Some News for Wed Jul 15
STARTERS
So word has it that the upcoming HUUUGE Mexico v USA World Cup qualifier will not be shown on a channel that 99% of us fans can get. Telemundo owns the rights to all games from Mexico, and their plan is to broadcast it in English on a spin-off channel they have called Mun2. Yes, you read that right. Thankfully I will be at the stadium, and won't have to deal with this clusterfuck.
COPA LIBERTADORES
Wednesday is the big night! The 2nd leg of the Libertadores Final.
dN
Final
2nd Leg Match (with 1st Leg score included):
-Wed Jul 15
Cruzeiro v Estudiantes (0-0) - 7pm Central on FSE
SUPERLIGA 2009
Official Site
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Semifinal Matches:
-Wed Jul 15
New England Revolution v Chicago Fire - 6pm Central on Telefutura
Venue: Gillette Stadium
UANL Tigres v Santos Laguna - 8:30pm Central on Telefutura
Venue: Gillette Stadium
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Nick Firchau of Chicago's Southtown Star previews tonight's game.
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Kyle McCarthy of the Boston Herald with a match preview.
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Monique Walker of the Boston Globe previews too.
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The Final is Wed Aug 5.
TEAM USA GOLD CUP
The Philadelphia Inquirer with an article on Coach Bob Bradley.
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The Inquirer also has words from both Bradley and Panama coach Gary Stempel about Saturday's game.
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The South Jersey Courier Post (suburban Philly) writes about the USA team coming to their city.
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The AP previews the USA game against Panama.
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Up Next - Quarterfinal Match:
-Sat Jul 18
USA v Panama - 7pm Central on FSC
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA
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USMNT Official Blog
-Photos from Monday's training.
-The team had Tuesday off.
MLS
MLS Week 18 Matches & Scores:
-Thu Jul 16
New York Red Bulls v Los Angeles Galaxy - 7pm Central on FSC & FSE
Venue: Giants Stadium - East Rutherford NJ
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Mark Zeigler of the San Diego Union Tribune is not buying that Beckham is here for the long haul, especially mentally.
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Michael C Lewis of the Salt Lake Tribune talks to the RSL brain-trust to see what the transfer market has in store for a team that has open roster spots, and needs to fill.
dN
The Washington Post repots that DCU are in the same position as RSL - they need some better players to be a serious contender.
dN
While the league did not announce that Danny Szetela had signed with DC United until late this afternoon, the deal was obviously done earlier because he trained with his new team today, and the teams official blog already posted video. Cool.
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Jack Bell of the New York Times on Beckman and his baggage.
-Bell also reports that just as the Red Bulls tenure at Giants Stadium is coming to an end New Jersey Transit has FINALLY opened rail service to the stadium. What took so damn long??
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Nick Green of the Daily Breeze says Beakman must give it his all, right now.
-Another columnist from the Daily Breeze says this Landy v Becks feud is not good for the league.
dN
Did you enjoy former New York goalkeeper Mike Ammann's feisty Q & A with other day at MetroFanatic? Well here he goes again, this time with Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer. Another guy who pulls no punches.
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Jose Romero of the Seattle Times talks to Sounders coach Sigi Schmid and Kasey Keller about a plethora of subjects.
dN
Former Minnesota Thunder, DC United and New York Red Bull forward Francis Grandpa Doe has signed with fabled Egyptian team Al Ahly. (thanks to BQ for the info)
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Word from Utah is that two Real Salt Lake players will be named MLS All-Stars: Javier Morales and Kyle Beckerman. I am fine with Beckerman, but Morales has had a subpar season so far, and he would only be getting this because he was such an obvious snub last year. Two wrongs don't make it right. Someone else will get snubbed this season because they corrected last years mistake, and the dominoes will just continue to fall. Stop The Madness!
-Turns out these two are the "Commissioners Picks", seeing as the game is in Sandy UT at Rio Tinto Stadium and all that..
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RSL has acquired forward Pablo Campos from San Jose in exchanged for "2010 Second Round SuperDraft pick".
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James Edward of the Deseret News updates us on the scary condition of RSL midfielder Andy Williams wife Marcia, and the special bond that has formed between Clint Mathis and Williams.
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Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald on that cities still living dream of a MLS team.
