The possibilities for for the Wizards 2010 home schedule are starting to come into view. Earlier this week, the T-Bones came out with their schedule for the 2010 season, meaning we know what dates the Wizards won't be at home due to baseball being played at CAB. We also know that the Wizards won't be playing any games at all from June 10th through June 25th due to the announcement that the league will take off during the group stages of the World Cup this coming summer. Click to continue reading...

The United States has qualified for every World Cup since breaking their forty year drought back in 1990. That's six in a row, a feat that is impressive in itself, no matter their ultimate...

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The 2009 MLS season hasn't even gotten to the playoff stages, and already fans are looking forward to 2010. The league announced the home openers for each team today, and with the debut of Red Bull...

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Longpier.com will be at two special events over the next couple of days.
Firstly, tonight (Thurs 24th) we'll be at the re-opening of Chalkwell Hall in Chalkwell Park. It's an invite only event, but we have special access to the event and will be taking you on a tour of the refurbished building, which is now home to arts group Metal. Click to continue reading...

MLS announced today that the 2010 season will break for two weeks during the group stages of the World Cup. Additionally, the league announced a balanced schedule of thirty games; the home and home...

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Aug 21:
Sandra, MJ from Pitt (in Studio), Sarah
Aug 28:
Sandra, Sarah, Hank
Sept 4:
Jason Davis (in Studio), Brian, Sarah featuring Ginge as the Studio Audience
Sept 11:
Sandra, Sarah, TBD
Sept 18:
Zach, Sandra, Hank
Sept 22:
Zach, Sandra, Bryan Zygo
Oct 2:
Sarah, Sandra, Erin Dutka First All-Lady Panel! Click to continue reading...

Today the schedule was released for the 2009/2010 season. Lega Calcio finally decided to do the schedule EPL-style, with no seeding for teams, which meant you could have big games on the first day of the season. The first day of the season which starts the weekend of August 22 and 23 has two very interesting encounters, with Genoa-Roma and Palermo-Napoli.

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The World Football Challenge and other assorted friendlies played the US this summer, featuring some of Europe's most-storied clubs and biggest names, have packed stadiums from coast to coast. ...

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China may have all the world's jobs, but today it was a strong Manchester United team that had all the goals. The Red Devils put on an impressive performance, and slaughtered Huangzhou with four goals in the first half. Michael Owen (two goals), Dimitar Berbatov, Zoran Tosic, Nani, and Ryan Giggs (three goals) all got their names on the scoresheet, but it was Berbatov that really shined.

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If you take a look at the Wizards schedule for the game on July 25th at home against the Galaxy, you'll notice that this game now is going to appear on ESPN2. You'll also notice that this game is starting a half an hour later now, at 8pm. This game is set to be David Beckham's second game with the Galaxy after returning from his loan to AC Milan. Click to continue reading...

Today on his official blog, MLS commissioner Don Garber addressed the statements earlier this week from FIFA president Sepp Blatter who said that MLS must change their schedule to the European calendar. Here is what "The Don" had to say:
"Speaking of schedules, you may have read where FIFA President Sepp Blatter stated this week that to be successful, MLS needed to adapt to the international soccer calendar. Click to continue reading...

Way back in March, we brought you the first statements from both FIFA President Sepp Blatter as well as from MLS regarding a future potential change from MLS's current Spring-Fall season to one more in line with the FIFA International Calendar and major European leagues seasons.
Today from South Africa, ahead of the USA vs Brazil match. Click to continue reading...

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So as I was going about updating my statistical tables, and the Sounders FC league schedule, I learned something. While the second set of 10 matches is mainly at home, there is a small problem. While opponents up to this point have earned 1.26 points per match, the 2nd 10 (that includes the Crew) are [. Click to continue reading...

August 8th, the Wizards were supposed to be in DC taking on United in MLS league play. That game has now been moved to September 9th. The reason for the move is the fact that DC has reached an agreement to play Spanish powerhouse, Real Madrid on August 9th at FedEx field. This match has been rumored for months now and has finally come true. Click to continue reading...

Today at his weekly press conference, Wizards coach, Curt Onalfo announced the Wizards schedule for this year's SuperLiga.
Due to conflicts with CAB and the inability to use other venues for different reasons, the Wizards will open SuperLiga in St. Louis on June 21st against sister club Atlas. Click to continue reading...

We provide the following schedule as part of our ongoing partnership with ESPN360.com to keep you informed on all the soccer you can watch every week via their broadband service.
Below is this week's soccer schedule for ESPN360.com. As always, the entire schedule can be viewed via their RSS feed here. Click to continue reading...

We provide the following schedule as part of our ongoing partnership with ESPN360.com to keep you informed on all the soccer you can watch every week via their broadband service.
As we launch our new redesigned site we hope to have the schedule per day in its own section. For now we will post an ESPN360. Click to continue reading...

