Ring The Rang News
Let's start off with something important today: I owe the people of the Houston area a huge apology. Yesterday I called them out when only 4000 showed up for the CCL game against San Francisco the other night. But of course I idiotically forgot to take the recent horrible damage from Hurricane Ike into consideration. I am sorry for being so callous. I love the Houston fans, and their team. Take care and best of luck with your lives. -Bruce
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A big du Nord "Hooray Beer!" to our friends in Salt Lake. I hope you have a blast at the new stadium. The bad news is that in 7 previous tries RSL has NEVER beaten New York. So I guess this is the chance to change that. I am kicking myself for not finding a way to go to this game. Dammit.
CONCACAF Champions League News
Official CCL website
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Matchday 4 Matches & Scores:
-Tue Oct 7
Cruz Azul 1-1 Marathon - CA goal by Javier Orozco. Mara goal by Erick Norales.
Houston Dynamo 2-1 San Francisco - HD goals by Chris Wondolowski & Dwayne De Rosario. SF goal by Temistocles Perez.
-Wed Oct 8
Joe Public 1-4 Montreal - JP goal by Kerry Noray. MI goals by Tony Donatelli(2), Rocco Placentino & Peter Byers.
Match report from the Montreal Gazette.
Match report from the CBC.
Olimpia 1-1 Atlante - Oli goal by Walter Joel Castro. Atl goal by Federico Vilar.
Municipal 2-2 Tauro - Muni goals Juan Carlos Plata by & Mario Acevedo. Taur goals by Edwin Aguilar & Luis Fernando Esobar.
Santos Laguna 3-0 Puerto Rico Islanders - SL goals by Oribe Peralta, Andony Hernandez & Agustin Herrera.
-Thu Oct 9
Luis Angel Firpo v UNAM Pumas
Saprissa v DC United - 9pm central on FSC
Match preview by John Haydon of the Washington Times.
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MLS Scoreboard
Week 29
Matches & Scores:
-Thu Oct 9
Salt Lake v New York - 9pm central on ESPN2
Match preview by Ives Galarcep at ESPN Soccernet.
Match preview by Kyle McCarthy of Goal.com.
-Saturday, October 11
Kansas City v New England - 7pm central on Direct Kick
Dallas v Toronto - 7:30pm central on FSC
San Jose v Chivas - 9pm central on HDNet
-Sunday, October 12
Chicago v Columbus - 2pm central on TeleFutura
Houston v DC - 6pm central on Direct Kick
Los Angeles v Colorado - 7pm central on Direct Kick
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League Standings
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MLS News
CHICAGO FIRE
Luis Arroyave of the Tribune talks to Fire keeper Jon Busch about taking on his old team Columbus this weekend.
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COLORADO RAPIDS
The Class VI blog has a Q & A with Rapids midfielder & high paid benchwarmer Christian Gomez.
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COLUMBUS CREW
Why do the Crew insist on saying that their official team colors are black and gold, when they are obviously black and yellow? The New Orleans Saints are black and gold. Here is the Pantone color called Golden Nugget. And this is Yellow M. Which one do you see on the Crew shirts? At least the fans get it.
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Shawn Mitchell of the Dispatch says the Crew are staying motivated by fear of a let down this close to playoff time.
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DC UNITED
The vast majority of United’s healthy regulars did not make the trip to Costa Rica for tonight's CCL match. They figure they are already out of the tournament, and need to everything they can to win MLS games and make the playoffs.
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FC DALLAS
Adrian Serioux (Canada) has been called into his national teams for World Cup qualifiers, but because of a suspension he will play for Dallas this weekend, then rejoin Canada for their Wednesday game.
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Buzz Carrick gives us his latest team update via Practice Observations.
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HOUSTON DYNAMO
Bernardo Fallas of the Chronicle tells us about the amazing Dwayne De Rosario who did it again on Tuesday night.
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KANSAS CITY WIZARDS
The teams official blog Hillcrest Road has a Q & A with the great blogger Mike of Down The Byline, which is a KC fan blog.
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LOS ANGELES GALAXY
Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports says Beckman should retire from the international game and focus on the Galaxy. Focus, dude. On one thing. It helps. Really.
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NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION
The Revs lost seldom used backup goalkeeper Doug Warren for the rest of this season when he suffered a hyper extended elbow. Oh, that has to hurt.
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Defender Chris Albright answers viewer mail. Via the teams official blog.
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RED BULL NEW YORK
NYRB will be without Dane Richards, Gabriel Cichero & Jorge Rojas tonight as they were called into their national teams for World Cup qualifying - Richards to Jamaica, and Cichero & Rojas to Venezuela.
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Ives Galarcep of Soccer by Ives talks to coach Juan Carlos Osorio about comments made in the Salt Lake paper by former Red Bull Dema Kovalenko (see link to that article below in the RSL section, article by Michael C Lewis.).