THE BECKMAN BOOK
The Beckham Experiment: How The World's Most Famous Athlete Tried To Conquer America
By Grant Wahl
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Wahl himself at Sports Illustrated today addresses some of the little criticism made about his book. And he takes on Beckman who called Wahl's writing "lazy journalism". The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
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Adam Spangler at This Is American Soccer gives us Part 2 of his in-depth interview with author Grant Wahl. (see yesterday's post for Part 1)
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Graham at Advantage Played uses his look at the book to talk to an expert on what it means to be a "Professional", as DB always claims to be. Plus, a random music video.
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The LA Times reviews the book. This is a good place to read a review from seeing as it pertains to that city's sports scene so closely.
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The Wall Street Journal with a review too.
MLS SUMMER EXHIBITIONS
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Jul 15
Colorado Rapids v Club America (Mexico)
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park
FC Dallas v Comunicaciones (Guatemala)
Venue: Pizza Hut Park
-Sat Jul 18
Seattle Sounders FC v Chelsea (England) - 2pm Central time on ESPN2
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
-Sun Jul 19
Los Angeles Galaxy v AC Milan
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
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Seattle is expecting a full stadium sell out (67,000) for their game against Chelsea on Saturday.
USL FIRST DIVISION
Ricardo "El Perro Loco" Sanchez of my Minnesota Thunder has been named the USL First Division Player of the Week! Felicidades Rico!
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USL First Division Team of the Week
G:
Hunter Gilstrap - Cleveland - Three saves in 0-0 draw against Puerto Rico
D:
Caleb Norkus - Carolina - Led team in 1-0 win at Charleston
Cristian Arrieta - Puerto Rico - Led team in two 0-0 road draws
Kenney Bertz - Rochester - Led team in 0-0 draw against Puerto Rico
M:
Leo Inacio Nunes - Miami - Goal, assist in 2-1 win over Vancouver
Lyle Martin - Vancouver - Goal in 4-0 win over Minnesota
Ricardo Sanchez - Minnesota - Goal, assist in 3-0 win over Montreal
Johan Claesson - Portland - Goal in 2-1 win at Austin
F:
Sallieu Bundu - Carolina - Goal in 1-0 win at Charleston
Gifton Noel-Williams - Austin - Goal in 2-1 loss to Portland
Marcus Haber - Vancouver - Goal, assist in 4-0 win over Minnesota
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Nick Green of the Daily Breeze on his blog 100 Percent Soccer got to geek out a bit and ask a couple of question of Zinedine Zidane. Excellent.
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Fanhouse does a Q & A on the state of the game with soccer personality Alexi Lalas.
US SOCCER 2009 DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY FINALS
They have named the players and coaches of the year award winners:
U18 Player of the Year: Dillon Powers - Andromeda
U16 Player of the Year: Ruben Luna - FC Dallas
U18 Coach of the Year: Oscar Pareja - FC Dallas
U16 Coach of the Year: Lars Richters - Derby County Wolves
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By the way, Derby County Wolves are based in one of my favorite cities in the whole world - Livonia, Michigan.
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Championship Tournament being held July 10-17 at Home Depot Center in Carson CA.
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Here are the scores: U18 - and - U16.
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Standings:
U18 (after 3 of 3 rounds)
Group 1
7 Carmel United
5 IMG
3 FC Greater Boston
1 Dallas Texans
Group 2
6 DC United
4 Real Colorado(-1)
4 PDA(-2)
3 CASL Chelsea FC
U16 (after 2 of 3 rounds)
Group 1
6 Derby County Wolves(+3)
3 Chicago Magic AS Monaco(+2)
3 FC Dallas(+1)
0 New York Red Bulls(-6)
Group 2
6 Cal Odyssey(+2)
3 PDA(+0)
3 Washington Premier FC(0)
0 Greensboro Youth Soccer(-2)
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The two 1st place games will be shown live on ESPN Classic.
U18 Final
-Thu Jul 16
1st/2nd Place: Carmel United v DC United - 9pm Central
3rd/4th Place: IMG v Real Colorado
5th/6th Place: FC Greater Boston v PDA
7th/8th Place: Dallas Texans v CASL Chelsea FC
U16 Final
-Fri Jul 17
Match-ups TBD - 9pm Central
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
MLSnet checks in with DaMarcus Beasley. And other international news bits.
dN
Yesterday I wrote that Danny Szetela was headed to preseason training at Racing Santander, but as usual I was waaaaaaaaay off base. Today MLS announced that he has signed with the league and become a member of DC United. Danny can't be sad about this one.
dN
In Action:
Mix Diskerud - Stabaek
UEFA Champions League - 2nd qualifying round
First Leg
-Wed Jul 15
at Tirana
Second Leg
-Wed Jul 22
v Tirana
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Sports YA reports that Cuauhtemoc Blanco has said "Edgar has gone mad" when asked about Edgar Castillo's decision to leave the Mexican national team in favor of the USA.
