What's Up Dude News

Frankly this news stuns me: MLS has suspended New England midfielder Shalrie Joseph for the next playoff game against Chicago. He is being punished for an elbow to the Fire's Ivan Guerrero. I was at the game and saw it go down. It actually happened twice. The second time Joseph was yellow carded. I even went and watched the plays on the DVR when I got home. Yes it was a yellow card. But a suspension? Are you nuts!!!! If the league wants to crack down on this type of play go ahead and implement it from game 1 next season, but you can't start now, there's no precedent for that. It's horrible. And they better hope there are not big repercussions. Everyone seems outraged by this one. Thanks to Chris for the heads up.
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Boston Globe and Soccernet reporter Frank Dell'apa chimes in on the suspension.
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More excellent DC United fan bus trip stories from Dan Steinberg's DC Sports Blog at the Washington Post. Thanks Demko.
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Dallas will have exciting speedster Roberto Mina in uniform and ready for action this weekend for the first time since a knee injury in July. Yes!
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Jack Bell's weekly soccer column at the New York Times focuses on Dallas striker extraordinaire Carlos Ruiz.
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Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America predicts that David Beckham would be a huge bust in MLS.
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Ives Galarcep at the North Jersey Herald with a feature story on highly touted Seton Hall forward Eliseo Giusfredi. Will he go pro 4 months from now?
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Luis Arroyave of the Chicago Tribune looks at the 4 players still around who were on the Fire day 1: Chris Armas, CJ Brown, Zach Thornton & Diego Gutierrez (Thornton and Gutierrez left and came back.)
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Houston's Brian Ching blogs about Round One.
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And the Houston Chronicle's Bernardo Fallas examines the Dynamo defense, which is definitely not as good as last years model without Danny Califf at the helm.
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Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer is wondering if New York has it in them to come back and upset DC.
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Andrea Canales of LA Soccer News says the LA Galaxy want David Beckham on their team next season.
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Over at Soccer 365 Canales gives her review of the 06 MLS season, and hints for success next season.
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Jeff Bradley's First XI from MLSnet: Dropping The Second Leg
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The AP with a feature on DC midfield conductor Christian Gomez. He is the MVP, I say!
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Soccer365's Don Cuddy asks, is this our "Last Look At Clint Dempsey?"
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MLS Quarterfinals, 2nd-leg matches:
Saturday, October 28
New England v Chicago - 6:30pm on Direct Kick & FSC
Dallas v Colorado - 7:30pm on Direct Kick
Sunday, October 29
DC v New York - 5pm on ESPN2
Houston v Chivas - 7pm on Direct Kick, FSC, & HDNet
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Manchester City are saying that they hope DaMarcus Beasley will be ready to play next Monday v Middlesbrough. I do too.
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American defender Heath Pearce who plays for Nordsjaelland in Denmark, checks in with his own column at the US Players Assoc.
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Greg Sica of Sports Illustrated looks at the return to Argentine glory for Juan Sebastian Veron with Estudiantes.
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The head medical officer of FIFA has finished a study that says most injuries at the World Cup were faked to gain an advantage. In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle: "Surprise, surprise!" From the London Times.