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  • What would you do?

    Would you have done what Luis Suarez did? In the dying minutes? With a World Cup semi final ticket at stake? It is tackling the receiver before he catches the […]

  • Report: Red Bulls Were Prepared to Field Replacement Squad From Austria

    According to the normally reliable BOB HUNTER New York Red Bulls corporate management flew in a group of players from their Salzburg Austria team who were standing by to don […]

  • Skyfall

    Yeah, that's officially a big negatory on South American dominance. So Holland gets this incredibly easy group, then they get Slovakia and Uruguay in the knockout rounds – God! Talk […]

  • Bradley Drops Donovan!

    Because FC Dallas doesn't have a game scheduled for the October 9 and 12 friendly dates, Brek Shea and Heath Pearce are the only MLS players called into camp. Right […]

  • The Ups and Downs of Mexico's 2010

    2010 was a World Cup year, so expectations were always going to be high. And after the first few months of the year, those expectations were ratcheted up a few […]

  • Chicharito Brightens up a tough Weekend

    Yesterday was not a good day for me. Well, actually it started Friday night. I was in the middle of working the Texas Longhorns Women’s soccer game when I received […]

  • Fans' Views of the Final Norteño

    The first leg of the Mexican Apertura Final takes place tonight in Torreon’s shiny new TSM Corona Stadium. I have enlisted the help of a few friends; two fans each […]

  • Brazil shows up, US waits for the other axe to fall

    Did you notice we actually shut out Brazil in the second half? That's not a compliment – it's a miracle. As we saw with our long-suffering eyes, that was a […]

  • The strange sale of Alberto Aquilani!

    In the words of the great Andrea Boccelli, it is “Time to say Goodbye” for Liverpool fans as £18m midfielder Alberto Aquilani was effectively sold to Juventus last week. The […]

  • CONCACAF Farce

    In case you missed last nights' CONCACAF Champions' League action, here's a pictorial summary: ​ The next time someone starts in about how the problem with the CONCACAF Champions League […]