MEXICO
Carlos "El Pescadito" Ruiz has signed with Puebla of Mexico! Alright Fishman!
ENGLAND
Two Chelsea bad-boys, Didier Drogba & Jose Bosingwa, have won their appeals against multi-game suspensions from the Champions League. Drogba's bad was reduced from 4 games to 3, and Bosingwa from 3 games to 2. If I was FIFA I would have added an extra game suspension onto them just for having the gall to appeal in the first place.
dN
The BBC reports that former Arsenal and Celtic (among others) striker John Hartson has cancer, which already has resulted in a brain tumor, and now detection in the lungs. Not good.
dN
Manchester City has added Arsenal forward Emmanuel Adebayor to their attacking corps.
dN
While most people see Newcastle as the most dysfunctional team in England, I think Portsmouth might be up for the challenge. At this moment they have NO owner, NO manager, NO action in the transfer window lined up, and now NO uniforms as the company who does theirs, Canterbury, has gone bankrupt!
dN
Long time Inter Milan forward Christian Vieri is getting an extended try out by Blackburn. He was not good enough for the LA Galaxy. Let's see what happens here. And he is old.
EUROPE
Gazzetta dello Sport talks to new Juventus signing Felipe Melo, who had a big coming out party at the Confederations Cup.
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Gazzetta also talks to Inter owner Massimo Moratti who says they can "win the Champions League." They talk about a lot of other stuff here too. Very good reading.
dN
The Inter website has a Q & A with new striker Diego Milito.
UEFA CHAMPIONS & EUROPA LEAGUES
Champions League - 2nd qualifying round First Leg results from Tue Jul 14 & Wed Jul 15.
WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA 2010
The workers strike at stadium and infrastructure has been settled. What will the delay repercussions mean?
ENDERS
So word has it that the upcoming HUUUGE Mexico v USA World Cup qualifier will not be shown on a channel that 99% of us fans can get. Telemundo owns the rights to all games from Mexico, and their plan is to broadcast it in English on a spin-off channel they have called Mun2. Yes, you read that right. Thankfully I will be at the stadium, and won't have to deal with this clusterfuck.
COPA LIBERTADORES
Wednesday is the big night! The 2nd leg of the Libertadores Final.
dN
Final
2nd Leg Match (with 1st Leg score included):
-Wed Jul 15
Cruzeiro v Estudiantes (0-0) - 7pm Central on FSE
SUPERLIGA 2009
Official Site
dN
Semifinal Matches:
-Wed Jul 15
New England Revolution v Chicago Fire - 6pm Central on Telefutura
Venue: Gillette Stadium
UANL Tigres v Santos Laguna - 8:30pm Central on Telefutura
Venue: Gillette Stadium
dN
Nick Firchau of Chicago's Southtown Star previews tonight's game.
dN
Kyle McCarthy of the Boston Herald with a match preview.
dN
Monique Walker of the Boston Globe previews too.
dN
The Final is Wed Aug 5.
TEAM USA GOLD CUP
The Philadelphia Inquirer with an article on Coach Bob Bradley.
dN
The Inquirer also has words from both Bradley and Panama coach Gary Stempel about Saturday's game.
dN
The South Jersey Courier Post (suburban Philly) writes about the USA team coming to their city.
dN
The AP previews the USA game against Panama.
dN
Up Next - Quarterfinal Match:
-Sat Jul 18
USA v Panama - 7pm Central on FSC
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA
dN
USMNT Official Blog
-Photos from Monday's training.
-The team had Tuesday off.
MLS
MLS Week 18 Matches & Scores:
-Thu Jul 16
New York Red Bulls v Los Angeles Galaxy - 7pm Central on FSC & FSE
Venue: Giants Stadium - East Rutherford NJ
dN
Mark Zeigler of the San Diego Union Tribune is not buying that Beckham is here for the long haul, especially mentally.
dN
Michael C Lewis of the Salt Lake Tribune talks to the RSL brain-trust to see what the transfer market has in store for a team that has open roster spots, and needs to fill.
dN
The Washington Post repots that DCU are in the same position as RSL - they need some better players to be a serious contender.
dN
While the league did not announce that Danny Szetela had signed with DC United until late this afternoon, the deal was obviously done earlier because he trained with his new team today, and the teams official blog already posted video. Cool.
dN
Jack Bell of the New York Times on Beckman and his baggage.