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Frank Giase of the Newark Star Ledger on the Red Bulls match at the new stadium in Salt Lake tonight. And other MLS notes.
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Stefan Bondy of the Herald News looks at the terrible-again NYRB defense.
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Brian Lewis of the NY Post on his blog Extra Times does a Q & A with reserve keeper Terry Boss.
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REAL SALT LAKE
Midfielder Andy Williams is suspended for this game because of last week's Red Card.
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Goal.com has a Q & A with team owner Dave "I-Made-The-Knicks-The-Team-They-Are-Today" Checketts. Some very interesting things here.
-Checketts names both Lyon and Liverpool as potential opponents for next years All Star game which we be played at Rio Tinto.
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Michael C Lewis of the Tribune says, the big day is finally here.
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The Deseret News continues with an onslaught of new stadium articles:
-Team president says crowd in for a treat
-New stadium very TV-friendly
-New era begins today
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Jack Bell of the New York Times blog Goal does a really good Q & A with RSL president Bill Manning.
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TORONTO FC
Amado Guevara (Honduras), Kevin Harmse (Canada), Tyrone Marshall (Jamaica), Carl Robinson (Wales), & Carlos Ruiz (Guatemala) have been called into their national teams for World Cup qualifiers and will not play this weekend.
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Midfielder Carl Robinson with his weekly column for his hometown paper the County Times in Wales.
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GENERAL
Jonah Freedman of Sports Illustrated asks a very important question that I know has been on my mind for quite a while - With at least 4 more teams coming in the next few years, where are the quality players going to come from? Here's 4 guys who went to Australia to play.
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Andrew Dixon at the US National Soccer Players Association gives the league a thumbs up for their positives.
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MLS Expansion News
The Miami Herald with a new story of MLS coming back to that city, and sharing a stadium with Florida International University.
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USL First Division News
The East Valley Tribune (Phoenix) has another article on the possibility of Mexican club Pachuca establishing a US base and playing in USL-1.
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Team USA
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 11
USA v Cuba - live at 6pm central on ESPN Classic
-Wed Oct 15
Trinidad & Tobago v USA - live at 7pm central on ESPN
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Official Team Blog
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Steven Goff of the Washington Post with an article on the career trajectory of Michael Bradley.
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Goff, on his blog Soccer Insider has two short Q & A sessions, both with former DC United players:
-Freddy Adu
-Troy Perkins
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FIFA.com does a Q & A with Tim Howard. TIM-MAY!
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The New York Times blog Goal talks to Maurice Edu.
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CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying News
FIFA.com previews this weekends games.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Canada & CSA News
The CBC gives a rebuttal from Canada coach Dale Mitchell after defender Jim Brennan publicly complained about the coach and his lack of a call up.
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Ben Knight of the Toronto Globe & Mail blog On Soccer looks at the Brennan v Mitchell feud.
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Sportsnet says there are a lot of holes need filling as the Canucks head to Honduras.
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South American News
FIFA.com has an article on Uruguay's very cocky forward Sebastian Abreu who’s says that they are better than Argentina. I guess we will find out on Saturday won't we.
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England News
I read an amusing quote from forward Emile Heskey today -he said something to the effect of "We can't keep living off our past glory." Um, which glory is that Emile? The World Cup won on home soil 42 years ago? Yer still living on that? You know you weren't even born then don't you? Or maybe he is talking about some other glory that I am not aware of. Wow!
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European News
ITALY
Juventus has signed young star in the making Sebastian Giovinco to a contract extension.
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RUSSIA
FIFA.com does a Q & A with Vitaliy Mutko, president of the Russian Football Association.
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Jack Warner/Sepp Blatter/FIFA Idiocy & Scandal News
There is one part of Sepp Blatter's argument against rich foreign owners getting in on the top European leagues - It would be a lot better if these people invested in the game in their own countries. It's not going to happen, but in a perfect world it would be cool to see the rich Americans who have bought into the Premiership but all their money into MLS. The problem with this logic though, is that they are business people, not soccer people.
~and~
A big du Nord "Hooray Beer!" to our friends in Salt Lake. I hope you have a blast at the new stadium. The bad news is that in 7 previous tries RSL has NEVER beaten New York. So I guess this is the chance to change that. I am kicking myself for not finding a way to go to this game. Dammit.
CONCACAF Champions League News
Official CCL website
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Matchday 4 Matches & Scores:
-Tue Oct 7
Cruz Azul 1-1 Marathon - CA goal by Javier Orozco. Mara goal by Erick Norales.
Houston Dynamo 2-1 San Francisco - HD goals by Chris Wondolowski & Dwayne De Rosario. SF goal by Temistocles Perez.
