Colorado had a full preseason match and two short scrimmages to finish out their California trip before heading home this morning. Friday night was the full match against San Jose, supposedly streamed online but the Earthquakes tech department failed. If only the Quakes represented the center of high tech innovation int his country or something.

Luke Freeman was heavily involved in the winner

stevenage 1-0 notts county | stewart (og) 12
fa cup | lamex stadium | 4,439

A Damien Stewart own goal was enough to earn Stevenage a place in the 5th round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history and gave Gary Smith a winning start as Boro manager.

The versatile Arsenal midfielder/defender Francis Coquelin has been rewarded with a new extended contract at the Emirates. The 20 year-old impressed in a year-long loan at Lorient last season and his steady improvement persuaded Wenger to promote him to the fringes of the first team. Due to the massive defensive injuries at Arsenal, the French [.

Today the Rapids announced that they had signed Hunter Freeman to a contract. As normal, terms and length were not revealed but I'm sure we'll find that information out down the road. Freeman started his career with the Rapids in 2005 before he was traded to NY before the season. Hunter has some versatility to play in defense or midfield, but he's primarily an outside back.

December was another unbeaten month as Stevenage continued their climb up the League 1 table. There was also progress in the FA Cup as the Boro progressed into the 3rd round of the FA Cup after a professional display against non-league Stourbridge.

Boro progress into 3rd round of FA Cup

A comfortable win away at Stourbridge sent Stevenage into the 3rd round of the FA Cup and a tie with Reading at the Madjeski Stadium.

Busy day in Commerce City as the organization has a new face, a returning face, and a promoted face.
Let's start with the roster moves. In today's re-entry draft the Rapids selected Chicago midfielder Baggio Husidic and Houston defender Hunter Freeman. Husidic is a 24 year old former Generation Adidas player who's been with Chicago since leaving college 3 years ago.

Crystal Palace came to Old Trafford tonight as under-dogs and left as hero's as they beat Manchester United 2-1 after extra-time in the quarter finals of the Carling Cup. A big mention must go to former Palace striker and now manager Dougie Freeman who's inspired second-half substitutions of Darren Ambrose and Glenn Murray came up with the goods as Ambrose scored a 35 yard stunner before setting up Murray for the winner 9 minutes into the first period of extra time.

November was another strong month for the Boro. Another "giant" was put in their place.

Stevenage 2-1 Sheffield United

Another one of League One's elite were beat at the Lamex. Goals from Mark Roberts and Scott Laird were enough to give Graham Westley's side the 3 points as they continued to push up the table.

We've already named our 2011 NL MVP and 2011 NL Cy Young Award winner. Now, let's go young. Here are the 2011 National League Rookie of the Year candidates and the winner.

3. Danny Espinosa, Washington Nationals
Danny Espinosa was great in the first half of the year. In fact, he earned a spot on the All-Star team.

Here are the final numbers from the Players Union for base salaries and guaranteed compensation. I don't know about you, but there sure seems to be some wasted money on this list. For example, the Dynamo are paying Carlo Costly nearly a half million in reported pay (there could be more allocation money involved) and all we've gotten is a red card.

BIG THANKS TO ZACH FOR HELPING ME GET THIS TO POST

Sometimes being bored has its advantages.

After an hour of being undercaffeinated while listening to a lecture about the philosophy of coaching Under 8's waaaaay too early on a Saturday morning, my thoughts drifted to the Orangemen (apologies to anyone Irish for that reference).

As some of the regulars on this site will have been aware for some time now, we have been writing up the pre-season on this site for several weeks now, with the intention of putting the whole thing together as one downloadable PDF file. I'm delighted to be able to confirm that, with a couple of hours left before the start of the Premier League and non-league seasons, it's finished.

We're taking a brief break from our lengthy (and, let's face it, exhausting) series of Premier League previews for a couple of days in order to bring you some round-ups on the state of the Football League, prior to its kick-off this weekend. Rob Freeman will be bringing you our (or, if they're hopelessly inaccurate, "his") predictions for the coming season over the next three days, but first of all here's a brief synopsis of the state of play as League Two prepares to gird its loins for the new season.

Nobody does the road draw quite like the Houston Dynamo. After an all-together awful first half, Houston was better in the second half but still were unable to generate anything resembling a dangerous attack from the run of play. Meanwhile on the other end of the pitch, Tally Hall was once again the star making several highlight reel saves and single-handedly carrying the Dynamo on his back.

It was a night like few Jim Launder has seen in his seven seasons coaching the Madison 56ers.

Needing a win and some help from other teams to stay in the hunt for their second straight National Premier Soccer League Midwest Division title, the 56ers scored in the opening 30 seconds but clearly were the second-best team the rest of the night.

Remember Mike Chabala? The 26-year old fullback that was a regular in the Dynamo lineup last season, who had become a bit of fan favorite?

Yeah, that guy. What happened to Mike?

Chabala is still here, still training and working hard like the rest of his teammates but instead of being a starter or even seeing time as a substitute, Chabala has spent nearly the entire season on the bench, making a single 8-minute appearance.

After an unbeaten streak of six matches, the Dynamo have gone a bit off the rails with two straight losses to the Colorado Rapids and Toronto FC. It's far to early to panic, but considering the schedule between now and June 1st, there is certainly reason to be concerned.

This is a good team, with talent at a lot of positions and clearly worthy of being amongst the player contenders in MLS, but there is still work to be done to sure up the tactics and get everyone on the same page.

It was quite the interesting first half, with three goals and a controversial no-call on a penalty shout from DC United and Chris Pontius.

Houston got things started early after Geoff Cameron tracked back hard, stealing the ball away and quickly turning to find Will Bruin who was all alone to the left of goal.

Pep Segura's first match in charge of Liverpool Reserves ended in disappointment as they went down to a last-gasp 2-1 defeat at Arsenal on Wednesday night.
The Reds had looked to have salvaged a point when Tom Ince cancelled out Luke Freeman's stunning first-half effort in the final minute.
However, the Gunners striker powered home a fine header deep into stoppage time as the away side were ultimately made to pay for their profligacy in the final third.

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