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By Joel Greenwaldt
@JoelGreenwaldt (Twitter)
Each week during the season I'll post an updated MISL Power Ranking which will be based off the cumulative results and current strength of each team.

By: Peter Espinosa
Thirteen hours is the time it takes for the bus to leave Hartman Arena on its way to US Cellular Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Wings have made three of their scheduled four trips to play the Milwaukee Wave this season and before they venture into the champions house again, the Wave will play in Wichita three times in one week.

The San Antonio Scorpions owner Gordon Hartman revealed in a press conference on Monday, renderings and timelines for his new stadium which will be erected adjacent to his Morgan's Wonderland. Hartman's team will play their first season at Hero's Stadium a high school field in the North East Independent School District which is across the [.

More stats updates for you on Sporting KC. This time it's the most starts for KC in league play and in all competitions.
League
Kerry Zavagnin - 228
Nick Garcia - 224
Davy Arnaud - 213
Jimmy Conrad - 203
Preki - 199
Chris Klein - 183
Jack Jewsbury - 142
Mo Johnston - 142
Josh Wolff - 128
Matt McKeon - 126
Tony Meola - 125
Michael Harrington - 119
Jose Burciaga - 110
Diego Gutierrez - 108
Uche Okafor - 107
Sean Bowers - 104
Matt Besler - 68
Roger Espinoza - 67
Jimmy Nielsen - 60
Kei Kamara - 55
Chance Myers - 37
Graham Zusi - 34
Teal Bunbury - 33
Julio Cesar - 25
CJ Sapong - 22
Aurelien Collin - 21
Seth Sinovic - 20
Birahim Diop - 15
Luke Sassano - 5
Eric Kronberg - 4
Korede Aiyegbusi - 3
Daneil Cyrus - 1
Matt Besler and Roger Espinoza have a chance to make it to the 100 starts club next season, but they need to start almost every single game for Sporting this coming season.

More updating of stats for you, here is an updated list of players with over 100 appearances for Kansas City in league play and in all competitions. Also included in on this list is where the rest of the current roster stands in terms of appearances.
League
Davy Arnaud - 240
Kerry Zavagnin - 237
Nick Garcia - 224
Preki - 218
Jimmy Conrad - 204
Chris Klein - 200
Jack Jewsbury - 195
Mo Johnston - 149
Josh Wolff - 144
Matt McKeon - 144
Michael Harrington - 138
Tony Meola - 125
Chris Brown - 123
Diego Gutierrez - 119
Uche Okafor - 119
Jose Burciaga - 115
Francisco Gomez - 114
Sean Bowers - 111
Sasha Victorine - 106
Digital Takawira - 103
Roger Espinoza - 87
Matt Besler - 72
Kei Kamara - 65
Graham Zusi - 64
Jimmy Nielsen - 60
Chance Myers - 59
Teal Bunbury - 55
CJ Sapong - 34
Birahim Diop - 33
Julio Cesar - 27
Aurelien Collin - 23
Seth Sinovic - 20
Luke Sassano - 9
Korede Aiyegbusi - 8
Eric Kronberg - 5
Soony Saad - 4
Daneil Cyrus - 2
Lawrence Olum - 1
Peterson Joseph - 1
Davy Arnaud took over the number one spot on the list this season, but with his departure, Michael Harrington is the only player on the roster to appear in 100 games for KC.

Friday night was a busy night in professional indoor soccer as the MISL Whichita Wings hosted the Missouri Comets and in PASL action the Cincinnati Kings battled Louisville Lightining while the Turlock Express faced off against the Revolution Tijuana.
Kings Defeat Louisville 9-3 in US Open Play
Led by a four-goal night by Allen Eller, the Cincinnati Kings defeated the Louisville Lightning, 9-3, Friday night at the Cincinnati Gardens in a PASL league game that also doubled as a US Open Cup game.

I have gone ahead and updated my list of capped Sporting KC players total. This is a list of players that have played for Kansas City and been capped by their respective national teams at any time. New signing Bobby Convey, along with Daneil Cyrus and Peterson Joseph are the only new players to join the list.

