I've been doing mostly women's games lately, which is OK by me; especially as it gets hotter. I
never do as well as I want then it gets hot and sticky. I can out-perform most players I ref for
when it's cool or cold out, but my body seems to deal with the heat harder than those same players.
Must be my heritage or something; because I know I hydrate OK (comes from working the Renaissance
Festival, where you wear 4-5 layers of clothing in the middle of summer - it's hydrate or die);
it's just my performance suffers in proportion to how much better I am compared to the same people
in near freezing weather.
All good things must come to an end, or in this case, they need to start. Sporting Kansas City's
run of form (14 unbeaten) started after the most recent loss to the Seattle Sounders when Jeff
Parke won the game in the 93rd minute. On the other side the SporKCs were the team that the
Sounders beat to qualify for the MLS Cup Playoffs in both 2009 and 2010.
Standing water near or sometimes in fields was not uncommon after torrential rain falls. Photo
by Kyle Hanson
The largest youth soccer tournament in the western hemisphere, Schwan's USA CUP, will wrap up on
Saturday with semi-final and championship games. The tournament, held at the National Sports Center
in Blaine, Minn.
Good behavior month continues. Because the reason this game was unpleasant, was because it was
90-degrees with 85% humidity - I don't even want to think of what the heat index was. Maybe the
players were just too tired to get uppity, but everything went along pretty well. Yes, there were a
few calls players wanted (or didn't want), but overall, it was a very civilized game.
