One, Maybe Two Or Three Day News

Special Saturday Edition

Luis Arroyave of the Chicago Tribune on his Red Card blog says he has been in contact with Peter Wilt and been told that the rumor of Wilt becoming GM of Chivas USA is false. OK then. Let's move on.

And to that end, Jaime Cardenas of the LA Times says Chivas USA is going to hire Shawn Hunter as their new CEO. Hunter is the former President of the Phoenix Coyotes NHL team, and most recently an executive at AEG in Los Angeles.


USA v Brazil
-Sunday at 3pm central time - see it on ESPN2
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Official photos from Thursdays USA training session.
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Video from US Soccer of Landon Donovan throwing out the first pitch at the Chicago Cubs baseball game.
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Audio podcast from US Soccer of USA coach & players official press conference on Thursday.
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Ives Galarcep at Soccernet previews the game.
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Lacy Banks of the Chicago Sun Times talks to USA & Everton keeper Tim Howard about playing against Brazil.
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Arroyave at the Chicago Tribune with a few pre-game notes and stories from Team USA.
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Weekend MLS match previews:
-see yesterdays du Nord for game schedule.
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James Edward of the Deseret Morning News talks about Salt Lakes motivations to beat Houston.
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Bernardo Fallas of the Houston Chronicle previews Dynamo v RSL.
-Fallas also reports that Dynamo midfielder Brad Davis has had a second surgery on his injured knee and will miss a little more time recovering.
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Michael C Lewis of the Salt Lake Tribune previews Hou v RSL, as Salt Lake begins a 3 game road trip.
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Luis Arroyave of the Chicago Tribune reports that the Fire's new defender Wilman Conde has gotten all his paperwork cleared and is ready to play this weekend.
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Chicago defender Gonazolo Segares has been called in to the Costa Rican national team for the first time this week when they take on Honduras in Hartford CT on Sunday and Canada in Toronto on Wednesday.
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Lacy Banks of the Chicago Sun Times reports that Fire captain Chris Armas is considering "not retiring" after this season, as he had previously announced he would. Missed this one on Sep 1.
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Nick Firchau of Chicago's Daily Southtown has an article on Fire keeper Matt Pickens.
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The Boston Herald previews DC v New England, and talks to NE forward Adam Cristman who got married last weekend.
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Washington Times previews DC v NE.
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Dan Steinberg fills in for Steven Goff at the Soccer Insider from the Washington Post with some DC United info.
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Billy Witz of the LA Daily News previews LA v Colorado.
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Larry Millson of the Toronto Globe & Mail previews Dallas v Toronto.
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Toronto FC has signed team captain Jim Brennan to a two year contract extension.
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Gabriel Cabarrouy of the Dallas Morning News previews Dallas v Toronto, and talks to FCD striker Carlos Ruiz who is beginning to get back to his goal scoring ways.
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The Rocky Mountain News talks to Colorado defender Ugo Ihemelu about facing his former team Los Angeles in LA.
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I missed this one earlier in the week, Jeff Carlisle of Soccernet profiles Salt Lakes new engine Kyle Beckerman. (I stole this from FC Rocky, who stole it from Class VI - love the trickle down)
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Jeffrey Marcus of the New York Times asks some MLS stars (Claudio Reyna, Joe Cannon, Brian Ching, Cobi Jones & Alecko Eskandarian) if they will be watching some International soccer this weekend.
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Dylan Butler at Big Apple Soccer reports that astonishingly Amado Guevara is telling Spanish language newspapers that he wants to return to the New York Red Bulls next season. Wow. Would they have him back? Butler talks to NY coach Bruce Arena about Guevara.