Earlier this month IMS reported on yet another page of the ongoing story of two organizations attempting to bring pro soccer to San Antonio. Gordon Hartman's San Antonio Scorpions set to start play this spring in the NASL and Spurs Sports and Entertainment (SS&E) who have only postulated they would like to start a team with ULS [.

By Cliff Fox
The Wichita Wings look to build off a strong fourth quarter in what turned out to be a close game against the Milwaukee Wave as they prepare for their first match against the Syracuse Silver Knights when they ride into Wichita on Friday at 7:35, and a rematch with the Norfolk Sharx on Saturday at 7:35, both games at Hartman Arena.

By Joel Greenwaldt
Blast improve to 2-1, sit 1/2 game back of first in the MISL Eastern Division
After a grueling overtime win in Missouri the night before, the Baltimore Blast seemed to not show much fatigue in their 12-6 victory Saturday evening against the Wichita Wings in front of 4,211 at the Hartman Area.

By Joel Greenwaldt
Blast improve to 2-1, sit 1/2 game back of first in the MISL Eastern Division
After a grueling overtime win in Missouri the night before, the Baltimore Blast seemed to not show much fatigue in their 12-6 victory Saturday evening against the Wichita Wings in front of 4,211 at the Hartman Area.

The Major Indoor Soccer league opened this past week for its 2011-12 season. Per a press release, nearly 13,000 fans were in attendance across three games from Thursday and Friday nights. MISL Senior Director Chris Economides was very positive on the opening, "We are absolutely thrilled at the response of our fans.

The Wichita Wings of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) have announced the first annual Black & Orange Scrimmage will take place on October 26th at 6:30 pm at Hartman Arena, with doors opening to the public at 5:30. Wichita Wings season ticket holders will be allowed free entrance to the game and non-season ticket holders will receive free entrance to the game with the donation of a non-perishable canned food item.

The Wichita Wings of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) have announced the first annual Black & Orange Scrimmage will take place on October 26th at 6:30 pm at Hartman Arena, with doors opening to the public at 5:30. Wichita Wings season ticket holders will be allowed free entrance to the game and non-season ticket holders will receive free entrance to the game with the donation of a non-perishable canned food item.

Sorry for the double pun. ;) Saturday night a solid game from Colorado resulted in a much needed 3 points. Much like MLS Cup (but not quite as bad) the game wasn't pretty but it was successful.
The Rapids had the better of the play for most of the first half, punctuated by 2 shots on goal between the 23rd and 26th minute.

After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of the New England Revolution players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5 average, 10 perfection). This week Sean Donahue and Brian O'Connell contributed ratings for the New England Revolution's 2-0 victory over FC Dallas.

Here we are with another trip around the MLS! What a week it was. Do you like Red Cards? We got you covered. Do you like stupid referee decisions? Have we EVER got you covered. Do you enjoy watching New England piss away a victory? ABSOLUTELY 1000 TIMES YES! Do you like draws? Uh what you don't?

Join the guys as they look back at DC United's last two matches, including the win against Seattle and the draw against FC Dallas. The boys also look ahead to Colorado and talk about the rest of the league.

Both FC Dallas and Portland will be coming off big wins when they meet Sunday at 3pm Pacific for their first meeting at JELD-WEN Field in Portland. Dallas, coming off an emotional week that saw them claim at least a little revenge for last year's MLS Cup loss against Colorado, will be looking to expand on that momentum.

An unfiltered look at exactly what I was thinking during the 1-1 draw between the Chicago Fire and FC Dallas.

On FC Dallas Right Back Jackson:
•Overwhelmingly active. Is he going to make it to halftime without being gassed? (5′)
•Seriously, this guy's heat map will be absurd.

A lot has transpired in San Antonio over the last several weeks. As was expected the joint city/county study on professional sports was released several weeks ago. The San Antonio Express and particularly writer Richard Oliver have been all over this story and doing an excellent job of digging through the sound bites and getting to the core issues.

Marvin Chavez / Photo by Harlan Bowling

Just a few days after making the trek up to Frisco to catch FCD against Houston Baptist University, I once again found myself on that familiar field 4, this time for a night scrimmage that saw FCD cruise past SMU 3-1. During the Schellas Hyndman regime, SMU has become a sort of minor league farm system for FCD recruits, so I was interested in catching this one.

