Today the Rapids announced that they had signed Hunter Freeman to a contract. As normal, terms and length were not revealed but I'm sure we'll find that information out down the road. Freeman started his career with the Rapids in 2005 before he was traded to NY before the season. Hunter has some versatility to play in defense or midfield, but he's primarily an outside back.

Roman Pavlyechenko... it doesn't matter if the spelling is off... the kid was on today. Pavs scores the lone goal off the bench to propel Spurs ahead of Chelsea and into 3rd.Video: Foxsports
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U.S. defender Stephanie Cox took a ball off the face from an odd angle the other day and had to sit out a few days with some eye issues. She returned to training on Thursday, but only with some special glasses to protect the her eye.
While she got a bit of stick from her teammates, we think she's making a fashion statement, and in fact she's talked about getting them tinted so not only can she look cooler, but perhaps a bit like Dutch legend Edgar Davids.

A profile on Sacha Vander MostvanSpijk, former head of Youth Development at Chivas USA. He is now involved in the deeply-flawed, money-spinning enterprise that is US Club Soccer. Seems like a cool guy though. Nice video as well, much more easily digested than the spelling of his last name.

So what's your name anyway, sunshine? (AP Photo).

U.S. Soccer, at the request of coach Klinsmann, spells his first name "Jurgen."

The Associated Press uses his formal, given name, which is "Juergen," the spelling he uses on legal documents.

Klinsmann himself spells it Jürgen, with two dots above the "u," as you can see on his official website, which is the same way, incidentally, German media spell it.

New trialist in with the Timbers today: Alex Ingentovich (sp?). Serbian.

via @TimbersInsider from today's training session.

Anybody have a clue who he is? Google and Wikipedia turned up nothing which leads me to believe the spelling it incorrect. However, it did lead me to this name: Alex Ignatovich, which is still coming up empty.

On March 13, the Brotherly Game columnist Chris Savino wrote an article detailing the Philadelphia Union's attempts to trademark the term "DOOP." It appears that the team and its supporters group the Sons of Ben have butted heads over some of the team's directives on how it will use the trademark.

After a few weeks of speculating who Philadelphia would get as a jersey sponsor the club announced today that they have signed a $12 million deal with the Mexican food company Bimbo. The deal will last for four years for the sophomore club.

With the sponsorship signing the Union become the thirteenth of 18 MLS teams to have a shirt or jersey sponsor.