal utopia, but of surviving, which is the minimal utopia".

"This disproportion between the human brain and the specific task of the species is a glaring one in the immense majority of our activities (gambling on horses, jogging, TV, not to mention 'sleaze' and politics)". Click to continue reading...

"Not the open revolt of a few, but the immense, latent defection, the endemic, masked resistance of a silent majority, but one nostalgic for the spoken word and for violence. Something in all men profoundly rejoices in seeing a car burn" - Jean Baudrillard.
"I see nothing intrinsically wrong with robbing a bank" - Yiorgios M. Click to continue reading...

This story has been contributed at my request by Coach Nick Schmitt, West Plains Zizzers.
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In the Spring of 2009, Girls High School Soccer in Missouri will expand to 3 classes. Why is this happening? Do we really need three classes? What does it mean for the schools in Southwest Missouri?

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That's right, Springfield's only publication dedicated entirely to local sports, has offered up their first soccer print story, other than some State Cup coverage a couple of years ago. The website notes that you should be able to find copies at McDonald's, Family Pharmacy and other locations in a 5 county area.

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