I realized today that I hadn't updated one of my stats this offseason, and since I've been having some writers block when it came to writing about Houston's move East and the roster rules, I figured maybe this would break me out of it. Davy Arnaud is 3 games away from the 200 game mark and should easily hit that this season.

The proposed North American Soccer League team in San Antonio ran into more hurdles this week. Gordon Hartman's team Soccer for a Cause has been trying to gather support to find the $8 million he says he needs from the city and county to build a stadium on STAR Soccer Complex, a stadium he hopes to have built in time when his proposed team starts play in 2012.

Gordon Hartman and his North American Soccer League team the Scorpions held a press conference in San Antonio on Wednesday. They announced what the organization called a major sponsorship with Nike. However, the Beaverton, OR based company did not send a representative to the press conference.

An image displayed at today's press conference shows what STAR Soccer Stadium could look like if the public funds $8 million dollars of the costs.

The battle for San Antonio stepped up one more notch on Monday when owner Gordon Hartman announced the winning name for his NASL Team that will take the field in 2012.

Continuing some of my stat updating before tomorrow's opener for India in the Asian Cup, here's an updated list of Wizards/Sporting KC players and the number of caps they have for their national teams.
USA
Tony Meola - 100
Alexi Lalas - 96 - 9
Chris Henderson - 79 - 3
Mike Burns - 75
Peter Vermes - 67 - 11
Mike Sorber - 67 - 2
Josh Wolff - 52 - 9
Brian Bliss - 44 - 2
Eddie Johnson - 42 - 12
Frank Klopas - 40 - 12
Roy Lassister - 30 - 4
Eric Eichman - 29 - 4
Preki - 28 - 4
Jimmy Conrad - 28 - 1
Mark Chung - 24 - 2
Chris Klein - 22 - 5
Kerry Zavagnin - 21
Mark Santel - 8 - 1
Herculez Gomez - 8 - 2
Davy Arnaud - 7 - 1
John Diffley - 7
John DeBrito - 6
Nick Garcia - 6
Yari Allnut - 5 - 2
Kevin Hartman - 5
Sasha Victorine - 4 - 1
Steve Pittman - 3
Matt McKeon - 2
Alan Prampin - 2
Ken Snow - 2
Diego Gutierrez - 1
Curt Onalfo - 1
Teal Bunbury - 1
Argentina
Claudio Lopez - 58 - 10
Armenia
Yura Movsisyan - 5 - 3
Cameroon
Samuel Ekeme - 32
Canada
Alex Bunbury - 64 - 16
Pat Harrington - 1
Denmark
Miklos Molnar - 18 - 2
Finland
Antti Sumiala - 36 - 9
Grenada
Craig Rocastle - 5
Guadeloupe
Stephane Auvray - 20 - 2
Haiti
Josué Mayard - 17 - 2
Holland
Dave van den Bergh - 2
Honduras
Roger Espinoza - 15 - 3
Hungary
Zoltan Hercegfalvi - 3
India
Sunil Chhetri - 40 - 19
Jamaica
Onandi Lowe - 65 - 27
Shavar Thomas - 35
Jermaine Hue - 30 - 11
Wolde Harris - 28 - 7
Khari Stephenson - 26 - 3
Peter Isaacs - 15 - 4
Akeem Priestley - 3
Liberia
Dionysius Sebwe - 7
Mexico
Omar Bravo - 63 - 15
Nigeria
Uche Okafor - 34 - 1
Puerto Rico
Taylor Graham - 3 - 1
Russia
Igor Simutenkov - 20 - 9
Scotland
Richard Gough - 61 - 6
Mo Johnston - 38 - 14
Serbia and Montenegro
Vuk Rasovic - 5
Sierra Leone
Kei Kamara - 6
Trinidad and Tobago
Gary Glasgow - 53 -11
Scott Sealy - 25 - 2
Anthony Noriega - 5
Yugoslavia
Refik Sabanadzovic - 8
Zimbabwe
Vitalis Takawira - 26 - 12

"Victory or Death." That's the slogan on the shield of the Crocketteers, a soccer supporters group in San Antonio, Texas. Those words are said to belong to William Travis as his group prepared to defend the Alamo. But they could also be the words of two sparing soccer leagues as they both try to claim the San Antonio area as their own.