The Rapids announced a deal with KUSA, the local NBC affiliate, to broadcast the remaining Rapids games not being covered by Altitude. The games will be broadcast on Universal Sports in the Denver market, which is channel 9.3 over the air and channel 250 on Comcast. The deal also includes English-language broadcasts for the Rapids two Telefutura games this season (both against Houston) starting with this Sunday's game at the Dynamo. Click to continue reading...

Even in DC there were many seats to be found Saturday Night.
We received this via anonymous email:

Hello, Please keep my name and email address anonymous but I can tell you that any hopes MLS might someday switch to a European calendar were dashed recently. The league in planning this year's schedule had a number of objectives.

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My most recent missive for MLS Daily is now up over there, and I'd be honored if you'd check it out. I outline the issues that MLS playing through the international breaks causes for fans. MLS... pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/X7PkLOHiZpXCYZAxRL9wfk17NnU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices. Click to continue reading...

It's Monday morning, and predictably, I'm dragging just a bit. It's so hard to pack it in and call it a night when you're doing something enjoyable, and last night was no exception. The podcast... pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/iaLgZec6oWhIYKLu2F8Vy0_Pbaw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices. Click to continue reading...

There is a slight imbalance to the schedule, with each team facing two others within its Conference an extra time during the regular season. For Seattle these two opponents are the San Jose Earthquakes and CD Chivas USA. Much of the talk around MLS media and blog circles is about how the Eastern [. Click to continue reading...

The age old question contines, what is the best calendar for MLS? Sepp Blatter is in favor of a European one.
This excerpt courtesy of USA Today:

MANCHESTER, England — FIFA president Sepp Blatter wants Major League Soccer to switch to a traditional schedule that starts in late summer and ends in the late spring.

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Phew - I feel like it's been a long time since I sat down with some good strong coffee and just caught up here. There's lots of news in the soccer world as the WPS season kick-off is just weeks away!  March 29th, to be exact.  (I should probably think about taking a day or two [...] Click to continue reading...

As we slowly inch towards the day many call "Crewsmas", or the first day of the season, we now know when exactly that day is. Saturday March 21st will be the first game of the season for the defending MLS Cup Champs, as they travel to the great Southwest to Houston to take on [...] Click to continue reading...

The Wizards have announced 3 changes to their 2009 schedule. One will affect one of the Wizards home games. The team's second home game of the season, against San Jose has been moved from Saturday April 4th, to Sunday April 5th at 2pm. This according to Hillcrest Road is for TV purposes. The team has also announced the game time for the team's trip up to Toronto this year. Click to continue reading...

The rest of the Wizards preseason has been announced per MLSnet. Along with the 4 games scheduled for while the team is Florida, the team will play 4 games in Guadalajara, Mexico while they train at Atlas' facilities. There is also a game listed for March 14th out at the Swope Park training facility. Click to continue reading...

There is so much more I could write about today, but I will focus on the little bit of joy in the new Major League Soccer schedule. There are some great nuggets for the soccer fan hidden in here. First, we open the entire season, we already knew this, but still I can't wait for [...] Click to continue reading...

Well the MLS schedule is out, which means that it's time to start planning out the rest of my year around the Wizards schedule. We already knew the first two games of the season, at home against Toronto on March 21st and at Colorado on the 28th. The Wizards will welcome both ESPN2 and FSC to Community America Ballpark for the first time. Click to continue reading...

MLS just announced the 2009 schedule. The Rapids play each team home and away, and then add in an extra home game against FC Dallas and finish the season with an extra road game against FaKe SaLt LaKe for a total of 30 games. The schedule isn't kind to fans with a amazingly small number of early home games and 4 weeks off (up from 1 week last season). Click to continue reading...

The Wizards have announced a few of their preseason friendlies while they are down in Florida for training. They'll begin with a game on Friday against the US Under-17 team. As I mentioned earlier today, week from tomorrow, the Wizards will take on their first MLS opponent, the Chicago Fire. Saturday the 7th, the Wizards will play MLS Cup finalist, New York Red Bulls. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards will open the 2009 season the same way that they opened the 2008 season, at home. This time, the Wizards opponent will be Toronto FC. Today the league announced the home opener for all 15 teams. With that announcement, the Wizards have their opponents for the first two weeks of the regular season. Click to continue reading...

Major League Soccer has announced the home openers for each MLS team through the first three weeks of the season. FCD will open 2009 play on Saturday, March 21st at 7:30 PM against their Brimstone Cup Rivals, the Chicago Fire. In week two FCD takes their turn as the off team in the 15 team league. Week three sees the Red Stripes open up the New England Revolution home schedule up at the Big Razor in Foxboro on April 4th. Click to continue reading...

MLS just announced the opening games for every team.

• March 21st, 8:30pm Mountain, Colorado @ Chivas USA - Fox Soccer Channel
• March 28th, 7:30pm Mountain, Kansas City @ Colorado

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