SI.com – Writers – Wahl: MLS pilgrimage yields insight on Utah’s coach, Adu, Lalas – Tuesday August 3, 2004 8:07PM offers a number of interesting news bits coming out of the all-star break. The conversatoin with former defender, now San Jose General Manager Alexi Lalas provided some very-rare insight into how MLS brass think. On […]
The Washington Post has put up a lengthy interview with MLS Commisioner Don Garber in the following article: United Seeks Stadium Solution (washingtonpost.com) Chief amongst them is the most serious discussions about building a stadium for DC United. They even have a local developer, Akridge Companies, picked out. Baseball’s relocation indecision over the relocation of
Off Wing Opinion writes about the impact Title IX has on both men and women’s teams. n many sports, like track, swimming, gymnastics or even tennis, men and women athletes often train together. It is widely recognized that this practice improves the caliber of performance of women athletes, not to mention fosters camaraderie between the
The latest open cup round featured some nice upsets by A-League teams over their MLS counterparts. Hopefully, DC United won’t take the Richmond Kickers lightly tonight. St. Paul Pioneer Press | 07/21/2004 | Thunder come out swinging for first win over MLS team Galaxy Loses in Open Cup Democrat & Chronicle: Rhinos shock Revs in
There’s been a pick up in young American players about to make the jump from MLS to the European leagues. Chicago Midfielder Demarcus Beasley is set to sign for Dutch club PSV Eindhoven for about $2.5 million while DC United midfielder Bobby Convey might be headed for Reading of the English First Division for a
The Euro Cup kicks off this weekend and Portugese police plan on being quite nice to English fans coming to cheer on their side. More than 3,000 England fans have arrived in Portugal. Up to 30,000 are expected at the game in the 65,000-capacity Estadio da Luz on Sunday. England supporters who smoke cannabis in
Seems like Thomas Boswell’s latest on the NHL labour agreement is getting linked to a lot. MLS will probably benefit marginally if the NHL were to go away. The seasons don’t really overlap that much except in the first and last months of the MLS season so most of the time, soccer hasn’t had to
I’ve put this season’s DC United games in an ICalendar file. Feel free to download and import into your own calendar application. If you don’t have one, I’d recommend Mozilla’s Calendar Application. I’ve set up an ical based shared calendar for me and family to use. Hopefully, I’ll have some time soon to write up
DC United takes an early season break at the Anschutz ranch. Coming off a disappointing stretch of games, this bit of R&R ought to help them clear their minds and renew their focus for the rest of the season. Awaiting the traveling party, nestled in a leafy oasis of cottonwoods and aspens near the meandering
Some interesting trends in a Harris Poll on sports American’s follow. Here are the relevant numbers regarding soccer: The percentage of adults who say soccer is ther favorite sport is pretty much unchanged since 1985 at 3% The percentage of adults who follow soccer is at 15% for 2003 after hitting 18% in 2002 although