Maryland faces a big challenge from Boston College this weekend. (Photo via Maryland Athletics/ TJ Root)

After a couple big weekend of college soccer where top schools faced off against one another, this weekend cools off a bit at least in terms of a No 1 vs No 2 matchup. There are still plenty of good match ups to discuss for the weekend ahead.

A couple of things here:
1. Congrats to the Spencers on the new addition.
2. We don't get to see the tattoo. I'd like to see the tattoo just so I can have closure.
3. This is not tattoo music. My wife has like 8 tattoos, we have several close friends who are noted tattoo artists (namedrop: Patrick Dean, Dave Shoemaker, Kevin LeBlanc) and every single one of my high school friends were straight edge, hardcore-types who dragged me to Born Against shows.

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.

When WNT stars Abby Wambach and Shannon Boxx threw out ceremonial first pitches before the MLB American League baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway last weekend, there were probably a lot of soccer fans watching baseball for the first time. Goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc posted this pic of the players jumping before the big pitch.

My Day, My Life - Women's Soccer online mini-series ahead of the Women's World Cup in Germany. Karina LeBlanc: How does life pan out for the Canadian player?

PUMA has also launched the new "My Day My Life: Women's Soccer" series from Alloy Network. "My Day My Life" follows four professional women's soccer players as they make their way to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup The four PUMA athletes profiled in the series — Karina LeBlanc, Amy Rodriguez, Alex Scott, and Marta [.

The forthcoming Olympic Games and whether a united "British" team should be allowed to play in the competition has reopened one off British football's oldest debates. Jason LeBlanc takes a look at the history of this fractious state of affairs.

The subject of a unified British team partaking in next summer's London Olympics has been broached on this site before, but with the Euro 2012 qualifier between Wales and England featuring some players that would compete together if their associations—along with those of Scotland and Northern Ireland—agreed to the matter, it feels prescient to gloss over the matter again.