The Time Finder posted information about some great computer shortcuts this morning - along with a link to the NY Times article by David Pogue.  Who knew, for example, that you can use Google like a calculator?  And here's a cool tip that I found in the "Comments" - A little less known one I enjoy [. Click to continue reading...

RailHawks midfielder and 2008 season MVP has been named to the USL-1 Team of the Year. Watson, who joined Carolina this season from the USL-2 Richmond Kickers, logged 2136 minutes for the RailHawks in League play and contributed 1 goal and 4 assists. The RailHawks midfielder was named to the 2nd team honor squad
Named to the first team honor roll was former Carolina RailHawks midfielder Jonny Steele, who lead the League in assists this season for Puerto Rico Islanders with 11 "helpers" in 26 matches played. Click to continue reading...

Just not good enough is the verdict.

An unspectacular David Beckham. A sublime Blanco move. A goalkeeper and others - Sean Franklin is not the MLS MVP folks - that are just not good enough. Did I say that already?

At this stage of the season it's not worth doing tactical analysis.

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It was an odd week in the standings. The top teams from last week did well and so did most of the teams near the bottom. The middle-of-the-pack, though, had some downright terrible losses as DC, New York and Chicago were all embarrassed soundly.

It had a slight affect on the table, though the top and bottom didn't change too much. Click to continue reading...

Assuming the role admirably usually performed by hamstring-challenged Argentine playmaker Guillermo Barros Schelotto, this year's likely MLS MVP, South Bay Boy Robbie Rogers curled home the audacious winning goal for the Columbus Crew in a 3-1 win Thursday over New York.

In a man of the match performance, Rogers could have had a second and drew a red card from frustrated Red Bulls defender Kevin Goldthwaite at game's end.

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Argentina's favorite duo aren't all lovey-dovey in the press these days.

Said Maradona:

"Messi plays for Messi and forgets his team-mates."

He went on to say that Javier Mascherano might be the team's MVP, as he was suspended and unavailable for the team's 1-1 tie with Peru. Click to continue reading...

While the Columbus Crew has been the biggest surprise of the 2008 MLS season thus far, this weekend's clash with Toronto FC will be a true test of whether they are MLS Cup contenders or pretenders. That's because it is looking increasingly likely that the Crew will be without their star playmaker and leading MVP candidate Guillermo Barros Schelotto, as the Argentine missed his second straight day of training because of a left hamstring strain. Click to continue reading...

I figured today would be a good day as ever to do a new poll here at WVH. Its sort of slow news wise so I am cleaning up some things around here and felt it was a good time to start discussing the MVP race for this season. You have five players to pick from [...] Click to continue reading...

If the season ended today, FC Dallas would be in the playoffs as the 3rd seed in the West. Is that crazy or what? A team that started off the year on such high hopes has quickly gone through three coaching changes, two full formation and tactics switches, a loss to a USL side in a meaningful match, the sale of the team's MVP from a year ago and a protracted ordeal involving rumors, speculation and offers for the services of their best player, Kenny Cooper, Jr. Click to continue reading...

Hard to believe that it already that time. Time to start putting together watch lists for certain yearly awards. Right now you could make a case for a lot of people in this year's MVP race. But let's look at the award real quick. I'm kind of hoping this is the year that someone other than [...] Click to continue reading...

Thad, over at The Back Post, and myself are continuing our weekly interview polls.

We pick a few players from the last game and put up a poll for you to decide on who should be interviewed (if possible). Vote either on this site, or over at The Back Post. In addition to that, feel free to post any questions you might have in the comments section of one of the two blogs. Click to continue reading...

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The details finally emerged on the Carlos Ruiz trade from LA to Toronto FC on Thursday and they were shocking to say the least. The LA Galaxy shipped Ruiz to Toronto FC for a pair of supplemental draft picks.

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6 a.m. on MSNBC.

Notable:
*Japan's run in the Olympics is its best ever in a world championship and the first time it has made the semifinal of a FIFA tournament.
*The U.S. and Japan will play for the second time in 10 days after the USA's 1-0 victory on Aug. 9 in Qinhuangdao.

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The Seattle Sounders organization has sent out e-mails to their season ticket holders informing them that the second Sounders player for the 2009 season will be revealed on Thursday, August 14th, in a press conference at Qwest Field.

"You're invited to join Seattle Sounders FC in a special player announcement on Thursday, August 14th at Qwest Field. Click to continue reading...

In the course of being engrossed by the game to game mentality and analysis, it is easy for me to lose perspective of an entire season. At times like this, it is useful to look back on previous posts to remind myself of what I was thinking earlier, and to reapply that perspective to where we are now.

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How's that for a confidence booster? With only 7 of our normal starting 11 in the lineup, and only 6 guys starting who started against KC in the season opener, United somehow came together to produce a big win and their first shutout of the year. With a first look at the starting lineups and the revelation that Ryan Pore was starting at forward, I kind of had a feeling that this could finally be THE ONE, and the team did not disappoint. Click to continue reading...

Juan Toja, the FC Dallas MVP from last season, has left for FC Steaua Bucuresti. Steaua are in the Champions League and drew Galatasaray today in the third qualifying round draw. The midfielder spoke about the move: I want to... Click to continue reading...

