Kyle Beckerman is among several outstanding players missing from Bradley's recent call ups With today's announcement that the injury prone and ineffective DaMarcus Beasley has been added to the US squad going down the Guatemala for the most important match of the Bradley era, some suggestions for Coach Bradley. Click to continue reading...

Toronto FC 1 - Real Salt Lake 2
Real Salt Lake surged four points clear of the rest of the West on Monday night as Robbie Findley netted the tiebreaking goal three minutes from stoppage to lead RSL to a 2-1 victory over Toronto FC in Utah.

Jamison Olave opened the scoring for Real just past an hour, heading home Chris Wingert's service from the right side after finding himself unmarked at the back post. Click to continue reading...

Just a crazy schedule it is. A Monday night game in July. Then again the league's All-Star game is on a Thursday night and games are played in 100 degree weather in Texas. But anyways, tonight we get a rare treat as Real Salt Lake puts their unbeated home record on the line against visiting [...] Click to continue reading...

What was up last night during the Columbus v Kansas City game with announcer John Harkes calling Guillermo Barros Schelotto, "guh-LAIR-moe", the whole game. Was he kidding? Was it an inside joke? Did no one on the production staff tell this guy how to pronounce a name? His TV partner JP Dellacamera got it right. Click to continue reading...

NEW YORK -- Major League Soccer announced that Chivas USA defender Jonathan Bornstein, New England Revolution midfielder Steve Ralston and FC Dallas midfielder Juan Toja were selected by All-Star head coach Steve Nicol to replace Sacha Kljestan, Michael Parkhurst and Robbie Rogers who were named to the U. Click to continue reading...

Things have been very busy at the Scads' household as of late which is why this site has been painfully neglected, but it would be sacrilege not to post after the monumental result vs. Columbus on Saturday night. While I am in the same mindset as Kyle Beckerman who said "It is great that we got there, but the main thing is getting three points tonight. Click to continue reading...

Well our boys in Orange ended up with a scoreless draw against RSL on Thursday with the 90 degrees kick-off temperature providing the only heat in this highly contested match, while it looks like the Dynamo were shooting for a draw RSL's Kyle Beckerman had the best chance to put the game away but his [. Click to continue reading...

Thank you to everyone who helped me fill out my ballot. Here's how our ballot ended up looking like:



Matt Reis
Bakary Soumare, Michael Parkhurst, Frankie Hejduk
David Beckham, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Javier Morales, Shalrie Joseph, Robbie Rogers
Landon Donovan, Kenny Cooper

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Final call for ballot help. I've got to turn my ballot in this week. The tally as it stands.

GK
Matt Reis 9, Jon Busch 8, Kevin Hartman 1

D
Bakary Soumare 11, Frankie Hejduk 9,Chad Marshall 8, Michael Parkhurst 8, Gonzalo Segares 8, Sean Franklin 5, Jimmy Conrad 3, Facundo Erpen 1, Marco Velez 1, Marvell Wynne 1, Abel Xavier 1. Click to continue reading...

Back at the CAB this weekend, with a winnable game on the schedule. Real Salt Lake is coming to KC, bringing their not-so-impressive road record of 1-5 into this game. What's misleading about is the fact that RSL hasn't lost in five games - including a 0-0 draw three weeks ago against KC. And while the Wizards haven't won in the league in what seems like forever (last win on April 20), there will be no better time than this.

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A curious line-up this evening for Chivas USA Coach Preki.

Dan Kennedy makes his MLS debut in goal, while Sacha Kljestan also starts.

Does that mean Brad Guzan starts in goal Sunday for the U.S. against Barbados instead of Tim Howard? Does it also mean Kljestan won't even dress tomorrow for the World Cup qualifier?

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Real Salt Lake had another impressive victory at home last night in their US Open Cup play-in game vs expansion San Jose EarthQuakes. Kyle Beckerman notched the first two goals of the game. After that Yura Movsisyan and Andy Williams each got a goal of their own to complete a 4-0 demolition of the EarthQuakes.

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1. Kyle Beckerman Someone pinch this guy. Two goals, one a possible goal of the week, against a revamped D.C. United squad that looked helpless at the machinations of a fluid RSL attack. Beckerman was overwhelmingly the reason for that. He won balls in the midfield, showed near-perfect passing abilities, and never let up. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to FC Rocky for putting together all the gains and losses in players the Rapids have had the last couple of days. The 3rd was an MLS roster deadline so it was the usual time in the spring to cut players.

Yesterday, March 4th, the MLS held a waiver draft for those players that were cut. Brandon Prideaux was picked up by the Chicago Fire [Red Card on Prideaux, here]

Of note the Rapids also signed a Brazilian player they were pursuing.

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If you haven't already caught it, Colorado native Stephen Keel answers some questions over on NoFanAlone.com. My favorite was his answer to starting his first game last year at Salt Lake. That's right Stephen, give 'em hell! http://www.nofanalone.com/blog/archives/001050.html

Oh and I do remember having a shoe lace football tackle on Beckerman for my first yellow card.

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Colorado Rapids Record (W-L-T): 9-13-8; 29 GF; 34 GA Source Material: Schedule/match reports Overview It seems fitting somehow that I should approach a review of the Colorado Rapids 2007 in the same almost aggressively feckless manner in which that team's front office runs the team - e.g. not reading the match reports, but operating from memory. Click to continue reading...

(Clever sub-titles seem in order here...perhaps even too-clever ones; I mean, is RSL really a riddle?) Real Salt Lake Record (W-L-T): 6-15-9, 31 GF; 45 GA Source Material: Schedule/match reports Overview Real Salt Lake's (RSL) past two seasons have followed the Riddle of the Sphinx made famous by the story of Oedipus: "What goes on four legs in the morning, [. Click to continue reading...

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• The U-20's got dumped by Austria, but they had a pretty good run at the U-20 World Cup. I'm fairly certain we'll be seeing a few of those boys step up to the full national team as qualifying for 2010 progresses.
  
• USL teams are absolutely abusing MLS in the Open Cup with the quarterfinal brackets reading USL 4, MLS 3 with one game pending tonight as Chivas take on the Sounders.

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I think it's fair to say I'm pretty disconnected from fan opinion. I almost never visit Big Soccer, the place where a helluva lot of fans lurk, because 1) I think it's a time-consuming black hole, and 2) people there take the whole "eat, live, breath soccer" thing more far more seriously than I do. Beyond a simple love of the game, soccer for me is an excuse for excessive behavior - e. Click to continue reading...

MLSUnderground broke the story yesterday (at least for my little corner of the world) and, in spite of the absence of "official word" (whoops, went official while I was typing), the mainsteam media reported on it today (out of Utah, the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune; from Colorado, The Denver Post (sort of; can you spell blurb?) and Rocky Mountain News). Click to continue reading...

That is what the Rapids fans have tonight. Jeff Plush, Charlie Wright and Fernando Clavijo weren't satisfied with breaking the fans hearts just once when they traded away Joe Cannon. This year they decided to do it again in and this time pour salt in the wound. They traded Kyle Beckerman to Real Salt Lake. Can you imagine the Green Bay Packers trading Brett Farve to the Chicago Bears, their bitter rivals, just as Farve was coming into his prime?

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So, as I skip gleefully through my Feedburner stats, I come across the distressing fact that I'm getting a bunch of hits from Google searches for the likes of "nery castillo shirtless" or "frankie simek shirtless" or, most distressingly, "kyle beckerman shirtless". Kyle Beckerman shirtless? What is the world coming to and what kind of sick puppies inhabit it? Click to continue reading...