-Bell also reports that just as the Red Bulls tenure at Giants Stadium is coming to an end New Jersey Transit has FINALLY opened rail service to the stadium. What took so damn long??
dN
Nick Green of the Daily Breeze says Beakman must give it his all, right now.
-Another columnist from the Daily Breeze says this Landy v Becks feud is not good for the league.
dN
Did you enjoy former New York goalkeeper Mike Ammann's feisty Q & A with other day at MetroFanatic? Well here he goes again, this time with Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer. Another guy who pulls no punches.
dN
Jose Romero of the Seattle Times talks to Sounders coach Sigi Schmid and Kasey Keller about a plethora of subjects.
dN
Former Minnesota Thunder, DC United and New York Red Bull forward Francis Grandpa Doe has signed with fabled Egyptian team Al Ahly. (thanks to BQ for the info)
dN
Word from Utah is that two Real Salt Lake players will be named MLS All-Stars: Javier Morales and Kyle Beckerman. I am fine with Beckerman, but Morales has had a subpar season so far, and he would only be getting this because he was such an obvious snub last year. Two wrongs don't make it right. Someone else will get snubbed this season because they corrected last years mistake, and the dominoes will just continue to fall. Stop The Madness!
-Turns out these two are the "Commissioners Picks", seeing as the game is in Sandy UT at Rio Tinto Stadium and all that..
dN
RSL has acquired forward Pablo Campos from San Jose in exchanged for "2010 Second Round SuperDraft pick".
dN
James Edward of the Deseret News updates us on the scary condition of RSL midfielder Andy Williams wife Marcia, and the special bond that has formed between Clint Mathis and Williams.
dN
Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald on that cities still living dream of a MLS team.
THE BECKMAN BOOK
The Beckham Experiment: How The World's Most Famous Athlete Tried To Conquer America
By Grant Wahl
dN
Wahl himself at Sports Illustrated today addresses some of the little criticism made about his book. And he takes on Beckman who called Wahl's writing "lazy journalism". The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
dN
Adam Spangler at This Is American Soccer gives us Part 2 of his in-depth interview with author Grant Wahl. (see yesterday's post for Part 1)
dN
Graham at Advantage Played uses his look at the book to talk to an expert on what it means to be a "Professional", as DB always claims to be. Plus, a random music video.
dN
The LA Times reviews the book. This is a good place to read a review from seeing as it pertains to that city's sports scene so closely.
dN
The Wall Street Journal with a review too.
MLS SUMMER EXHIBITIONS
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Jul 15
Colorado Rapids v Club America (Mexico)
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park
FC Dallas v Comunicaciones (Guatemala)
Venue: Pizza Hut Park
-Sat Jul 18
Seattle Sounders FC v Chelsea (England) - 2pm Central time on ESPN2
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
-Sun Jul 19
Los Angeles Galaxy v AC Milan
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
dN
Seattle is expecting a full stadium sell out (67,000) for their game against Chelsea on Saturday.
USL FIRST DIVISION
Ricardo "El Perro Loco" Sanchez of my Minnesota Thunder has been named the USL First Division Player of the Week! Felicidades Rico!
dN
USL First Division Team of the Week
G:
Hunter Gilstrap - Cleveland - Three saves in 0-0 draw against Puerto Rico
D:
Caleb Norkus - Carolina - Led team in 1-0 win at Charleston
Cristian Arrieta - Puerto Rico - Led team in two 0-0 road draws
Kenney Bertz - Rochester - Led team in 0-0 draw against Puerto Rico
M:
Leo Inacio Nunes - Miami - Goal, assist in 2-1 win over Vancouver
Lyle Martin - Vancouver - Goal in 4-0 win over Minnesota
Ricardo Sanchez - Minnesota - Goal, assist in 3-0 win over Montreal
Johan Claesson - Portland - Goal in 2-1 win at Austin
F:
Sallieu Bundu - Carolina - Goal in 1-0 win at Charleston
Gifton Noel-Williams - Austin - Goal in 2-1 loss to Portland
Marcus Haber - Vancouver - Goal, assist in 4-0 win over Minnesota
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Nick Green of the Daily Breeze on his blog 100 Percent Soccer got to geek out a bit and ask a couple of question of Zinedine Zidane. Excellent.
dN
Fanhouse does a Q & A on the state of the game with soccer personality Alexi Lalas.
