Right about now is a probably good time to start another serious discussion of finding a better way to determine a winner in a soccer match of enormous magnitude besides the dreaded PK shootout.
Someplace else.
Not that I'm a fan of the thing - far from it. It's just that the gut punch delivered to the Fire and their fans last night after 120 minutes of emotion, drama and desire seems worthy of something more than just another tedious discussion of the rules of the game. Click to continue reading...

Sure, it was a loss. It doesn't feel good. About 100 people traveled, and they are hurt just a bit more maybe. It was a performance that could not be called a good loss. Seattle Sounders FC was outplayed in nearly every aspect of the match. If not for Leo Gonzalez and Kasey Keller this could have been a 5 to nil thrashing.

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I guess I could also have named this "My obligatory Elizabeth Lambert post, and why I have no respect for US college soccer." By now I'm sure everyone has seen the video of Elizabeth Lambert's antics during the Mountain West Conference tournament game between New Mexico and Brigham Young. Heck, I've seen it on sports websites in the UK, Spain, Italy, and Argentina. Click to continue reading...

We've covered the forwards, and we've covered the front office. Heck, our front office results actually have been 100% correct so far, with Tom Soehn leaving the team and Kasper and Payne set to return. We'll have to wait a while to find out if our forward results are correct, but in the meantime, let's see what everyone has to say about our attacking midfielders. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal have a bad habit of taking an unassailable lead and then switching into cruise control to see the match out and recently it's backfired on them here and here. Heck, even when it hasn't, they've still managed to leak more than an old person lying in bed without diapers. ... Click to continue reading...

The Beauty: JoJo (who was born Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque) is an American pop star. She rose to fame in the music biz at a very young age, and she parlayed her perfect pipes into a successful acting career. Now, the sky is the limit for the young starlet.

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This week in the U14 Gold bracket we found a a little more action. More goals and a couple surprises.
Recap;
Saturday
LOSC Extreme 2 vs. FC Portland 1
SSC 95 Hotspur 1 vs. OR Rush 1
Sunday
ESUFC Arsenal 0 vs. OR Rush 1
Sherwood Force 0 vs. THUSC Sodium 4
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Morning All – I did a little bit of multi-tasking yesterday, using my vast experience and skill around the keyboard; I typed while watching our wonderful team put in a lunchtime shift at the Emirates!
Ok, I am fibbing, I just typed as I watched and corrected a huge amount of spelling mistakes afterwards, it took an age!

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So let's start the discussion. Here are some of my initial thoughts from tonight:
1. The Onstad Bump: After the game, Alexi Lalas showed the smarts that made him the GM he was when he said that Onstad should have gotten a red card for that contact. "99 times out of 100, that's a straight red," ranted his Gingerness. Click to continue reading...

Thursday night the Sounders launch the league's second season as the Playoffs in many sports are called, but in this case it might be particularly important. Though Houston and Seattle faced off twice in League play and once in the late rounds of the US Open Cup, the teams have changed quite a bit from where they were in previous meetings.

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- Chygrynskiy is back from his injury, more cause to rejoice! He's greenlighted for this Sunday's Liga meet with Zaragoza, wonderful news especially now that Dani's out. Medics are saying that Titi could be returning as well, things really seem to be picking up now don't they?
- People call Pep harsh for fining the players when they're naughty, but who would have guessed that the club's donating the money for great causes? Click to continue reading...

This week Pepsi introduced an iPhone application called "Amp Up Before You Score" to promote its competitor to the slew of energy drinks. Its purpose? To give you alleged insider information to boost you powers of seduction, as well as give you a platform to brag about which women you managed to get naked. Click to continue reading...

Background: Blanco is like Neil Diamond. You either love him or you hate him. Either way, you can't deny that he is one heck of a soccer player. The man was born to play the game. He even has a juke move named after him ("the Cuautemiña"), which makes him a living legend.

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Think Seattle is killing it in attendance this season?
Next season could be better, as one report says the club might open up the north-end bleachers (often referred to as the Hawk's Nest, where that Xbox banner is) for games next year.
That would add 2,200 seats to the capacity, making it 34,600. Click to continue reading...

Why won't you score?!

Okay, so we are pretty settled into the 2009-2010 season and I am, yet again, having major issues with my fantasy team. What's going on? How can I have 14 points in one weekend? How can Michael Turner do so well for Hull and not for Sunderland? How, in the name of all that is holy, can my captain, Frank Lampard, not have scored a single goal this season?

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I talk soccer a lot online. On forums, through facebook, through twitter, via email. Heck, I do it at work, on my cell, on the streets of LA at a music festival Recently I was talking to Jason D. over at MatchFitUSA.com about how some soccer fans like to promote themselves as exclusive and [...] Click to continue reading...

