The NASL expansion San Antonio Scorpions club added four more players, including long-time MLS vet Ryan Cochrane, along with one of the top NASL attackers last season, Pablo Campos of the Carolina RailHawks, in addition to signing two young players with local ties. The RailHawks, meanwhile, will have Chris Nurse back in the fold for [.

With the upcoming opening of the 2012 NASL season in April inching closer, the Tampa Bay Rowdies have added Luke Mulholland from the NASL champion Minnesota NSC Stars to their roster for the upcoming season, while the expansion San Antonio Scorpions signed veteran Mexican Primera Division striker Javier Saavedra.

The San Antonio Scorpions owner Gordon Hartman revealed in a press conference on Monday, renderings and timelines for his new stadium which will be erected adjacent to his Morgan's Wonderland. Hartman's team will play their first season at Hero's Stadium a high school field in the North East Independent School District which is across the [.

The Atlanta Silverbacks have already made two offseason moves to bolster their defense, signing Martyn Lancaster from the Strikers and Brazilian backliner Rilla, and have now added two veteran strikers, while the expansion San Antonio Scorpions have added five new players to their roster for the 2012 NASL season.

Much has been happening in the San Antonio soccer scene since IMS last checked in back in December with two articles. On December 13th, the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) tabled their decision on removing the track around Alamo Stadium which the school district owns. The SAISD planed on upgrading the aging stadium this [.

Earlier this month IMS reported on yet another page of the ongoing story of two organizations attempting to bring pro soccer to San Antonio. Gordon Hartman's San Antonio Scorpions set to start play this spring in the NASL and Spurs Sports and Entertainment (SS&E) who have only postulated they would like to start a team with ULS [.

The NASL expansion San Antonio Scorpions recently signed four new players culled from combines and invitational tryouts, while the Atlanta Silverbacks added another defender to their roster. In addition, two members of the 2011 champion NSC Minnesota Stars will be playing in this year's Maccabi games held in Brazil.

On Wednesday the San Antonio Scorpions announced their first player signings in preparation for the 2012 season. The NASL expansion team have brought former Vancouver Whitecaps players Kevin Harmse and Greg Janicki, both 27 years old, into the fold. Scorpions' Coach Tim Hankinson also announced that Alen Marcina and Juan Lamadrid will join the club [.

NASL clubs continue to be active during the off-season preparing for the 2012 season. Carolina officially announced the signing of Colin Clarke to pilot the club in 2012, while Atlanta added a veteran defender for next season and San Antonio are busy not only holding tryouts but marketing the club.

Adding 8 more teams/cities to the NFL would amount to a total of 40 teams, from 32. The eight divisions would have 5 teams each, instead of 4. The question is, who should new franchises be awarded to?
Before discussing the cities, it's important to discuss whether 8 more teams would be reasonable for the NFL, economically speaking.

The San Antonio Scorpions, who will join the D2 NASL next season as an expansion team in 2012, have named Tim Hankinson as the head coach. Hankinson, a New York City native, will begin his duties of assembling a coaching staff and scheduling player tryouts immediately. Hankinson, 56, played college soccer at the University of South Carolina [.

Here's a list of Official U.S. Soccer Bars have confirmed that they will be showing the WWC matches:
O'Brien's Pub, San Diego
Rira Irish Pub, Burlington, Vermont as well as Providence, Rhode Island and Portsmouth, N.H.
Mickey Byrnes, Hollywood, Fla.
Mulligan's on First, Hoboken, N.

The Ottawa NASL rumors have been floating for months. Now word out of Canada and the US is that Ottawa will be announced as the newest NASL team which would start play in 2013. The announcement will come some time next week.

On the most recent Miami Ultra's podcast called Miami Ultra's Alive, hosted by Pieter Brown and Uncle Ed, guest Tim Robbie, president of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers mentioned let slip that Ottawa will indeed be joining the NASL for 2013.