-Wed Oct 8
Joe Public 1-4 Montreal - JP goal by Kerry Noray. MI goals by Tony Donatelli(2), Rocco Placentino & Peter Byers.
Match report from the Montreal Gazette.
Match report from the CBC.
Olimpia 1-1 Atlante - Oli goal by Walter Joel Castro. Atl goal by Federico Vilar.
Municipal 2-2 Tauro - Muni goals Juan Carlos Plata by & Mario Acevedo. Taur goals by Edwin Aguilar & Luis Fernando Esobar.
Santos Laguna 3-0 Puerto Rico Islanders - SL goals by Oribe Peralta, Andony Hernandez & Agustin Herrera.
-Thu Oct 9
Luis Angel Firpo v UNAM Pumas
Saprissa v DC United - 9pm central on FSC
Match preview by John Haydon of the Washington Times.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
MLS Scoreboard
Week 29
Matches & Scores:
-Thu Oct 9
Salt Lake v New York - 9pm central on ESPN2
Match preview by Ives Galarcep at ESPN Soccernet.
Match preview by Kyle McCarthy of Goal.com.
-Saturday, October 11
Kansas City v New England - 7pm central on Direct Kick
Dallas v Toronto - 7:30pm central on FSC
San Jose v Chivas - 9pm central on HDNet
-Sunday, October 12
Chicago v Columbus - 2pm central on TeleFutura
Houston v DC - 6pm central on Direct Kick
Los Angeles v Colorado - 7pm central on Direct Kick
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
League Standings
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
MLS News
CHICAGO FIRE
Luis Arroyave of the Tribune talks to Fire keeper Jon Busch about taking on his old team Columbus this weekend.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
COLORADO RAPIDS
The Class VI blog has a Q & A with Rapids midfielder & high paid benchwarmer Christian Gomez.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
COLUMBUS CREW
Why do the Crew insist on saying that their official team colors are black and gold, when they are obviously black and yellow? The New Orleans Saints are black and gold. Here is the Pantone color called Golden Nugget. And this is Yellow M. Which one do you see on the Crew shirts? At least the fans get it.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Shawn Mitchell of the Dispatch says the Crew are staying motivated by fear of a let down this close to playoff time.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
DC UNITED
The vast majority of United’s healthy regulars did not make the trip to Costa Rica for tonight's CCL match. They figure they are already out of the tournament, and need to everything they can to win MLS games and make the playoffs.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
FC DALLAS
Adrian Serioux (Canada) has been called into his national teams for World Cup qualifiers, but because of a suspension he will play for Dallas this weekend, then rejoin Canada for their Wednesday game.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Buzz Carrick gives us his latest team update via Practice Observations.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
HOUSTON DYNAMO
Bernardo Fallas of the Chronicle tells us about the amazing Dwayne De Rosario who did it again on Tuesday night.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS
The teams official blog Hillcrest Road has a Q & A with the great blogger Mike of Down The Byline, which is a KC fan blog.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
LOS ANGELES GALAXY
Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports says Beckman should retire from the international game and focus on the Galaxy. Focus, dude. On one thing. It helps. Really.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION
The Revs lost seldom used backup goalkeeper Doug Warren for the rest of this season when he suffered a hyper extended elbow. Oh, that has to hurt.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Defender Chris Albright answers viewer mail. Via the teams official blog.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
RED BULL NEW YORK
NYRB will be without Dane Richards, Gabriel Cichero & Jorge Rojas tonight as they were called into their national teams for World Cup qualifying - Richards to Jamaica, and Cichero & Rojas to Venezuela.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Ives Galarcep of Soccer by Ives talks to coach Juan Carlos Osorio about comments made in the Salt Lake paper by former Red Bull Dema Kovalenko (see link to that article below in the RSL section, article by Michael C Lewis.).
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Frank Giase of the Newark Star Ledger on the Red Bulls match at the new stadium in Salt Lake tonight. And other MLS notes.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Stefan Bondy of the Herald News looks at the terrible-again NYRB defense.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Brian Lewis of the NY Post on his blog Extra Times does a Q & A with reserve keeper Terry Boss.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
REAL SALT LAKE
Midfielder Andy Williams is suspended for this game because of last week's Red Card.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Goal.com has a Q & A with team owner Dave "I-Made-The-Knicks-The-Team-They-Are-Today" Checketts. Some very interesting things here.
