First things first: the Galaxy's Alecko Eskandarian is on Drew Carey's "The Price is Right at 10 a.m. on CBS (sorry for the late notice).

In other momentous MLS Cup related news:

*Seattle introduces - the Galaxy dog.

*Former Galaxy midfielder Ned Grabavoy is a hero in Salt Lake City after scoring the PK that put them through to the final - but may not play Sunday against his former team.

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MLS Cup Weekend - Party with your friends on Friday night!
The Designated Players - du Nord, Soccer by Ives, The Original Winger, This Is American Soccer and The Offside Rules - will be hosting a get together on Friday night in Seattle at Kells Pub. Click to continue reading...

Morning all, welcome to the blog.
By the time you read this, Perth Glory coach Dave Mitchell will hold a testing session for his players and a "midseason" review with the good fellows of Perth's sports media.
What that means, FP doesn't know, but presumably it won't be any different than the usual Glory presser. Click to continue reading...

These guys are recently been listed as most influential journalists and bloggers for football news. Tweet-ing has its benefits! I share the following article from puntersrealm.

Since Twitter recently released a list function, we thought it was time to share our list of who we follow as the most influential (mostly European) sports journalists and bloggers in world sport.

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Thanks to Sports Media Watch for this nugget:

ESPN2 averaged a 0.2 U.S. rating and 254,000 viewers for its first two MLS Playoff telecasts. In particular, Dynamo/Sounders on October 29 drew a 0.2 and 274,000, while Galaxy/Chivas USA on November 1 drew a 0.1 and 233,000.

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Guido Erhard, who also struggled with depression

Big Story
The suicide of Robert Enke has shocked German football, with the country cancelling its friendly with Chile this Saturday and tributes pouring in.

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As much stick as American fans of football a/k/a soccer get from the mainstream sports media and sports fan, I'm always shocked at how many fans of the Beautiful Game dismiss the women's game. Those of us who take even a passing interest in women's football know it is not a gentle love fest. Click to continue reading...

The President of Real Madrid Florentino Perez wants him out, orthat is the unsaid rumour circulating through the Sports media.Real Madrid Director General Jorge Valdano insists that he stays,naturally was Valdano who recommended & brought the man to theClub. Coach Manuel Pellegrini has lost the authority & control ofthe dressing room, the catalyst being a series of bad decisions thathe is paying Click to continue reading...

"Shut up Fool!"
In the world of blogging and sports media, there is no art more refined and time tested than the systematic ridicule of a poor performing sports team. When things start to go wrong, everyone from the owner on down to the equipment managers can be a target for the criticism of those of us who make our way in sports forming opinions and shouting them loudly from the hilltops. Click to continue reading...

This is why I don't subscribe to 24th Minute. Every time I go over there I see something that makes me want to stab my eyes out. Most of the Canadian blogs, actually. Which is kind of sad. I mean, most of them can write. It's just what's going on up their heads that's the problem.
Anyway, BA Duane with a rumination on the follies of the New York franchise, with commentary by yours truly:

Just as Canadians hate that everything here is Toronto focused (and, say, that USL-1 championship final is overshadowed by TFC's attempt to sneak into the playoffs), Americans don't much like to have it pointed out that it's important to have a presence in the New York market.

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This may come as very surprising news for fans of English football in the 21st century - particularly with so many foreign names flooding our professional leagues from the Premiership all the way down to League 2 - but it seems that even today, many young non European footballers are still encountering serious difficulties in settling in at their new clubs here in the UK. Click to continue reading...

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Landon Donovan won his sixth Honda Player of the Year award on Tuesday, also earning Honda Player of the Decade honors in the process.

The award, which goes to the top U.S. national team player, was voted on by 221 members of the American sports media.

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Landon Donovan won his sixth Honda Player of the Year award on Tuesday, also earning Honda Player of the Decade honors in the process.

The award, which goes to the top U.

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Tonight, October 19th, at 5pm PST / 8pm EST, a lecture: "Facing Off Over Facebook: The Impact of Social Media on Women Sports" is going to be broadcast LIVE online from the Tucker Center at the University of Minnesota. http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercenter/lecture/default.

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Now that it's confirmed the United States will be participating in next year's World Cup, the American sports media will be ramping up their coverage of soccer here in the States. It's the way of...

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Episode 141 of the EPL Talk Podcast features an interview with Nick Szczepanik, writer for The Times newspaper and a regular co-host on TheGame Podcast. Szczepanik offers an intriguing insight to English football by having lived in the United States and being a follower of American sports.

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An Indian billionaire is the latest wealthy individual to express an interest in investing in Liverpool.
Representatives of the unidentified man, who made his fortune in the energy industry, held talks with George Gillett Jr., the Liverpool co-owner, at a dinner meeting held at the Cipriani restaurant in Mayfair, Central London, on Sunday. Click to continue reading...

F6, the Saudi Arabian sports investment company, has confirmed that it has reached an agreement with Liverpool to establish a number of football academies in the region.
The deal was signed with George Gillett Jr., the Liverpool co-owner, and will seek to set up two exclusive academies in Saudi Arabia and two in North Africa while also extending the interests of the American's NASCAR franchise, Richard Petty Motorsports. Click to continue reading...

