Salon writes abouts RocoCup Soccer, a robotics competition who’s aim is to field a team of robots that can beat the world cup champions. The bar is pretty high and I’m sure that’s going to spur progress tremendously. However, I don’t think the world’s elite players would ever set foot on a field against robots […]
…people have stopped wondering if the league will pull an XFL exit, "We now are treated like other leagues where we get the business questions about our attendance and about our [television] ratings and about our investors. It’s no longer about will we be here tomorrow." …new investors are about to come in, "The economy
Who else was awake with us at 2am one year ago today to witness this? Once the US won this game, we knew it was going to be a special world cup. US Soccer has a retrospective.
Despite the best efforts of some soccer people to downplay expectations for the next Women’s World Cup, Brandi Chastain says it will be better
The best quote of the article came from Ivan Gazidis that makes it sound like its no big deal that the biggest club (moneywise) in the world wants an MLS player. “There’s discussions about our top players every day, as clubs around the world express interest on a regular basis.”
Yes, United managed another league tie this past weekend – but this time they scored a goal! Two observations: Ryan Nelsen is the man, both in defense and in midfield. Too bad he got red carded in this game. Nice to see a crowd of 21,00 at RFK to support DC through its worst league
Currently, the only thing left for us DC United fans is to remember the good old years. I’ll be at RFK stadium tonight to wish a fond farewell to John Harkes, one of my favorite player for DCU and the USA.
If the USA does get it, it should only help the dying WUSA which has burnned through it initial investment money, has two of its media funders – Time Warner & Comcast – pulling out their involvement, and had its founding member take a paycut. I hope Women’s Soccer can make it as a pro-sport
I finally got to go to my first game of this season. DC United put on quite a show but could not walk away with the win. The person who had the most impact on the game was the horrible Referee.