KC has gotten quite a few new fans over the past few years, and while they have heard the history of the team and the stories of the team potentially moving. But I would suggest for all fans, not just those that are newer read this story about the Rochester Rhinos no longer being on MLS' radar.
The reason for this is because you'll learn about how close Kansas City really did come to losing their MLS team to Rochester.

Galaxy Match Previews:

• Dynamo determined to get three points [Houston Dynamo]
• Beckham-less Los Angeles hosts Houston [LA Times]
• Dynamo looking for a lift in L.A. [Houston Chronicle]

In Other News:

• Dynamo and NASL's San Antonio Scorpions Could Form Partnership [SA Examiner]
• MLS Power Rankings, Week 10: Real Salt Lake Still On Top, But It's Tight [SB Nation]
• MLS has made progress, but it's not a good place for top Americans [Sports Illustrated]

FC Milwaukee midfielder Lindsey Holmes and defender Brittany Von Rueden were named to the Elite Clubs National League Under-17 All-Event Team for last month's San Antonio Event.

Holmes and Von Rueden were among 11 players selected for the all-event team for the Nationals (6-3-3), who are seventh in the 26-team Flight B with one event left in the regular season.

It's time for us to have an adult conversation about Major League Soccer and where the winds of expansion will blow next.

This one is going to be difficult for some people; the truth will sting a little. But it's a conversation that needs to happen, so let's sit down and get this over with.

Yesterday I went on another one of my rants questioning why American soccer team logos seem to always have the 1970′s Adidas Telstar style black and white soccer ball on them.

This all came up in the discussion of San Antonio's 3-finalist for their team logo. All three had the old black and white soccer ball again.

- Jason Davis
Now that the NASL has their provisional sanctioning for 2011, the drama infecting lower division soccer should die down just a bit - we hope. The odd decision to leave league's US teams out of this year's US Open Cup aside, the business of actually playing games is rapidly approaching, giving fans ample reason to put the messy off-field issue out their minds.

The San Antonio Scorpions have been conducting contest to name the team and now to create a logo for the team. Over 300 entries were turned in for a logo. A panel of judges have narrowed that number down to three and now you have the chance to vote. Voting is open from today, Feb, 15 through the 28.

While there's not been a lot of news to report on the NASL sanctioning front in the last few days, things are about to get interesting.

The USSF Annual General Meeting takes place in Las Vegas this Friday morning and ends Saturday afternoon. This is the same meeting that the NASL would have been officially approved as the sanctioned division 2 league in the U.

Time to ditch the MLS qualifying bracket in the US Open Cup.

I've had this thought bubbling for a while. How on earth can we improve the US Open Cup? I know I've mentioned it in the past and today seemed like a good day to bring it back up. With the changes that have gone on in US Soccer over the last year or so with the NASL-USL split and the ever growing MLS it seems like a perfect time to revamp the Cup.

As MLS prepares to begin its first season with 18 clubs, the recent talk on the Internet has focused on its possible 20th team. Recent talk on this site has centered on Don Garber traveling to Miami to meet with Miami soccer fans; if you have not read The Gaffer's article on the meeting then definitely check it out.

As MLS prepares to begin its first season with 18 clubs, the recent talk on the Internet has focused on its possible 20th team. Recent talk on this site has centered on Don Garber traveling to Miami to meet with Miami soccer fans; if you have not read The Gaffer's article on the meeting then definitely check it out.

An image displayed at today's press conference shows what STAR Soccer Stadium could look like if the public funds $8 million dollars of the costs.

The battle for San Antonio stepped up one more notch on Monday when owner Gordon Hartman announced the winning name for his NASL Team that will take the field in 2012.

Jeremiah took a tongue-in-cheek look at what Don Garber would say to the Miami Ultras and he met prior to today's Combine action. Except that the MLS Commissioner pretty much said what Jeremiah said he would.

Garber emphasized three points that would help most: getting the market excited for soccer, supporting the second division club that already exists, and supporting the Gold Cup matches to be played at FIU Stadium this summer.