Today has been a quiet day around here I know. Other than a few twitter posts I've remained a bit out of posting today. Blame it on slow news or blame it on me not wanting to jump on bad rumors that are out there right now. I do have a couple items tonight to discuss but nothing too huge.

I wanted to start off in the land of college soccer.

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According to Italian Sports media "La Gazzetta dello Sport" &announced as official here in Spain by Spanish daily "Marca",REAL MADRID midfielder WESLEY SNEIJDER has understoodthat REAL MADRID will not count with him for this season,or any other, & has finally accepted to be transferred toINTER MILAN. Click to continue reading...

Here's an odd and utterly shocking (to me) bit of media trivia: according to media blogs the highest ever fee paid for movie rights to the New York Times is for a story about youth soccer in suburban Atlanta. After a fierce bidding war between Hollywood studios spurred by Warren St. John's Times cover article on "Outcasts United" – a team of refugee youth in the small town of Clarkston, Georgia called the Fugees – Universal ultimately paid $3 million to the Times, to St.

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News just in & flying through the Sports media is that REAL MADRIDhas come to an agreement with French Club OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLEfor the possible transfer of the 31 year old Argentine Internationaldefender GABRIEL HEINZE.What is needed now is that the actual player accepts the terms of theFrench Club. It is expected that the player may fly to Marseille to shuta 3 year deal, with his salary being Click to continue reading...

OK, I think it's gotten out of control now. Not my constant posting of Beckham-related video because that sh*t is a traffic goldmine only rivaled by posts whose titles contain a combination of the words "hot" and "teen" in a way that could get you an unwanted cameo on "To Catch A Predator". Click to continue reading...

One of the challenges of following the Red Bulls in New York is the mainstream sports media's lack of team coverage. In a down year like this one, compounded with shrinking staffs at the city's daily papers, regular news about NYRB is scarce, and getting scarcer. The New York Times has stopped sending reporters to home matches years ago, choosing to pick up wire reports instead. Click to continue reading...

It's time for the annual MLS flunks out again blog for MLS not taking action during MLB's all-star break. Instead of garnering potential sports media headlines for games on Wednesday, the best day of the break to play games, the headlines went to the Tour de Lance, the NHL's Winter Classic and the comings and goings of the sports blotter.

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Hope everyone had a happy and safe Independence Day weekend.

Some of these are a bit old, but we've had three players re-up with the club over the last week or so. And they're all very promising young players. Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, and Kieran Gibbs all signed new long-term deals with the club.

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No shame in silver when the average Joe is starting to actually care. (Getty Images)

We've seen a big jump in soccer talk in mainstream sports media over the last few days. Big reason is not just the results on the field by the US over world powers like Spain and the toe-to-toe final against Brazil but it is due to the average sports guy/gal gaining more respect for soccer as a whole.

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An interesting piece on "Football Finance" has appeared thisafternoon on the digital edition of local sports media "AS".They cite the University of Navarra (Spain) & their EconomicDepartment who have just released a study indicating theplayer, Club & Coach with most media pulling power in theWorld, using last season's indicators(photo: as. Click to continue reading...

I loved Pim singing the national anthem on Fox Sports tonight and I've loved the openness of the guy throughout the campaign.
Pim's got us to the World Cup through Asia. He's planned it right and got the maximum out of our players. Brilliant.
It's great to have a leader of the national team who you can admire, and for me, you might not always agree with his tactics, but he's got a certain dignity, a certain sincerity and he takes no crap from the immature Aussie sports media. Click to continue reading...

For South Korea, the 2010 World Cup qualification campaign is almost over and first place in the group guaranteed. There is still one act to be played out however and it promises to be an intriguing one.
The final game takes place on Wednesday. South Korea have bagged the first of two automatic qualification spots which leaves one up for grabs. Click to continue reading...

Socceroos have qualified for the third time at the biggest tournment in World sport and the Daily Telegraph's Ben English is criticising the attendance at tonights game.
Now that is a bigger crowd than the League Centenary test, promoted just a tad, bigger than the Wallabies v Baa Baa's, promoted widely with SBW and co, and bigger than the AFL v Ireland, but the guy wants to have a go. Click to continue reading...

This won't be new to many of you, but I absolutely love the Guardian's "Seven Deadly Sins of Football" feature, which is essentially a compilation of shocking, outlandish, and dismaying moments, helpfully grouped according to an ancient Catholic doctrine based on Gregory I's revision of the work of a fourth-century monk called Evagrius the Solitary.

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A few soccer fans have asked me if I think that Sounders FC and MLS are getting enough coverage in the Seattle market. They point out the 30,000 or so crowd, the good TV ratings for games so far and the general excitement they notice on the streets. But, maybe the problem isn't the media. [...] Click to continue reading...

From far too many discussions on message boards, I have determined that there are three types of "anti soccer fans", if it's possible to be an anti fan of anything. Here they are:
1. The Soccer Hater: this is your sports fan who understands the basic rules of soccer, but was most likely humiliated playing it as a kid. Click to continue reading...

Seattle Sports aren't doing to well, and Sounders FC is when the world's top team blog starts talking soccer USSMariner has a poll up, as well as some anecdotes about the excitement SSFC is creating around the city. This is a website that had one of their authors finish second in a national scholarship competition, which [. Click to continue reading...