US SOCCER 2009 DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY FINALS
They have named the players and coaches of the year award winners:
U18 Player of the Year: Dillon Powers - Andromeda
U16 Player of the Year: Ruben Luna - FC Dallas
U18 Coach of the Year: Oscar Pareja - FC Dallas
U16 Coach of the Year: Lars Richters - Derby County Wolves
dN
By the way, Derby County Wolves are based in one of my favorite cities in the whole world - Livonia, Michigan.
dN
Championship Tournament being held July 10-17 at Home Depot Center in Carson CA.
dN
Here are the scores: U18 - and - U16.
dN
Standings:
U18 (after 3 of 3 rounds)
Group 1
7 Carmel United
5 IMG
3 FC Greater Boston
1 Dallas Texans
Group 2
6 DC United
4 Real Colorado(-1)
4 PDA(-2)
3 CASL Chelsea FC
U16 (after 2 of 3 rounds)
Group 1
6 Derby County Wolves(+3)
3 Chicago Magic AS Monaco(+2)
3 FC Dallas(+1)
0 New York Red Bulls(-6)
Group 2
6 Cal Odyssey(+2)
3 PDA(+0)
3 Washington Premier FC(0)
0 Greensboro Youth Soccer(-2)
dN
The two 1st place games will be shown live on ESPN Classic.
U18 Final
-Thu Jul 16
1st/2nd Place: Carmel United v DC United - 9pm Central
3rd/4th Place: IMG v Real Colorado
5th/6th Place: FC Greater Boston v PDA
7th/8th Place: Dallas Texans v CASL Chelsea FC
U16 Final
-Fri Jul 17
Match-ups TBD - 9pm Central
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
MLSnet checks in with DaMarcus Beasley. And other international news bits.
dN
Yesterday I wrote that Danny Szetela was headed to preseason training at Racing Santander, but as usual I was waaaaaaaaay off base. Today MLS announced that he has signed with the league and become a member of DC United. Danny can't be sad about this one.
dN
In Action:
Mix Diskerud - Stabaek
UEFA Champions League - 2nd qualifying round
First Leg
-Wed Jul 15
at Tirana
Second Leg
-Wed Jul 22
v Tirana
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Sports YA reports that Cuauhtemoc Blanco has said "Edgar has gone mad" when asked about Edgar Castillo's decision to leave the Mexican national team in favor of the USA.
MEXICO
Carlos "El Pescadito" Ruiz has signed with Puebla of Mexico! Alright Fishman!
ENGLAND
Two Chelsea bad-boys, Didier Drogba & Jose Bosingwa, have won their appeals against multi-game suspensions from the Champions League. Drogba's bad was reduced from 4 games to 3, and Bosingwa from 3 games to 2. If I was FIFA I would have added an extra game suspension onto them just for having the gall to appeal in the first place.
dN
The BBC reports that former Arsenal and Celtic (among others) striker John Hartson has cancer, which already has resulted in a brain tumor, and now detection in the lungs. Not good.
dN
Manchester City has added Arsenal forward Emmanuel Adebayor to their attacking corps.
dN
While most people see Newcastle as the most dysfunctional team in England, I think Portsmouth might be up for the challenge. At this moment they have NO owner, NO manager, NO action in the transfer window lined up, and now NO uniforms as the company who does theirs, Canterbury, has gone bankrupt!
dN
Long time Inter Milan forward Christian Vieri is getting an extended try out by Blackburn. He was not good enough for the LA Galaxy. Let's see what happens here. And he is old.
EUROPE
Gazzetta dello Sport talks to new Juventus signing Felipe Melo, who had a big coming out party at the Confederations Cup.
dN
Gazzetta also talks to Inter owner Massimo Moratti who says they can "win the Champions League." They talk about a lot of other stuff here too. Very good reading.
dN
The Inter website has a Q & A with new striker Diego Milito.
UEFA CHAMPIONS & EUROPA LEAGUES
Champions League - 2nd qualifying round First Leg results from Tue Jul 14 & Wed Jul 15.
WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA 2010
The workers strike at stadium and infrastructure has been settled. What will the delay repercussions mean?
ENDERS
posted by brucio at 15:41
4 Comments:
Bruce- Are you going to Mexico City with a group that is join-able? Or can you direct me to other groups? I can't recruit any of my friends here in Ohio and don't want to fly solo.
Russ - send me an email, address in top right corner of website
funny line about the roof. haven't heard that in years. also, can't find any confirmation on espntv.com that the galaxy-milan game will be shown. any updates?
my fault on the galaxy milan game - not being shown on espn networks
sorry about that
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