-Checketts names both Lyon and Liverpool as potential opponents for next years All Star game which we be played at Rio Tinto.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Michael C Lewis of the Tribune says, the big day is finally here.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The Deseret News continues with an onslaught of new stadium articles:
-Team president says crowd in for a treat
-New stadium very TV-friendly
-New era begins today
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Jack Bell of the New York Times blog Goal does a really good Q & A with RSL president Bill Manning.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
TORONTO FC
Amado Guevara (Honduras), Kevin Harmse (Canada), Tyrone Marshall (Jamaica), Carl Robinson (Wales), & Carlos Ruiz (Guatemala) have been called into their national teams for World Cup qualifiers and will not play this weekend.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Midfielder Carl Robinson with his weekly column for his hometown paper the County Times in Wales.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
GENERAL
Jonah Freedman of Sports Illustrated asks a very important question that I know has been on my mind for quite a while - With at least 4 more teams coming in the next few years, where are the quality players going to come from? Here's 4 guys who went to Australia to play.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Andrew Dixon at the US National Soccer Players Association gives the league a thumbs up for their positives.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
MLS Expansion News
The Miami Herald with a new story of MLS coming back to that city, and sharing a stadium with Florida International University.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
USL First Division News
The East Valley Tribune (Phoenix) has another article on the possibility of Mexican club Pachuca establishing a US base and playing in USL-1.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Team USA
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 11
USA v Cuba - live at 6pm central on ESPN Classic
-Wed Oct 15
Trinidad & Tobago v USA - live at 7pm central on ESPN
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Official Team Blog
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Steven Goff of the Washington Post with an article on the career trajectory of Michael Bradley.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Goff, on his blog Soccer Insider has two short Q & A sessions, both with former DC United players:
-Freddy Adu
-Troy Perkins
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
FIFA.com does a Q & A with Tim Howard. TIM-MAY!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The New York Times blog Goal talks to Maurice Edu.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying News
FIFA.com previews this weekends games.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Canada & CSA News
The CBC gives a rebuttal from Canada coach Dale Mitchell after defender Jim Brennan publicly complained about the coach and his lack of a call up.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Ben Knight of the Toronto Globe & Mail blog On Soccer looks at the Brennan v Mitchell feud.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Sportsnet says there are a lot of holes need filling as the Canucks head to Honduras.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
South American News
FIFA.com has an article on Uruguay's very cocky forward Sebastian Abreu who’s says that they are better than Argentina. I guess we will find out on Saturday won't we.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
England News
I read an amusing quote from forward Emile Heskey today -he said something to the effect of "We can't keep living off our past glory." Um, which glory is that Emile? The World Cup won on home soil 42 years ago? Yer still living on that? You know you weren't even born then don't you? Or maybe he is talking about some other glory that I am not aware of. Wow!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
European News
ITALY
Juventus has signed young star in the making Sebastian Giovinco to a contract extension.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
RUSSIA
FIFA.com does a Q & A with Vitaliy Mutko, president of the Russian Football Association.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Jack Warner/Sepp Blatter/FIFA Idiocy & Scandal News
There is one part of Sepp Blatter's argument against rich foreign owners getting in on the top European leagues - It would be a lot better if these people invested in the game in their own countries. It's not going to happen, but in a perfect world it would be cool to see the rich Americans who have bought into the Premiership but all their money into MLS. The problem with this logic though, is that they are business people, not soccer people.
posted by brucio at 16:43
6 Comments:
I am sure that some commas should be placed in this post somewhere, but I am not good with grammar so I can't help you.
Thanks for the shout-out Bruce!
-Daryl
Brucio wrote;
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There is one part of Sepp Blatter's argument against rich foreign owners getting in on the top European leagues - It would be a lot better if these people invested in the game in their own countries. It's not going to happen, but in a perfect world it would be cool to see the rich Americans who have bought into the Premiership but all their money into MLS. The problem with this logic though, is that they are business people, not soccer people.
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Uh, well, Mr. Rocket Scientist, smart business people make investments in enterprises they believe will pay good dividends.
For instance, as much as you may want to sponsor a worldwide arena tour featuring Husker Du and The Replacements, there isn't as big a market for it as there is for U2 and Coldplay---so which "tour" do you think a smart businessman would put his money behind ?
By the way, you sound like the kind of guy who is really liberal about throwing around everyone else's money.
Ha, ha, ha.
"For instance, as much as you may want to sponsor a worldwide arena tour featuring Husker Du and The Replacements, there isn't as big a market for it as there is for U2 and Coldplay---so which "tour" do you think a smart businessman would put his money behind ?"
Putting together a U2/Coldplay bill, then using the proceeds for that to reanimate Zombie Bob Stinson and pay the lawyers required for Mould and Hart to appear onstage together for more than 15 minutes. I mean, really.
prairie has it right!
as for me being a rocket scientist, i did study aeronautics at mit
does that count?
and finally to the anonymous genius, right in the middle of the paragraph you rip me for i qualified everything by simply stating "in a perfect world", so, yuh know, like, see.....
i would love to throw someone elses money around, you got any?
Anonymous is an idiot
- anonymous
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