It seems as though Danish side FC Copenhagen have rekindled their interest in the Houston Dynamos former MLS MVP. Would De-Rosario be interested in a move to Europe? He has achieved pretty much all there is to achieve in US soccer, 4 MLS Cups and various all-star appearances and the 30 year old may be looking to challenge himself further in a European league.

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Este pasado 24 de julio del 2008 La MLS realizo su juego de estrellas, nuevamente Cuauhtemoc Blanco robo camara al ser el jugador mas valioso de este juego .
Un espectacular pase de gol y el anotar un excelente tiro fueron sus credenciales, una vez opaco al astro mercadologico de David Beckham. Click to continue reading...

The MLS All Star team defeated English Premier club West Ham United 3-2 on Thursday in Toronto.  Dwayne De Rosario scored a penalty kick in the 69th minute after he was fouled in the box, to earn the game winner for the MLS. Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored a goal and got an assist and was named MVP of the game. Click to continue reading...

Several places are reporting that Red Bulls might be looking to replace the newly-European Jozy Alitidore with another striker. And that other striker might be...Carlos Ruiz?

From Soccer by Ives:

The Red Bulls are considering acquiring Guatamalan forward Carlos Ruiz from the Los Angeles Galaxy, sources within MLS have told SBI.

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The New York Red Bulls quest to find a replacement for Jozy Altidore has led them to a player who just happens to be in town this weekend.

The Red Bulls are considering acquiring Guatamalan forward Carlos Ruiz from the Los Angeles Galaxy, sources within MLS have told SBI.

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The seven players added to the All-Star roster are: Jim Brennan (Toronto), Juan Pablo Angel (New York), Christian Gomez (Colorado), Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado), Pat Onstad (Houston), Edson Buddle (Los Angeles) and Dwayne De Rosario (Houston). The first five were picked by coach Steve Nicol; the last two are commissioner's picks.

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MARKHAM - At the start of this Sunday's game it was confirmed that Eddy 'MVP' Megurian would be out indfinitely after suffering a horrible injury in the game versus Limeys FC.

Though initially it was thought that the injury occured when Eddy and a member of the opposition both went in hard on a ball, it turns out that it wasn't until Eddy stood up in the pitted eight inch long grass did the horrible field conditions pop his knee out. Click to continue reading...

Bill pointed me to this post on BigSoccer from a Red Bulls fan.

Ben Olsen is to DCU what Babe Ruth is the the Yankees.

While it's great to see Olsen getting respect from a Red Bulls fan, the analogy betrays a lack of understanding of the history of both DC United and the New York Yankees.

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Bill pointed me to this post on BigSoccer from a Red Bulls fan.

Ben Olsen is to DCU what Babe Ruth is the the Yankees.

While it's great to see Olsen getting respect from a Red Bulls fan, the analogy betrays a lack of understanding of the history of both DC United and the New York Yankees.

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Hopefully everyone enjoyed my segment on the American Soccer Show last week with Kartik Krishnaiyer, a good buddy of mine. We had a good chat about the Euros and the US National Team and the feedback I've gotten so far has been positive, so I appreciate that.

Living where I do in Virginia (at least I until this fall, when I head up to Erie, PA for my second year of college), I get a chance to follow DC United fairly closely. Click to continue reading...

So I told you about Bryan Truta and Cherryh Butler's visit to practice the other day seemingly 100 times now. Well, they just keep putting up more stuff about it! Both today posted the video at their respective websites. Check out Truta's blog here and the ink front page here.

The guys depart today for Canadia (spelled wrong on purpose) for the second match-up with TFC of 2008. Click to continue reading...

With three goals from last year's MVP (amazingly, his first hat trick in MLS), United put together a comprehensive 4-1 win over the visiting Red Bulls Saturday night. After struggling to find the back of the net through the first part of the season, Luciano Emilio has now scored goals in four straight games - tied for the longest streak in MLS this year - and run his season tally to seven, second best in MLS.

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First half, excellent football. I really think they finally figured out how to play to the advantages of having Deuchar. If you have a guy who's that much taller than everyone, play to his head. Quite honestly, I think that Kevin Hartman had a great game and that was all that really prevented RSL from getting the win. Click to continue reading...

First half, excellent football. I really think they finally figured out how to play to the advantages of having Deuchar. If you have a guy who's that much taller than everyone, play to his head. Quite honestly, I think that Kevin Hartman had a great game and that was all that really prevented RSL from getting the win. Click to continue reading...

MARKHAM - It was a rigid cold May 18th with temperatures hovering around the 4 degree celcius mark during pregame warmups, and a thin film of rain to start at kickoff.

A tussle from the get go, Markham Crush scored two rather early, lucky goals in the first half thanks to the wind and a lucky bounce. Click to continue reading...

So I'm still on a high from the Caps' victory over Carolina last night (even United's dismal performance against Pachuca didn't bother me too much), when I see this in Mike Wise's column in today's Post:

...Ovechkin is about to become the first Washington star in 25 years to win the most valuable player award in a major American team sport.

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As first reported by Steve Goff earlier today, Luciano Emilio was named the 2007 MLS MVP, beating out Juan Pablo Angel & Cuauhtemoc Blanco. Emilio won the MLS Golden Boot earlier this year as he won the MLS regular season scoring title with 20 goals.

Congratulations to Emilio, he deserves this honor. I was a little worried that he would get the shaft and either Angel or Blanco would be named to the award. Click to continue reading...