What would the NSCAA Convention be without the added excitement (and pressure) of speaking? For the second year in a row, my good friend and peer Ryan Knapp and I presented together. Ryan and I met in 2009 at Tweet Blowing the Whistle on Social Media and have bantered back and forth on all things digital and social media since.

Over the offseason, we will be trying different ideas/articles to see what is well received and what is not in effort to try to make HTIOT even better heading into year 2. One idea we have is to have a random links post on anything soccer related that we find interesting enough to post. Ideally, we would like to have one person assigned to one day each week.

As far as Soccer websites go, there are a mountainous volume to choose from. Sites, whether hobby or business, try to keep an audience by covering certain areas of interest. It's impossible for one site to dominate; Soccer is too big of a subject.
Some sites act as funnels, sharing articles from the web, others only write original content.

PUMA has launched the 2011 edition of their anti-breast cancer initiative Project Pink. You can find out more about it at the PUMA Project Pink and PUMA Women's Professional Soccer websites. Here are PUMA athletes and USA Wpmen's National Team Players Tasha Kai and Leslie Osbourne along with The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev kicking [.

The popular Dutch soccer websites and eredivisie.nl and eridievisielive.nl are merged into one, now focussing more on paid content.

When the North American Soccer League was provisionally sanctioned to run Division-2 soccer last weekend, there were questions regarding the eligibility of the 5-U.S. based teams and if they would be able to participate in that tournament. When U.S. Soccer held their press conference on Monday president Sunil Gulati confirmed that those five teams would not be able to play in the 2011 edition of the 97-year-old tournament.