[AMERICANS ABROAD] Twenty-eight months after his last appearance in Ligue 1, Charlie Davies returned to action forFrench club Sochaux, coming on as a sub in its 1-0 loss at Rennes. Sochaux is not the club it was when Davies got off to a roaring start in 2009 before he was seriously injured in a car […]
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Morgan comes to the rescue
[USA-NEW ZEALAND] From off the bench or in the starting lineup, there’s no stopping Alex Morgan. In a rare start, theU.S. forward, who will appearthis week in the bodypaint feature in the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, scored the tying goal in the 88th minute and added the winner three minutes into stoppage time to […]
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MLS preseason this week …
[SCOREBOARD] The Portland Timbers remained unbeaten in preseason with a 2-0 win over the Houston Dynamo Sunday thanks to goals by James Marcelin and Jack Jewsbury. The loss was the Dynamo’s first after five shutout wins, including a 1-0victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy Friday in a rematch of their MLS Cup 2011 clash. Graham […]
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Keane's success strengthens image of MLS
[MLS CONFIDENTIAL] No doubt Landon Donovan‘s second — and so far equally successful — loan spell with Everton is improving the image of MLS,but watching Robbie Keane fire in goals and smash shots off the crossbar for Aston Villa has to be just as significant. Villa manager Alex McLeish’sinquiry into extending the loan has been […]
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What They're Saying
“We have been inundated with applications from the cheeky to the outlandish. We’ve had one from an 11-year-old boy who obviously has high ambitions in the game and we have a Playstation manager of2010 who fancies his chances having won a competition. We’ve also had Sven Goran Eriksson apply, but he won’t be coming.” — […]
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Real Madrid and Barcelona head rich list
[MONEY MATTERS] By a considerable margin, Real Madrid and Barcelona are soccer’s biggest moneymakers. Real tops the annual list compiled by accounting firmDeloitte for the seventh straight year with revenues of $637 million for the year ending June 30. Barcelona is second with revenues of $598 million. Manchester United was again third with $487million. Only […]
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USA to host Brazil in World Cup qualifying tuneup
[DATEBOOK] The U.S. national team will host five-time World Cup champion Brazil May 30 at FedExField in Landover, Md. (TV: ESPN2, ESPN3 and Univision, 8 p.m.ET). It will be the second of three friendlies scheduled before World Cup 2014 qualifying starts in June. For the complete 2012 schedule … This will be the fourth meeting […]
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MLS preseason this week …
[SCOREBOARD] MLS exhibitions this weekend are highlighted by a rematch of the MLS Cup 2011 finalists, Los Angeles and Houston, Friday at the Home Depot Center.Other games this weekend in Arizona, Florida and California: San Jose-Colorado, Real Salt Lake-Vancouver and Portland-Montreal Friday, Chivas USA-Chicago and D.C. United-Sporting KC Saturday andHouston-Portland Sunday. For all the preseason […]
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CNN's soccer-basher suspended for homophobic tweet
[MEDIA WATCH] Roland Martin acknowledges he likes to take a swipe at soccer every chance he gets, but his bosses at CNNdid not take kindly to tweets the anchor made during the Super Bowl. CNN suspended Martin for “regrettable and offensive” tweets that included a reference to any male fans of David Beckham’s underwear commercial […]
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At least it made a nice photo op
[WORLD VIEW] The photo in the Trinidad Express said it all: T&Tinternational Anthony Wolfe stood in the street directing a truck carrying away computers and furniture from the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federationoffices in Port of Spain in an attempt to collect on the money owed by the TTFF to members of the 2006 World […]