For all of us geography nerds out there... here is the 107ist membership in the Portland area broken down by zip code.

Very, very cool.

[via Timbers Army]

Attention book nerds, there is a new American soccer tome on the block. It's called Soccer Made in St. Louis and it's about the secret history of Toledo, OH's underground Polish badminton leagues.
OK fine, it's about the obvious --St. Louis soccer-- and you should check it out.

All y'all MLS nerds aka My People should find out more about Kathy Carter and Mark Abbott. From the outside looking in you get the impression that The Don runs the show solo for dolo but the man has some help...they just don't get much ink.
Brian Struas nabbed MLS President Mark Abbott earlier in the week and ESPNW just threw something up on Kathy Carter, President of SUM, this morning.

Greetings, nerds. It's been a while. We've had some good times over the last few months, but we've also had some times where I moved to Pennsylvania, bought a heat gun, and was never heard from again. That's not a joke, by the way. Siobhan got a radical new job, so we bought a 130-year-old house and decamped to the Amish Cradle.

When the league announced before the season that Opta was being contracted to gather in-depth stats in league play, stat nerds like myself went giddy at the opportunity for more in-depth analysis of the events that make up a soccer match. But for the first half of the season, the only output we could see was the occasional tweet from Opta which amounted more to trivia than to statistics.

So over the past couple of months, things have maybe gotten a bit hostile on the football blog scene.
I apparently played a part.
A while ago, a certain writer well known to most of you from the entertaining blog Surreal Football, wrote a piece on ESPN Soccernet about the new tactics snobbery.

In 1987, there was a cheesy teen comedy movie called "Can't Buy Me Love." For those of you fortunate enough to not know this movie, let me explain the gist of it. A nerdy high school kid named Ronald has some money saved up for a new telescope. At about the same time, a popular cheerleader named Cindy finds herself in desperate need of money.

NASL fans can now show off their soccer knowledge with the new soccer game called NASLGuru. The game consists of picking the winners and indicating the score. You will win points for your accurate predictions. The game is free and at the end of the season you can win prizes.
But even if you join late you can still win prizes.

PSP photographer Nicolae Stoian traveled to Baltimore the SuperDraft. Here's a look at what the Union supporters were up to as the waited to greet the club's newest players.

Founding Members and Sons of Ben gather to march to the SuperDraft at the Baltimore Convention Center Entering the Convention center, loud and proud.