A battle of the titans took place over the weekend, and Columbus prevailed over Houston 2-1. Remember when we were laughing at the Crew's early-season struggles?
Especially us up in Seattle after stealing Sigi?
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What is it with these two teams? The strangest crap happens when these two face off, and not just this year. The latest 6-3 games isn't even in the top four as the history of this series is nuts. Heck the series opened back in 1996 with a 5-2 Dallas win at the Cotton Bowl. Click to continue reading...

Or maybe they can just plead ignorance? Perhaps they'll have changed it by now, so I grabbed a screenshot from Grant Wahl's recap just in case. Quick! What's wrong with this picture? Or rather, the caption... Whoops! Heck, the .jpg is even named... Click to continue reading...

World Cup qualifying is getting real and some serious games are at the ready for this weekend.

Grant Wahl has writtenabout how Argentina and Portugal are both on the precipice of World Cup qualifying failure, which could deny fans of two of the best players in the world, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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As the STO Commish once noted, tying is Un-American and should be avoided when possible. We Yanks like clearly defined winners and losers, so tying in the NFL (aka "the Not Football League") is highly improbable. Heck, tying in baseball and basketball is impossible (except in a MLB All-Star Game when Selig got sleepy).

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Tomorrow, RSL heads off to New England to play the Revolution and the game promises to be a cracker as most of the RSL games have been recently. Seriously, I am not sure that the game can reach the level of the cage-match against the Dynamo last week in Rio Tinto, but Real and the Revolution are sitting at similar places in their respective tables and both teams need points to have a chance at the playoffs.

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I get on the MLS referees pretty good at times. Heck, who am I kidding? I beat 'em like eggs. So it's just fair that I comment when the men in the middle get things right. And they got things right in Round 22 of Major League Soccer when it came to dealing with the miscreants. It [...] Click to continue reading...

"Good result, horrible play. I'm happy with the 3 points though!" -Anonymous
From Post: FC Dallas 1, Houston Dynamo 0
"Evidently the haters stayed home for their favorite circle event." -Anonymous
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The 11th Law of the Game deals with the "offside position", which is nowhere nearly as dirty as it sounds when it is put it in quotation marks like that. Offsides is a hotly debated rule of soccer, and one many lovers of the attack typically detest.

Now, being in an "offside position" (which occurs when a player is nearer to his opponent's goal line than both the ball and the second to last opponent) is not technicall illegal per se.

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StumbleUpon WebToolbar - ESPN Adds Premier League To Soccer Line Up | EPL Talk
As if my wife needed more reasons to hate ESPN, he's a new one! The early Saturday Premier League matches will now be shown in the US on ESPN. Sure going to beat the heck out of watching them on my laptop with Setanta-i. Click to continue reading...

For whatever the heck that was that happened on the sideline of the FCD game last week. Click to continue reading...

Previously, DC United and the District quietly began discussing possibilities. Now the DC Business Journal reports they're looking at another site: Buzzards Point.
Here is an excerpt:

All the properties that have come up in D.C. United stadium talks have been publicly held.

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After years (okay its only been a few months) of silence, the Rowdies front office speaks. General Manager Andrew Nestor spoke cryptically in very measured statements about the stadium, coaches, players, and even the kit. The franchise does seem to have a heartbeat after all.
There isn't much meat in what Nestor said, certainly nothing earth shattering. Click to continue reading...

We have a common theme for our transfer rumor post today. All of our rumors and transfers and non-transfers deal with the same question: How the heck does MLS get (and keep) young, talented players? First, the done deal: Danny Szetela is back in the States and on the roster for [...] Click to continue reading...

Not between the players or coaches, mind you, but the suits in the front office.
You can say it started in Seattle, when Sounders FC general manager Adrian Hanauer had some strong words of regret ("frustrated" and "skeptical" being a couple) that we didn't get to host the U.S. Open Cup final up here. Click to continue reading...

The Special One's Inter Milan was dire, no question.

But Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea? They were quite impressive during Tuesday's decisive 2-0 win in Pasadena.

Again, Carlo broke out the 4-1-2-1-2 formation and, again, the result was a tidy attacking performance.

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Where/what/who the heck is Notts County?
I guess they're a League Two side I guess. He'll be the director of football.

"Sven shares our vision, and to attract someone of his calibre is testament to the ambition that we all share for Notts County," chairman Peter Trembling said.
"This a great day for everyone associated with the club.

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I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it........
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it....................
It's here! The new season is finally upon us and despite all the negative shite I have read in the papers over the summer I'm actually feeling pretty positive going into the new campaign. Click to continue reading...

Whatta day for a comeback!
The Galaxy v. Red Bulls game return of David Beckham to MLS had the attention of the soccer world Wednesday night. Heck, the Fox Soccer Channel announcers were all but reading Grant Wahl's book on the air during the broadcast.
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